To think there is very little stock in Tesco

[Galwaygirl]

Has anybody else noticed the lack of stock in tesco and out of stock issues? Online shopping is so frustrating as there are no substitution offered which defeats the purpose of online shopping when you have to go to another store to get items? 27/29/of my usual items ate out of stock today

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Or your delivery comes from a different store. We shop in the geographically closest Tesco extra, our shopping comes from one which is another couple of miles away. The closest one is slightly smaller so there is often things i can't get in person that I can get on my online shop!

Yes absolutely siakcaci.

My local Morrisons has been lacking in a lot of stuff for months now. Especially choice of frozen veg and fresh veg.

Last weekend I thought I'd stock up a bit, so did a Sainsbury on line shop instead. The list of missing stuff/substitutions was massive

I was going to try Tesco this week, but perhaps there's no point after reading this thread.

Quite a few gaps in the large Lidl I shopped in last Saturday.

It seems to have been going on since summer so can’t see it as a Christmas problem. I don’t remember it happening so much in previous years. It reminds me of the early 70s with dockers strikes and huge gaps at our (admittedly small ) local supermarket.

Tiscold so why is it that those supermarkets were managing all that fine a year ago?

Christmas happens every year and we dint normally see empty shelves.
And when simplifying means taking away all the ‘higher quality’ products it doesn’t make for an easier shopping experience.
So eg when it comes to coffee, only keeping the basic type of coffee and never having to more expensive stuff isn’t about making life easier. What happens is that the people who enter the better quality, more expensive stuff go somewhere else. Usually online (have a look at Amazon amongst many others)

Tesco's is our nearest supermarket (it is at the end of our road) and has been my usual shopping ground for years.

However, there have been a number of reshuffles in the store and each time various of my standard items have disappeared from the shelves . To get those, I go elsewhere and now regularly shop in other places -despite a greater travel distance.

Clearly I am not the shopper they are aiming to please. I wonder if their policy is working for them.

Sainsburys seems to be having similar issues. Two frozen products I buy every time I do a big online shop have completely disappeared from the website, although one of them was still in stock in the store last week. The other one reappeared, repackaged, in my most recent online shop, but didn't actually turn up. The delivery was also missing some very basic stuff with no substitutions offered, as was the last one.

It’s probably as they are prioritising Christmas stock, but also they take a ridiculously long time to pay their suppliers (when you buy something, quite often technically their supplier hasn’t yet been paid); wouldn’t be surprised if some are getting fed up with it.

Part of the reason for people voting for Brexit is because of what has happened to British farmers. My family were dairy farmers. Basically most farms have been clinging on because supermarkets won't pay for British milk. They buy from EE countries or France where it is either cheaper because of lower labour costs or higher subsidies.

Of course Brexit is going to result in high food costs. It should mean that people will earn a real wage though and farmers will be forced to hire British workers who they will need to pay a bit more too. Same with all the supermarkets. They will need to increase pay. I'm not that old and I remember the pre freedom of movement days. I got £20 an hour making sandwiches at the crack of dawn for 3 hours each day.

So yes the supermarkets are rebranding. DH told me tesco are opening a cheaper brand of store so they are probably removing their value lines. However a lot of EEs are leaving the UK ahead of Brexit and it's drying up available labour. Hopefully pay rates will increase soon.

They drastically reduced the range for online shopping a little while back I noticed.

The stock reshuffle thing that Wildheartsease mentioned makes perfect sense as far as my local Tesco goes.

I can't get the coffee I want but the shelves are heaving with the little capsules for the nespresso type coffee machines; rows and rows of them.

I find it very hard to believe that everyone in my small town has suddenly taken to these machines in such numbers that Tesco needs to have such a huge stock of the capsules.

Who makes these decisions?

The government have told supermarkets to stockpile

Food industry managers have been telling government for more than 18 months now, that the industry has no capacity to store more than 36 hours supply, at best. Civil Service mandarins have been telling government the same, trying to get government to understand the principle of just-in-time supply, which applies to the food industry just as much as any other industry.

Government apparently still imagines that this country still has that multitude of massive warehouses restocked by rail, day and night. You know, those things, that system, that disappeared from this country 30+ years ago.

Government isn't listening, it doesn't want to know.

I'm surprised that in these threads people seem to think these are new problems at Tesco. I was finding this in Tesco supermarkets in north Wiltshire five or more years ago; I have to think about this time span as time certainly goes quicker now than I remember it! It's probably more than five years. Tesco has serious management problems for longer than that.

Steep I have read the thread loads if people are blaming brexit that's why I made that comment, I didn't pull it out of thin air!! 😂

I can't get the coffee I want but the shelves are heaving with the little capsules for the nespresso type coffee machines; rows and rows of them........Who makes these decisions?

The same kind of managers who decide on which items/sizes are put on the racks in M&S etc. I.e. those who havn't a clue about the local demographics of each store. With all the modern computerisation, databases, etc., shops having too much of one item and too little of another should be a thing of the past, yet it's an epidemic these days.

I like the MrKipling Treacle tart. Around here, it's only stocked in Sainsbury supermarkets. I normally do my "big" shop in the bigger store in the next town, but the shelf was empty of treacle tarts, so I just popped into the smaller store on my way home, and they had a shelf full of them. It's just like M&S over again, whereby our town store often sells out of my size, but if I go to the city store, they've loads of them. With databases/computers this kind of thing just shouldn't happen - it's exactly what they're designed to avoid.

Well, let's face it, there's too much stuff in UK supermarkets anyway

My local Tesco is shockingly poor.
Some days the shelves and fridges are empty, other days everything is on reduce to clear. I got my favourite wine for £3.50!!! 😄

Happy I am not the only one experiencing issues! Thanks for
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