Shortages In Shops

[Georgiesmum]

I keep hearing about bare shelves in our shops again., have you encountered this rcently, and if so what items were they short of?

[Buenchico]

Sainsbury's in Ipswich were out of all types of bin liners a couple of days ago.

[anneasquith]

All bin liners ? Even swing bin ones ?

[Lie-in King]

The only "shelf" empty for my most recent Tesco shop online was frozen veg. No peas, carrots, beans, broccoli, cauli, spinach or mixed veg.

I didn't phone to ask the reason as they wouldn't have been able to do anything & knowing wouldn't have helped me anyway. Heigh-ho, smaller portions of what I've got in will suffice.

[Buenchico]

Yup. Regular black bin liners, pedal bin liners, swing bin liners, etc, etc. Not one left on the shelves.

[Buenchico]

Cat food supplies have been erratic all year across all supermarkets.

[anneasquith]

Even perfumed bin liners ( usually lemon)?

[Buenchico]

Those as well, Anne.

[anneasquith]

Well, now I have something else to keep me awake tonight Chris . :-)

[Georgiesmum]

I was hoping to get a couple of food caddy bag liners tomorrow, so fingers crossed!

[anneasquith]

Ooft, if there are no food caddy bin liners in the shops there will be questions asked !!

[Georgiesmum]

No panic buying of toilet rolls this time then? Thats good.

[Buenchico]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9ppmVaWUAg0kM3?format=png&name=900x900

;-)

[sanmac]

All you have to do is to move here to Ontario; there are no shortages at all...Now hold on, just a cotton pickin' minute, belay that suggestion...Stay where you are:)

[sherrardk]

Belay! Lovely word :)

[bakerwales]

My Tesco were very short of cat food, the only chicken breasts they had were a few packs of frozen ones, no whole chickens and no ceam crackers? Plenty of bin liners of all kinds.

[barry1010]

I couldn't get tonic water a few weeks ago but everything else seems in plentiful supply. I haven't been to a supermarket for a long time so can only go by my delivery orders.

[Purist]

Just went for a blood test this morning and the nurse told me there was a shortage of the blood collection bottles

[Hopkirk]

Bottled water.

(Everyone has a tap though)

[Prudie]

It has varied from week to week but had problems getting:
bottled water
cat food (a lot)
tea
crisps
some wine

[jennyjoan]

There are lovely wee (not too wee) small shops on say the Lisburn Road and they were delivering absolutely beautiful vegetables like for soup etc. There are plenty of food in the small shops - come on - give them a go.

Last week - Another guy was delivering meat products (on another road) from Co Monaghan to Belfast. I'm coming out of the restaurant and said to him - your bacon is really lovely in there. He said to me "hold on - went back into the lorry and gave me a present of two big packets of that lovely bacon). Isn't that nice.