Everyone is Baldrick now - environment secretary suggests we eat turnips

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Tomatoes for everyone when I was out earlier - zero shortages.

looks like the media are trolling the lefties into frothy panic buying lol
 
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imtoooldforthis said:
Imagine turning a shortage of vegetables into a narrative about how the left are panicking and getting trolled by the media into panic buying.

Could your easily grifted balls be any deeper in culture war nonsense lol
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Id suggest you check out the panic and hysteria in the panic buying thread chuckles.

Anyway there are no shortages repeat no shortages lol
 
n111ck said:
Tomatoes for everyone when I was out earlier - zero shortages.

looks like the media are trolling the lefties into frothy panic buying lol
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If we are going with anecdotes my local ASDA has been a tomato free zone for weeks now with almost no peppers either. Most of that aisle has been completely bare when I have gone shopping and a member of staff told me that recent deliveries have only been a fraction of what they are ordering. I went into LIDL on Thursday evening for a change to find no tomatoes or peppers either. I haven't been keeping an eye on lettuce stocks.
 
n111ck said:
Seems like sporadic local issues hyped up by the media.
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Or, and this may sound weird the suppliers and companies know what's likely to be arriving and where things are in the distribution chain and started to take action before things fell apart?

They're warning about it being an issue for something like 4-8 weeks, that means they've not secured enough for normal levels of stock over that period, not that everywhere is going to run out in the next couple of days whilst stock that's already near delivery reaches the stores (they can't really hold back fresh veg for long to stretch out the supply either).
So supply in the stores might be reasonable now, but they haven't got their normal levels ready as what is in the shops at the moment is sold/starts to go off.

One of the reasons they are limiting purchases is to try and ensure that they maintain stock on the shelves, even if it means you can't buy as many as normal.
 
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Werewolf said:
Or, and this may sound weird the suppliers and companies know what's likely to be arriving and where things are in the distribution chain and started to take action before things fell apart?

They're warning about it being an issue for something like 4-8 weeks, that means they've not secured enough for normal levels of stock over that period, not that everywhere is going to run out in the next couple of days whilst stock that's already near delivery reaches the stores (they can't really hold back fresh veg for long to stretch out the supply either).
So supply in the stores might be reasonable now, but they haven't got their normal levels ready as what is in the shops at the moment is sold/starts to go off.

One of the reasons they are limiting purchases is to try and ensure that they maintain stock on the shelves, even if it means you can't buy as many as normal.
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Yep just sounds like minor inconvenience for some.
 
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