... to expect to be able to find Easter stuff in the shops today?

[kitnkaboodle]

Just been on a fruitless search for some very basic Easter things today - small choc eggs, for example. No Easter goods at all to be found in three different supermarkets. Morrisons had a pile of large eggs in the middle of the fruit and veg section that looked like they were on their way outside and which you had to remove the shrink wrap from.
Thank goodness for Aldi's- still got an Easter display.
IANBU, am I?? There are three days until Easter Day. I realise that no shop wants a load of eggs left over on Monday ... but my customer satisfaction level is now below zero! It's the same at Christmas... go to the shops on, say, December 22nd and they'll already be binning the Christmas stuff. Are we all meant to get everything a month in advance??

I made this mistake last year, went to buy Easter eggs for everyone about now and there was very little left. So I got mine about 3 weeks ago, lesson learnt. I agree it’s bloody annoying though. The Thursday before Easter seems an entirely reasonable day to pick up some Easter eggs.

Do you wait until 3 days before Christmas to buy your Turkey and all gifts? Easter eggs have been in the shops since January! YABU for leaving it so late.

We're piles in both Tesco and Lidl today. Plus vegetables piled high, lamb on special offer

I had one more egg to buy for the son who likes milk chocolate with no flavours and no nuts. It took some hunting in Sainsbury's but it was there. Phew. Last year I went out on Saturday to pick up eggs and they were all gone.

I remember I always used to get my kids reduced selection boxes after Christmas and Easter eggs of course. So disappointed that doesn't happen any more.

it’s cos all the mini eggs are in my belly!

I reckon the store managers are still traumatised by the eggs that took until the summer to get rid of in 2020!
I, on the other hand, have very happy memories of scoffing a £1 Thorntons Easter egg in July ☺️

Exactly this and why I have my xmas cake in September . 😏

YANBU and anyone who starts blathering on about having bought theirs weeks ago can fuck of. IT IS NOT EASTER YET.

I've just eaten a Creme Egg and it tasted of nothing.

Well they are cunts and if there are no eggs for sale I can't buy any so shops have lost out not me.

No mini eggs around here.
Realistically there’s only 2 shopping days left before Easter they don’t want to be left with stock. It’s sort of equivalent to leaving Xmas present shopping to Christmas Eve.
You don’t need to buy in February but a week or two before is normal I think.

Last year I had to buy advent calendars in August. Planning to do the same this year. It’s been like this for a few years, you can’t wait till the last couple of days any more.

Only massive £15 Easter eggs in tesco today, and no chickens apart from tiny cheap ones (wanted free range). I now have nothing for Sunday lunch as dc don't like lamb and there was tons of that 🤷🏼‍♀️

About 10 years ago we were away for a few days before Easter, thought I would be OK to buy the eggs on the Thursday but all of our local shops were sold out. I have never risked it since and buy them weeks beforehand now. Newsagents might might still have some stuff though.

Our local Tesco still has eggs of all sizes but they made the display smaller on Monday this week and put all the gardening stuff back out in its place , which probably makes sense as lots of people garden on Easter weekend . According to our son Sainsbury had eggs on offer last night as he phoned to ask which we wanted him to get as he’s coming for a visit tomorrow .

Partner works in Sainsbury, they've been putting then out non stop round all the shifts. Still putting them out. He said they've got pallets full of them.

I'm another that was looking for mini eggs and couldnt find any. They were for topping a cheesecake but I found easter toppings in lidl to try instead.
Bought easter eggs 2 weeks ago because I knew theyd be sold out by this week.

Our morrisons today had plenty of Easter eggs ranging from small £1 up to luxury £15. Sold out of bags of mini eggs (did have small, medium and large sized mini egg easter eggs) but had smartie, milky bar, Terry's orange, Lindor and after 8 mini eggs.

Shops cannot afford to have leftover stock, some may have underestimated how many people would buy Easter eggs and other Easter items. So I would not expect it right up to now, nor Saturday.

And everyone seems to have cut back on their own Easter eggs this year too. M&S used to be reliable for lovely eggs. Last year wasn't great and this year is terrible. There aren't even any Bubbly Bunnies!
Thank goodness for Lindt.

I reckon they want to condition us to start buying them in February because they know we'll most likely have scoffed them by April and have to rebuy. Double sales.

YANBU though. It's mad that mini eggs are as rare as Faberge ones. Im thinking of putting the bag I've scored on FB marketplace for £50.

I always find this with clothes. I was in a big clothes shop in February looking for a thick cardie. I couldn't see any so I asked the assistant and she said they didn't have any as they "only really had summer things in now". I said but it is 5 degrees outside!!

Waitrose had few ‘overpriced’ eggs left today so just bought the adult kid a box of reduced Lindor chocolates and a Lindt bunny

There’s a happy medium between going the day before the Easter long weekend starts and buying in February though. The shops were heaving with eggs only 1-2 weeks ago. You just have to be a tiny bit more organised, you don’t have to buy them months before.