The main problem was the supermarkets were caught out by the illogical panic buying of toilet roll etc and have had to go in Xmas+++ mode without the Xmas year long planning.
No extra kit in the yard, no extra trained drivers and warehouse operatives.
For normal Xmas rush Royal Mail start Xmas recruiting in October, supermarkets start moving ambient products on to shop floor in October, tins of chocolates etc.
If the selfish hoarders had been able to control the me me me urge and the supermarkets had put in restrictions quicker, we wouldn’t have the empty shelves we have now.
The supermarkets are pumping volume out of RDC’s, but the next issue will be lack of staff in RDCs and stores due to self isolation, to keep this up.
I drive for a major food manufacturer and have warehouses rammed with stock and factories producing 24/7,the problem is getting the stock into the RDCS, One major supermarket chain put 50 day 1 for day 2 orders in on Tuesday but could not give us the delivery slots at their RDCS to deliver them !!! There is definitely no shortage of food its just the problem of getting it in to the RDCS.
Carryfast:
Also why no lifting of dimensions and gross weight limits allowing LHV’s.
Why would we want to do that? so you can have a play with one? Maybe they’ll let you do so when they can actually find one. How many trailers would you like to play choo choos on the M1
rich12:
I drive for a major food manufacturer and have warehouses rammed with stock and factories producing 24/7,the problem is getting the stock into the RDCS, One major supermarket chain put 50 day 1 for day 2 orders in on Tuesday but could not give us the delivery slots at their RDCS to deliver them !!! There is definitely no shortage of food its just the problem of getting it in to the RDCS.
Who would have thought we would die through lack of organisation
Ball locks to the lot of `em……I shall be eating fresh mutton soon enough.
Winseer:
The only reason that there is a shortage of bog rolls - is that they are still in warehouses and on the backs of trucks - not finding themselves on shelves at shops fast enough for these mass hysteria fools
So tell us why is it that every time I’ve been to the supermarket during the last week the place was virtually deserted and just empty shelves of food and cleaning stuff and no one refilling them and no trucks at the unloading dock.It’s like that from open to close.
Any other time I’m moaning about shelf stackers getting in the way when you’re trying to get stuff.Especially if you go late like I prefer.
Maybe it’s to.do with online orders
Usually see pickers walking the aisles picking orders.
Maybe there all just picking it from the store room.
And what bits are left go.in the shelves.
Meanwhile back in the real world this was the meat shelves this evening when it’s usually busy with late customers and staff refilling the shelves.Also still no trucks in the unloading area/bays.Panic buyers clearing the shelves quicker than they can be refilled.Yeah right.
Fruit and veg dairy isles bread even wines and spirits all the same.But ironically there was some new delivery of bog roll but only enough to have 1/4-1/2 filled the aisle when it was unpacked.
Carryfast:
Also why no lifting of dimensions and gross weight limits allowing LHV’s.
Why would we want to do that? so you can have a play with one? Maybe they’ll let you do so when they can actually find one. How many trailers would you like to play choo choos on the M1
I was thinking more along the lines of drop a 45 foot reefer loaded with meat at Sainsburys because they obviously need it and then carry on to the local supermarket here which is too tight for an artic with a 6 wheeler load for them.You know simple stuff which works in other places.
Who said anything about more than one trailer.I’m sure the Swedes could send us some dollies over or just ask the local fairground truck park for a few.
It’s so much better to have knackered drivers running around getting nothing done.
Winseer:
The only reason that there is a shortage of bog rolls - is that they are still in warehouses and on the backs of trucks - not finding themselves on shelves at shops fast enough for these mass hysteria fools
So tell us why is it that every time I’ve been to the supermarket during the last week the place was virtually deserted and just empty shelves of food and cleaning stuff and no one refilling them and no trucks at the unloading dock.It’s like that from open to close.
Any other time I’m moaning about shelf stackers getting in the way when you’re trying to get stuff.Especially if you go late like I prefer.
