Reply to: Can't eat tomatoes let them have asparagus

[WTFH]

The "media" are reporting that supermarkets can't get stock but small suppliers have stock as the supermarkets are profiteering.

Don't tell me you haven't bothered to read the thread without telling me you haven't bothered to read the thread.......

In one part of the UK, it's not all supermarkets that are in short supply but only those who are supplied from their English warehouses. Dole seem to have little issue with stock and getting it to the shelves in Northern Ireland. I wonder why that is?

[SueEllen]

There are a lot of farm shops around my way, these get their supplies direct from the farms and prices are very seasonal and elastic. Always have been. While Tescos have empty shelves they are fully stocked.

As usual, the media are the problem. Always got an angle to sell and the truth be damned.

The "media" are reporting that supermarkets can't get stock but small suppliers have stock as the supermarkets are profiteering.

Don't tell me you haven't bothered to read the thread without telling me you haven't bothered to read the thread.......

[WTFH]

There are a lot of farm shops around my way, these get their supplies direct from the farms and prices are very seasonal and elastic. Always have been. While Tescos have empty shelves they are fully stocked.

As usual, the media are the problem. Always got an angle to sell and the truth be damned.

“The media” as you call it are running stories about “Tescos have empty shelves”, which you say is true.
Why is “the media” the problem, if they are reporting the truth?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...s-says-uganda/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...wer-warns.html
Etc.

[TwoWolves]

There are a lot of farm shops around my way, these get their supplies direct from the farms and prices are very seasonal and elastic. Always have been. While Tescos have empty shelves they are fully stocked.

As usual, the media are the problem. Always got an angle to sell and the truth be damned.

[Zigenare]

My friend went on a day trip to Calais and brought back a box of tomatoes. Very cheap too at 1.60e a kilo.

To be filed with "tulip that never happened.".

[Paddy]

My friend went on a day trip to Calais and brought back a box of tomatoes. Very cheap too at 1.60e a kilo.

[WTFH]

Looks like there are Brits who follow instruction from the government…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/21505...nt-told-brits/

[vetran]

What crisis?

https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/24/fruit...door-18341050/

A greengrocer who said he’s snapping up fruit and veg supermarkets won’t pay for now has ‘queues out of the door’.

Thomas Hagon, who runs Reg The Veg greengrocers in Clifton, Bristol, said customers are scrambling for tomatoes and peppers as they can’t get them in larger stores.

He claims the produce is ‘there for supermarkets to purchase’ but the price is too high for them – but smaller shops like him are willing to take the hit.

‘We had shortages due to availability and low numbers about three weeks ago and supermarkets were still pumping out vegetables at low prices,’ the 39-year-old said.

so the truth is out its profiteering from the supermarkets.

[Uncle Albert]

What crisis?

https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/24/fruit...door-18341050/

A greengrocer who said he’s snapping up fruit and veg supermarkets won’t pay for now has ‘queues out of the door’.

Thomas Hagon, who runs Reg The Veg greengrocers in Clifton, Bristol, said customers are scrambling for tomatoes and peppers as they can’t get them in larger stores.

He claims the produce is ‘there for supermarkets to purchase’ but the price is too high for them – but smaller shops like him are willing to take the hit.

‘We had shortages due to availability and low numbers about three weeks ago and supermarkets were still pumping out vegetables at low prices,’ the 39-year-old said.

Identity fraud if you ask me. The shop should be renamed Tom'sToms.

[WTFH]

Vetran put his plums in a punnet but there were no queues for them

They might have self-identified as plums, but they were raisins

[Paddy]

What crisis?

https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/24/fruit...door-18341050/

A greengrocer who said he’s snapping up fruit and veg supermarkets won’t pay for now has ‘queues out of the door’.

Thomas Hagon, who runs Reg The Veg greengrocers in Clifton, Bristol, said customers are scrambling for tomatoes and peppers as they can’t get them in larger stores.

He claims the produce is ‘there for supermarkets to purchase’ but the price is too high for them – but smaller shops like him are willing to take the hit.

‘We had shortages due to availability and low numbers about three weeks ago and supermarkets were still pumping out vegetables at low prices,’ the 39-year-old said.

Vetran put his plums in a punnet but there were no queues for them

[SueEllen]

What crisis?

https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/24/fruit...door-18341050/

A greengrocer who said he’s snapping up fruit and veg supermarkets won’t pay for now has ‘queues out of the door’.

Thomas Hagon, who runs Reg The Veg greengrocers in Clifton, Bristol, said customers are scrambling for tomatoes and peppers as they can’t get them in larger stores.

He claims the produce is ‘there for supermarkets to purchase’ but the price is too high for them – but smaller shops like him are willing to take the hit.

‘We had shortages due to availability and low numbers about three weeks ago and supermarkets were still pumping out vegetables at low prices,’ the 39-year-old said.

[sadkingbilly]

post yer brexit pish in the brexit pish forum FFS!

[Paddy]

It's about time we paid more for our food.

Brexit promise: You will pay 20% less for food.

[Zigenare]

It doesn't prevent them buying produce in the UK, but this time of the year we are not self sufficient.

It also does not prevent them buying from anywhere around the world, as long as they are able to find suppliers who will supply them at an agreeable price and timeframe.

Soaring energy costs have resulted in a severely reduced supply of UK-grown salad vegetables, as many British farmers shut down their greenhouses this winter. CEO of the British Growers Association Jack Ward explains: “What’s also contributed to the problem is, last autumn, growers in the UK would have been putting plants into glasshouses ready for production at this time of year. Because they couldn’t get the prices they needed to cover the costs they were incurring, those plants didn’t get put in, so we’re missing a chunk of British production.” Ward says retailers then looked to Spain and Morocco for tomato supplies, but the scale of production there is struggling to meet current UK demand.

It's about time we paid more for our food.