Easter eggs - none left

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I've gone to M & S and Sainsbury's this afternoon, and there are no Easter eggs left . Literally none at all. Why??

@InsanelyPregnantAndSore or "I ordered my eggs in an online shop because I'm a single parent and otherwise my kids see my buy it, and Tesco would only deliver eggs in a limited time slot, and then they failed to arrive". There have been plenty of Easter eggs left over in recent years, it's not totally unreasonable for people to not buy until the week before either for lack of hiding spaces, willpower or ability to get delivered, or because they've maybe got a fair bit on or are just less organised.

But hey, if you got a kick out of joining a website entirely to feel better than other people, you do you, I guess.

This thread made me crave mini eggs. None to be found. Oh well.

I can report that yesterday our Co op had one smashed Oreos egg left. They started displaying Easter eggs on Boxing Day, however, so we’ve all had time.

We get our Easter stock in before Christmas. It has to go on the shelves on Boxing Day! It's ridiculous. And our customers tell us it's ridiculous everyday until Easter. And then those same customers come in on good Friday wondering why we have no eggs left. Lol. It's funny really. I'd advise to just grab them the first time you see the ones you want next year and pop them away somewhere.

Both my Tesco and Co op had some, however co op had ran out of bags of mini eggs.

@JustLyra

Buy/order your stuff in advance

You do realise a lot of people got paid this week, right?
Not everyone has the ability to just order in advance

Easter eggs have been for sale since just after Christmas there was a few paydays between then and now to stick one or two 99p eggs in with your shopping.

That’s exactly how I did it saw some eggs grabbed three. Oh a pack of small eggs to hide 59p I’ll grab a bag ready. I’ve not purchased eggs for a couple of weeks now because we have enough for the egg hunt.

Buy a mould and some chocolate and make your own. Would they have moulds somewhere like the range? Hobby craft do but they’d be closed I think.

@JustLyra

Buy/order your stuff in advance

You do realise a lot of people got paid this week, right?
Not everyone has the ability to just order in advance

Eggs dont cost much!!

@InsanelyPregnantAndSore

I love threads like this they’re honestly why I joined mumsnet!

‘Why are there no Turkeys left on Christmas Eve? ’
‘Why are there no Easter eggs left by the bank holiday weekend? ’
‘I’m outraged at how busy the beach was on a hot sunny Saturday in school holidays ’
‘Ridiculous how busy Asda is on a Saturday morning ’
‘How dare people visit the (super popular and busy) natural beauty spot I knowingly moved ’

I just adore the level of entitlement some people have that they should just be able to buy/do/go whatever and wherever they fancy without ever running into a problem.

Buy/order your stuff in advance
Don’t visit places at peak times
Don’t live in tourist spots

Ha ha i agree, im amazed at people, I really am!

That’s all fine. For the last 20+ years I have been able to buy Easter Eggs on Good Friday or thereabouts. The last few years cunty supermarkets have been trying to socially engineer me to buy them earlier. It’s their loss in my contrarian case as I haven’t bought any this year. They can fuck off with their Easter is over before Easter and Christmas ends before it even starts twattery.

I also think that this thread is classic Mumsnet, but more because people think it's necessary after 23 pages to come on and say 'you should have bought them earlier!'

Who leaves it til the day before Good Friday to buy their Easter Eggs? Seriously?

Me... and quite a few others according to this thread. I always get them around this time and it's usually not an issue. Clearly this year it is. Oh well. I doubt it's going to change my Easter egg buying habits that much.

I managed to get one for DD from my local co-op. Slim pickings though. Not sure how keen 4 years olds are on flakes but it was that or a very expensive Lindt egg. Which she wouldn't have appreciated .

Our Sainsbury's had them since feb half term. None left this week. We're not that keen normally, but bought lots of smaller ones a few of weeks ago, which we the easter bunny will hide for an Easter egg hunt. I've never understood the appeal of large chocolate eggs, they seem rather American and made for purging . We don't ever buy them.

Amazon prime still have eggs for sale!

I managed to get a Lindt egg from Asda, went in the next day to grab another one and the shelves were almost empty, managed to grab an orange smartie egg from the remaining few!

Aldi have loads of chocolate bunnies.

@DynamoKev I'm completely with you on that one. Stupid greedy supermarkets!!

