Anyone non-panic buying?

Rroff said:
Annoyingly Sainsbury's own brand takes, which in some cases come out the same factory..., are closer to the original version of some stuff than the latest incarnation of the branded version... Coco Pops for instance the Kellogg's tastes nothing like it did when I was a kid and they hide behind people in taste trials said the new recipe it was just as good or better while the Sainsbury's one is about 95% of the original.
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I will now have to try sainsburys coco pops!
 
loftie said:
I will now have to try sainsburys coco pops!
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i have a lot of friends in the industry..... one of them used to work for Asda in their procurement and he was saying Sainsburys own brand was the benchmarks that all the other supermarkets strived to match (the normal ones, am excluding M&S etc)

another friend owns the company who supplies aldi with their partisan breads - under the village bakery umbrella brand - they also supply other places where they charge a lot more money, and the bread is 99% the same.

IME no one can hold a candle to kelloggs for the cornflakes however. (interesting history of kelloggs cornflakes btw as well as a humourous - but fake - story about the effect they were meant to have on teenage boys)
 
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Scougar said:
Soooooo...... nothing really happened did it. lol.
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? what do you mean.... what did you expect to happen, i dont think it was broadcast as the coming appocalypse. There was a shortage of certain fruit/veg accross certain parts of the uk. I cant comment on if it is over now, but there was a shortage at least in my neck of the woods.
 
bigmike20vt said:
? what do you mean.... what did you expect to happen, i dont think it was broadcast as the coming appocalypse. There was a shortage of certain fruit/veg accross certain parts of the uk. I cant comment on if it is over now, but there was a shortage at least in my neck of the woods.
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Yeah, a shortage. no one starved. No one went short. i.e. panic buying did nothing but help make shelves a little more empty.

I expected nothing to happen, and nothing did. (thread started in 2021 btw. It's woefully out of date).
 
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Scougar said:
Yeah, a shortage. no one starved. No one went short.
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you are building a massive strawman there if you are suggesting people said anyone would starve.

but we - as in our household did absolutely go short of (actually nice) tomatoes. Not the end of the world but then i never said it was.

BTW looking at your location I find it baffling that you are arguing that people living in the uk claiming there are shortages are wrong.....
 
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bigmike20vt said:
you are building a massive strawman there if you are suggesting people said anyone would starve.

but we - as in our household did absolutely go short of (actually nice) tomatoes. Not the end of the world but then i never said it was.

BTW looking at your location I find it baffling that you are arguing that people living in the uk claiming there are shortages are wrong.....
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You are making something out of nothing here. Just like people panic buying because there was a minor report about a shortage in the news, thereby causing a bigger problem.

You are also trying to make sure you say my opinion isn't valid because I moved to the USA? LMAO. ok bud. (EDIT: It's also like my first 35 of life weren't in the UK, well.. first 3 in Cyprus.. but still ... imagine having all that time and having never talked to anyone in the UK, and never making friends who I still talk to etc).

wait.. wait... your claim of going 'short' is because you didn't have tomatoes? Holy ******* ****. My heart bleeds. That isn't a shortage, it's a minor inconvenience. Good god.
 
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Scougar said:
Soooooo...... nothing really happened did it. lol.
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To reiterate ^^^
Because it seems like you may somehow misunderstand. Nothing really happened. Was no point panic buying.

Stop living day to day, and just have some basic supplies, like we used to do a few decades ago, then most of the short term shortages become irrelevant. News/Media is a PITA for modern life sometimes.
 
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ok veg for personal use in the nw is plenty.. but at work ..it's a bit different over the last 10 days i've ordered 14 boxes of toms non arrived .. salad not a problem same with peppers .. cucumbers are a bit rough but usable ..
onions fine new pots the same .. so have had to move to tinned for breaky ..i've got 2 salad providers both the same ..
 
Scougar said:
To reiterate ^^^
Because it seems like you may somehow misunderstand. Nothing really happened. Was no point panic buying.

Stop living day to day, and just have some basic supplies, like we used to do a few decades ago, then most of the short term shortages become irrelevant. News/Media is a PITA for modern life sometimes.
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Erm there is a shortage.
There is supply but if everyone was to go to the places that have the items which tend to be the smaller places they will not cope.

When major places like Tesco extra have non the local coop isn't going to fill in that gap.
It comes down to how much people want those items.

I don't think anyone was even panic buying like they did with toilet roll and during the great shortages (only a couple of weeks to the three year anniversary)
But the fundamentals are the volume coming in is below the volume of normal consumption. Hence = a shortage.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Erm there is a shortage.
There is supply but if everyone was to go to the places that have the items which tend to be the smaller places they will not cope.

When major places like Tesco extra have non the local coop isn't going to fill in that gap.
It comes down to how much people want those items.

