Tesco bare....why aren't the shelves being restocked ?

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I was in my local Tesco at 9am
There was no meat (no chickens or bacon)
The toilet rolls gone,no pasta (basically the obvious things )
At 9am you would think there would be some available.
Is this the same in your area?

About 70 people queuing to get in to the local Waitrose when it opened at 7:30am this morning. Upon opening over 50% headed, in a civilised manner, straight to the toilet rolls. I went to the medicines first and when I arrived at the toilet rolls at 7:38am there we’re very few left. Not certain the shelves were full in the first place, but I suspect they were.

By 7:38am there would have been a good couple of hundred people in the store.

I agree the panic buying has me more panicked than the virus, and I say that as a pregnant nhs employee.

We've just engaged with our local milk man, local bakery and local butcher and have agreed to buy food etc from them to support the smaller more likely to struggle businesses.
I know that doesn't help with getting hand wash and toilet paper. But hopefully little bits can keep these small local businesses a float.

As I'm now working from home I'm going to get a coffee or cake for me and dh from our local tea shop each day (as would normally get a Costa or sweets etc from work each day) to try and help them with a bit of business/get me out the house/keep me sane

Because it’s been taken out of my hands before I get to the shelves!!!

"Tesco bare....why aren't the shelves being restocked"

If you think about it a little longer I'm sure you'll work it out.

It's been like Christmas in our little shop where I work. I work late shifts and, by the time I get in, all the day's delivery has been out on the shelves, bought, restocked and then bought again. The warehouse is then empty until the next day's delivery. Stock is coming in at normal levels and being sold as though the zombie apocalypse is coming. People need to calm down a bit.

(We can't order extra stock as we've no room to store it, very small warehouse which is also our office, kitchen, toilet etc).

It makes me sick to think about all the houses sitting there with 3 months worth of food while some of us only have a weeks worth or less of food.

Here's an idea. Do away with human cashiers so no one can assault them, make it all machine operated, set the machines so it's impossible to buy more than 4 of each item, an alarm goes off or something?

ID cards that total up how much you've already got on them in a week. You lost your card or someone stole it?

Microchips. On your 'smart' watches. Oh someone stole that?

Microchips in your body.

Oh wait.

:( :( :(

My partner is a HGV driver. They literally can’t get things out quick enough at the moment. Add in staff absences and it’s madness. The things are in the warehouses but because idiots thing they need enough in to last for a year they can’t fill the shelves quick enough

IDK, I was in Sainsbury's yesterday morning at about 9am to get some emergency replacement shoes- no loo roll and limited pasta but most other things seemed OK; I imagine people have been really spooked after yesterday's government updates though. I need some cat food so will have a look tonight to see what it's like.

It makes me sick to think about all the houses sitting there with 3 months worth of food
And yet, @Luckystar777 I’ve always had at least 3 months supply in my pantry since I married my husband and inherited a kitchen with a large pantry. I keep it stocked, but that makes you sick? Wow.
Before I married, my husband used to laugh at my “siege cupboard” filled with unperishables, he’s not laughing now.

"And yet, @Luckystar777 I’ve always had at least 3 months supply in my pantry since I married my husband and inherited a kitchen with a large pantry. I keep it stocked, but that makes you sick? Wow.
Before I married, my husband used to laugh at my “siege cupboard” filled with unperishables, he’s not laughing now."

And yet, you know fine well that's not what Luckystar was talking about.

Our local 24 hour Tesco closed last night between 10pm and 5am to allow for restocking.

By 6am there was a queue to get in the shop.

I was in an M&S simply food at the weekend. No empty shelves, loads of fresh stuff being marked down.

Shush, that's supposed to be a secret! We have a local 'junk shop', sells all those bits and pieces you'd forgotten ever existed, eg bra extenders honestly, and they have lots of stuff of the household variety.
I did think that in Morrisons they seemed to be making a good profit out of this crisis, things usually 'reduced' being sold at full price, eg Pringles at £2.50.

Our Lidl seemed to have caught up yesterday. I went about lunchtime and there was a gigantic pyramid of loo roll, a couple of pallets of tinned tomatoes and a nearly untouched pallet of pasta.

Their last 3 deliveries must have been lorries solely filled with these items!!

Just been to Sainsbury's. it's not great. I managed to get some basics, but so much is out of stock. I was chatting to the lad at checkout who said they're getting deliveries every day but people are literally queuing up outside at 7am and emptying the shelves again....

In the USA the panic buying includes guns and ammunition! eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/03/16/coronavirus-people-line-up-gun-stores-stock-up/5054436002/
That makes the situation we're in ("we" being the entire world) even more like a disaster film.

Supermarket where DH works is now restricting customers to one pack of loo roll each and have put a security guard at the aisle to enforce before checkout, so till personel don't get the abuse.

My mum works in Tesco and says it's been manic! She starts early and said at 6am this morning it was like a typical Saturday afternoon! Very low on stock and a delivery that was due in overnight on Sunday never turned up, they were told it won't be there now until tomorrow.
She works in the biggest store in a major city too!

We have our own septic tank and soakaway. Sadly we will be using kitchen roll for loo paper before long.

A bit OT, but would it make any sense to do what happens on Greek islands etc and have a bin by the loo rather than flushing paper the system can't cope with? Nappy or dog waste bags can make doing that a bit less yuck.

not had any trouble at the Aldi and Tesco near me, got everything i needed, just a normal weekly shop but i did see some idiot with 10 packs of nappies and 10 packs of baby wipes in his trolley. The staff were great though and took most of it off him, he was not happy !!!

The 24 h tesco do seem to be closing overnight. I wondered if they were also low on staff.

Today we pretty early on sold out of: pasta, rice, toilet roll, handwash, paracetamol, tinned tomatoes, flour, eggs, most tinned soup, dried and long-life milk, wipes (baby and anti-bac), bleach, most cleaning products AND for the first time all sliced bread and fresh chicken and mince by LUNCHTIME. Unheard of. There will not be another delivery until the early hours. The store was SO busy - whether it was panic-buying or people preparing to isolate I'm not sure. There were a lot of elderly folk in so I do hope they were prepping for isolation.

Most people I spoke to were polite and understanding if shocked.

It's not that we are getting less in, remember that the stock is generally topped up rather than completely restocked every day, so now when the usual amount goes out it looks less.

Delivery slots are backed up by 2 weeks now, as there are a lot of new customers too but I'm not sure everyone understands that goods are only picked from what the store has on the shelves - we don't have a secret stash out the back! Most people will not be receiving everything they ordered unfortunately nor with substitutions either for the simple reason it's not in the shop.

BUT there definitely is plenty to eat out there. Most fruit and veg, most chilled foods, plenty of cheese, ham, no problems with milk. Just an opportunity to try different things and enjoy what is there instead of joining the sheep.

A friend works in a supermarket and says they get deliveries but they simply don't touch the sides becase of the constant high demand.

My daughters girlfriend sent her a video of the store room of the Tesco she works at. Where it's normally packed to the point you can't move, there are a handful of cages.
We went to Lidl yesterday afternoon. No loo roll, chicken, eggs, bread was low. Went to the Coop to buy the bits we couldn't get and where they have usually been ok, they had no fresh meat, bar lamb and sausages and fish, no eggs, loo or kitchen roll.

My husband is a food delivery driver. They usually do 50 to 60 depending on the day. Yesterday was 96 runs.
They rang him to work today but he would be over his driving hours.
He is going to an extra day when he has had 24 hours off.

There is no shortage of food please just buy what you need for one week!!!!!