robroy:
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but the Supermarket’s official line of complaining about all this, and condemning these panic buying clowns is all ■■■■■■■■…they’ll be loving it, it stands to reason.
Increase in business, increase in turnover, increase in profits and share value.
You reckon?
When the hoarders eat there frozen and tinned, that is reduced sales for the supermarkets later. At the end of this year, happen overall sales wont be up by much if at all. Their famously efficient just-in-time systems (I aint saying they are driver friendly) are running ragged and costing them more. They are paying over time and agency to get things done now, but may have idle workers later.
Are they charging double or anything? If they did there would be a justified outcry and payback.
No, I can`t see they are doing well out of this.
Somebody mentioned profiteering…I was in Wychbold cafe the other day, went to the Shell station next to it, the robbing bast in there was selling 50p hand gel tubes for a fiver apiece.
Just been to my local coop,and there’s plenty of food.
You might not be able to get exactly what you want,but certainly enough to make a balanced meal.
robroy:
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but the Supermarket’s official line of complaining about all this, and condemning these panic buying clowns is all ■■■■■■■■…they’ll be loving it, it stands to reason.
Increase in business, increase in turnover, increase in profits and share value.
You reckon?
When the hoarders eat there frozen and tinned, that is reduced sales for the supermarkets later. At the end of this year, happen overall sales wont be up by much if at all. Their famously efficient just-in-time systems (I aint saying they are driver friendly) are running ragged and costing them more. They are paying over time and agency to get things done now, but may have idle workers later.
Are they charging double or anything? If they did there would be a justified outcry and payback.
No, I can`t see they are doing well out of this.
Do you think that the panic buyers are only panic buying tinned and frozen products? Or will you concede that they are also mass buying stuff such as milk and fresh foods with short best before dates? Inevitably they end up pouring the unused out of date milk down the sink and throwing food into the bin. They also inevitably will go out and massively restock once again with short life products.
So I’d contend that yes, the supermarket sales figures will be massively enhanced over the entire period and also well after the lockdown has ended.
I witnessed last night people who were not only mass buying frozen and tinned food, but also short life and fresh produce like milk and fruit. Yes, the milk can be frozen, but unless your making lots of jam, the fruit will only keep for a few days. Its senseless.
robroy:
Somebody mentioned profiteering…I was in Wychbold cafe the other day, went to the Shell station next to it, the robbing bast in there was selling 50p hand gel tubes for a fiver apiece.
That is disgusting, and the more naming and shaming the better.
Bacon £3 for 2 packs
Maximum 3 packs so the last packet costs almost as much as the first 2 did.
3 tins of canned tomatoes, doesn’t make a decent spag bol if you want to batch cook.
3 packs of pasta snacks actually costs £2 but they advertise it as 2 for a pound. Unless you go to the supermarket everyday and get accused of spreading Covid-19, you cannot feed your family on a budget.
Bacon £3 for 2 packs
Maximum 3 packs so the last packet costs almost as much as the first 2 did.
3 tins of canned tomatoes, doesn’t make a decent spag bol if you want to batch cook.
3 packs of pasta snacks actually costs £2 but they advertise it as 2 for a pound. Unless you go to the supermarket everyday and get accused of spreading Covid-19, you cannot feed your family on a budget.
Well?
Buy just the two packs of bacon.
If you need to shop daily for 2 packs of bacon try running there the long way round, to burn off the stuff you`ve just scoffed down.
pierrot 14:
I see on tv news, newspaper pictures and on media posts long queues outside stores, empty shelves etc.
but in reality is this real ? Is this just hype to create panic amongst the general people ?
The stores have reserves, the RDC’s are not empty, the trucks are rolling to supply the RDC’s
along with trucks supplying the stores, the goods are there, why aren’t the public getting them ?
Crying medical staff on tv pleading that they can’t get food because of empty shelves when they finish their shifts !
The goods are there ffs, shouldn’t the supermarkets control the actual amount each and every person actually buys ?
You are missing a BIG point. The goods are not being picked quickly enough at the RDC’s and we have drivers and trucks waiting for loads. THAT is the crisis.
