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?

I wish people who didn't understand retail supply chains wouldn't post such shitty threads. Have some bloody respect for those trying their best.

People in retail are working in direct contact with hundreds, if not thousands, of people a day. People who have all had contact with plenty of others themselves. They're properly putting themselves on the front line to try and have stock available for you you purchase. They're risking catching Coronavirus themselves, or transmitting it onto their family. They often cannot work from home- it's this job, or no job.

Warehouses can only deliver what stock they have. They also have to split the stock across all of their stores. They only have so many employees (which will decrease now due to more and more of us self isolating), so many lorries, so much time. Deliveries will arrive and be packed as soon as they enter the shop. Again, deliveries can only be packed out by so many employees and it takes a certain level of time to do so.

People working behind the scenes are doing as much as they can to get stock on shelves. It takes time, though. Panic buying is not helping the situation.

I have so much respect for those in retail. Dealing with the customer's who potentially are carrying CV, having to listen to vile complaints and abuse, as well as likely being dragged in for over time. Kudos to them.

Two words - ration books.

@Zaphodsotherhead
Tesco. We’re a metro. Three days last week we had no delivery, and it’s not uncommon each month (without panic buyers) that we don’t get deliveries. On Some days we’ll get very small deliveries of a couple of things.
From my side of working in a supermarket I’m more shocked that some do get them everyday! 😂

@ChrisPrattsFace

Might be because we are a rural supermarket with no other supermarkets for seven miles in each direction, so we have a bit of a captive market!

PepePig
Standing ovation Gif

@Zaphodsotherhead we’re central town, with the large ones not very far away. It’s never been an issue until this happened to be fair!

@hollihobbi - Are ye all practising social distancing???? Doesn't sound like it.

Bit difficult when the next Tesco delivery slot is 10 days away and we need to eat now!

You don’t need ration books the supermarkets just need to update their scanning system.

Sainsbury’s lets you buy two pasta, two aspirin, and two other stuff. You can’t scan more.

Some cretin might flout it, but it works because I could get the items.

But a supermarket system has no way of knowing if it is a single person or a family of 7.

No it doesn’t but it still limits it which is better than not.

Blame the staff as well....not all but witnessed staff crowding the pallet before it was shelved up asking how many they were allowed and taking the max for themselves! Yes they still have to shop but they litrally cleared the pallet (Sainsbury's)

BJ said it's like wartime, I can see rationing coming in, not because of shortages but because as a nation we can't behave.
You see who the nice people are at times like this, and some people you thought you knew, turns out you didn't.
Very interesting times.

my DH buys extra food every week to donate to our local food bank, (not vast amounts, but you can get a lot of own brand staples for a fiver). He's done it for years but couldn't get much this week. Mind you, since he has underlying health problems he won't be out shopping again for quite a while. I'll get stuff instead if it's available, but no doubt someone will think I'm hoarding.

Local Tesco Express this evening - stripped of bottled water. Why??????? Seriously what's the point of that? I didn't want the bottled water but it was just bizarre. I'm looking forwards to a a few weeks of mainly eating very large Easter Eggs washed down with copious amounts of Tesco Finest Prosecco (until they shut the pubs).

If people are buying hundreds of pounds worth of shopping then they can clearly afford to buy extra for food banks, but I bet they don't.

I work in a local co op and we've had people buying separate baskets just to donate to food banks, really heartening to see. It's just beyond disgusting the selfishness of panic buyers who have the wealth to buy more than they need and not care or even think about the effect this has on others.

I bet in a few months the same people will be throwing it all in the bin.

Forget herd immunity.

How can we correct herd mentality?

I had to go to four different shops today to get shopping for me and my elderly parents (who are self isolating).

I have never been so happy to see toilet roll in my life😂

A colleague was questioned about the amount of soap she was buying yesterday. She explained that she was buying it so she could cut it up and give it to occupational therapists who were doing home visits with no sanitiser.

Surely at some point storage in houses has to become too full for any further buying? Also where are people getting the money to pay for presumably £100s a week in shopping (if they are going out every day and buying up the shelves)???

I absolutely hate to say it but there were numerous posters on here repeatedly suggesting to people that they stock up. We were saying this weeks ago when the shelves were full. And we were told again and again that we were exaggerating, that deliveries would continue as normal.

Our store loyalty cards have so much info on us... what we but, where we buy. I wonder if there’s a way they could be used for rationing to stop people getting more than a certain amount each week not each visit. The cards could be tailored for size of family. Could be allowed to use elderlys card too if you’re shopping for them. I dunno. I just feel that it should be possible to make this fair with the tech we have today. They can use data to track and influence us do surely they can use it for this!?

I've been to my local asda 3 times in last 2 weeks at just after 9am and no loo roll,pasta,soap,tins of beans or bacon etc.mentironed it to cashier on 3rd visit and she said it's not that they haven't got it,it's that the government has put limits on what they can put out.

What utter bollocks.

I just feel sad for the elderly and those that don't drive. Must be absolutely awful to have trouble getting essentials.

I've been to my local asda 3 times in last 2 weeks at just after 9am and no loo roll,pasta,soap,tins of beans or bacon etc.mentironed it to cashier on 3rd visit and she said it's not that they haven't got it,it's that the government has put limits on what they can put out.
Rubbish! We are putting stuff out as soon as it arrives and the public are hoovering it up within an hour even with rationing!