Otis
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Asda and Sainsbury's too.
Supermarket shortages (19 Viewers)
- Thread starter Alan Dugdales Moustache
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chiefdave
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Anyone know what is happening with deliveries, can't find any info online. If you can actually book a slot and get an order in are they picking your order overnight when there's actually stock or is the van going to turn up and you get about three things from your order as everything else was out of stock?
fellatio_Martinez
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I'm almost certain all online deliveries are completely booked out for weeks to come. I think they're trying to do special deliveries for the vulnerable.
They are advising people to use click and collect to ease the pressure in store. As click and collect is usually done first thing.
Liquid Gold
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Went to get english muffins earlier but had to make do with ciabata.
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covmark
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Ocado have taken their website down till Saturday. Everyone else has at least 3 weeks booked up I think.
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chiefdave
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But how do they know who is vulnerable. I've done a click and collect for a weeks time but its for my Mum and Dad who are in their 80s, can't go to the store and got completely confused when they tried to do it online. How do they know its for them and not me?
Would rather know if they aren't going to get what they've ordered as the order date is at the point they'll be running out of what they have. Increasingly there seems to be no plan and I'm a bit concerned that those of us that aren't panic buying are going to end up screwed. They keep saying there's plenty to go around but the shelves are empty!
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I've used click and collect for the past few years. My understanding is that they always pick overnight; however, this can be to your advantage or disadvantage, as stock is being replenished on shelves pretty much up to opening time, whereas the pickers can start several hours earlier, meaning you may miss out. I've had the situation before where I've been missing a major ingredient required for my home cooking, say mushrooms, and have had to park the car up and go into the store to buy! However, in most cases I've always got what I ordered. Of course, that's going to be less certain now.
The problem now is actually trying to get a slot, home delivery or click and collect.
tommydazzle
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I happened to set my elderly parents up with online deliveries from Morrisons just before the virus outbreak as dad was getting so frail and his driving not so good. Seems to work quite well, they phone me their order and I do the online ordering for them. There’s about a two week delay at the moment and a few restrictions on certain products but otherwise it’s a godsend.
tommydazzle
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Heard from someone in Hughes today that chest freezers were selling out fast. Makes you despair for the human race.
shmmeee
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Sorry been a bit triggered by some of the overly online Twitter libertarians today still holding onto the “government doesn’t need to do anything” mantra. Apologies.
Yeah it should have been rationing from day one.
Halftime Orange
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Everyone who stockpiled toilet roll have no real idea why...the herd mentality of humans can be real stupid sometimes.
clint van damme
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Thats for hiding the bodies of relatives you've strangled after being stuck in the house together for a fortnight
jimmyhillsfanclub
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DELIVERY TIP: deliveroo are delivering from my local co-op....and a quick Google suggests many co-ops...seems like a good alternative option.
tommydazzle
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Yes it’s an ideal way to store valuable protein if things get really bad.
covmark
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Yeah and tbf when I nipped in my local co op it was pretty well stocked.
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BodicoteSkyBlue
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In this modern age of data harvesting, there must be a way of checking people’s loyalty cards. Tesco, Sainsbury ect know exactly what you’ve bought week in week out for the last few years. All of a sudden someone is buy 100 loo rolls & mega packs of beans it should flash up a big alarm at the till & shame them into putting stuff back!
Otis
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Said in a previous post. I have pen friends around the world. This week I have had letters from France, Italy, the US, Germany, Italy, Norway and Australia.
All saying the same thing. Toilet roll!! Everyone bulk buying, everyone going crazy stockpiling and supermarkets shelves empty.
Numptiness is not exclusively a UK thing seemingly.
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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Lots of eggs and cheese should do the trick for a few days.
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All I've bought from Sainsbury's is breakfast biscuits, jelly babies, and scotch eggs, so not sure I fancy them scaling that up to a fifty quid order!
dutchman
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I was unable to book a delivery from Morrisons this afternoon.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Really hope that virus doesn't last long on surfaces! If not your house should have an armed guard on it!
Halftime Orange
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In the coming months there is going to be tons of out of date food chucked or the obesity rate will go through the roof...on a positive note foodbanks may get a shitload donated to them.
covmark
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No cat food in tesco earlier. Good job I panic bought
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Otis
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Should have got the cat to do it, they would have been chilled as fook.No cat food in tesco earlier. Good job I panic bought
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tommydazzle
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The next two weeks were taken and the first daytime £2 slot I could get was April 1st. The demand is probably a lot less here compared to big city like Cov. In my local Waitrose today, shelves not too bad but puzzled that all loo rolls gone but plenty of kitchen rolls? This demand for loo rolls doesn’t bother me, I can remember using strips of newspaper so will go back to that if really needed. Daily Mail is ideal.
shmmeee
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Oh shit! That’s why all the eggs have gone.
shmmeee
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Really hope this has just been a shock to the supermarkets and they can ramp up capacity pretty quick.
Came to post this. Absolute shame. People buying ten times the food they need and also stopping donating.
Came to post this. Absolute shame. People buying ten times the food they need and also stopping donating.
Covkid1968#
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Reminds me of the bloke who went to the Doctors because his manhood had gone orange since he lost his job. The Doctor was baffled when the bloke assured him that he hadn’t been anywhere to catch anything because all he had done since he was made redundant was stay at home watching porn and eating Wotsits.
Otis
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There was a foodbank collection place outside Tesco at Jubilee Crescent the other day. I gave them quite a few tins.
Sad to hear that people have stopped.
Otis
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That's excellent. Well done them.
Bigger queue at Morrison's today and stacks more people in Tesco Metro, where seemingly some are still trying it on.
Some woman had multiples of all sorts of things in her basket this morning and the girl on the tills had to keep removing stuff and say 'You're only allowed one of them', 'you're only allowed one of them etc' and the woman payed dumb and was very polite and accepting of it all.
Then the bloke behind her got to the tills and he had done exactly the same thing.
These people know what they are doing, even though they play the innocent card.