Bacon £3 for 2 packs
Maximum 3 packs so the last packet costs almost as much as the first 2 did.
3 tins of canned tomatoes, doesn’t make a decent spag bol if you want to batch cook.
3 packs of pasta snacks actually costs £2 but they advertise it as 2 for a pound. Unless you go to the supermarket everyday and get accused of spreading Covid-19, you cannot feed your family on a budget.
Well?
Buy just the two packs of bacon.
If you need to shop daily for 2 packs of bacon try running there the long way round, to burn off the stuff you`ve just scoffed down.
Its 12 miles to the supermarket, we keep chickens and pigs in the garden but they are not fit yet, with 4 of us in the house, Hettie is on overtime and the fight for bacon is getting nasty.
pierrot 14:
I see on tv news, newspaper pictures and on media posts long queues outside stores, empty shelves etc.
but in reality is this real ? Is this just hype to create panic amongst the general people ?
The stores have reserves, the RDC’s are not empty, the trucks are rolling to supply the RDC’s
along with trucks supplying the stores, the goods are there, why aren’t the public getting them ?
Crying medical staff on tv pleading that they can’t get food because of empty shelves when they finish their shifts !
The goods are there ffs, shouldn’t the supermarkets control the actual amount each and every person actually buys ?
You are missing a BIG point. The goods are not being picked quickly enough at the RDC’s and we have drivers and trucks waiting for loads. THAT is the crisis.
Normal procedure at busy times like Xmas is get extra staff in.The problem is now panic buying by the selfish has made the demand far greater than any Xmas period in a shorter time frame,hence the problem goods cant be picked fast enough even with RDCs having all hands on deck maintenance office staff etc,working extra hours on o/t
lolipop:
RDCs have the stock,trouble is they dont always have the loading docks to cope with the extra trailers required as they already run 24/7 on the docks they have.
My Daughter works at Atherstone RDC she told me the work force from office staff to maintenance that has toe caps shoes or boots gathering dust in the bottom of the cupboard are
being asked to volunteer to work in the warehouse to help cope with the extra demand as they are working flat out worse than Xmas
Here’s the problem with warehousing - you can only have so many people working there; I remember from my picker career the pre-Easter/Christmas period; it would start 3 weeks earlier so they would hire a lot of agency workers who a) needed 3 days of training (using MHE and the specific computerized picking system) b) had no experience so were slow for the first week or two, so much so that most of them would struggle to achieve 50% of the productivity of older staff c) there was a limited number of LLOPs and reach FLTs available d) again - you can only add so many people to a shift before you get diminishing returns - pickers eventually end up getting in each others way, especially when the same few products are in demand and everyone is trying to pick from there, add FLTs trying to restock because they go in minutes and you have chaos and standstill
Same thing with goods in/loading - they can only process so many vehicles at a time; usually when goods come in they get put away on the top shelves immediately as the interim storage area is small (about 40 pallets) - guess what, those FLTs need to use the same floor/space as everyone else picking and restocking
Now they’re saying demand is up 4fold which I don’t see them dealing with unless they expand their current warehouse capacity
Every forecourt in the country charging over £1 per litre of fuel right now - is guilty of sheer profiteering.
Fuel prices have halved over a week ago now. MORE than enough time to have sold out of all high-price-paid stocks, and ordered in some more at far lower prices…
Notice the Media doesn’t bang on about actual things that concern the public - just scare stories about *speculative" things to presumably take our minds off the fact that “Golden Opportunities are being missed each and every day to get some hard-stuff done” such as completing the pulling up of Drawbridge, and hostile actions taking against any further people trying to smuggle themselves or others of illegal status into this country…
Instead, we’ve still got people coming home from places like Italy, Iran, and China that are not even being checked at the UK port of entry!
Is this a blatent conspiracy against old people that are not millionaires - by any chance?
robroy:
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but the Supermarket’s official line of complaining about all this, and condemning these panic buying clowns is all ■■■■■■■■…they’ll be loving it, it stands to reason.
