EVERYTHING is "out of stock"

[Dollygirl2008]

Literally having one of those days. Talk talk is down in my area so I'm ploughing through mobile data. But literally EVERYTHING I'm trying to order is out of stock and it's driving me mad! I'm trying to find garden furniture, a bin store, a new rug, clothes for my daughter - it goes on and on!!

Just ranting!!!!!

Surely the point is if they have none in stock it can't be hard to remove them from the list of available products when you search "whatever."

A bit like when you are at an ATM.

"Would you like a receipt?"

YES

whirr whirr

"Receipts not currently available. "

How hard is it to programme that message into the step above so that it just tells you what it can/can't do and doesn't ask you anything l?

@jasjas1973, don't you know ANYONE in the EU who would order the parts you need and post? I think you're showboating shamelessly tbh.

@WeatherwaxLives i have tesco fizzy water. Delivery too. Can swap for a single bed?? And tomatoes.

Don’t get me fucking started. I’m in NI, so it’s even worse as we have the Irish Sea border shenanigans to deal with. Nothing I want available any fucking where.

@Luckyelephant1

I just want an outdoor egg chair but there are NONE

I had never even thought about these but now I want one too!

Marshasthorn. Imports of goods fell by £8.9 billion (21.6%) in January 2021, driven by a £6.6 billion (28.8%) fall in imports from the EU.

The January 2021 monthly fall in goods imports and exports are the largest monthly falls since records began in January 1997.

Those imports include pharmaceutical products AKA drug shortages.

Most of those imports only board a ship to cross the channel. It’s nothing to do with Suez. You perhaps need to widen your perspective and eat less biscuits.

Not exactly rocket science to realise garden furniture etc would be in demand esp given lockdowns.

4 neighbours where I live had all just recently had their gardens done up ready for summer.

In 8yrs I've lived here they never spent time in their gardens but lockdowns has menst they have.

So if you multiply that across the country certain items will have demand outstripping supply

@SelkieBeag

And it's the same in Ireland, and we didn't vote for this! shops used to be good at taking your money off you. Now they are like the anti-sales team, ''it's out of stock'', ''sorry we don't deliver to your area'', or worse, you order something and then the courier advises you that they are holding on to your parcel until you stump up for the unexpected customs charge.

I'm holding on to my money in 2021. Sick of shopping. I want to just wear out what I have now. Apart from food and coffee.

You forgot wine

@Cannotgarden

Chinese and eastern imports will be affected by Brexit because they don't just leave China and rock up at portsmouth. Most cargo goes to Rotterdam and then redistributed from there.

Not true re Brexit. Again someone who doesn’t work in the industry and spews out crap .

We’ve been importing from China for the last 8 years.

When Brexit happened none of our shipments were affected and arrived within the usual timescale. Nor did Brexit affect thousands of others in our industry.

What did affect us all was the pandemic.

Due to the pandemic people stopped working which caused Mail and fulfilment delay.

The only thing so far this year which affected China imports was Chinese New Year where they literally took a month holiday.

But if you’re working in the industry you also know full well to order in advance before they all take a break and workers return home for celebrations.

We’ve been receiving our China imports on time even after Brexit.

Once about 5 years ago our import from China was lost in customs for 12 months. Do you want to blame that on Brexit as well?

there is a huge covid effect on supply. DH works in relevant area - India ran out of containers during lockdown (and it is still difficult because they are all in the wrong places) so it got really difficult and expensive to ship any goods made in India - the lead times are months and ditto many other manufacturing countries.

Also manufacturing restrictions with covid countries - just all sorts of logistics nightmares.

So maybe more covid than Brexit.

@ListeningQuietly

Container ship : Minor hiccup on stuff that was not yet due to be in UK warehouses

COVID : Caused a few supply issues in the early months but settled down

Brexit : Many businesses have stopped selling to the UK. Haulage costs have skyrocketed. Import VAT on goods from Europe increasing prices.
Will get worse once the UK starts border controls

Pet food : The collapse in fishing has reduced the supply of fish meal that is made into cat food. It will get worse.

