Thread to note supply shortages in the shops
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Bingoman
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bluescreen
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Natoora are always insanely expensive but that is -- extraordinary, even for them.
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Is that 50p per pepper?
Karl Masks
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Cucumbers! The irony!
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Yeah, you guys in the UK are gonna have to accept that 50p for a pepper is fantasy land prices.
1pepper is what, between 150 and 250 grams depending on size. So you're looking at anywhere between 4 to 7 peppers for a kg.
That's between £2 and £3.50 per kilo.
Supermarkets here charge £4 as a minimum, and that's within the EU.
So you're probably being sent the shit that's semi rotten, on the turn stuff that has to be sorted through for that price with loads being chucked out on arrival, or the UK is just not profitable to sell to so don't get produce in the first place.
Them prices are fantasy. Especially with where the pound is against the Euro.
1pepper is what, between 150 and 250 grams depending on size. So you're looking at anywhere between 4 to 7 peppers for a kg.
That's between £2 and £3.50 per kilo.
Supermarkets here charge £4 as a minimum, and that's within the EU.
So you're probably being sent the shit that's semi rotten, on the turn stuff that has to be sorted through for that price with loads being chucked out on arrival, or the UK is just not profitable to sell to so don't get produce in the first place.
Them prices are fantasy. Especially with where the pound is against the Euro.
SpookyFrank
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You're up and about talking bollocks again earlier than expected.
SpookyFrank
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There's a shop called natoora? The middle classes do love being baby-talked don't they?
cesare
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Its a supplier rather than a shop.
Like fyffes bananas, only natoora whatever.
I think. They are on Ocado for example.
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Just looking at prices in Germany. Used a supermarket with a delivery service. Berlin location:
I mean, you can all convince yourself it's all bollocks, but we all know how UK supermarkets operate, they really do squeeze suppliers on prices.
I mean, you can all convince yourself it's all bollocks, but we all know how UK supermarkets operate, they really do squeeze suppliers on prices.
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No, there are actual shops. There’s one quite near me.
bimble
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yep. For some reason we’ve got a different and much stupider supermarket buying system than over there. How that came about idk but it needs to change now.
This made sense to me:
Food tsar blames shortages on UK’s ‘weird supermarket culture’
Henry Dimbleby says suppliers struggling with rising costs while locked into fixed-price contracts
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yep. For some reason we’ve got a different and much stupider supermarket buying system than over there. How that came about idk but it needs to change now.
This made sense to me:
Food tsar blames shortages on UK’s ‘weird supermarket culture’
Henry Dimbleby says suppliers struggling with rising costs while locked into fixed-price contractswww.theguardian.com
Thanks for that article bimble. Agree with you that the system is stupid.
It was only after moving away that I realised just how fucked up shopping habits are in the UK, in particular Supermarkets from top (procurement) to bottom (customer attitudes)
Will read the article with interest.
HoratioCuthbert
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cesare
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Oh! Thanks, didn't realise. Apologies SpookyFrank
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Ok so I read the article.
It's quite funny - the "food tsar" basically saying what I am. I recommend the government employs me as food tsar. I will do it for a quarter of the price.
It's quite funny - the "food tsar" basically saying what I am. I recommend the government employs me as food tsar. I will do it for a quarter of the price.
this relentless focus on forcing down the price paid for food tsars will just inevitably lead to shortages of them years down the line
bimble
floofy
It does seem like the supermarkets will have to choose between offering cheapness and actually having stock, but having said that I’ve been in the local Waitrose 3 times now hoping to find those posh tomatoes for growing from their seeds and every time they’ve had none at all not the posh ones or any others.
Clair De Lune
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Rob Ray
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This has been an oncoming problem for the last decade plus and basically anyone who paid attention could see it, problem is it's just not in ministers' interests to encourage food price fluctuations unless or until food shortages get to the sort of active crisis levels that threaten social instability. We are in crisis inasmuch as food prices have risen extremely quickly across a raft of products and vast numbers of people have moved into serious poverty brackets. But that's not in a way that means middle class people are going hungry yet, and the poor don't matter to Westminster. So they'll keep colluding in upstream squeezing wherever possible.
They'd rather that people who don't matter can't eat than be the ones, come election time, who oversaw middle class people having to tighten their belts.
They'd rather that people who don't matter can't eat than be the ones, come election time, who oversaw middle class people having to tighten their belts.
AverageJoe
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As long as you don't invite more than six people you should be OK.
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Natoora - Wikipedia
ska invita
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UK Milk has got to be next for the crunch, years of being sold at a loss (or thereabouts - definite hard squeeze) and now with CAP payments disappearing...not the kind of thing that makes any sense importing.
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Do you want me to send you some seed from Poland? Serious question.
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forcing down prices is forcing farmers out of business.
‘It is unsustainable’: soaring inflation squeezes budgets of UK dairy farmers
Milk production is starting to fall as sharp rises in cost of fuel, feed, and fertiliser outstrip increases in farm-gate prices
The most recent official figures show that over the past year the cost of a pint of milk has risen by 7p to 49p – a 17% increase. However, the price of milk in shops last year was lower than in 2012, even though production costs have increased.
ska invita
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i see this as a good thing, cows terrible for the environment, milk production basically cow torture, oats grow easily in the UK, oat milk the future
bimble
floofy
ah thank you, but i am holding out, its not like there aren't any tomatoes in england at all, I could go to borough market if i was deperate for instance, but i want those particular ones like i grew last year.
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