Empty shelves in Morrisons

booneruk

Pollycat said:

RogerBareford said:

Deleted_User said:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2021/uk-consumers-face-food-shortages-in-2022/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/29/shoppers-face-food-shortages-following-eu-border-controls-new/

What point are you trying to make with those two scaremongering articles?

The premise of those is that people are assuming import companies don't know what they are doing and won't follow the new rules and then goods won't be allowed into the UK at foreigh ports, but there is nothing stopping them from doing it.

+1 to this ^^^^.

The articles say 'may'.
Not 'guaranteed'.

The media are not doing us any favours by printing stuff like this.
It just causes panic-buying.

Like the petrol shortage that actually wasn't - but was whipped up by irresponsible media articles.

I really doubt the articles in the link by the OP caused the 'most' or 'many' empty shelves in one Morrisons store on one day at 8am.

We all know the recent 'fuel shortage' was created by MSM stoking panic that certain parts of the population lapped up - same with toilet rolls in March 2020 etc. It's not as if shortages are unique to the UK either, not by a long shot - it's why I think that separating covid and brexit effects is rather difficult, and the media certainly doesn't help pumping out sensationalist headlines

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booneruk said:

Pollycat said:

RogerBareford said:

Deleted_User said:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2021/uk-consumers-face-food-shortages-in-2022/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/29/shoppers-face-food-shortages-following-eu-border-controls-new/

What point are you trying to make with those two scaremongering articles?

The premise of those is that people are assuming import companies don't know what they are doing and won't follow the new rules and then goods won't be allowed into the UK at foreigh ports, but there is nothing stopping them from doing it.

+1 to this ^^^^.

The articles say 'may'.
Not 'guaranteed'.

The media are not doing us any favours by printing stuff like this.
It just causes panic-buying.

Like the petrol shortage that actually wasn't - but was whipped up by irresponsible media articles.

I really doubt the articles in the link by the OP caused the 'most' or 'many' empty shelves in one Morrisons store on one day at 8am.

We all know the recent 'fuel shortage' was created by MSM stoking panic that certain parts of the population lapped up - same with toilet rolls in March 2020 etc. It's not as if shortages are unique to the UK either, not by a long shot - it's why I think that separating covid and brexit effects is rather difficult, and the media certainly doesn't help pumping out sensationalist headlines

well said.... how many crap articles were written about shortages for xmas and stupid headlines along the lines of xmas being cancelled.

I work for Tesco and sales have been great throughout the whole time of Brexit fallout and Covid. Good businesses adapt to market conditions. From a customer angle if I couldn't get a certain wine because of a delivery issue I just bought another and applied the same logic to toilet paper, baked beans and crisps.

Pollycat

booneruk said:

Pollycat said:

RogerBareford said:

Deleted_User said:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2021/uk-consumers-face-food-shortages-in-2022/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/29/shoppers-face-food-shortages-following-eu-border-controls-new/

What point are you trying to make with those two scaremongering articles?

The premise of those is that people are assuming import companies don't know what they are doing and won't follow the new rules and then goods won't be allowed into the UK at foreigh ports, but there is nothing stopping them from doing it.

+1 to this ^^^^.

The articles say 'may'.
Not 'guaranteed'.

The media are not doing us any favours by printing stuff like this.
It just causes panic-buying.

Like the petrol shortage that actually wasn't - but was whipped up by irresponsible media articles.

I really doubt the articles in the link by the OP caused the 'most' or 'many' empty shelves in one Morrisons store on one day at 8am.

We all know the recent 'fuel shortage' was created by MSM stoking panic that certain parts of the population lapped up - same with toilet rolls in March 2020 etc. It's not as if shortages are unique to the UK either, not by a long shot - it's why I think that separating covid and brexit effects is rather difficult, and the media certainly doesn't help pumping out sensationalist headlines

I'm not sure 'we all know' it's media hype.
I know.
You appear to know.

But not those people who spent hours queuing for petrol.
Or visiting every supermarket in a 20 mile radius to buy as many toilet rolls or packs of rice/pasta as they were allowed.

I made the same point about the media.
It doesn't help showing a BBC reporter in a supermarket with empty shelves.

And I don't think it helps by posting that 'most' shelves in any supermarket are empty. 

robatwork

emmajones1976 said:

So now it has gone from "most", to "many".  Its clearly improving then, well done Morribobs!

Blocked, reported and now kids are in tears.