Price increases due to Covid 19 and/or shortages

od244051

Problem is supermarkets limit to three items such as loo roll, some feel they need to buy three packs of loo roll. Also it doesn’t matter how many loo rolls are bought 3x4 or 3x24. As that caused the shelves to be stripped quicker 

What would be a better idea is for a transaction to have a limit of one of each of the items and only six of the top high demand products. So customers can only buy one of the following  loo roll, hand soap, bleach, antibacterial spray, hand sanitizer, coffee, tea, UHT milk, kitchen roll, tissues, pasta, rice, couscous. No more than 6 of of the categories above. Then a max of four of tinned tomatoes, pulses and fruit

Stompa

CocoM2020 said:

molerat said:

Looks like the idiots have started.  My local Asda, Tesco and Home Bargains cleaned out of bog roll and a woman photographed leaving Asda with a trolley stacked high with them.

Yep - just logged into my Asda account. Loads of toilet roll (and pasta) out of stock. Don’t people realise the reason for the shortages is them stockpiling. But hey Asda’s 25% off 6 bottles of wine has started! 

Out of curiousity, I've just done the same. Only one type of toilet roll and one type of pasta shown as being out of stock.

od244051

Was in Tesco first time since mid Feb, as got £8 off £40. Which you CAN redeem against alcohol if you use a self scan or scan n go. Spent £15 on vodka. Didn't go down the loo roll aisle but towers of various loo rolls dotted about the store and signs saying a max of three. It was on signs typed out by the store.

Bacman

It's like telling a child not to do something, even though they weren't going to before now they are told not to they will really want to.

We had months to stock on items, no reason to leave it to a last minute panic!

The end of the year will be another panic - stocking up in the face of Brexit when some items will not be so easily available.

MrsStepford

The lockdown changed the way I shop, and although I use supermarket deliveries, it's mostly to buy cheaper veg plus mince on offer, as well as cheese, to keep the freezer topped up. I have trouble doing a £40 shop. I do an order and if I don't get everything I want, I add it onto the next order at another supermarket. I'm doing just over the minimum every time and not buying lots of anything other than milk and avocados. Instead of doing one huge order, I'm doing smaller ones, frequently. I have used Amazon, Costco, foodservice companies, local farms and wholesalers much more than I used to. Pretty much always get what I want from them. 

od244051

Always had a store cupboard of food, cleaning products and toiletries. Once stocks were getting back to normal back in late April/May, I bought store cupboard items as when I used them. So if I used 2 tins of tomatoes and finished a bag of pasta, I bought these. Plus anything on offer. I once got 170 Nectar points at Sainsbury’s for buying a can of their cheap (Hubbards) chopped tomatoes - 28p. As on the Nectar app, had 100 points for buying the above tomatoes and then 70 points for any canned or puréed tomatoes.

Teahfc

MrsStepford said:

There are so many reasons for price rises. One is the classic Supply & Demand thing. If you don't have enough stock to meet demand, putting the price up, prices out some people, enabling the store to meet demand. 

People who were/are stockpiling or buying more and shopping less frequently, may well be buying the cheaper stuff first, so that sells out first. 

We can't grow rice in UK and we don't make pasta. Rice-producing countries may want to restrict exports to feed their own population. Pasta from Italy is running into transition period & coronavirus combined supply problems also. Italian tinned tomato wholesalers are saying that panic buying in Britain may mean that they run out of tinned tomatoes before the new crop arrives. I saw a 800g tin of San Marzano tinned tomatoes for 2.10 and not even organic ! When I can get them, I pay 70p - 82p for organic. 

 Supermarkets are legally allowed to charge different prices in different towns. If you're poorer but in a wealthier area, you may be paying more than someone in a poorer area. Many supermarkets are picking from stores, so however far in advance you order, you only get what was instore on delivery day. Supermarkets are in some cases, shortening the editing cut off point, to try to manage stock control better. If everyone has rushed to buy pasta, only the most expensive can be left on the shelf. If you pay the original price for an expensive sub, great. If you have to pay the higher price, it isn't. 

If you live in a remote region you pay more. You pay more for produce when it's further from their distribution centres. My grandmother would buy apples from Kent in London, cheaper in her nearest Sainsbury's than my mother could buy Kent apples in a Sainsbury's branch in Kent. 

Brexit has caused prices to rise. Suppliers within the European Union may have priced in a no deal situation already, with increased Customs paperwork for them, because they work 6 months, a year or two years in advance. 

Before the EU referendum, 500ml of organic extra virgin olive oil was £2, since then 2.50, £3, 3.25 and 3.50 in some supermarkets. 

 You pay more for produce when it's further from their distribution centres. My grandmother would buy apples from Kent in London, cheaper in her nearest Sainsbury's than my mother could buy Kent apples in a Sainsbury's branch in Kent. 

Absolute rubbish ! 

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