Morrisons - 3 tins in TOTAL!

[Morereasonsnot]

Went to Morrisons yesterday and at checkout was told I am only allowed 3 tins in total- NOT e.g. 3 tins chopped tomatoes + 3 tins beans. 3 tins in total will cover 1-2 meals max for my family who are all vegetarians. How absurd.

Has anyone experienced the same?

[SunshineCake]

Think about what happens when someone has to return all these extra tins to the shelves.

[pantsforhats]

I went to Morrison's this morning, no problem at all buying multiple tins of different foods.

I wasn't allowed more than 3 tins of tinned tomatoes but bought beans, chickpeas, tinned fruit and veg?

Weird they've different policies in different areas? Our store was also very well stocked, no shortages on anything I needed. This is west yorks.

[TheReluctantCountess]

I’m in West Yorks too, @pantsforhats, but I’m going to avoid Morrison’s now. I’d be too anxious about getting to the till and having stuff taken away.

[confusednortherner]

I've given up on Morrison's after they replaced our click n collect with absurd replacements and told us we had to accept them. Fresh peppers I got frozen broad beans!?, hand cream dh wanted was replaced with firming body lotion at 3 times the price 😂 etc and bread, milk, veg missing when a friend who'd been in store had bought all of those. We were avoiding supermarket due to health issues but can't get click n collect anywhere else so going to need to go in.

[midnightstar66]

In any week we'd use at least 3 tins of times tomatoes, 1 beans, 1 kidney beans at least 2 of tuna as a bare minimum and we are a family with 1 adult and 2 primary age dc. Surely a larger family could need more than that in a day

[SpeedwellBlue]

When i make chilli i use 2 tins in one meal. Tomatoes plus kidney beans. Think I'll shop elsewhere as don't want to have to shop more than necessary because of this

[Flaxmeadow]

Yes there are shortages of some things
Could people not try different recipes?
There are plenty of recipes online

[TabbyStar]

I love that Twitter answer, it's so everyone can buy what they need when the exact problem was not being able to buy everything needed!

[SarahTancredi]

Shortages because they were happy enough to take peoples money when they walked out with crates of cat food and toilet paper before this was major news. Now they wanna impose clearly insane limits that mean you cant even make your kids beans on toast for lunch?

I heard we are short on flour and loo roll. Doubt we are short of chickpeas...

[MrsWhites]

These rules do not take into account family sizes or dietary requirements.

Going back to my earlier example of individual pork steaks (which is all they had left), we are a family of four yet I could only buy 3 and they were only small.

Vegetarians aren’t able to buy staple beans, pulses etc in any more than a day or two at a time quantities.

People with dietary requirements are being denied possibly the only foods they can eat, my niece for example is dairy free but they are only able to buy 2 almond milks. She is 12 months old so very much relies on this milk!

[1forsorrow]

MrsWhites I also had the same issue when buying food for my elderly nan as well as myself. They wouldn’t let me buy her more than 3 ready meals (which although not brilliant are all she can really cook for herself) and wouldn’t let me get more than 3 tins I think I must have been lucky with the woman on customer services. She said she couldn't put it through with the same debit card or nectar card, I didn't have enough cash on me but I did have a credit card. I'd have been really upset if they didn't let me get a few things for a nurse on the front line.

[Porcupineinwaiting]

There is nothing in almond milk that you cant get from other sources @MrsWhites.
There is food in the shops. We can eat. I don't think it's such a big deal that we have to be flexible about what we cook.

[Flaxmeadow]

If there are shortages in certain areas then sometimes rationing will be inevitable.

But as they say, necessity is the mother of invention and so maybe experiment and try something new with what you can buy

I think it's the BBC who have an online recipe site where you can type in what ingredients you do have and it will bring up relevant recipes

[MrsWhites]

@Porcupineinwaiting I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want the same milk as usual for a child who already has a very restricted diet due to allergies! Now is not the time to risk her having a reaction!

[MrsWhites]

@1forsorrow I’m glad they let you get the food for your daughter, to deny a front line worker would have been incredibly short sighted.

Other supermarkets seem to be lifting restrictions, I can’t see why morrisons can’t too!

[coconuttelegraph]

This happened to me last week, the till wouldn't allow scanning of certain items but the way the cashier tried to explain it was that the tins are grouped in some way so, I think, you could have 3 tins of peas and 3 tins of custard but not 3 tins of peas and 1 tin of sweetcorn or something like that. It also seemed to apply to tomato products.

Supermarket staff are under enough pressure so I didn't waste time argueing, I can get tins in other shops. They'll change soon enough once they have enough stock, it's not their fault that people are stockpiling and food is in short supply for them.

[EdInjury]

Flaxmeadow

This isn't about shortages or recipes.
It's about not being allowed more than three tins of ANYTHING. ( See my own post up thread)

Which is a cause of great difficulty, when like me, you have to get public transport to the supermarket because I can't walk far, and can't drive, and have aquired brain injury. Some days even speech is difficult as my words get mixed up. Plenty more like me in various difficult circumstances. Outside of the government definitions.

A bus journey to " stock up" with three random tins only, is daft on so many levels.

( Not looking for sympathy, I usually post with a different user name, but health issues relevant to thread.topic here.)

[Bisforbert]

Yep, I was doing shopping for two elderly neighbours as well both who wanted several tinned items, I had split the shopping so I could give them receipts and was told I couldn't do this as I was obviously cheating!

[Clutterbugsmum]

I was in Asda earlier this week and there were no restrictions, and i'm sure I had an E mail from Tesco's saying that they had stopped it as well.

[slipperywhensparticus]

Supermarkets are not coming out of this well restricting certain foods so you need to shop more often buying cheap polish meat when we have plenty of british meat they just want us to build up an excess to bring the price down

[rosy71]

Dp went to Morrisons earlier in the week & definitely got more than 3 tins. Off the top of my head: 1 each of beans, tomatoes , mushrooms coconut milk, apricots & a 4-pack of tuna.

[Flaxmeadow]

This isn't about shortages or recipes.
It's about not being allowed more than three tins of ANYTHING. ( See my own post up thread)

Which is a cause of great difficulty, when like me, you have to get public transport to the supermarket because I can't walk far, and can't drive, and have aquired brain injury. Some days even speech is difficult as my words get mixed up. Plenty more like me in various difficult circumstances. Outside of the government definitions.

It is about shortages and recipes though.

Some supermarkets are low on stock. It will be a temporary thing at some supermarkets. I'm not sure what else can be done about it, apart from temporary rationing. If the stock isnt there in the back of the store, what do you expect them to do?

I understand it must be terribly inconvenient but presumably there will be other food, apart from tins, that will be available? Other recipes that can be tried?

[Al1Langdownthecleghole]

Go on then. Get inventing. I need a shopping list for a week for a family of 3 adults + one child and MIL who lives separately and is isolating.

I'm a good enough cook that I can cope with substitutions, but in a typical week would use 2-3 cans of tomatoes, 2 cans of black beans, 2 tins of sweetcorn and 2 of baked beans. Not to mention 4 loaves of bread for 2 households, 3 cartons of milk, 2 large, one small, a doesen yoghurts, fruit, vegetables & salad. Depending upon the categories of 3 items, that could be a reall challenge.

[Al1Langdownthecleghole]

I'm sorry, I don't agree it's a shortage of recipes. You can't cook fresh air.