Anyone non-panic buying?

VincentHanna said:
I believe most Irish imports came via Calais prior to brexit.

I'm not sure if they still do, but obviously Brexit impacted Ireland more than most other EU countries.
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If they still do, so what. The issue is tomato shortage, people are claiming EU have priority, so why can't Ireland get them? Brexit wasnt mentioned in the Irish article linked on here earlier.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Wedding photography is not my only job. Otherwise speaking to buying of produce won’t exactly make sense. And why are you so, erm, irritated ?
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irrittated?

Do you or do you not work for a company that has something to do with produce and a parent company that has a logo with a sun type bit in it? and if so isn't talk of 'doxing' a bit redundant?
 
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Caracus2k said:
irrittated?

Do you or do you not work for a company that has something to do with produce and a parent company that has a logo with a sun type bit in it? and if so isn't talk of 'doxing' a bit redundant?
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Yes, so you know I can find out for you, without all this guessing. And from the past few years, let’s just say Brexit didn’t help with the importing aspect.
 
200sols said:
If they still do, so what. The issue is tomato shortage, people are claiming EU have priority, so why can't Ireland get them? Brexit wasnt mentioned in the Irish article linked on here earlier.
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Are you trying to pretend that it is just a tomato shortage?

The biggest issue is we arent growing and picking enough of our own food.
 
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cheesefest said:
Remember seeing a photo of a wheelie bin overflowing with tins of unopened food. Someone commented that two of the tins were supermarket own label beans which only changed its labelling a month before! They have 2 plus years shelf life
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I do suspect some of those photos were staged. I saw 1 article and it had a photo of binned food and top of it were bananas which were barely at the best point to be eaten. any riper and they would have been too green.
surely people are not thick enough to bin such food or in date canned goods...... and if they are then maybe we deserve to starve?

we (my household) are fortunate to be fairly comfortable...... but despite that I am a jumper 1st heater later and also cooked a chilli over the weekend and the chipotle sauce I used the 2nd half of was use with in 6 weeks of opening. we opened it before Xmas , probably November .... but it wasn't mouldy so no way I was wasting that.

I dispair at the amount of waste we produce of perfectly good stuff, but people who are struggling who are wasteful.... the mind boggles... so I possibly niavely choose to believe a lot of it is a set up and people are not that thick
 
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As to the difference between European supermarket supplies and UK ones this was answered pages ago. The Ex-CEO of Sainsburys claims that UK supermarkets buy on long term fixed price contracts as they are very price conscious. European supermarkets buy on contracts that allow for monthly price changes. The Radio 4 Today programme repeated this claim at abour 5-30pm. European supermarkets have more supply because in a restricted supply environment they are paying more and we are not.

Supply and demand. This point was made about 6 or 7 hours ago in this very thread. How hard is it to understand? The people least willing to pay the highest price get the least supply. Same as happened when gas prices whizzed through roof when that became a limited supply.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
I can do, but technically that’s a separate region and separate “branch” so to speak. UK branch is only this island. So I don’t talk to Ireland as much.
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Fair enough.

But I will say that I rarely trust the opinions of people alone, even when they are intimately involved in the matter at hand, where there aren't some figures to support what they are saying.

For example take our earlier Spanish chap that the Guardian put up for their narrative re shortages... who when you look closer has an ulterior motive to be against the UK leaving the EU and hence have a motive to vastly overstate/ mispresent another issue
 
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