Yep.

I’ve noticed this too. Even diet lemonade was out of stock when I did my online shop. Bloody brexit. Hope all those people who voted for it are happy now because it certainly wasn’t me!

Not had a problem buying wine yet. But we prefer a certain red (from Latin America) which is not yet part of Europe. Supply seems fine.

Yes op me too, I see 10 pages of thread, I assumed this was the suez canal perhaps and covid, I can't see what brexit has to do with it?

I managed to get an egg chair 2 years ago after failing to get one in the years before that. The B&M/Aldi ones always go like hot cakes every year. Can't believe they've gone by April this year though!

@LemonRoses

Marshasthorn. Imports of goods fell by £8.9 billion (21.6%) in January 2021, driven by a £6.6 billion (28.8%) fall in imports from the EU.

The January 2021 monthly fall in goods imports and exports are the largest monthly falls since records began in January 1997.

Those imports include pharmaceutical products AKA drug shortages.

Most of those imports only board a ship to cross the channel. It’s nothing to do with Suez. You perhaps need to widen your perspective and eat less biscuits.

Ha are you backing this up by some statistic you found on the web instead of actually working in the business?

There’s a pandemic dear. That’s affecting
business.

I didn’t mention anything about suez kiddo.

I do widen my perspective because I talk about a business I’m involved in. My perspective is as wide as it gets otherwise I wouldn’t be in my job.

Not just someone who sits and pulls stats from a website without any solid experience to back it up.

We don't have a cat, but the supply of dog food, made in Devon seems to be solid.

@LemonRoses

Marshasthorn. Imports of goods fell by £8.9 billion (21.6%) in January 2021, driven by a £6.6 billion (28.8%) fall in imports from the EU.

The January 2021 monthly fall in goods imports and exports are the largest monthly falls since records began in January 1997.

Those imports include pharmaceutical products AKA drug shortages.

Most of those imports only board a ship to cross the channel. It’s nothing to do with Suez. You perhaps need to widen your perspective and eat less biscuits.

here have a biscuit whilst you pull up some more stats from a website whilst clearly not working in the industry you claim has been affected by Brexit.

Whilst you’re at it why don’t you give advice to other industries you have no experience with your web stats? Surely they’ll hire you based on your extensive knowledge of shit you know about from stats you’ve pulled up.

@LemonRoses

It’s what people voted for, sadly.

This. But hey, we've got our country back, huh?

[quote Anoisagusaris]@CharlotteRose90 is milk, bread and ham not produced in Britain though? Why would Brexit affect products like that?[/quote]
I think it’s the delivery’s. I have no idea but it’s happening more and it’s worrying. Not the end of the world I guess having no bread or milk but when you want it you want it

65 million consumers is not a market to be ignored, not any where, by any producer. Especially not a market which cannot produce those goods locally. Except possibly China.

Next have a lovely egg chair in stock. I love it but can't quite get myself to part with that much money

www.next.co.uk/style/esm01031/844026#844026

Covid impacted availability because production is slower and less containers are available to transport

Then the Suez Canal is causing mayhem still and will for weeks. 300 containers effected at work.

Brexit makes ports horrific. Paperwork taking 10 days to now clear

All shipping is currently 5x last January, in real terms that is cost prohibitive for many lines so people aren’t bringing stuff over.

Demand is off the scale.
So
If you want anything garden and see it, buy it, because there is little more inbound

Furniture- it’s expensive to ship and works on a just in time model

UK production is slower and also needs global parts

Everything is costing significantly more: wood has increased in price 5 times. Pulp (paper) is a third more.
Brexit and covid have smashed both euro and $ exchange rates

But. Blue passports

I only buy milk bread and ham from local companies. I am fortunate to have agency and money to do so. Should I be apologising?

We had garden furniture from Ikea a couple of weeks ago when everywhere else was showing as out of stock. We’re near to a store so did a click and collect and it was ready within a couple of hours.