Are you experiencing big gap in the shelves in your area?

Just back from the New Forest and shelves were pretty empty in the supermarkets there.

No shortages in west Lancashire

A practically empty beer aisle in Waitrose, and a few shelves not full in Sainsbury's, but otherwise everything available.

Our Tesco was fine but apparently Sainsbury’s has some empty shelves. Lidl doesn’t seem to have any problem either.

They’ll all be making space for Halloween and Christmas soon.

I'm in Bristol and Sainsbury's is awful, lots of empty shelves! However Tesco is fine ?. I don't know if it's staff problems are delivery to store

Had to do an online Asda shop in Co Durham on Monday as we’re self isolating and couldn’t get fresh chicken, celeriac, strawberries, blueberries, and broccoli.

Asda only had orange squash on Friday, odd gaps in other places.

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MawBe

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local large tesco fine, the one they do all the picking for online shoppers is a bit bare

Loads of gaps in our area (North Nottinghamshire). Silly things like tinned tomatoes, bottled water etc

Yes gaps here of bread & veg in our local convenience store - & meat - but that may be down to the local shop-lifter.

MawBe

^Hooray! The milk fairy came^
I hate to disillusion you … … but ?‍♀️? No. ?

Aw

Hooray! The milk fairy came
I hate to disillusion you … … but ?‍♀️? No. ?

Yes, Sainsburys pretty empty. I did a click and collect for £40 worth and ended up with £17 worth! Plenty of stock in M&S though.

Nobody will go hungry, despite the endless scaremongering going on.

People in this country go hungry every day. Ask Marcus Rashford. This will make it worse.

If your comment about food shortages being beneficial to some is meant to be a backhand comment about people's size, that's very uncalled for and very insensitive.

Yes, some empty shelves here in my part of Cheshire. No coconut milk and tomato puree in Lidl and my favourite frozen chunky chips were missing for over 2 weeks. The local Co-Op milk shelves were completely empty last weekend. I have noticed other empty shelves but didn't really pay attention to what was missing. Over the last few weeks/months there have been real shortages in building materials, our son has just had a lot of renovation work on his house and the builder struggled to source some things.

It isn't just about being fussy, people on budgets need to know what is or isn't available. It is no good to someone on universal credit that home brand tinned tomatoes have ran out but mutti is available. It isn't difficult to think outside of your own life experience.

Out local supermarket has been great throughout the pandemic and the fist moths of Brexit. Even had loo rolls, bread and pasts when there were shortages reported of those items everywhere. For the first time last week there wasn't much of anything but some of of everything. We did manage to get all that we needed in fact.

Doesn’t all this highlight just how fussy we have become with our food now we have become completely accustomed to large supermarkets giving us such a huge selection of everything?

Take for instance bread and milk. We are so used to there being dozens of variations of those two basic simple food items, so if we are presented with even a slightly limited selection we feel shortchanged.

Nobody will go hungry, despite the endless scaremongering going on.
We only have to look around us to see that food shortages would actually be beneficial to an increasing number of people.

We shop at Lidl and last week we couldn't get granulated sweetener, whole tinned tomatoes, fruit and nut muesli, fruit crush, mixers, fizzy orange drink or tinned pineapple. We are near Bristol.

I've seen some empty shelves in the East Midlands but nothing too drastic. A little less fish and meat but that's it.

On the day I normally shop, noticing, many 'gaps' in the shelves of my local supermarkets.
I live in a popular SW coastal location with many 'second homes' / holiday lets' so this is not unusual and with more taking a blighty 2021 holiday rather than risk any possible restrictions concerning overseas travel.

Waitrose shop this morning, Somerset. All fresh produce plentiful. Limited stock of skimmed milk, plenty of semi skimmed. Shelves looked well stocked other than tinned fruit. Shelf stickers apologising and citing delivery issues. It’s the only grocery shop we do ourselves, the rest are on line from a warehouse, so far few missing items.

SW London.. lots of shortages in my local Waitrose

Here in East Herts most goods are available but there is a lack of choice in some lines such as tissues, toilet rolls etc. There has been a shortage of milk too and I notice that some fruit is missing from our local Tesco. I haven't seen peaches for a while.