Anyone non-panic buying?

So the news is making it up?
The industry is making it up?
The government are making it up?

FWIW when i was completing my delivery for today last night I could not add any toms or peppers. Both of which we use regularly grrr

We still have some frozen allotment ones but they are only useful in some dishes.
 
200sols said:
Its amazing the shortages seem to be highly concentrated in the areas of a few OCUK political posters :D
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you are not seriously suggesting the whole thing is a lie made up by who? Remainers?

I mean i guess i could be lying as i didnt take time stamped photos but the only fresh toms in either aldi or sainsburys were a handful of packs of the cheap tasteless ones which were barely even ripe.

it is quite possible there would have been more supplies in small corner shop type green grocers, but that is hardly going to be enough supply to cover all of uk.

i dont even think it is purely a brexit issue anyway..... there are numerous reasons, its just that trade barriers have made it worse than it needed to be.

I mean remainer isnt a political party anyway... so if you mean the left or the right, well, i am pretty much a down the middle kind of guy anyway, at this point left or right, i am more interested in having a competent government who are not corrupt or covered in sleaze rather than bothered about the colour of their boxer shorts or panties.
 
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About to start one of my three packets of tomatoes that appeared in my weekly shopping. I went for the scattergun approach and selected different varieties in my delivery, and they all turned up (along with a cucumber). I'm going to end up looking like a tomato this week.

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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
So the news is making it up?
The industry is making it up?
The government are making it up?

FWIW when i was completing my delivery for today last night I could not add any toms or peppers. Both of which we use regularly grrr

We still have some frozen allotment ones but they are only useful in some dishes.
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In all seriousness though, there does seem to be regional variability. Anyway I'll be enjoying a Greek salad tonight.
 
hmmh not sure Jay's (rayners) is an informed take

Some will argue that the supermarkets are refusing to pay more because they can’t pass on the costs to already hard-pressed consumers battling a cost of living crisis; that to suggest we should pay more for our food when so many are reduced to using food banks is a grossly insensitive argument made from a place of affluence. But if we structure our food system so that those in poverty can access it, we will only further damage our agricultural base. We need on the one hand to deal with the functioning of our food system and on the other with poverty, with a chronically unequal distribution of wealth. We need to stop talking about food poverty and just call it poverty.
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Food system functions as it does to sustain UK supermarkets higher operating margins than eu, and renumeration of their boards/stock owners.
if that wealth was distributed fairly poorer could afford a more realistically priced cucumber/tomato ... and the growers would get their cut too.
supermarket might save on cost of cctv's too.,
...and what are you going to do about it Keir ?
(btw does Jay have a waitrose contract)

I'll have to start reading the express
According to cost-of-living database Numbeo’s latest figures, the cost of a month’s worth of food for one person in France is €337.99 (£297.81). The same basket in the UK costs just £188.18 – over a third less.
In January 2023, the average price of a kilo of tomatoes in France was €3.89 (£3.43), according to the French statistics bureau, INSEE. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) puts the comparable retail price in the UK at £2.96.
As of February, leading French supermarket chain Carrefour sells cucumbers at €1.89 (£1.67) a piece. Brits can pick one up in Tesco for just £0.75.


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regional shortages -
I assumed shortages were mostly in the Northern powerhouse
 
No panic buying in my house. My wife works for the big orange supermarket in the online shopping department - she does the picking for click and collect. As a staff member she can go in before the store opens and do our shopping - so we are always first in line for anything running short that we need. Combine that with the hefty staff discount and we don't even have to deal with food inflation.

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Moley said:
No panic buying in my house. My wife works for the big orange supermarket in the online shopping department - she does the picking for click and collect. As a staff member she can go in before the store opens and do our shopping - so we are always first in line for anything running short that we need. Combine that with the hefty staff discount and we don't even have to deal with food inflation.

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Don't worry, your energy bill is going up 900 quid in April...
 
GaryTheSnail said:
You won’t be saving anything if you use it. Only way to save is to cut off completely for gas and electric.

We know that ain’t going to happen.

Grid free.
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I would love to go grid free. I have a 1500sqft+ house, L-shaped with one half SW facing roof and one SE facing roof so I could install Solar Panels and grab light from dawn til dusk easily. Just need to save up a bit now I've paid my tax bill. :)
 
Tony Edwards said:
Youll be telling us youve got an Irish passport as well to get around brexit travel chaos next.
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Actually I'm struggling to get my Irish Citizenship sorted!

I'm estranged from my biological father - Irish, lives in Cork. I'm considered Irish, but my mum made an error with his middle name on my birth certificate so my cert and his cert don't match. I've paid for a correction on my certificate but the UK authorities are being difficult by asking for additional documentation that either hasn't existed for decades or I can't get hold of. Until I can sort that, my application can't go ahead.

Gotta love the British Civil Service.... :(
 
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