My Prediction

[teacake44]

Is that unless supermarkets have really put their thinking hats on this Christmas there will be tons more food heading for the ships than normal. You have less people have dinner /parties together. Office parties won't be happening, pubs not operating as normal Christmas or new year. The turkey producers must wonder what the hell to do with their stock. Whats you're thoughts?

[237SJ]

Ummm - yes but my Mum`s generation didn`t eat the type of food that I eat which is very multicultural. Not then, anyway.

[ummmm]

Same. My dad would have a leftover vegetable sandwich. They didn't have a TV. That's why there's so many of them :-)

[237SJ]

^LOL

[emmie]

that people will manage as will the shops.

[emmie]

pubs don't source their foodstuffs from supermarkets i would have thought.

[237SJ]

^ agreed. The mark up is already on the food in the supermarket so it wouldn`t be cost effective.

[woofgang]

well I dunno about turkey but i had a reall struggle to get hold of some posh chocolates.

[Maydup]

I think the supermakets are more used to changing times than you realise. Before the pandemic they had teams of people studying the weather forecast to anticipate the demands for summer BBQ food, only to switch at the last minute to a wet weather plan.

They have kept up with people panic buying this year, and the changing trends with more people being at home, and now they have Brexit to contend with. I think they have a better handle on what we're all going to buy next week, next month than we have ourselves!

[teacake44]

Well yes maydup most of the time they know what they are doing, but to predict this years spending and ordering has got to be tuf. Only yesterday I saw turkeys in Sainsburys, not many, why on earth would they have a use by date on being the 18 Dec? and already large reductions on many items.

[johnny.5]

I think large turkeys day's are numbered

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[AuntPollyGrey]

Teacake - I do click and collect at Sainsbury's and a lot of stuff I'm trying to order is now 'unavailable'. No sprouts no fresh cranberries no chestnuts.... So I really can't see they will have much stuff left to put in the skip on Boxing day.

[teacake44]

Can't really comment on click and collect APG, I tend to get out and about most days, I can honestly say everywhere I've gone this week has been dead. Click and collect I would think depends on when you place you're order, not always in line with just in time deliveries to the supermarket, so they will say not available at the time of ordering.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Teacake thats not how click and collect works at Sainsburys. You order you stuff but it's not 'picked' until the evening before you go to collect it, so you could order, say, sprouts, but if they are unavailable at the time your 'picker' loads the trolley you will not get any.

[teacake44]

Then they may have just sold out by the time you get you're shopping picked. that don't mean to say they are not restocking an hour or so after you're order was picked. So you're statement @ 10.44 regarding them not having much to put in the skip because there were a few items not available at the time your's was picked don't add up to much really.

[AuntPollyGrey]

No teacake your write -it don't add up...........Crikey.....

[calmck]

My supermarket calls me the morning of my delivery to say what is unavailable and asks what substitutes I want. A text follows when the driver is on his way and he calls as he turns into my street. Great service but is Portugal

[alavahalf]

APG.. It's nice to see he has something else to moan about.. at least he's off Boris's back for a while!