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My local council have suspended the separately paid for garden waste collections for the next 10 weeks citing driver
shortage as the reason. Although knowing the way councils are (i.e. When there's some piss around they're all too
happy to take it...) I suspect it's more to do with summer holidays being taken all at once because for many UK hols is all
they can afford with the extra covid related BS to get on a plane somewhere warmer. No refunds being given of course. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Posted: 16:46 - 07 Aug 2021 Post subject: Re: are your supermarket shelves looking empty? |
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Im-a-Ridah |
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Interesting one for remainers this!
They can blame the HGV shortage on Brexit...
... but then they have to accept that a chief advantage of EU membership is to expoit immigrants to weaken the working pay and conditions of the poor.
So that's the purpose of the EU then is it remainers?
Also my shelves are fine |
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Nope, local supermarket stocked fine. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Eventually the HGV driver shortage will be such an issue shops might - shock! horror! - pay more I often hear ppl moan about how shit their job and/or pay is but... what's that? you don't have any skills or interests so you'll just stick with it?! Well that sucks Kindly stop bending my ear over it.
"OMG! The shelves are literally empty!!! I had to make do with shop brand toilet paper instead of my usual quadruple-soft luxury brand. I'm writing to my MP!" Puts the whole half the world are starving and the other half are dying of obesity into perspective ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Posted: 00:31 - 08 Aug 2021 Post subject: Re: are your supermarket shelves looking empty? |
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote: | Our local Tescos look okay, but bloody hell the sainsburys are looking very weird - lots of gaps up and down the aisles. Worst I've seen it since the panic buying of early lockdown.
So this might well just be local to me - but is anyone else seeing this, and if so, what's it about? A lack of HGV drivers (and what's that about anyway?)? Is it something Cov19 related? Is it to do with Brexit? |
Local Co-Op have put up signs (proper stuff from HQ, not something knocked up on the office PC) apologising for the lack of stock and promising normal service will be resumed shortly.
What seems to be happening is they either aren't getting the usual amount of deliveries, or the quantity of items, so they will go out of stock for a couple of days, then the item is fully stocked again.
I only go to a big supermarket once a week - Lidl is fine, Sainsburys looking a bit sparse in places, Tescos definitely spreading stock out to fill the shelves.
The most noticeable issue is with Asda, who have been suffering for months, to the point they started rearranging and removing complete gondolas, to make the store look fuller.
I also noticed certain items disappearing for weeks on end, then coming back as inferior products, eg packs of sliced meat returning with less slices than before.
I know they have been embroiled in some sort of merger/takeover shenanigans lately, so that might be part of the problem, but they are significantly worse than they were at the beginning of the year. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Some of my local stores have empty shelves, and have been like that for a while - most notably Sainsbury's.
First one to create a drone powerful enough to deliver shipping containers, and setup the transport process of them getting picked directly off a ship straight to warehouse, to shop is a billionaire! ____________________ Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 249 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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