bimble
floofy
Yep my big tescos had zero milk the other day. It was quite scary to see them the empty metal crate things. Hence the long life milk plan.
Food Shortages
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Fecking remoaniac ruminants!Yep my big tescos had zero milk the other day. It was quite scary to see them the empty metal crate things. Hence the long life milk plan.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
None when I popped into Aldi after work yesterday, and there was none at the cafeteria at the hospital due to shortages too.
klang
klang
'Family Dollar' is a cool name for a shop. I'd shop there, shortages permitting
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
This morning at 10.30 I saw the Premium unleaded was OOS (Shell Bethnal Green), thought about the truck drivers and all the other stuff and filled up just in case. Saw the headlines later and felt simultaneously smug and embarrassed.
I do have a tank full of petrol now though so there is that.
#same
(was originally on brexit thread but that's doing its usual weird thing so am bailing out to this one while it is still based in reality).
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
'Family Dollar' is a cool name for a shop. I'd shop there, shortages permitting
They stock Turkish Delight right before Christmas.
klang
klang
hopefully.
Supine
Newt Member
You can have my ration as well. Horrible stuff.
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
The chocolate covered version or the real deal?
My Daughter works at Lidl . She said the problem is getting the stock on the shelves due to lack of staff.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
The real deal. I live in a mixed immigrant neighborhood so the chain stores stock accordingly.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
Through work today I had an email from fareshare offering lots of plant milk. So it's around. My guess is that this is short dated and due to distribution problems, not able to get to where it should be in time. I'll find out tomorrow
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Aye, I'll fill up in the next few days. Mrs Sas is going to see her sister on Islay, so I need petrol for about 500 miles, which is a tank.
Supine
Newt Member
Maybe the drivers got a pay rise by moving to the supermarkets
bimble
floofy
Most likely explation yeah. Deck chairs shuffled.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Aren't tanker drivers highly paid compared with other HGV drivers because it's such a hazardous and responsible job? So if they've been lured away the supermarkets must be paying quite a premium.
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
You've learned nothing from the Proclaimers.
bimble
floofy
“Golden hanshakes” . Can’t think what else it is, that would cause this petrol story now. I mean there’s no known actual shortage of petrol far as I know just of drivers?
the just in time economy is so carefully balanced that all it takes is for someone to say 'they were queuing round the block to get into my local esso!' on facebook to set of a chain reaction that causes a run on the pumps.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Mentioned it before but my nephew is a mechanical engineer who intermittently needs to drive a big 8 wheel tanker as part of his job so he has an HGV license. As soon as this shortage of drivers became evident his boss promptly gave him a £10K bonus and a 15% payrise. Talking about it to my brother, my nephew's boss apparently told him that if my nephew left it would cost the company a small fortune since they would have to find another qualified engineer, pay for him to take an HGV test and then risk losing the new guy as well, easier all round to just give the money straight to my nephew and save the trouble if not the cost. An experienced HGV is looking at £50K+ at the moment.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Anecdotally there's a noticeable lack of communal rubbish bin emptying happening in Edinburgh. Lots of overflowing bins everywhere. Someone I know called the council to complain and was told it's because they've lost a lot of lorry drivers to the (better paid) supermarkets.
there was a piece about this in the graun the other day, it's happened everywhere.
Maggots and mayhem: behind the scenes of Britain’s big bin crisis
Thanks to the HGV driver shortage, many refuse collectors are quitting to earn up to £30,000 more driving lorries. But what does this mean for our streets, as the rubbish and recycling piles ever higher?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Self-fulfilling prophecy, we have some dipshit on the telly saying don't hoard bogrolls there's plenty, people think my God there is going to be a shortage of bogrolls or they wouldn't have said anything so we all hoard bogrolls.
Substitute bogroll for petrol and another dipshit for the first (maybe even keep the first one) and people panic buy fuel.
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