Food shortages being kept quiet?

Frodo

Member
Location
Scotland (east)
With so many different media sources. Is it even possible to tell them what they can and can’t report?
I don’t think you have to be a raving conspiracy theorist to believe the media is controlled in some way. Since super-injunctions exist it’s a fact.

The lack of variety in the content of the different outlets concerns me. It my be a lack of funding, it may be lazyness, perhaps it’s subtle manipulation and possibly blatant control. I’m not sure.
 

delilah

Member
This is probably the root cause of it. Retailers having a good long look at their margin per unit sold and thinking if they don't have sufficient haulage we will just stock the things we make the most money on.

It has been building up for a while. Middle of lockdown our corner shop couldn't get milk without phoning Booker in advance to see if they had some and shooting over there before it all went. Booker blamed 'supply issues', of course what they really meant was 'Our parent company Tesco are keeping their stores stocked first, they don't really like you independent retailers'. There have been plenty of examples in recent years of how the cartel now run the country, the fact that Tesco were allowed by the CMA to buy Booker because 'it's a different market' being just one of them. Market share is the root of all evil.
 

Bongodog

Member
No sign at all of any shortages in Cambridgeshire, everyone I speak to says the supermarket shelves are no different to normal. They've even got stacks of 24 packs of diet coke in random places round our local Tesco to persuade us to buy even more.
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
It's not supermarkets ordered a 32pack box of walkers ready salted off Amazon 10 days ago. Said 2 days delivery. Still not here. Was in a 24 hour corner shop in a city last night and they didn't have any either.

It's not a big problem, nobody's going to starve. But Christmas will.be interesting when pressure on for everything.
Walkers have stopped production on 200 lines , pretty similar throughout the industry
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Has the media been told to stop reporting food shortages?

Has anyone else noticed a shortage of food items in restaurants and shops recently? Maybe its just me being stupid.

Not essential by any means! But shortages I have noticed and on my mind are walkers ready salted crisps and diet coke.

Anyone else noticed anything?
Just as a point of interest ...

Walkers have been having IT issues that has affected distribution of their crisps

 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
This is why I won’t do online shopping. I’ve tried them and every single one has missing items and that was before coronavirus even existed. I just find the whole experience crap having to stay in for the delivery and then not getting what you wanted.
Use ocardo. We do every week. I’m 5 years think we have had about 5 substitutes…. You always get an upgrade
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
a combination of brexit, covid and energy prices, have caused the demise of the 'just in time' delivery system', the ultimate cost saver devised, brilliant.
But now it's well and truly fudged, and that means more stock has to be held in virtually every supply industry, from tescoe's down, with margins cut to the bone everyway possible, who has the money, to increase their stock, be it ag suppliers, corner shops s/mkts, etc, the totals required are simply mind bogglingly huge.
As for dropping prices paid to us, stuff will simply not be produced, there isn't anything left to cut out.
But, if product prices do rise, everybody, except contractors, will grab it, leaving us still at the heaps bottom.
 

le bon paysan

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
a combination of brexit, covid and energy prices, have caused the demise of the 'just in time' delivery system', the ultimate cost saver devised, brilliant.
But now it's well and truly fudged, and that means more stock has to be held in virtually every supply industry, from tescoe's down, with margins cut to the bone everyway possible, who has the money, to increase their stock, be it ag suppliers, corner shops s/mkts, etc, the totals required are simply mind bogglingly huge.
As for dropping prices paid to us, stuff will simply not be produced, there isn't anything left to cut out.
But, if product prices do rise, everybody, except contractors, will grab it, leaving us still at the heaps bottom.
Well we've got covid and fuel price increase here in France but no empty shelves.
Go figure.
 

kfpben

Member
Location
Mid Hampshire
Well. We didn't have food shortages when small family farms, local abattoirs, and wholesalers were in charge of the operation.....
So now big " farming " companies, large food processing plants, and supermarkets can't get cheap foreign labour for their empires.
I'll leave others to decide where the blame lies......
Errr- we did. We had plenty of hungry people back in the day!
 

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