Probably already been suggested but if the kids still believe in the Easter bunny then leave a letter from him saying blaming it on Covid - whilst he’s a key worker, many of his ‘suppliers’ are not do Easter will look a bit different, then just leave tubes of smarties etc in hiding places rather than eggs.

For future ref, the sane thing happens with pumpkins and Christmas trees

@Hardbackwriter

I also think that this thread is classic Mumsnet, but more because people think it's necessary after 23 pages to come on and say 'you should have bought them earlier!'

I think it's fair to say that after 23 pages pretty much everything that can be said has been said, but you know, people like to go around in circles.

Off topic however, our local Costco had 6-kilo Easter eggs. 6 kg!!! That would keep me going for at least a few weeks. Weirdly enough, not many people were buying them.

same not sane. It’s NEVER sane!

I’ve just done the usual weekly shop. None on our Aldi or Sainsbury’s. Aldi had no mention of Easter at all - just big gaps where all the buns and eggs were.
Plenty of usual chocolate though, and quite a few creme eggs in Sainsbury’s.

*in, not on

Simple. Lock-down equals boredom equals obesity. When lockdown finishes the hospitals will be full of fatties with type-two diabetes.

You do realise a lot of people got paid this week, right? Not everyone has the ability to just order in advance

No, not buying it, not an excuse!

Easter eggs are dirt cheap! There was literally a thread the other day about how outrageously cheap they are and how terrible that is for society.

Christmas, fair enough. Birthdays, even a ‘cheap’ supermarket cake is gonna set you back best part of £5... but Easter????? No!

Decent cadbury eggs have been selling for 75p. Larger eggs on 2 for £3! Pretty much since Christmas!

If you can’t manage to work 75p into your budget within a 3 month period then that’s on you! We shop on a tight budget and still managed to buy 4 eggs for 75p well in advance! There is no pleading poverty on this one it’s simply lack of planning!

@InsanelyPregnantAndSore

You do realise a lot of people got paid this week, right? Not everyone has the ability to just order in advance

No, not buying it, not an excuse!

Easter eggs are dirt cheap! There was literally a thread the other day about how outrageously cheap they are and how terrible that is for society.

Christmas, fair enough. Birthdays, even a ‘cheap’ supermarket cake is gonna set you back best part of £5... but Easter????? No!

Decent cadbury eggs have been selling for 75p. Larger eggs on 2 for £3! Pretty much since Christmas!

If you can’t manage to work 75p into your budget within a 3 month period then that’s on you! We shop on a tight budget and still managed to buy 4 eggs for 75p well in advance! There is no pleading poverty on this one it’s simply lack of planning!

Are you always that fucking rude?

InsanelyPregnantAndSore
But where does this “planning” for Easter come from? It’s Easter now.
Spring didn’t even start until 21st March. It’s not unreasonable to expect to be able to buy Easter goods this week just because the marketing plan is to force panic buying in the weeks before.

It just commercialism putting them on the shelves at Christmas knowing that people will over buy or eat them and rebuy them. And that wouldn’t be a problem if there was sufficient stock for this week too but it’s obviously a strategy. to ensure overbuying next year

I did buy eggs for my students when they were 75p in Tesco’s. However I got an unplanned visit from my nieces and nephews and would have liked to have got them an egg. They had to have money instead.

@JustLyra

No, just sick of the excuses especially ones like ‘people only got paid this week’ making it sound like anyone who doesn’t agree supermarkets should have irresponsibly over stocked festive goods in an uncertain market is somehow being inconsiderate of low income people

I highly doubt this ‘there’s no eggs left’ situation has been caused by people who don’t live hand to mouth driving around in their landrovers stuffed to the rafters with 75p Tesco eggs they smugly bought months in advance I suspect it’s just that the supermarkets stocked less given we are still in lockdown and at the time they ordered the stock we didn’t know we’d even be able to meet outside! Surely that was somewhat obvious?

I personally think it’s a great thing that supermarkets haven’t overstocked. Environmentally we should aim to ‘sell out’ every festive season rather than have loads of waste/heavily reduced items knocking around for weeks simply so people can have to commodity of rocking up late and getting what they want.

Feeling entitled to buy Easter eggs on the bank holiday weekend is exactly the same as expecting to buy your turkey a couple of days before Christmas, or fireworks on 30th December. If that’s what you choose to do fair enough but it’s always a gamble and people have no right to complain!

(Although the posters with stories like ‘I ordered them online and they didn’t come’ do have every right to complain! That would annoy me)