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Horrible day shopping, the shops seem to have run out of food!

TheCatWoman

I went to do my usual big shop today and there were so many gaps on the shelves, it's getting like it was during covid. Our tesco have revamped their store and are still fafing about with the layout and what goes where, all the customers are complaing that they can't find anything. But even worse is that they've cut down the range of things they sell they just give the other stuff more space. You can get almost any sort of chip you like, but no potato croquettes. They're out of stock on nearly all their veggie stuff and have been for weeks. Morrisons main freezer has packed up, again, and guess what it's the veggie stuff thats disapeared from its usual place and into the ether. Aldi has stopped doing loads of stuff too, Farm Foods do a miniscule amount of veggie food as does Iceland and Lidl had been raided by ferry people.

I go to about 4 different shops as it is, today it was 6 or 7, it's getting to the point where I wonder what I will be able to eat! If I didn't cook from scratch or batch cook most of the time it would b marmite on toast and thres only so much of that a woman can eat. I daren't do online as they take everything from your local store and if they don't have it then you either have often unsuitable replacements or nothing. The way the shops algorrhytms work is by instructing the picker what to pick and so if you say quorn sausages and they don't have them, they will tell the picker to get meat ones as they're still sausages, the pickers aren't allowed to think, 'this person wants quorn sausages and we don't have any, maybe I should opt for these other veggie sausages rather than meat ones'.

Another thing, the only place I can get ginger beer from is Waitrose and thats at the other end of the island so I only go there infrequently, Morrisons used to do their own brand, now they don't, lidl and aldi don't do it and nor do tesco. Ginger beer was really popular, they sold loads of it, so why stop? It makes no sense. It feels like some numpty somewhere has decided what we're all going to eat and if we don't we can go hungry.

I'm just so fed up with it all, sometimes I just want to chuck some junk food in the oven and not have to think about cooking something or eating the same three things over and over again.

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  • That sounds a nightmare. Are they mostly catering for holidaymakers who want quick meals I wonder. I used to hate it when they changed the layout, as I went with a list and expected to be in and out as quickly as possible. 

    I now shop online due to circumstances and have had some nightmares with replacements, even something totally different, but with some loose link. I haven't yet had pet food as a replacement, but find when I search for things pet food appears in the options. They have also replaced something similar with a smaller quantity. That has improved since I complained and had a long survey to complete. 

    I have had a similar experience to your chip experience with the online shopping. They seem to have reduced the choice considerably. I was recently searching for beef and there were endless versions of steaks, but limited for cooking from scratch. I used to cook various dishes from mince and selected the lower fat versions. Now all they do is mince in minute pieces that goes to nothing. Perhaps I need to go back to my childhood days where we had a mincer and could select the size.

    If I cook vegetarian I tend to cook from scratch, but I am wondering if your 'convenience' type supermarkets are limited there.

  • in reply to Homebird

    I don't think they're catering for holiday makers, the only thing they're catering or is profit margins, if they can somehow make us all eat ready meals, they can make huge profits from very poor ingredients. We're literally at the end of the line here, but there dies seem to be an invisible line somewhere just north of Birmingham where deliveries are less frequent. Apparently supermarkets respond to regional demands, I think it's more like they cater for regional stereotypes. There's a bad habit of introducing an ingredient and when it reaches a certain level of popularity, they withdraw it only for it to return as part of a kit at three times the price in a yukky sauce that nobody seems to like then they get rid of that and never bring back the ingredient that everyone was buying.Our supermarkets are the main ones, they only one we lack is sainsbury's, it's not like I'm buying everything from spar.

    I only eat "junk food" once a week, everything else I make from scratch and batch cook a lot of stuff, I have to or I wouldn't be able to eat at all. One fo the things I've noticed is that all the usual veggie stuff is being replaced with stuff that tastes like and has a similar texture to meat. I can just about cope with veggie mince and some quorn products, but these new ones are too "meaty" for me, I've been veggie or 25 years and most of the time before that too with a few short periods of eating meat and fish, since I was 16.

    If you have one I think a proper butchers is the best place to get meat, the mince might be a bit dearer, but at least when you buy a pound of mince you get a poind of mince rather than gristle in fatty water. The last time I bought supermarket mince to cook for someone else this was what I had a pan of, what was supposed to meat looked like an horrible old string mop head just taken out of a dirty bucket.

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  • in reply to Homebird

    I don't think they're catering for holiday makers, the only thing they're catering or is profit margins, if they can somehow make us all eat ready meals, they can make huge profits from very poor ingredients. We're literally at the end of the line here, but there dies seem to be an invisible line somewhere just north of Birmingham where deliveries are less frequent. Apparently supermarkets respond to regional demands, I think it's more like they cater for regional stereotypes. There's a bad habit of introducing an ingredient and when it reaches a certain level of popularity, they withdraw it only for it to return as part of a kit at three times the price in a yukky sauce that nobody seems to like then they get rid of that and never bring back the ingredient that everyone was buying.Our supermarkets are the main ones, they only one we lack is sainsbury's, it's not like I'm buying everything from spar.

    I only eat "junk food" once a week, everything else I make from scratch and batch cook a lot of stuff, I have to or I wouldn't be able to eat at all. One fo the things I've noticed is that all the usual veggie stuff is being replaced with stuff that tastes like and has a similar texture to meat. I can just about cope with veggie mince and some quorn products, but these new ones are too "meaty" for me, I've been veggie or 25 years and most of the time before that too with a few short periods of eating meat and fish, since I was 16.

    If you have one I think a proper butchers is the best place to get meat, the mince might be a bit dearer, but at least when you buy a pound of mince you get a poind of mince rather than gristle in fatty water. The last time I bought supermarket mince to cook for someone else this was what I had a pan of, what was supposed to meat looked like an horrible old string mop head just taken out of a dirty bucket.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I did try the local butcher when we moved here, but was not impressed and their mince was also small. I do eat a fair amount of vegetarian food and fish too. I guess you are correct regarding where you live and fitting what others like to make the maximum profit.

    We only occasionally buy ready meals. That also seems to be more challenging. The last time we looked for something almost all meat dishes had cheese on top and the casserole had the dumplings spoiled by the addition of cheese. Back to making my own dumplings.