AleisterCrowley wrote:OK I know lots of stuff is in short supply at the supermarkets but I'm having real trouble finding any bread. Doesn't seem to be any around.
Is this due to a genuine shortage at the producers, supply chain issues, or people bulk/panic buying
If the latter surely it's going to go stale unless frozen, and you can't fit many loaves into a freezer
When will people reach 'peak bread' and allow the shelves to fill up again? I only want one poxy loaf.
I suspect this is area dependant. Yesterday (Weds) morning we were finally running out of stuff as that is our (OK, my) weekly shopping day.
I went to Morissons about 9:15, parked at the far end of the car park where people were parking every other space, marvelled at how cheap petrol was, and joined the well spaced queue, where I suggested to the chap behind that pushing the trolley then adjusting his mask and glasses 4 times in 2 minutes is more dangerous than not wearing it at all.
They were limiting customer numbers, one out, one in, but in the foyer was a huge pile of veg reduced to 15p or so, plentiful supplies of pretty much everything except sweets/chocolate, short on soap, contraceptives, and pregnancy test kits, but tinned and jar goods, rice, pasta, even flour was back in stock. Huge reduced Fish section, freezers full. There were as many "home delivery pickers" in the aisle than there were customers, and I enquired about work nd they said they had 90 inductions that day.
We may be lucky here as there are very few Morissons in the Exeter area but a huge distribution centre an hour up the M5.
Mr Bill End (36) said to the local paper "This is outrageous, everyone on Facebook was saying we'd all starve by Easter, so went and bought loads of stuff to make sure nobody else had something I didn't. Now I have a garage full of a thousand of quids worth of stuff I don't want, although I've already used 100 loo rolls up as the 40 poundland buckets I filled with fuel before they dropped the price by 10% are starting to leak."
Oddly MrsF said to get loo rolls if they had some. I poointed out we bought 2 packs the other week when they were on deal and still had 17 rolls spare (plus the ones in use). There was some discussion about whether this was "panic buying", but as I was the one doing the shopping she can use the bloody bidet for the first time since it was fitted 11 years ago if we run out.
Paul