As TS stated on this thread
there is a massive lack of HGV drivers
that also makes it all worse.

Covid-19 halted the training of new drivers.

This is scaremongering, it's haulage/driver issues that's causing shortages

…just after ‘freedom day’ as well, more social gatherings will mean larger buying from some so that won’t help…the thing that is least needed is panic buying but …inevitably I fear….

Crap.

Supermarkets have come out to say it's an isolated problem.

Who cares anyway?

We're not Africa, no one is going to starve.

….keep calm and vote for ThomasC…:love:…

It’s shifting the blame yes but is it scaremongering? It actually feels more like downplaying… a national lack of haulage capacity is a much bigger problem than a lack of supermarket shelf stackers.

You sweetheart you <3

The media doesn't need to do much to scaremonger.

A proportion of the British public are moronic. That's the problem.

Fickle as thieves.

"A proportion of the British public are moronic"


Yes Thomas
they are set in their ways.

Well no and that's always the problem in these situations, like ToiletRollGate and even before Covid with the bread shortage due to "the beast from the east" snowfall. There isn't a problem until everyone starts buying up all of the stock... if people just shopped as normal it wouldn't escalate to being an actual problem. Supermarkets here took MONTHS to fix the "pasta problem" last year, and then when they did, the shelves were overflowing with pasta for further months - presumably because everyone had cupboards and drawers stuffed full of pasta at home.

Same with toilet roll - supermarkets ended up with stacks of "large pack" (24 or even 32 rolls) toilet roll that they couldn't shift! I wonder what the "buzz products" will be this time?

I'm sure there was a crazy egg shortage last time too. And self-raising flour. Everyone discovered baking.