Food Shortages

[mr steev]

Not a happy atmosphere in tescos today. It’s hard not to get pissed off when it’s like this repeatedly, not always but on a recurring basis. No normal milk, no baked beans . The power failure did add extra apocalypse vibes, half the lights being off, every little helps.

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If there was a power failure, then the chilled cabinets have to be emptied... its probably sitting out the back waiting to be thrown away

 

[bimble]

If there was a power failure, then the chilled cabinets have to be emptied... its probably sitting out the back waiting to be thrown away

Don’t think it was that. I saw the bloke who took the last sandwich. Chicken it was.

 

[Voley]

Anyone panic buying food because people are panic buying petrol leading to the supply chain deteriorating and further panic buying yet?

 

[ddraig]

Not a happy atmosphere in tescos today. It’s hard not to get pissed off when it’s like this repeatedly, not always but on a recurring basis. No normal milk, no baked beans . The power failure did add extra apocalypse vibes, half the lights being off, every little helps.

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Do you meant "normal milk" as in cow's milk?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Lidl has been generally good, but this morning something seemed a little off. I don't know if it's just a late delivery or other problems, but it felt different.
First thing in the morning, but low supply of eggs. Many general veg missing like onions, no chocolate covered rice crackers. . . it also opened 5 minutes late and seemed to have a staff of only two people.

 

[MickiQ]

Anyone panic buying food because people are panic buying petrol leading to the supply chain deteriorating and further panic buying yet?

I believe that's scheduled for later in the Apocalypse, possibly tomorrow or even Wednesday

 

[Smangus]

It will start when the GVT denies the existence of any so called "Apocalypse" as a remainer plot.

 

[WouldBe]

Anyone panic buying food because people are panic buying petrol leading to the supply chain deteriorating and further panic buying yet?

I'm considering panic buying petrol as I haven't got any. I don't actually need any, just don't want to feel left out.

 

[campanula]

O, me too, WouldBe. Have been bored at home and wondered if a bit of enraged queueing might be fun (specially if there is fighting). Pondered rocking up with trailer and lawnmower.

 

[kenny g]

Woolwich Tesco's had no 2kg bags of chick peas and sparse other pulses...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

There have been big supply chain problems in the bike industry for months. It's not just HGV drivers or Brexit causing it but they're certainly adding to it. For example, I saw one of our supplier reps last week and he said that the line of budget saddles that we get from them was about to run out for the foreseeable future because the factory in Vietnam that makes them has had to shut down operations because of local Covid restrictions. When I go to order stuff it's a constant game of finding something in stock. Lots of things that we rely on as a repair business (the metalwork mostly - chains, cassettes, derailleurs, brakes etc) are showing as out of stock for months. Some things have an ETA date on supplier websites of mid to late 2022.

There's been a shortage of small engine parts for lawn mowers and such in the US. I took a lawn mower to be repaired on June 6 and I'm told that they're still waiting on a part to come in to fix it.

 

[TopCat]

Globalisation has its downsides.

 

[tonysingh]

 

[Saul Goodman]

Not a happy atmosphere in tescos today. It’s hard not to get pissed off when it’s like this repeatedly, not always but on a recurring basis. No normal milk, no baked beans . The power failure did add extra apocalypse vibes, half the lights being off, every little helps.

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[weltweit]

My corner shop still going ok, I had to buy blue top milk but that isn't too bad.

 

[kenny g]

Woolwich Tesco's had no 2kg bags of chick peas and sparse other pulses...

Not that I was panic buying or anything.

 

[hash tag]

Shit just got real in Fav

Fuel supply: Non-league football matches hit by shortages - Fuel issues hit non-league matches

 

[bimble]

This is not a food shortage story but does seem exactly what would happen in an arty film about the beginning of the end of days.

White deer killed by police after running through Merseyside streets

Animal welfare experts urged officers to let buck find its way home but police say they were left ‘no option’

www.theguardian.com

 

[SpookyFrank]

Anyone panic buying food because people are panic buying petrol leading to the supply chain deteriorating and further panic buying yet?

I would but I don't want to use up the petrol I'd need to get to sainsburys.

 

[bimble]

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I hope it's frogs! Please let it be frogs! We've not had that one yet.

Governor of the bank of england yesterday apparently said, in a talk about the current state of our economy, that he's wondering when the plague of locusts will arrive.

 

[TopCat]

Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe

Thousands of outsourced workers on inferior pay and conditions to fulfil demand for cheap meat, Guardian investigation shows

www.theguardian.com

 

[Badgers]

Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe

Thousands of outsourced workers on inferior pay and conditions to fulfil demand for cheap meat, Guardian investigation shows

www.theguardian.com

Just the UK and EU?

 

[bimble]

Just the UK and EU?

Its surely fine in Brazil, where i think our xmas turkeys (if any) will come from this year.

 

[TopCat]

What about?

 

[Badgers]

What about?

There is a lot of WhatAbouterry about

 

[bimble]

Nobody is suggesting that meat plant workers in the UK are not exploited. Its been obvious for years i think that our meat is too cheap.

 

[Badgers]

Nobody is suggesting that meat plant workers in the UK are not exploited. Its been obvious for years i think that our meat is too cheap.

Luckily it is only the meat plant workers that are exploited.

Everyone else is sorted

 

[TopCat]

Wages and conditions won’t improve if visa restrictions are loosened.

 

[existentialist]

Wages and conditions won’t improve if visa restrictions are loosened.

You'll know, when Tories start talking about loosening visa restrictions, just how much more than that they hate the prospect of improving wages and conditions.

 

[TopCat]

You'll know, when Tories start talking about loosening visa restrictions, just how much more than that they hate the prospect of improving wages and conditions.

I don’t think they give a fuck but are vulnerable to lobbying from the industry’s effected.