Reply With QuoteEggs have been in short supply for a while, bird flu isn't helping. Apparently you can add tomatoes to that list.
A couple of folks have mentioned that Tesco were short of fresh vegetables and eggs, with upturned baskets where they should be!!! Supply issues???
Eggs have been in short supply for a while, bird flu isn't helping. Apparently you can add tomatoes to that list.
Supply chain issues -------------- blame it on the 'boogie'
Been going on for months round or way. Especially with eggs.
Customer notices in my local Tesco stating that a spell of cold weather in Spain has caused supply chain issues.
No issue in Waitrose although I only go in there for the eggs. No restrictions and picked up three boxes of 12.
Did we learn nothing from WW2? Rationing because of reduced food supplies due to blockades. That rationing went on into the mid 50s. We improved our farming and agriiculture to be able to feed the Nation... over the last 30 years we have let that slip and lulled ourselves into a false sense of food security. Relying on imports is a dangerous practise. The mainstay for a healthy economy is a strong agricultural industry, why do you think the French defend theirs so vociferously? Agriculture is the spine of an economy, it isn't much of an animal that doesn't have a backbone.
The whole of Waitrose, and you are not tempted by anything else?Originally Posted by wileeeeeey
We usually stretch to a Heyford Organic Brown, but only when we are feeling nouveau riche.
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£5.25 for 12 eggs. You’re just showing off now lol!
Same here. But 9/10 chance that it has to do with negotiations about the price. That's the reason why you can buy certain items easily at one supermarket chain and not in another. When supplies of a certain item are low in all chains, then there's a problem with logistics, bird flu etc.
I did pick up some other small bits like bananas but really only go in for the eggs. Can't get sucked into doing real shops at a place like Waitrose although they had good special offers on Twinings today (half price) and some Starbucks Nespresso capsules for the outlaws which end up cheaper than Nespresso direct.
Even poncy organic dutchy eggs are still good value all things considered. I've been through a lot of eggs and they're probably my favourite food. Not M&S but you can taste the difference. Still trying to find a farm or butchers which does pasture raised soy free eggs. That's that breakfast grail.
Have you tried Iceland?
I get my eggs down the local, a lad who keeps hens brings a few trays in at a time . . .
F.T.F.A.
As above ^^^^ local lad with allotment.I get my eggs down the local, a lad who keeps hens brings a few trays in at a time . . .
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Got to love TZ. What a spectrum. From a quest for artisan eggs ( pasture raised soy free) to I get my eggs down the pubI get my eggs down the local, a lad who keeps hens brings a few trays in at a time . . .
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In a perfect world the UK cannot feed the population, too much Nation now.
The fruit and veg sections of many of our local supermarkets have been very erratic and frequently half empty for the past couple of years or so.
Can’t think why…
So clever my foot fell off.
Local ASDA - no tomatoes at all today, and bananas over half the aisle in width to compensate.
No sign of even small cherry tomatoes, vine-grown, asda saver..................... nothing !!!
No eggs in Lidl
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Staff member at my local Tesco confirmed that there is currently a shortage of tomatoes and cucumber.
Whenever I need just a cucumber from the supermarket - I always put a jar of vaseline in the basket with it...........................
I don't want the checkout girl to think I'm a vegan.....
Not sure why the hate on Waitrose. Sure there are better places but not everyone is able to stretch to a weekly shop at Whole Foods etc and IMHO Waitrose is every bit as good as M&S and is better than Sainsbury's etc. Plus they stock Kissabel apples which are the only ones we eat (they are lovely). Give Waitrose a go - £20 to the fundraiser says that you'll prefer it to Tesco etc
Our local Tesco and Sainsbury haven't had peppers in a fortnight.
Tomatos and eggs aplenty but no peppers
Was in a large Tesco in NW Leics yesterday, didn't notice any shortages.
I'm not seeing any hate, blowing it up as usual. Most can't afford to shop in Waitrose - £5+ for 12 eggs, FFS. Not doubting you can taste the difference, but you pay for it, fine for those who can. That £20 wouldn't get you far.
I think you are mixing up the word hate with taking the p1ss.
No idea where the nearest Waitrose is to us, Stirling maybe? 15 miles ish, so we’ll stick to Asda, Tesco, M&S etc.
My local farm has no shortage of eggs £1.50 half dozen and freshly laid
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Never noticed any shortages of any products in our local Aldi.
The wife drags me there as i'm retired.
Cheers,
Neil.
And even fewer people are able to "stretch" to a weekly shop at Waitrose. Many struggle to stretch to a weekly shop in Lidl. Please open your eyes and get real Ryan unless of course you are really trying to troll.
Yes but my post was in response to someone who owns multiple Stainless Steel Sports Rolexes implying he was priced out of shopping at Waitrose!
Not priced out but money is a pie chart. Most of the time you're only buying the same stuff like Heinz baked beans from a posher till.
Usually shop at a mix of Ocado, Tesco, local Turkish shop and Costco.
Did have a £4.95 cookie on Thursday in London. Best cookie I've had in recent memory but can't make the special treats the baseline.
Just saw this in my local Intermarche today:No issue in Waitrose although I only go in there for the eggs. No restrictions and picked up three boxes of 12.
2,55€ is about £2.30 I guess for a dozen.
But butter has shot up to nearly 5€ for 250g - extortion.
“ Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.” HHGTTG
Nothing wrong with being vegan you dinosaur! ;-)
I don't want the checkout girl to think I'm a vegan.....
Can't say I have ever had a hens egg, and noticed that it tastes better than the last one, or any other I may have had.
I had dull yellow and bright orange yolks which may be more pleasing to the eye, but they all taste the same to me.
I just go for the cheapest free range eggs I can buy.
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Eggs: I refuse to buy eggs with names like "The happy egg company".
Either from local fishmonger, or Asda's best.
If you had quoted the post you were responding to I may have understood, but as it was the subtle nuance was beyond me soz.
At the price of the Waitrose eggs I’m surprised they don’t have security tags so nobody can swap them out with the cheap inmate eggs
Haven't noticed anything here in Bedfordshire, and we use Marks and Spencer, Tesco's, Sainsbury's, Asda, and even Lidl, mainly to get some variety.
In fact even through the pandemic we noticed few real shortages, after the mad rush to buy toilet paper, baked beans and tinned tomatoes of course. Perhaps you're just unlucky.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
I thought that the local Asda must have moved their egg shelves when I was last in there, so went on a search around the store.
Took me a while to notice that the egg shelves were in the same place as usual, but were empty except for one box of broken eggs...
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^^^pancake Tuesday tomorrow’ only exacerbating the shortage.
Apparently avian flu has had an effect, but many egg producers are packing it in because supermarkets will only pay such low prices for eggs.I thought that the local Asda must have moved their egg shelves when I was last in there, so went on a search around the store.
Took me a while to notice that the egg shelves were in the same place as usual, but were empty except for one box of broken eggs...
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Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64712361
Mainly down to poor weather in Europe and Africa then according to the link. Apparently "...The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that harvests had been hit by "difficult weather conditions"..."
Rather disappointing for some I imagine.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Disappointing for those of us who like tomatoes
Quite! ;-)
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Watch the video then read the comments.
No problems with the Tesco i use had to go in this morning and no shortage of anything and we have not had any problems post lockdown.
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Seems to me about 48% of people seem to regularly see empty shelves locally, and 52% don't. No idea why.
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Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
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