Food Quality/choice

Mrs Seabiscuit

Mrs Seabiscuit

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Many apologies if this has already got a thread, so please do delete and merge if needed.
However, has anyone else noticed after brexit/covid (please do not make this political/or anything else its merely a time of when i have noticed. :) Not GD so we should be safe. :D) that the standard of food and choice of foods in supermarkets has rapidly declined? Choice not available, use by dates very short and altogether just not the range pre pandemic/brexit.
Discuss.....
 
Personally it feels more to do with Brexit than Covid, although more likely a bit of both. Why bother going through all the hassle of importing with all the paperwork and fees to move your product into the UK when you can do away with all that and remain on the continent?
 
Yup. Less choice and higher prices even in the big supermarkets. Loads of stuff no longer being stocked and replaced with inferior product lines.

I live in NI also so it has become a real mess here. Local butchers ftw!
 
Yeah I've also noticed a lot of very sneaky practices by supermarkets. Lots of of value products have disappeared and often the own brands are not always in stock. Went I to my local Tesco for brown sauce and the cheapest bottle was about £2.

We also seem to be getting very inconsistent veg. It seems one week there's a shortage of something and the next there's a glut.
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
Yeah I've also noticed a lot of very sneaky practices by supermarkets. Lots of of value products have disappeared and often the own brands are not always in stock. Went I to my local Tesco for brown sauce and the cheapest bottle was about £2.

We also seem to be getting very inconsistent veg. It seems one week there's a shortage of something and the next there's a glut.
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Funny you should mention that.

Aldi do a really nice own brand brown sauce, and the last three times I've been there, it has been out of stock.
 
The cheapest range of Tesco baked beans are horrendous now.

I cooked some up the other day in a pan, it was like soup with some beans floating around in it. Admittedly they were never like Heinz or whatever, but never used to be that bad.

Another example, Tesco's tortilla wraps, used to be a self sealing packet, it's no longer self sealing, which is a little annoying.

Everything is getting smaller/more expensive/both.

Fish is horrendously expensive to the point where to feed my family of 4 it's becoming too expensive to justify even say once a week, and that is the cheapest Vietnamese catfish you can get.
 
Choice, quality and stock has been an issue for ages now. Loads of lines no longer exist and it’s only when you see a European or American supermarket you realise how bad it is here. Everything is much more expensive.

GG Brexit
 
throwaway4372 said:
I fancied some salad creme at asda the other day. The cheapest bottle was 4 quid. No deal.

I fancied some cadburys fingers at sainsburys. 1 quid with nectar, 1.75 without. No deal.
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I had that salad cream problem. Refused to pay the Heinz money. Ended up getting Hubbard salad cream from Sainsburys for under 50p, and I’m not joking, I can’t tell the difference.
 
throwaway4372 said:
Sainsburys doing "nectar pricing" like tesco clubcard now. Hate that.
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I once had a full Karen incident when I got to the self service realised my phone app wasn't working and I didn't have my physical card.

I asked the staff if I could borrow a card, they said they weren't allowed to. I turned my bags out and left without the stuff.
 
Mrs Seabiscuit said:
said as sarcastically as i imagine your post is.
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Not said or meant to be sarcastic but probably wearily.

Read through all the negatives above and then add things like all the dell's, meat & fish counters closing, store opening hours being reduced, farmers being paid less than the cost of production ie eggs & milk and yesterday the BBC hinted at supermarkets despite falling prices are not passing it on.

What your missing is all of the above and more is being done purposely.... have you not noticed that supermarkets are announcing absolute record profits. They're monetizing the monopoly they have and will continue to do so until people do something about it.
 
robfosters said:
A lot less choice in vegan sausages now

www.bbc.co.uk

Sausage maker Heck cuts vegan range as appetite drops

Heck says the public's appetite for meat-free sausages and burgers is "not really there yet".
www.bbc.co.uk
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I don't understand why they make vegan stuff an imitation of meat food items anyway.

Sausages being round are more difficult to cook then something flat for a start.

Is it because vegans want to try to "fit in" with people who eat meat?
 
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