I went out on a shopping expedition today with the missus…
A intended 7-store visiting route, where I anticipated getting what I wanted from among the 7 shops aggregated if you will…
I ended up visiting the first 5 before I had enough to satisfy my shopping list.
The only stuff I couldn’t get in the end - was Cheap rice pud - not yet prepared to pay top dollar for Ambrosia and all.
Noodles, despite being rationed everywhere - you simply pick up one’s rationed amount from each shop you visit!
Anything shop A didn’t have - turned up in shop B, and anything not in A and B - turned up in C…
Returned home after four hours, only to realize that I’d left a whole bag of shopping behind on the ground in the car park…
Decided to go back on the off-chance that someone had handed it in to security at the store…
Wasn’t let down neither!!
They’d even put the three freezer bags in that particular bag - back in the freezer for me.
My faith in humanity - restored, at least for today…
My wife rubbished the idea that it was worth the 10 mile trip to retrive a £40 bag of shopping that would “long since have been nicked”…
If you don’t “have a punt” now and again though? - You don’t ever get to WIN - do you?
I figured it was “worth a try” - even with the odds stacked against me for ever seeing my missing bag of shopping again…
I would suggest folk - that we are now entering a time where it is going to be “better to act first than be forced to re-act, long after such action is going to be effective” in our newly-found daily lives…
“If you don’t ask - you can’t get.” “If you don’t speculate - you cannot accumulate” “You can always fail - without having tried, but you can never win - by doing nothing at all”.
Tude:
Just let everyone die, far easier and no worries.
People are their own worst enemy and the enemy should really be killed.
That’s the problem these days, everybody trying to avoid Darwins theories. [emoji57]
In this case, the best defence is to have already had the disease, and built-up a natural immunity. Being a “Germophobe” won’t help you - because you cannot avoid coming into contact with another infected person - indefinitely. Even being a Hermit is going to eventually result in you touching something contaiminated - when you go out foraging for food and drink long after the illness has run it’s course everywhere else…
If the supermarkets are so desperate for the stock
To put on there supermarket shelf’s , why are are
They still enforcing booking times ,
I can’t speak for this week as off but
Week before hours sat outside rdc , s
Waiting to go in , and the vast majority
Didn’t look busy when I finally got in !!
Pharmacuticals alongside some frozen fish. I didn’t realize how much worth was in there - until I’d retrieved it.
Two prescriptions I’d picked up - were £18 of it, nearly half of it, along with another tenners worth of OTC medicinal stuff that I’d doubled-up in the same bag, because it was a freezerbag…
Winseer:
In this case, the best defence is to have already had the disease, and built-up a natural immunity. Being a “Germophobe” won’t help you - because you cannot avoid coming into contact with another infected person - indefinitely. Even being a Hermit is going to eventually result in you touching something contaiminated - when you go out foraging for food and drink long after the illness has run it’s course everywhere else…
Except in this case it’s the immune response to an alien zoonotic virus which can and will too likely kill you.
dozy:
If the supermarkets are so desperate for the stock
To put on there supermarket shelf’s , why are are
They still enforcing booking times ,
I can’t speak for this week as off but
Week before hours sat outside rdc , s
Waiting to go in , and the vast majority
Didn’t look busy when I finally got in !!
It is a shortage of warehouse staff, rather than transport staff… That’s why.
20 trucks turn up in the course of an hour to get tipped. There’s 20 bays, so no need for a “tip queue”…
Each truck gets on a bay, and then reads the H&S blurb card stating the usual rules about “must wait in the cooler with the other drivers” - but that’s now been relaxed, and not before time, neither!..
So stay in your cabs, and be patient. There are only a handful of indoor staff in the whole warehouse, and they’ll end up tipping all those trucks already on bays - one of two at a time, at best…
It will take a while.
It is a bad time to be salaried, and a great time to be paid by the hour, providing you’ve got a truck that isn’t a day-cab.
