Shelves in your local supermarket

[Tim Sheens]

Amidst the results of the failure of some of our leaders by abrogating rather than taking responsibility and instead telling us to do it, the shelves in my local shops are basically barren of many of life's normal foods and goods, and getting progressively worse.

How are those around you, as I am concerned this problem is widespread?

 

[jirskyr]

Mine wasn't so bad last week... unfortunately the more you talk about it, the more it raises the anxiety and the more that nervous people are driven to strip the shelves.

I would imagine TP is already hard to come by for no specific reason.

 

[Cobarcats]

Mine wasn't so bad last week... unfortunately the more you talk about it, the more it raises the anxiety and the more that nervous people are driven to strip the shelves.

I would imagine TP is already hard to come by for no specific reason.

Yep it's started to get that way up here in Brizvegas. What is it with dunny paper, having none gives me the *%#ts 🤪

 

[Demps]

Haven't really been out, shopping...
Seeing some things from locals on IG about shelves being empty so it's definitely going off around here - Lake Maq / Newcastle.

The Coles CEO sent out an email addressing it.
Supposedly it's due to delivery / transport industry shortages, not just panic buying.

The email also said they're looking to employ more people, so anyone looking for a job... might be your time to strike. Probably have to be vaxxed though.

 

[boonboon]

No problems here and just because you cant get exactly what you want doesent mean your going to starve

 

[mikey]

Very little fruit and veg in Nambucca Woolworths but no problem as I grow most of what we need anyway. Started buying meat from a paddock to plate place too - cheaper than the supermarket.
As long as beer doesn't run out she'll be right.

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

My wife did the shop yesterday. She said meat was a little sparse but we got everything we needed. This has been really overstated. You can walk into almost any supermarket at certain times and take photos that make certain areas look bare. There will be food to eat you might just need to change up what you want a little.

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

My wife did the shop yesterday. She said meat was a little sparse but we got everything we needed. This has been really overstated. You can walk into almost any supermarket at certain times and take photos that make certain areas look bare. There will be food to eat you might just need to change up what you want a little.

Maybe the extent is overstated, but going to your regular local supermarket and seeing shelves that are empty or sparse when they are normally well stocked, is not imaginary, it's real. That's been my experience in supermarkets in some areas of south-west Sydney over the last few days.

I didn’t mean for my post to imply it was imaginary I more trying to point out yea there is some shortage but everyone will be able to eat as long as they adapt a little. I’ve been shopping a few times over the past year where the shelves have been a little bare - it happens and is happening a little more at the moment.

 

[PJ_]

I had to use the garden hose.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Mine wasn't so bad last week... unfortunately the more you talk about it, the more it raises the anxiety and the more that nervous people are driven to strip the shelves.

I would imagine TP is already hard to come by for no specific reason.

Oddly it was the opposite in my case when shopping on Tuesday (and Thursday), as I was able to get my usual TP product of choice, albeit not the same package size. Not full by any means, though far from sparse.

I have not seen a major problem as yet with TP, hand towels, tissues etcetera since back in July when we locked down, with food stocks being the issue and many of them staples.

As @Chicken_Faced_Killa mentioned, there are alternatives, with tinned or packet soup shelves reasonably well stocked an example, though not that great of a choice for summer.

 

[twentyforty]

My Woolworths delivery driver looked exhausted, said many of the workers were in isolation, so he is working double shifts. Labour shortage is starting to have an impact on supply chain.

 

[Harvey]

woolies and coles are bad. My local butcher was fully stocked this morning & fruit shop the same.

 

[twentyforty]

woolies and coles are bad. My local butcher was fully stocked this morning & fruit shop the same.

Agree, appears to be plenty of stock, it’s the distribution which is causing the bottleneck to consumers.

 

[426Tlgerland]

Truck drivers and packers could be sourced via our Army if needed , our local Coles has spots that are empty along with the local IGA , but you can get through it , Dunny Paper was again zero stock , I think the Government just didn’t expect this and had no foresight other than we are 90 + percent vaxed so let it run , it’s been a big mistake and I feel it is out of control ,the numbers we get told of positive cases are miles out I know 2 families in Western Sydney who are all positive some a bit crook others not so much but they haven’t been counted as they used the Self test , I think we will see another announcement saying every one back to work regardless ,only stay home if you are half dying ,

 

[earl]

I reckon it's pretty bad atm. Toilet paper is running out again.

 

[FinestTigers]

Besides food shortages being a massive problem, there's another problem, while some people can cope by eating just about anything that is available to them there are a vast number of people who can not do that and who must maintain there special diets to be able to do their daily work and function properly.

It is always the responsibility of our political leaders and their professional consultants who are collectively paid very healthy salaries to think about and prevent these sort of potential crisis but they've failed again.

The only way food shortages could have been prevented would have been by having another controlled lockdown.

Without this lockdown you can not expect to see fresh food on supermatket shelves when the number of those essential workers are forced into isolation due to being infected and the numbers of these isolated workers are doubling daily.

Without a lockdown food shortages will get worse and some peoples health will get worse whether they have covid or not.

 

[paul wright]

Besides food shortages being a massive problem, there's another problem, while some people can cope by eating just about anything that is available to them there are a vast number of people who can not do that and who must maintain there special diets to be able to do their daily work and function properly.

It is always the responsibility of our political leaders and their professional consultants who are collectively paid very healthy salaries to think about and prevent these sort of potential crisis but they've failed again.

The only way food shortages could have been prevented would have been by having another controlled lockdown.

Without this lockdown you can not expect to see fresh food on supermatket shelves when the number of those essential workers are forced into isolation due to being infected and the numbers of these isolated workers are doubling daily.

Without a lockdown food shortages will get worse and some peoples health will get worse whether they have covid or not.

Quite true,the supply of all food/goods to cities and towns is contingent on the infrastructure/delivery system that moves it.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Besides food shortages being a massive problem, there's another problem, while some people can cope by eating just about anything that is available to them there are a vast number of people who can not do that and who must maintain there special diets to be able to do their daily work and function properly.

It is always the responsibility of our political leaders and their professional consultants who are collectively paid very healthy salaries to think about and prevent these sort of potential crisis but they've failed again.

The only way food shortages could have been prevented would have been by having another controlled lockdown.

Without this lockdown you can not expect to see fresh food on supermatket shelves when the number of those essential workers are forced into isolation due to being infected and the numbers of these isolated workers are doubling daily.

Without a lockdown food shortages will get worse and some peoples health will get worse whether they have covid or not.

Yeah, it is much easier for those such as myself that are only intolerant to foods that we don't like.