What's Going On?

[Barsel]

I shop online at Tesco and usually do a click and collect.
Yesterday I put 5 items in the basket and today went to put more items in and found 3 of the items I put in yesterday are unavailable.
Fresh salmon, cod and dark chocolate.
What's going on?
I very rarely go inside the shop, so are the shops low on stock?

[bookbinder]

If you ask Tesco, they will probably say 'it's due to a lack of HGV drivers'.

[gulliver1]

Brexit.

[barry1010]

Try again closer to your collection date - they may be back in stock by then

[AuntPG]

Yes, many shelves are not so much empty as the stock they have got stretched over the shelves. Even Aldi today had four freezers completely filled with frozen chips but hardly any other frozen veg.

[Canary42]

It's the sunlit uplands !

[Barsel]

Will do barry. I did an click and collect 3 days ago and they had everything I'd ordered.
I never ask for substitutes, so I will probably have to go into the store to see what there is.

[jno]

supermarkets usually order things on a just-in-time basis in order to avoid clogging up their shelves. But if there's a shortage of drivers (or stock) this is easily disrupted. If Waitrose tell me something's out of stock I can usually go there the next day and find it, but that doesn't mean they had it there all along.

[Barsel]

Strange thing is, my groceries don't come from the store I collect them from, so if on the day they haven't got what I ordered, I can go in the store and they may have them in there.

[Maydup]

Different shops are low on different items. Sainsburys were low on tinned food last week, but Tesco had most items thatd I needed, although they had run out of bananas and cooked beetroot!

I no longer shop online as I cant tell what will be out of stock until the day. Instead we shop in person at a different shop each week and that way find what we need one way or another.

[andres]

I'm in Rossendale and order online with Morrisons. The drivers all seem to come from Leeds,Huddersfield,Bradford and Halifax. the last driver said that the goods are collected from a central warehouse in Leeds not our local supermarket. They also deliver in the Manchester area.

[jno]

even flu jabs are getting stuck in traffic now, apparently.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/03/gp-surgeries-in-england-cancel-flu-jabs-amid-shortage-of-vaccine

[Buenchico]

Tesco is so desperate for drivers that they're offering £1000 to any driver who'll join their workforce:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57983698

With a national shortage of around 100,000 lorry drivers (because many East European drivers decided to leave the country after Brexit and because of Covid-related problems, such as 30,000 HGV driving test appointments being lost last year ), shortages in supermarkets are going to be occurring for quite a while yet.

[Barsel]

Oh dear, I hope it gets sorted before too long.

[teacake44]

We just can't cope with not having what we want when we want it, are we? Its shocking :0)

[gulliver1]

22.02"Because many Eastern European drivers decided to leave the Country after Brexit"..... The radicalised Brexiteer on A/B will not agree with you on that one.

[teacake44]

I think they also got fed up of people moaning about them blocking the motorways, and thundering through that peaceful village setting. Not sure if they will continue to moan anymore, especially if the toilet rolls go short again. :0)))