Empty shelves in supermarkets

[marmitegirl01]

Reporter on GMB reporting from supermarket talking about empty shelves. NO - look behind you the bloody shelves weren’t empty. There were about 3 empty crates. That was it! Dry goods shelves - full. Potatoes - full. Other veg- full Then he pointed to shelves with tomatoes & peppers talking about a shortage of tomatoes and peppers , but said these are available at £14 a kilo ( I couldn’t hear what he said as I was shouting at tv at this point).
the shelves weren’t empty!
you don’t want to pay £14 for tomatoes - well dont!
we are not going to fade away with out tomatoes for two weeks!
have we learned nothing from pandemic - you keep telling us there’s a shortage the idiots will buy all of the stock up ( only to throw away next week cos they can’t eat it all!)
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Have you been under a rock for the last two weeks?

I agree. And this just fuels the panic buying. No tomatoes/cucumbers or peppers? Have something else for dinner there’s plenty of other fruit and veg.

It's missing the bigger picture

The uk is not self sufficient in food and the majority of the population isn't rich so food shortages could be the tip of an iceberg ( not lettuce kind)

Climate change and brexit mean we will find it ever harder to feed the population as the imports won't be available or be too expensive

How do you panic buy fruit and veg though? I can just imagine some dimwit buying 10 iceberg lettuces to leave to rot in the fridge.

I remember during the panic buying covid days seeing the bloody idiots round here chucking away massive amounts of rotting fresh food that they had panic bought. Such a waste.

You didn't see people chucking away masses of rotting produce. Don't be so stupid.

People would rather buy the stuff and throw it away than not have any. That’s why a lot of the supermarkets are restricting the tomatoes they do have to two packs.

People are really mental there were people just not getting it and buying tons of fresh produce the last time they also bought a fuck ton of gluten free pasta then threw it in the bin because its not the same as normal pasta FFS IM GLUTEN INTOLERANT it's not like they ate pasta regularly anyway just the newspapers said there was a shortage so they bought it

I am sure there’s people still with garages full of dried pasta and tinned tomatoes from 2020.

Yes I did.

My next door neighbors for one. Chucking loads of rotting veg in the bin on a few occasions.

A few other bins down the street topped up with rotting food.

The local facebook group had people bitching about it too and people defending themselves saying it was no one’s business what they chucked away.

But sure. You said I didn’t see it, so I didn’t.

Oh don’t get me started on gluten free products.

I’m coeliac so it pissed me off. GF pasta and bread is bloody awful anyway for the most part, so of course they were just going to bin it.

Meanwhile, those of us with no choice went without.

Don't most bins contain rotting food? Stop being sensationalist and stop starting thread after thread about it and people will just think, bugger, no tomatoes again.

Pretty sure they're used to it now. It's hardly new.

Screaming at the the telly indeed 🤪

There are plenty of empty shelves in Tesco , not so many in Waitrose.

Last week when this was discussed on here for every post saying there was nothing to buy there was another saying their local supermarket was fine.
And anyone saying it was the weather in Spain causing salad shortages were told no-it’s Brexit or something else.

God forbid anyone goes and reads all the other threads about it. 🥱

People have got too used to eating summer crops year round - it's costing too much to heat the greenhouses to grow them at the moment.

Not very climate friendly either and neither is flying them in from Morocco, etc.

I get a veg box and got peppers last week on it

Waitrose and their customers are likely to be happy to pay a little more

And to a pp - out bin rarely has much food waste in it - did lose half a cucumber this month and there was something in January

And toilet rolls, my cousin still has stacks in her shed! Even when I was desperate to get some for my mum, her dementia caused her to use loads of toilet paper to wrap things up and hide all over the house, my cousin would not let me have any of her stash!

My local Tesco had an entire aisle closed because there was no fresh veg - one of their 3. There are definitely empty shelves.

Also no eggs on Friday evening.

Yes you did. There were news reports about it.

As for limiting people to two packs of tomatoes, what's the problem with that?

They can either come back in a few days to buy more or eat something else.

I agree with @TheHateIsNotGood current expectations are not sustainable and we should be more adaptable to situations like this. We don't need year round access to summer crops in the amounts that some people seem to want.

I bought a bit of veg/salad on Saturday and as far as I could see there was plenty available, Various lettuces/leaves, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc, just not in such a wide variety of types/pack sizes.

I did think it was strange that they only had peppers in packs of 3 though. So anyone wanting just one or two would have had to buy more than they needed.

They could have made them go further by selling them individually and limiting people to two each.