I don't think anyone was even panic buying like they did with toilet roll and during the great shortages (only a couple of weeks to the three year anniversary)
But the fundamentals are the volume coming in is below the volume of normal consumption. Hence = a shortage.
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A shortage of what? A few things? Something that warrants panic buying though? I would highly suggest not. Nothing will come of the shortage. It will be brief (relatively speaking).

Just like over here, with people getting all freaked out about eggs. OK, well.. don't buy eggs for a while...

I'm very much of the mind that we get in flusters over things that really shouldn't matter that much.

A shortage of one item does not equal a food shortage, and that's my point.

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To highlight this, when was the last time there were reports of mass starvation in England/US because of a shortage? You won't find them, because 'the West' will happily pay over the odds to get the food/resources they need and screw the rest of the world if they have to.

At the end of the day, nothing really happened. Even with Covid and the completely messed up supply chains, and half filled shelves, you could still buy food, you were fed. You were not waiting in lines to 'get' food, you were only lining up to get access due to covid.

I do not call being inconvenienced for a few weeks because of tomatoes as a food shortage for example.


EDIT: Peeps can say I'm wrong, I'm fine with that. I merely disagree that it was really a problem. Panic buying IMO did nothing, other than make stores shorter of some foods.
 
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Scougar said:
A shortage of what? A few things? Something that warrants panic buying though? I would highly suggest not. Nothing will come of the shortage. It will be brief (relatively speaking).

Just like over here, with people getting all freaked out about eggs. OK, well.. don't buy eggs for a while...

I'm very much of the mind that we get in flusters over things that really shouldn't matter that much.

A shortage of one item does not equal a food shortage, and that's my point.

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To highlight this, when was the last time there were reports of mass starvation in England/US because of a shortage? You won't find them, because 'the West' will happily pay over the odds to get the food/resources they need and screw the rest of the world if they have to.

At the end of the day, nothing really happened. Even with Covid and the completely messed up supply chains, and half filled shelves, you could still buy food, you were fed. You were not waiting in lines to 'get' food, you were only lining up to get access due to covid.

I do not call being inconvenienced for a few weeks because of tomatoes as a food shortage for example.


EDIT: Peeps can say I'm wrong, I'm fine with that. I merely disagree that it was really a problem. Panic buying IMO did nothing, other than make stores shorter of some foods.
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I think your a bit hung up on the panic buying thing, although ideally this would have its own thread and not a reused one.
I think very few are panic buying. There was someone in this thread though who bought 3 different types so they got some. Arguably panic buying.

I dont think anyone has said there is no food. During COVID there were times when the vast majority of my local Tesco extra was out of stock of most longer life items. I mean the canned isle empty, Pasta, flour, home baking etc, empty
I think your really arguing against a strawman you have created here.

There isnt particularly good substitutes for tomatos and peppers though.
First world problems and all that.

Edit, I cannot buy when I shop since last time there were no tomatoes or peppers so i couldnt buy anything ;)
 
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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
I think your a bit hung up on the panic buying thing, although ideally this would have its own thread and not a reused one.
I think very few are panic buying. There was someone in this thread though who bought 3 different types so they got some. Arguably panic buying.

I dont think anyone has said there is no food. During COVID there were times when the vast majority of my local Tesco extra was out of stock of most longer life items. I mean the canned isle empty, Pasta, flour, home baking etc, empty
I think your really arguing against a strawman you have created here.

There isnt particularly good substitutes for tomatos and peppers though.
First world problems and all that.

Edit, I cannot buy when I shop since last time there were no tomatoes or peppers so i couldnt buy anything ;)
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Am I? I mean.. thread title and first post suggests heavily that it is :)

"First world problems and all that". Yeah, that's what I'm getting at.

p.s. I really don't think I've created a strawman argument, but if you think I have then I'll leave it be. Not trying to cause a rift here. :)
 
Scougar said:
Am I? I mean.. thread title and first post suggests heavily that it is :)

"First world problems and all that". Yeah, that's what I'm getting at.

p.s. I really don't think I've created a strawman argument, but if you think I have then I'll leave it be. Not trying to cause a rift here. :)
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No worries dude. As I said the thread title doesnt really match the situation.
There are shortages

Really it should be "are you finding supplies easy or are you having to go out of your way to get salad"
BUt then some people probably avoid salad anyway ;)
 
Scougar said:
Am I? I mean.. thread title and first post suggests heavily that it is :)

"First world problems and all that". Yeah, that's what I'm getting at.

p.s. I really don't think I've created a strawman argument, but if you think I have then I'll leave it be. Not trying to cause a rift here. :)
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Actually the thread title is Anyone non panic buying. So just about sums up the tomato famine of 2023.
 
Non panic buying here. When I'm hungry I either order takeaway or I go round to the corner convenience store (Premier shop). They always have stuff in to eat.
 
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