Lots of things out of stock in the supermarket again?

[Putmynewshoeson]

Wondering if it's just us locally but pasta, toilet roll, tinned tomatoes and long life stuff all seem to be completely out of stock again :(

Is it the same when you are? I was hoping this wouldn't happen again but I suppose with the new rule brought in, people realising Christmas isn't going to be the same as usual and Brexit looming, perhaps people have started stocking up.

It's all so bloody depressing

@Whatwouldscullydo

Agree that these sorts of posts are purely intended to scaremonger and should be banned. Completely irresponsible

Maybe supermarket's are taking advantage a bit aswell.

I mean low or low stock of one thing does mean people will buy something else. Its awfully handy to be able to flog the stuff they have that doesnt sell so well isn't it?

I went to tesco last week and there was piles of tuna but not the 4 packs just the single tins. So tuna not in shortage but customers have to pay more buying separate cans?

There was plenty of sweetcorn to. No green giant original but plenty of own brand and green giant no salt. Again all single cans not multipacks though.

Last time during the big lockdown there were lots of packets of all the branded pain killers. It was the own brands missing. So again it was there but you would have to pay more.

I'm.sure plenty are being idiots but some of the stock deficits seem a bit...well..convenient?

I think you’re being a bit cynical here. As I remember, Tesco announced earlier this year that they were phasing out the multipacks to reduce plastic use and replacing them with multi buy offers on individual tins instead. This is definitely what I’ve seen with chopped tomatoes and baked beans, although sweetcorn has vanished here, like in so many other places!

So, you are accusing Tesco of being grabby, but actually they’ve done something good for the environment.

I picked up a multipack of tomatoes in the same store though.

And there were multipacks of say heinz beans but not Branstons I had to get singles .

I saw someone walking out of Poundland with at least 60 loo rolls this morning (I counted 10 packs of 6, and those were only the ones I could see).

Not that I have noticed - and I have been to Morrisons, Aldi and Marks and Spencer this week. The only thing which look bare was the veg in Morrisons - avocados in particular.

Probably students getting their stuff together - pasta, tins and loo roll sounds about right.

I saw someone walking out of Poundland with at least 60 loo rolls this morning (I counted 10 packs of 6, and those were only the ones I could see)

During the mass shortage earlier in the year , despite all major supermarkets not having any farm foods were selling three large packs for a fiver or something . A good deal any way my colleague told us all in case we were having trouble.

Nothing out of stock here and online slots freely available.

@SockYarn

Just proves how fucking stupid people are.

Even in March when everything was closed down, there was never an issue getting food. OK, so shops were having to ration pasta, rice and baby milk to stop one numpty buying 3 years' supply. But there was ALWAYS PLENTY TO GO ROUND.

I was getting to the shops after work and there was only junk food left, no fruit and veg, meat, cupboard stables.

Everything is ok here and we border two big lockdown areas. The only other thing is that Green Giant Sweetcorn and the nicer pasta (can’t remember what it’s called but has a black label) are both on offer £1 a pack so we’ve stocked up.

It’s ok here. Last weekend a couple of empty spaces on shelves but ok today.

Waitrose only had one pack of spinach last night which is very unusual but may be it was just that I went a bit late on.

I think it's entirely sensible for people to be building up food stocks again given the disaster that is highly likely to unfold with Brexit. I'm starting to gradually increase our supplies and I wouldn't be at all surprised if others are doing the same.

Fully stocked at the huge tesco I went to this morning.

@Swatsup

Hmm we had run out of stuff from the original stash/stockpile as only doing small weekly shops since Covid started. I bought a huge load of tins/pasta/ bog roll last week to stock up. Wonder if it’s the same timing for others? Nothing to do with Covid just easier and we have the room to store stuff.

So actually you and others who have selfishly stocked up again are the problem?

Shops were fine at the weekend - I was really hoping it wouldn't happen again because we know now that shops will stay open and can stay stocked and shortages were literally from people overbuying and nothing else. I understand why it happened before because we'd never been in this situation, and for all we know everything would shut and we'd be dependent on some kind of government emergency food supply or something.

I'm in North London and my Tesco has been trying to get rid of surplus pasta ever since people stopped panic buying - there's piles of it in random places around the shop.

Maybe shops need to put up signs saying 'There is no need to buy excess food, we will remain open, and are able to supply everyone as long as people aren't buying more than they need' Or perhaps reintroduce a 'max 3' on some things.

Stocks locally are currently fine, but if you think logically about where a large percentage of our food comes from, Brexit is inevitably going to have a knock-on effect on the food security we've previously taken for granted, often without thinking, or caring, about the knock-on effect on people in the countries supplying them. (Yes, quinoa, I'm looking at you.)

One of the main reasons we're in the mess we're currently in is that people panic and don't think logically, and vote based on (what they're told by the media about) personalities, not policies and actual evidence of the actions of those personalities.

Several university institutes have been looking at food security in general for years now. Throw in a bit of climate change and COVID-19 for good measure, not to mention the way humans generally behave, and I think it's amazing the supermarkets and other suppliers have done as well as they have.

Food is likely to get scarcer, less varied and more expensive, for a while at least, and our diets are likely to change. There'll be far less meat, and, given the way the government has decided to remove sustainability from the wording of the UK's "Give us wor fishing rights back or else" bill, it's likely fish will become even more of a luxury than it already is in the future too. If you're old enough to remember the 1970s, I suspect it'll be a lot like that crossed with the 1940s/1950s for a bit, only much less joyful. Still, I hear there's a new unicorn sanctuary on the Kent coast that's a great day out for a family. ;)

Okay, quinoa was probably a bad example. I'll change that (hastily) to tomatoes and pasta. ;)

Yy neo

Theres massive difference between walking out with a trolly containing 12 tubs of baby milk and 60 toilet rolls

And replenishing stores they would have done anyway . Especially with kids now back at school and the batch cooking that entails in order for people to be able to do the whole school/work thing again.

Plus not everyone has money or time to go buy one can of tomato soup from 4 different stores just to aplease MN when they could buy a 4 pack in sainsbury which will do 2 meals fir a family of 4 so hardly excessive. Nor would 2 four packs be its only a fortnights shopping.

Sounds like some supermarkets got a bit over excited and can't give the stuff away if they havng to try and get rid of excess pasta .

I assume many people have been home with children since March, running down stocks and trying to get in and out of the supermarkets quickly. It’s the first week many children have been back at school in months, so many taking the probably short lived opportunity to restock up now.

Fully stocked here, no problem getting what I need.

People need to start stocking up for hard Brexit

All absolutely fine here. Maybe some shops are just badly managed?

We were in tesco yesterday...down south

And there was loads of everything

It does depend on the time of day you go to the supermarket too. If you go at 8pm on a Saturday, before the night fill, some parts of the store will look a bit empty. Doesn't mean there isn't loads of stuff in the back.

Ooo in Aldi today I tried to buy 10 boxes of icing sugar and the man at checkout had to call through to see if I was allowed to buy so many at once. I thought limiting quantities was finished with now so maybe there's something afoot!

Picked up our click and collect yesterday at Tesco and the delivery guy commented on our packet of loo rolls and said that he had spent all day loading loo roll, pasta and rice into cars!