Shortages in supermarkets and in other shops

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Rosalyn69

I have cat food issues. My Lily will only eat Sheba trays and they are as rare as hens teeth at the moment.
Last week I couldn’t get strawberries or blueberries on line.
It varies tremendously. One gets quite good at substitution.

Have you tried Amazon?

Try here, cheaper for dog food than Amazon

www.zooplus.co.uk/search/results?q=Sheba

Just back from Sainsburys, no skimmed today, not a lot of semi skimmed either, but that's quite unusual.

Now you mention it, I have had problems getting semi-skimmed milk in the bottle size I prefer. That's gone on for a while now.

The 'shortages' are so (seemingly) random that I can't make sense of it.

Calendargirl I cannot imagine how shopping the sweet aisle for the tinned fruit is government driven! Still for Tesco staff and customers…..ours not to reason why!

Calendargirl

Wheniwasyourage

Yes, when doing my Tesco shop yesterday, everything was in a different place. I was in a hurry as DH had a GP appointment, so just omitted non essentials that I couldn’t find.

I mentioned this at the checkout, I thought it was a) a shortage of products so moving stuff around to mask that or b) a subtle ploy to encourage us to buy more, but the checkout chap said it was government driven, all to do with sugar and salt guidance.



Not sure if that is the reason, but that’s what he said.

(It had created a lot of work for the staff obviously).

Yes when I queried everything being moved about at my local Tesco’s the manager told me that it was government driven to do with sugar and salt apparently. ?

That is interesting.

I found a Financial Times article that was free to read, but the link that I intended to post here, when tested, had a pay wall.

The article is from June this year and apprently it has to be done by October for shops with more than some size.

It seems that some supermarkets are doing it now at the same time as removing Platinum Jubilee "stuff".

Also, apparently for online shopping there are restrictions on what can be suggested in the suggestions page that one sometimes gets as one heads towards the checkout page.

As part of the government anti-obesity campaign supermarkets are no longer allowed to display sweets (and possibly crisps) in the racks at the end of aisles. I discussed this with someone working in Waitrose. They have to be in the middle of shelving in aisles, so that they are not prominent.

Seem to me, those buying sweets in supermarkets, will soon discover where the sweets are 'hidden' and buy them as usual. Most supermarkets seem only to sell sweets in three plus packs, so hardly an impulse buy.

Supermarkets are also rationalising their product lines and cutting low volume items out.

Not too many shortages but the price hikes!! ???‍♀️?

Calendar girl the checkout person was right. It’s true come September, all sugary/naughty-but -nice things must not be displayed near to the tills.
What a bore

Damn government control freaks. Do they think they are our Nannies or something ?