Why do many people leave things to last minute

Legacy_user

My friends work in food retail and some lines of Easter eggs were out of stock on Wednedsay. Both today and yesterday customers were moaning about why there are expensive eggs and the 300g Lindt bunnies left?

Yet a friend remembers several customers looking at the eggs last week. Her role was to put out more eggs and tidy the area.

It happens every year. Plus it happens like Halloween with pumpkins and Christmas with various things like crackers, advent calendars, jars of cranberry sauce and last Christmas the friend mentioned above her workplace ran out of Buck's Fizz and pigs in blankets.

whizzybee

BBC news also went on about an easter egg shortage on Wednesday, although I don't know whether that caused the swarms of people around the easter egg aisle in my local tesco . Then I went to a different one, on my way to see friends 40 miles away and you could not move the amount of eggs stocked up.

Although today most of them had gone... I am very guilty of leaving my easter egg shopping till the last minute though!

catwoman73

Because if people buy them early, they will eat them and have to rebuy.

Because they don't actually think about Easter until it is near Easter, and don't see why they should be buying them months in advance.

Not everyone is on a constant buying frenzy, eagerly anticipating the next retail-fest in the calendar.

stephen77

I do not think there is a big margin in easter eggs. Thus super markets like to be left with no stock by late on Saturday.


Most consumers will not care about this. They want to go in and buy items they need for the following day, not a week in advance.

VfM4meplse

whizzybee wrote: »

BBC news also went on about an easter egg shortage on Wednesday

True, I asked my dad to go out to Aldi for a chocolate bunny and he obliged.

Didn't need it, just wanted it

alanq

I guess that some leaving it until the last minute are hoping that the stores will offer reductions to clear the stock. This strategy does not work if everyone does the same.

jenniewb

I went past the Easter egg aisle in Tesco earlier and Hotel Chocolate and Waitrose where I also visited today seemed more than happily stocked- maybe it's just fully stocked in London but at 9pm in Tesco there were many Easter eggs left and few seemed to be buying, the place is closed tomorrow, I guess everyone else here shopped in advance (or they're just too savvy and are waiting for the massive price cuts which will hit in round about 36 hours time...)

[Deleted User]

We bought ours weeks ago and put them away until today. Her indoors will not let me and the kids have any until Easter Sunday after lunch.

I would have eaten them all by now if left to my own devices.

DPJames

I guess most people just really dont give a ****, and prefer living a normal life, not planning too far ahead, and only really buying stuff when they actually need it.
Christmas, Halloween, Easter, birthdays, anniversaries, all tedious distractions that I shall deal with 10 minutes before the shops shut.

The only exception being Mothers' Day of course, which is the most pointless, tedious and annoying distractions of them all. Then I shall wait till the shops open, on the Sunday morning, and I shall buy a card and loads of pointless crap then. And I know I'm not the only one because it's always so flamin' busy!


But whatever works for you. If you like buying Easter eggs at Christmas, Christmas gifts in the Summer and your Halloween pumpkin the year before (to freeze it for next year), you go for it. I bet you even have weekly meal plans too don't you? And I bet your kids know exactly what's for tea on the 15th of September. Yaawwnn.

DD265

I don't think people need to plan months in advance, but perhaps a week? It's been a common theme around here for the last maybe 3-5 years of Easter eggs pretty much being long gone from the supermarkets by Good Friday so it's not as though it's the first time this has happened!

I think the issue stems from people being so accustomed to being able to get what they want when they want, that it's a bit of a shock to the system when they can't for whatever reason.

I picked OH's egg up early probably 6 weeks ago because I saw it and it was a great price on offer. Got him an Avengers one with a mug because he really isn't fussed about chocolate! £2 with a mug - steal! :rotfl:

duchy

I was in our nearest big Sainsburys on Good Friday - they had loads left.

I still miss Woolworths for Easter eggs tho !