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??

Fuck. I thought Easter was next weekend.

This reminds me of the year DC2 was in NICU and I was wandering round the 24hour supermarket next to the hospital late at night trying to buy an egg for DC1 in tears because I was tired and still in pain from a c-section and had a baby in NICU and god forbid DH might have thought to buy Easter eggs.

Thankfully the gods took pity on me as amongst the ransacked empty shelves there was a single Thomas the Tank Engine egg (DC1’s favourite) sat all on its own.

@SomethingOnce

Fuck. I thought Easter was next weekend.

As I said upthread - deliveroo groceries, look at the garages, especially BP and co-op. If you are lucky you can have eggs delivered to your door in 30 mins!

[quote InsanelyPregnantAndSore]@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)[/quote]
Having stocks for the people who want to buy is not “irresponsibly over stocked”

But hey, you’ve got the money to plan and buy in advance (so have i), but fuck those who haven’t eh?

People have every right to complain if they want. You don’t have to agree, but they have the right.

InsanelyPregnantAndSore you make a very good point about not overstocking.

But hey, you’ve got the money to plan and buy in advance (so have i), but fuck those who haven’t eh?

Eggs are very very cheap. If you can't afford £2 at some point between Boxing Day and Easter, then not having a chocolate egg is the least of your problems.

Going by the number of people complaining on social media some supermarkets have messed by having nowhere near enough supply.

Great business sense that 👍🏻

Have you tried the smaller Sainsbury local/metro stores ir local Co-op? Our small local tesco always has eggs easter eggs long after they are sold out from the big tesco less than a mile away

@ArcheryAnnie

But hey, you’ve got the money to plan and buy in advance (so have i), but fuck those who haven’t eh?

Eggs are very very cheap. If you can't afford £2 at some point between Boxing Day and Easter, then not having a chocolate egg is the least of your problems.

Aye, it’s not like people have had things to deal with between Christmas and last month like kids off school or the likes that mean incomes have been stretched more than ever or anything...

Heaven forbid someone should budget to buy Easter eggs in the week running up to Easter

How ridiculous 🙄

Honestly. Some people have never known their luck.

None round our way either.....but a local lady has kindly bought hundreds of the cheap deal eggs from the shops and is now selling then for 5x the price......

2 weeks ago, my 9 year old daughter said “Let’s buy the eggs because you always leave it too late and there are none left!” I bought the eggs.

@TalkToTheWind

None round our way either.....but a local lady has kindly bought hundreds of the cheap deal eggs from the shops and is now selling then for 5x the price......

And some fools will buy them meaning more people will do it

@SomethingOnce

Fuck. I thought Easter was next weekend.

Sorry this made me laugh ... Bless you

I was in the shop just now - all they had was a few packs of crime eggs. Last year they had stacks left over after Easter so I guess they have swung the other way this year.

Aye, it’s not like people have had things to deal with between Christmas and last month like kids off school or the likes that mean incomes have been stretched more than ever or anything.

Well, yes? But things are stretched now, too. Either you have the £2 in your monthly budget or you don't.

You can buy an easier egg for £1. How many eggs do you need to buy thats it's a huge investment? Buy what you can afford but don't complain that if anyone else's fault if you leave it too late.

@onwAndup

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.

Er, you do know they are hollow, right?

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

Exactly! I think some people forget that not everyone starts planning their Christmas food shop on the 1st December and stocks up on Easter Eggs in February.

I think some people forget that not everyone starts planning their Christmas food shop on the 1st December and stocks up on Easter Eggs in February

On here, people start lining up to bag the Christmas grocery delivery slots in September.

Amazon. Got all the eggs we needed.

Weren’t they really expensive? I bought some to get sent up to relatives and they were a lot dearer than on the shops.

My local Lidl had quite a few eggs left a couple of hours ago, nowt in Sainsbury's though.

@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!

Blimey. Presumably you've never been in the position of not having enough money, to have no understanding that even 75p can be a stretch for some? I'll be generous and suggest that, rather than thinking you're just being goady.

And why so many exclamation marks in one post?

There’s a difference between buying months early and not trying to do it and expect a wide choice just 2-3 days before the event.

If you go 2-3 days before, you expect there to be less choice and the expensive or less popular versions left and that you might have to visit several shops to get any.....surely. It’s not that difficult to foresee as likely.

Leave it to the last minute. Take your chance. Buy a couple of weeks early and face a better choice and more offers.

But there will be threads about this again next year.

And we’re talking about a few choc eggs aren’t we, not a meal no longer being possible. No one will starve. Perhaps it’s that people don’t like to have to tell children or their parents that they didn’t get their act together far ahead enough.

Isn’t it the same as getting a bikini in July or pigs in blankets in the week before Christmas or fireworks in November.....if you leave it to the last minute you risk them being sold out.

And all the fury....should shops instead overstock so that they then are left with seasonal products afterwards which have to be sold for 1/5 of the price as they are instantly no longer wanted?

There will be eggs out there. Try corner shops or post offices or petrol stations. You’ll have to pay more, but there will be some out there.