Tesco six-packs of bottled water - shortage?

I believe EP does his shopping online with Tesco, which I also did when I was sheilding.
I found that Tesco always tried their best to substitue missing items. However, there were times when no substitutes were available, due to the pandemic. I just had to accept it.

I suppose for some posters, bottled water is essential if their own water supply doesn't taste very nice.
I worked in an old school building , with very old water pipes and we had to drink bottled water, as the water tasted foul, despite coming from Loch Katrine, where much of Glasgow's water comes from.

My OH does the supermarket shop in a neighbouring county and the Morrison’s there has had some shortages. I can only eat a specific bread and he couldn’t get that for two weeks. I do a small shop at Lidl in our nearby town and there were shelves with printed signs on saying they were awaiting delivery of those products. (Although I can’t recall what they were as they weren’t things I was buying!)

ladyleftfield I m with you all the way I have no understanding why people would spend money, time, and the bother of carrying out bottles of water when it’s free in your own kitchen
Scratches head in disbelief ?

A few shortages here, but as has been said, flexibility is key, our friend has cats, she’s just changed brands to what’s available.

ElderlyPerson

Wow! It all seems rather theoretical on the television with the huge numbers and the politicians and so on.
This thread is bringing the on-the-ground actuality.

No it isn’t.
It’s a load of fuss about very little with a degree of hyperbole thrown in for good measure.

Use the tap, be flexible, it’s hardly a life and death situation if you can’t get your Kellogg’s cornflakes for a couple of weeks

Elderly Person……please turn off your TV and go out of your front door to experience real life. I’m presuming that you are double vaccinated. All this stuff around deliveries, metres of distance and shouting down from upstairs windows is not healthy. Eating rice with pouches of baby food squeezed onto it is not healthy. Tap water is OK.

Oh dear, perhaps I should have just kept to brushing up my French!

Casdon

To be fair though MawBe if you are relying on supermarket deliveries rather than shopping for yourself it can be difficult to substitute even when you get advance notice that something isn’t available, and very frustrating if something you have ordered just doesn’t come with your order, so I do have some sympathy.

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I get all my shopping via the internet, Saturday’s “foray” was my first time ever in this new local Lidl which I happened to be passing on my way back from the post office.
All I popped in for was Lidl own brand mini magnums-which were of course sold out!
Now if you could come up with a home made mini magnum alternative I’d be very grateful! ???

Brushing up your French won’t be much use I guess unless you have a friend to practice on…… are you planning to spend the rest of forever as a terrified recluse ?

Well, MawBe not homemade, but I can actually offer an alternative - I got these the other day as they were the only ice creams they had left, and they were absolutely delicious. Maybe it’s a good thing when what we normally buy isn’t there, as it’s a chance to branch out!

None of our local supermarkets (Morrisons, Tesco, Aldi) have had soda water for weeks now. Don't know why that particularly?

ElaineI

There are shortages of lots of stuff - cat food being one. Lots of empty shelves here in Midlothian - and an earthquake this morning apparently!

I'm also in Midlothian and one Co-op store looked like it had been hit by a plague of locusts - almost whole aisles empty!

i sometimes buy flavoured water from morrisons, it is in the fridge beside the sandwiches, when i have finished the bottle i fill with water and put in the fridge, i also half fill some bottles and put in the freezer, before i go out i top the frozen with cold water from the fridge. i would never buy bottled water, staying in scotland our water comes from loch katrine and tastes nice than some bottled water. morrisons water was fully stocked when i was in.

MissChateline

Elderly Person……please turn off your TV and go out of your front door to experience real life. I’m presuming that you are double vaccinated. All this stuff around deliveries, metres of distance and shouting down from upstairs windows is not healthy. Eating rice with pouches of baby food squeezed onto it is not healthy. Tap water is OK.

You presume wrongly.

The Tesco drivers telephone me. I had a hearing problem develop for a number of months and so could not hear them from the window so they telephoned me. Even then I often needed to ask them to repeat things. My hearing situation has improved greatly though, but they still telephone, often from the van, which is better for them if it is cold or raining.

> Eating rice with pouches of baby food squeezed onto it is not healthy.

It certainly is healthy. There is also some Alpro unsweetened soya drink added to it so as to provide protein and vitamin B12. I devised my diet out of need, my diet has been checked and approved by a hospital dietician after a referral by my doctor at my request.

