Food Shortages

[not-bono-ever]

No mates rates anymore. The market will sort it all out tho, - thats the beauty of capitalism

 

[hash tag]

No mates anymore

The CO2 shortage is being resolved thanks to us all paying an American company to make fertiliser at a loss.

All smiles...but Boris admits defeat on trade deal after Biden talks

Labour taunts Boris: Back to square one, at end of the queue

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Badgers]

I don't think anyone is really saying the whole thing is simply a figment of anyone's imagination, though some have been trying to suggest that people are saying that.

There clearly are shortages in some things and in some areas, they have been getting worse and are likely to get even worse.

It's the reasons for the shortages which are contested.

A poorly planned Brexit based on lies?

 

[Cloo]

Panic buying doesn't seem to have set it, but I assume it will unless they put limits on things.

Other half was at Costco last night and was going to pick up a dozen tinned tomatoes, but they were out, because apparently a guy had just bought multiples pf those for his corner shop - I'm assuming that wouldn't normally happen but he's having supply issues with his normal guys.

 

[bimble]

this will help.

 

[nogojones]

this will help.
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I think I'd best start panic buying

 

[Supine]

I bet ration is a word the government are trying to avoid

 

[bimble]

I don’t understand why it seems to have gotten steadily worse and is expected to carry on doing so.

 

[Supine]

I don’t understand why it seems to have gotten steadily worse and is expected to carry on doing so.

Bulk buying and storage for a no deal. Stock levels running down?

 

[MickiQ]

this will help.
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They clearly don't learn from experience then, since this is exactly what happened with Brexit and lockdown

 

[not-bono-ever]

Moaning minnies. No one complained about food and power shortages during the blitz did they ? Millennials need to get a grip

 

[Elpenor]

Corporal Jones from Dads Army is the new government spokesperson on all matters

 

[Supine]

Moaning minnies. No one complained about food and power shortages during the blitz did they ? Millennials need to get a grip

That was when somebody else was bombing us. This time we have bombed ourselves

 

[Badgers]

Bulk buying and storage for a no deal. Stock levels running down?

Honestly I have not spoken to anyone who is doing this. Confess I have a small food stash and generally buy enough to last, more to avoid the hassle of shopping.

 

[Yossarian]

this will help.
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Have coffee supplies been hit yet?

 

[Supine]

Honestly I have not spoken to anyone who is doing this. Confess I have a small food stash and generally buy enough to last, more to avoid the hassle of shopping.

I was referring to the supply chain not consumers

 

[hash tag]

Moaning minnies. No one complained about food and power shortages during the blitz did they ? Millennials need to get a grip

Says the voice of experience.

 

[Badgers]

Asda and Sainsbury's chilled foods distributor on brink of collapse

EVCL Chill, which employs roughly 1000 people, is in discussions with major customers about contingency plans to ensure continuity of supply as it heads for insolvency, Sky News learns.

news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[JoeyBoy]

I've been hoarding by means of living a 100 yards from the Co-Op, I don't really have the space, they have lots and they can afford the electric for the freezers a lot better than I can.

 

[Elpenor]

I have one of these from IKEA - it’s called the IVAR and is fairly inexpensive, modular and available in different sizes. Plan to start filling it with tins etc gradually over the next few weeks. Just need to collect the bracket which is still languishing in my dads garage.

 

[MickiQ]

Before she moved in with us just before Lockdown 1, Pollyanna (aka my son's girlfriend) lived with three other nurses in a shared house and Mrs Q (who is her biggest fan) regularly gave her a bag load of groceries when they were short.
I may have been hoarding but I was hoarding to support the NHS, I considered posting my fucking grocery bill to Hancock.
No-one supports a payrise for nurses more than me since it would personally save me a fortune.

 

[bimble]

I’m going to buy a long life milk

 

[bimble]

Bulk buying and storage for a no deal. Stock levels running down?

Some of that probably, but i don't think it's as much about stocks of food as it is about moving the food onto the shelves. When the whole issue first surfaced early Summer (?) we were all told to call it the "pingdemic", but its grown consistently worse since then. Maybe its just that HGV drivers are continuing to leave, the job or the country.

 

[rubbershoes]

I’m going to buy a long life milk

That's the slippery slope to grilling a rat

 

[Supine]

I’m going to buy a long life milk

Its called a cow

 

[ddraig]

You can get long life plant "milk"

 

[andysays]

You can get long life plant "milk"

Steady on, things aren't that desperate, surely

Joking aside, are supplies of plant based milk holding up? I've seen reports of dairy milk being unavailable in some supermarkets, though I haven't actually witnessed it myself.

I guess if dairy milk really is unavailable, some people will switch to plant milks, and that may become harder for vegans to source as a result.

 

[Raheem]

Fresh milk was unavailable for me in Aldi the other day.

(Not just for me, obvs, for everyone else there too.)

 

[brogdale]

My Tesco delivery person, (who delivered everything/no subs), told me that the big issue, as far as he could see, was cat litter.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Indeed, and there have been a number of valid reasons combining in many cases.

We have not been treated to seeing the effects of Brexit in isolation. The effects have been combined with pandemic effects, and in the case of CO2 shortages, the situation with gas supply and price.

I find it futile to try to argue that one thing is responsible in isolation. But this is no comfort, especially since some of the greatest disasters tend to be down to a combination of errors and sorry circumstances.

I've actually been surrpised at how well 'just in time' systems have coped during the pandemic so far. But Im not complacent about it, there are strong hints evident in regards how much potential doom cascading failures and combinations of difficult circumstances can bring.

I'm seeing empty shelves in the US too, so its not entirely due to Brexit.

I went to a Family Dollar last week that was mostly empty. I think in their case, its due to a backlog of goods being offloaded from China. They're pretty dependent on their China supply-chain. There's at least 60 ships waiting to be unloaded in Los Angeles:

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There's also a shortage of truck drivers:

Truckers are getting big pay hikes, but there's still a shortage of drivers

America's truck driver shortage is driving pay higher. But it's not solving the scarcity of truckers.

www.cnn.com

There's also some shortage of meat due to a fire at a processing plant and then there's there shortage of alcohol developing.:

The next pandemic-related shortage? Wine and liquor

Some states are putting purchase limits on alcohol as they ration their supplies of booze.

www.today.com

Look for a run on the stores if there's an alcohol shortage.