Thread to note supply shortages in the shops

[cesare]

Pineapple upside down cake.

And in fruit cakes

 

[danny la rouge]

why would anyone buy glace cherries, ever?

My late mother-in-law made amazing chocolate brownies with chopped glacé cherries through them. They were a highlight of Christmas, before she became ill.

But yeah, other than that, cocktails for time travellers?

 

[Leafster]

My late mother-in-law made amazing chocolate brownies with chopped glacé cherries through them. They were a highlight of Christmas, before she became ill.

But yeah, other than that, cocktails for time travellers?

Ah, Snowballs! I'd forgotten all about them.

 

[extra dry]

I can see allotments being raided at 3 am by a pizza shop owner

 

[TopCat]

I can see allotments being raided at 3 am by a pizza shop owner

A few leeks, chard and under developed garlic is all that is growing. It’s fucking winter

 

[extra dry]

Condensed milk is very different from evap. It's sweetened a lot and has the consistency of thick glue. I don't take sugar in coffee so I don't think I'd like that.


Condensed would be much better for DIY.

This chat isn't helping refill my store cupboard. Has anyone actually seen evap in shops recently? Or is it just not in my local Sainsbury's & Lidl?

they sell it by the bag and huge tin here, in all coffee and teas if you don't stop they adding it to the drinks

 

[friendofdorothy]

The market was fine
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£1 for a single bunch of spring onions? Yikes

 

[hash tag]

£1 for a single bunch of spring onions? Yikes

London innit.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Condensed milk is very different from evap. It's sweetened a lot and has the consistency of thick glue. I don't take sugar in coffee so I don't think I'd like that.


Condensed would be much better for DIY.

That's it, condensed. Thanks, I'll get a few tins in for the ongoing mouse problem.

 

[DebaterFan]

From what I understand, there is no shortage of veg on the wholesale market.

The supermarkets, however have screwed down their UK suppliers to such an extent that they have been warned that they will stop supplying (either supply someone else or stop growing fruit/veg). This is now happening. That, coupled with import difficulties due to BREXIT means that the supermarkets have essentially fucked themselves.

No it's not due to Brexit, it's due to weather conditions in Spain and Morocco.
Europe simply has a better supply.
BBC and Reuters - that is my understanding.

 

[Supine]

No it's not due to Brexit, it's due to weather conditions in Spain and Morocco.
Europe simply has a better supply.
BBC and Reuters - that is my understanding.

Before brexit they were shipped into Europe and then to whichever country easily due to the single market.

Now with friction at the U.K. border it doesn’t get shipped here as much - it’s easier to sell in the single market. It’s weather AND friction causing supply issues here.

 

[sojourner]

Asda did put the bag of peppers in my order after saying 'no stock', and after I got some from Lidl, so I now have lots of peppers. Lidl also had salad and cherry toms

 

[DebaterFan]

Before brexit they were shipped into Europe and then to whichever country easily due to the single market.

Now with friction at the U.K. border it doesn’t get shipped here as much - it’s easier to sell in the single market. It’s weather AND friction causing supply issues here.

I suppose.
Labour shortages may be in part caused by Brexit as well

 

[Artaxerxes]

I suppose.
Labour shortages may be in part caused by Brexit as well

Absolutely

 

[Pickman's model]

Got some tomatoes in sainsburys earlier

 

[Dystopiary]

I suppose.
Labour shortages may be in part caused by Brexit as well

I agree, but there's a simple solution to that - pay people better wages.

 

[ska invita]

Very little of any veg in ...wait for it....Lidl just now. Not one egg either

 

[magneze]

Any glacé cherries though?

 

[ska invita]

Any glacé cherries though?

Follow me on twitter for updates

 

[magneze]

Follow me on twitter for updates

Pretty sure Twitter is dead.

 

[Artaxerxes]

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Very little of any veg in ...wait for it....Lidl just now. Not one egg either

It’s almost like relying on going to the shops gives a view that’s only relevant to that store rather than say an overall look at the supply situation as a whole

 

[bimble]

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Very little of any veg in ...wait for it....Lidl just now. Not one egg either

that was some Waitrose People must have come in and raided the place, left the avocados because they already had loads of those at home.

 

[DebaterFan]

I agree, but there's a simple solution to that - pay people better wages.

I'm sure it will happen in the end - Abello bus drivers recently got a 18% pay rise.
That says a lot.
That simply encourages strike action.
Strike to get what you want.
In the end, the government have left us worse off with all this strike action, give the public sector workers a fair deal NOW which you will inevitably end up doing LATER.

 

[Boudicca]

I am distraught.

Last year I grew about 100 plants from one Waitrose First Choice tomato and they were distributed all over Bournemouth and London. And they were tasty.

People are relying on me, but there are no tomatoes at all in Waitrose, never mind First Choice ones.

 

[bimble]

this is grim (brixton market stall the one on the end of electric avenue i think not sure) interviewed in Dm of all places.


so the stuff that does end up in the supermarkets is when producers and importers stick with the contracts they agreed months ago, but current wholesale prices are massively higher so the small shops and market sellers are screwed too, forced to either be much more expensive than the big shops or else not buy in these things at all.

 

[davesgcr]

March 1st is coming up - so having some very old and respected friends round for "cawl" (a receipe that takes 2 days to do properly) , the fear of "no leeks" was real.


No problems at the local charter market - ditto tomatoes , cucumbers , peppers etc. Strong Welsh cheese and in the "Beer Shop" craft Welsh beer (for a price !)

We do love a manufactered fucking crises in this country ? (anyway - I will be growing Leeks , Chard , Toms , spuds etc -and as much else as I can squeeze into the veg plot this year)

 

[TopCat]

I am distraught.

Last year I grew about 100 plants from one Waitrose First Choice tomato and they were distributed all over Bournemouth and London. And they were tasty.

People are relying on me, but there are no tomatoes at all in Waitrose, never mind First Choice ones.

Go to Lidl and get a punnet of their speciality tomatoes, best I have grown in thirty years.

 

[TopCat]

this is grim (brixton market stall the one on the end of electric avenue i think not sure) interviewed in Dm of all places.

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so the stuff that does end up in the supermarkets is when producers and importers stick with the contracts they agreed months ago, but current wholesale prices are massively higher so the small shops and market sellers are screwed too, forced to either be much more expensive than the big shops or else not buy in these things at all.

£21 for twenty tomatoes? In Brixton market? I just spoke to a mate who shopped in the market today and did not see anything like the prices quoted.

 

[bimble]

£21 for twenty tomatoes? In Brixton market? I just spoke to a mate who shopped in the market today and did not see anything like the prices quoted.

I don’t think she was talking about 20 individual tomatoes

 

[TopCat]

I don’t think she was talking about 20 individual tomatoes

A crate of twenty tomatoes has increased from £6 to £21 was the quote. What do you think she meant?