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Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by blah_123 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:38AM (#28810770)
This is usual news fear-mongering, I’ve been in many shops and they’re fully stocked. Every fuel station has petrol and diesel
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by dTal on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:27PM (#28811178)
Congratulations, you're not one of the 8 million.

Meanwhile my parents had to eat cupboard food for dinner because their local Co-op looked like this: https://imgur.com/a/a2aEaxG

Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by cbozeman on Sunday October 10, 2021 @12:56AM (#28815856)
"Thanks Brexit"... and not "thanks worldwide supply chain disruption partially caused by a pandemic and ridiculous overreaction to it".
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by jonathanleane on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:00PM (#28814466)
Can I use these pics in an article?
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by dTal on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:57PM (#28814810)
They're potato-quality but sure why not?
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by 0898 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:35PM (#28813042)
There’s only a few things missing. Just choose different veg?
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by nickkell on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:42PM (#28813109)
I don't think they want recipe tips, they're just highlighting there's a lot of produce missing from the shelves
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by Socketier on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:27AM (#28817579)
Having less variety of food l and "having to eat cupboard food" don't really go hand in hand. It's not essentials, they're luxurious options.
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by dTal on Sunday October 10, 2021 @03:28PM (#28821213)
I'm glad you think meat is an inessential luxury item. I suspect it's a viewpoint we're all going to have to embrace before long.
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by goldenkey on Sunday October 10, 2021 @11:25PM (#28824328)
It is a luxury item in most of the world where large livestock are needed to pull heavy equipment.

https://snackfever.com/blogs/magazine/beef-why-in-korea-it-i...

Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by BoiledCabbage on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:55AM (#28810922)
Along the same lines of "Covid hasn't hit my family, so clearly it doesn't exist."
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by zimpenfish on Saturday October 09, 2021 @01:32PM (#28811674)
A few Gladwells of anecdata: our local ASDA (big but not a megastore) has had reasonably frequent empty shelves in various products. I think the medium-large Tesco down the road has also had empty shelves (but that's secondhand from people I know who shop there.) Similarly secondhand, from family up north, the major supermarkets up there have been missing products.
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by zyemuzu on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:41PM (#28814349)
Not true from my experience, but 'North' is a broad geographic area.
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by gmac on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:05PM (#28810982)
Every petrol station I’ve driven past in the last week has had giant queues or (more commonly) been shut for lack of fuel. SE England.
Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by tonyedgecombe on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:44AM (#28810830)
>I’ve been in many shops and they’re fully stocked. Every fuel station has petrol and diesel

Yet I cycled past a closed petrol station yesterday and couldn't buy everything on my shopping list last week.

Neither your point nor the article are correct of course and a lot depends on where you live in the country.

Re:Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items ... by tibbydudeza on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:50AM (#28810878)
Move along nothing to see.