Food shortages.

The larger supermarkets have one or two gaps but I've not thought I've missed out on anything. 

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As posted on another thread the manager at our local coop this morning was saying cutomers were not helping by "panic buying" again ,if they see we have an item in ,that a couple of days ago we had sold out ,by buying more than normal of that ,item

Also in conversation he was saying that for the foreseable future  ,because of lack of drivers in the supply chain,, manufacturers are concentrating on the more popular items that have longer shelf life ,rather than a larger range.

One company in the supply chain was on our local new channel and was selling some of their HGVs as they just cannot get drivers

There are at least two train leasing companies that are converting older passenger units units into 100mph freight trains for medium to long distance deliveries , which can as now service city centres without problems with traffic and low emission/congestion charges and then be delivered by EV rigid goods vehicles to customers,getting round the HGV drivers shortages

The only issues in my area is choice of ‘usually bought items’ the same item by another brand are available at higher prices. All item prices generally are up too but that was tipped by everyone except brexiteers. One thing that is in really short supply is brexiteers they seem to have gone🤷🏻‍♂️🙄

It's probably a bit dramatic to speak of "food shortages". We have been mainly cocooned behind food deliveries since April last year. We do have a few subs each week and sometimes things not available but by the next week they are back in stock, so more a case of supply blips? However when we went into Waitrose the other day (the same branch and day as our delivery but we needed a few extra bits) I was surprise how low stocked some of the shelves were. Now whether that was because people were buying more or whether it was genuine shortages I don't know. 

David

Just been to the huge Tesco here in Dingwall......we got the brioche hot dog rolls.

No flavoured sparkling water though.

We have also noticed rising prices, decent strawberry jam today was up by 20p, a 20% increase since a few weeks back.

None of the above are a problem here. Not sure about the particular Merlot butI am able to get either of the couple that I choose for cooking. Not sure about cooking apless or water cress as we grow our own.

The main reason for driver pay is the pay rates and T&Cs n my opinion

McGuigan merlot available in Sainsburys down here. I'm a cheapskate, I buy Penguin Sands.

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