As you mention it, my diet also includes pure fruit juice and Alpro soya shakes, both chocolate and strawberry and Alpro doft desserts, both chocolate and vanilla.

It has kept me out of hospital for a long time now.

It is really none of our business whether EP leaves his flat or not. We have no knowledge of his circumstances nor his health. Perhaps he feels safer drinking bottled water, who knows?
There is no need for anyone to be critical of his choices. Live and let live.

Vitamin D, green leafy vegetables, exercise, vitamin C……human contact…..the human condition…..

MissChateline

Brushing up your French won’t be much use I guess unless you have a friend to practice on…… are you planning to spend the rest of forever as a terrified recluse ?

I am not terrified.

I was terrified in March 2020.

I genuinely felt that I would not make it to June 2020.

I lay on my bed and devised a system to protect myself as best I could. Thus far it has worked. As far as i know I have not caught COVID-19.

Originally my efforts were regarded as not only protecting me but also as me helping to protect the NHS by not needing to take up a hospital bed, now it seems to be moving round that I am somehow blameworthy.

Since you ask, if I need to continue like this permanently then that is what I will do. I did not go out much anyway before all of this anyway.

As far as I am aware the government's COVID-19 threat level is still at 3.

What, exactly, precisely, is considered so objectionable to what I am doing?

What, exactly, precisely, is your locus standi on this?

There is definitely a staffing shortage in some places far more than others.

My DD in Warrington couldn't get bottled water from big supermarket but the small co-op had lots. Staff problems again not supplies. DD's water does taste foul. Strong taste of chlorine. Only way to drink it is to make one of her fruit teas. It hides the taste.

Sainsbury's delivery driver on Sunday explained why 25 of my 86 items were not with the order. A large amount of staff at the Truro store are having to self isolate. Only things that bothered us was no soya milk and bread. I don't want to go back to doing a huge weekly shop. I've like the extra time I can spend gardening and other far more enjoyable things.

My friend in Derbyshire has had notification from the council that there will no refuse collection for possibly two weeks due to self isolation for staff. Same in south west (Torbay) delays for same reason.

News the other day was that Newquay airport is down 1/3 staff due to 'pingdemic'

Lots of pubs here in Cornwall are struggling with staff self isolating.

Perhaps because he or she needs to have a supply of water in his or her bedroom that is at ambient temperature and does not smell of chlorine as he or she needs to keep himself or herself hydrated.

Ours smells strongly of chlorine sometimes, EP
It's a good idea to buy a filter jug rather than bottled water. We assume plastic bottles are responsibly recycled but it is not always the case.

I did want to buy a couple of bottles of soda water but none was available from Tesco (found some in Spar).

I too was terrified in March 2020 for the entirety of 2 weeks. I then came to the conclusion that the fear and anxiety was more harmful and worse than the virus. I made the decision to carry on my life as normal as possible. I went out walking twice a day, went to the local coop at least once a day for fresh supplies. I visited my children, hugged my family and friends and went to Spain last august.
I decided to renovate my house, had a project manager and worked alongside at least 30 tradesmen. No masks no distancing…. I’ve not sneezed for 2 years……..but I made sure I looked after myself nutritionaly and through exercise.
I’m not objecting to anything you are doing……but it doesn’t seem much like a life. If you want to permanently isolate yourself then that’s fine…….but it’s not for me.

MawBe

We are not exactly talking food shortages though are we?
I think you need to keep a sense of proportion and drink tap water!

This is what came out of my tap yesterday. No, thank you!

MissChateline

Elderly Person……please turn off your TV and go out of your front door to experience real life. I’m presuming that you are double vaccinated. All this stuff around deliveries, metres of distance and shouting down from upstairs windows is not healthy. Eating rice with pouches of baby food squeezed onto it is not healthy. Tap water is OK.

My tap water isn't OK.

I’m flexible about what I eat, but the cats aren’t

I know you can’t explain the shortages to the cats, but surely they will eat something else or go hungry.

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growstuff

MawBe

We are not exactly talking food shortages though are we?
I think you need to keep a sense of proportion and drink tap water!

This is what came out of my tap yesterday. No, thank you!

Try Chablis or Pinot Gris Growstuff
(And complain to your water company- unless of course that was a bathroom tap and not the rising main)