Morrisons - 3 tins in TOTAL!

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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?

definitely got more than 3 tins

Different stores, even of the same name, will have different amounts of stock. Different areas will too.

Not sure what people expect the affected stores to do? They cannot magic your favourite tins, for your favourite recipes, out of nowhere,

I honestly feel so sorry for the supermarket staff in all this

No one at any point on this thread has said anything negative about those working in the supermarkets! The thread is about Morrison’s imposing a rule that will ultimately mean that people have to go shopping far more often and therefore act against government guidelines.

So you’re stuffed if you have a cat and a dog that eat tinned food then?

The thread is about Morrison’s imposing a rule that will ultimately mean that people have to go shopping far more often and therefore act against government guidelines

No it does not mean that at all

Some Morrisons stores have imposed this type of rule temporarily, and its not just Morrisons who will have done this in some stores

The stock might not there at that particular time, or for a day or whatever. They might be waiting for a delivery overnight and the situation will be resolved the next day, but they cannot magic stock out of nowhere all the time, 24 hours a day.

Vote with your feet op! No restrictions in Lidls.

Try a corner shop for tinned tomatoes. Our village shop has them in stock as does the corner shop near my office. Plus flour, eggs, pasta and rice.

Vote with your feet op! No restrictions in Lidls.

I've seen some really serious food shortages and restrictions in my local Lidl. Not ATM, it was is about 2 weeks ago, but

Which brings me back to the point I keep stressing

All supermarket brands will have SOME temporary shortages, sometimes, of SOME things, at SOME of their stores.

Each individual store depends on delivery.
Each individual store will make their own decision to put in temporary rationing on some things until a delivery arrives. This could be hours or a day or days

This does not mean that all Morrisons, (or Asda or Tesco etc) will have the same shortages at all there stores, or the same rationing all their individual stores.

It will be a decision take by each local store, and not by the big boss of all of them countrywide

Their twitter reply suggests it is nationwide.

Thanks for the info. I will give Morrisons a swerve from now on.

Buy tetra pak cartons instead, they aren't tins, buy baked beans in the plastic snap packs. If Morrison's are going to play jobsworths, play them at their own game.

Farmfoods have no restrictions & are a lot cheaper, vote with your feet.

Morrison's pretty much have my trade for life atm. They're the only supermarket that so far ive been able to maintain weekly deliveries with while sheltering.

But no I dont always get what i want in the order. We eat whats available more than what we naturally would eat. Ive actually soaked and cooked dried beans today for the first time in my life. one packet made enough for 10 portions of dhal.

But theres enough food, if restrictions help there be enough for everyone then im fine with that.

Thing is vegetarianism naturally restricts your diet. Artificially. Generally theres no medical need for a vegetarian diet. Which is fine in times when there's no pressure on the food supply. But now there is, the brutal truth is that supply may get harder before it gets easier (eg lack of workers to pick veg, if the supply chain gets hit with corona) we need to adjust to eating whats available.

Just because you choose to restrict your diet doesnt mean you should go against the spirit, if not the word, of lock down rules. Make it work or eat differently

My mum with dental and gastric issues lives on soup. She will need some more in the next week. I hope all shops do not go like this.

They're odd about frozen stuff too. I tried to buy two different birdseye chicken fillets, a boneless takeaway bucket and two packs of four burgers. One of the burgers was plain and the other was lamb. I had to put one of the chickens and one of the burgers back. Four burgers doesn't work very well for a family of five. I think I did buy more that 3 different tins though so the restrictions seem to vary from shop to shop.

Would love to know what recipes we could feed ourselves with all meals for a family of three from our local co op:
Allowed two pieces of fresh veg or fruit so you can have an apple and a potato or if your lucky a pack of four apples and four potatoes
Two tins (sweet or savoury)
Two bakery items
Two things from the “fresh food” like ready meals and ham etc
Two dairy -milk or yogurt or cheese or butter
Two frozen items
Two cereals
Two of snacks like crisps
Two of tea and coffee and other hot drinks
There is no flour and no pasta and no dried pulses
Alcohol is unlimited
No one with any recipes can feed a family on that for a week so we have to shop more than once

And the fresh food includes raw meat and fish so you can have say ham and some mice or a piece of fish and a ready made lasagne but not all four

Mince not mice but may start eating them soon

Mmm, mice This is bizarre.

The three tins of anything rule is disproportionate, yes people stockpiled early on and it’s taking a while for stocks to return to normal, but atm there is not a sudden increase in consumption or a crop failure. Also the limits push people towards buying bigger packs of things if the limit is on units rather than total amounts.

A lot of alternatives to tinned goods are also more expensive (fresh tomatoes, fresh tuna etc) and implying that vegetarians should eat meat as a way of sparing food consumption is nonsense when they feed beans and maize to animals to make meat.

The main priority right now has to be reducing the number of people in the shop and reducing the frequency people need to shop. At least Tesco do the 80 item limit so with a bit of planning people can buy the healthy basics for a family for a week. Morrison’s approach means that rather than the sad picture of an elderly gentleman looking at an empty shelf, there’ll be bewildered elderly people staring at full shelves of food they can’t buy, trying to choose between corned beef, tinned carrots or prunes.

Other shops seem to be doing better (Sainsbury’s just restricting some popular things) and most seem to be returning to normal, all will be fine if we all just shop normally too.

In Tesco near me you can either buy 3 single tins of beans or 3 multipacks of 6 (18 total tins) it's a completely ridiculous rule.

The shop that you're queuing to get into should list their restrictions outside so that you don't waste everyone's time with surprise losses at checkout.

If they are bring that tight it hints there may be a problem with the supply chain?

*with tins!

I’d rather be able to buy 3 tins than none. Every time I’ve been to my local supermarket the tinned/canned aisle has been stripped. Everything else is back to normal apart from flour and pasta. If some stores need to impose greater rationing then so be it.

I was at Morrison's today and there was no such rule in my local one