Increase in business, increase in turnover, increase in profits and share value.
You reckon?
When the hoarders eat there frozen and tinned, that is reduced sales for the supermarkets later. At the end of this year, happen overall sales wont be up by much if at all. Their famously efficient just-in-time systems (I aint saying they are driver friendly) are running ragged and costing them more. They are paying over time and agency to get things done now, but may have idle workers later.
Are they charging double or anything? If they did there would be a justified outcry and payback.
No, I can`t see they are doing well out of this.
Do you think that the panic buyers are only panic buying tinned and frozen products? Or will you concede that they are also mass buying stuff such as milk and fresh foods with short best before dates? Inevitably they end up pouring the unused out of date milk down the sink and throwing food into the bin. They also inevitably will go out and massively restock once again with short life products.
So I’d contend that yes, the supermarket sales figures will be massively enhanced over the entire period and also well after the lockdown has ended.
I witnessed last night people who were not only mass buying frozen and tinned food, but also short life and fresh produce like milk and fruit. Yes, the milk can be frozen, but unless your making lots of jam, the fruit will only keep for a few days. Its senseless.
They may well be buying it for others who are self isolating, or kids will be at home so not getting fruit from school etc.
I’m sure there’s gonna be some wastage, but I’m with Franglais on this one
robroy:
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but the Supermarket’s official line of complaining about all this, and condemning these panic buying clowns is all ■■■■■■■■
I finished work yesterday and went to get some fresh milk and bread to take home, it was about 5pm so it was quiet.
Virtually nothing on the shelves , certainly no milk, but they were baking bread which they had been all day.
Walked round to the beer aisle, nothing, then one of their guys came round with ONE case of John Smith’s, so I put it in my trolley, normally I would get a couple of cases to last me at home, and put some in ny truck fridge, then he told me I was only allowed 12 cans from it.
Crazy times.
Trust me the stuff ain’t there.The combination of empty shelves, no customers in deserted shops, no one refilling the shelves, no trucks on their bays delivering more stuff, says one thing.The stuff is being held back or diverted.These lying zb’s are ■■■■■■■ on us and telling us it’s raining.
While surely bulk buying, thereby minimising shopping trips and interactions, is a good thing.This is a resupply issue not a demand issue.Can’t go to the pubs but its ok to have pensioners massing together in queues and shops to get their stuff when these commy zb’s release the bit that ain’t being sent to China to keep the cheap labour force going.
robroy:
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but the Supermarket’s official line of complaining about all this, and condemning these panic buying clowns is all ■■■■■■■■
I finished work yesterday and went to get some fresh milk and bread to take home, it was about 5pm so it was quiet.
Virtually nothing on the shelves , certainly no milk, but they were baking bread which they had been all day.
Walked round to the beer aisle, nothing, then one of their guys came round with ONE case of John Smith’s, so I put it in my trolley, normally I would get a couple of cases to last me at home, and put some in ny truck fridge, then he told me I was only allowed 12 cans from it.
Crazy times.
Trust me the stuff ain’t there.The combination of empty shelves, no customers in deserted shops, no one refilling the shelves, no trucks on their bays delivering more stuff, says one thing.The stuff is being held back or diverted.These lying zb’s are ■■■■■■■ on us and telling us it’s raining.
While surely bulk buying, thereby minimising shopping trips and interactions, is a good thing.This is a resupply issue not a demand issue.Can’t go to the pubs but its ok to have pensioners massing together in queues and shops to get their stuff when these commy zb’s release the bit that ain’t being sent to China to keep the cheap labour force going.
Well, we`ve got the drivers working extra hours, supermarket bosses, all telling us the stuff is there. Other countries, without panic buying have no problems, so I will thank you for your offer to trust you, rather than everyone else who actually works in the trade, but turn you down.
Well, I sure think we are doing pretty poorly as a Nation, but in the spirit of looking at someone even worse than us, to make ourselves seem slightly less awful… edition.cnn.com/2020/03/19/busi … index.html
At least we aren`t this silly!
