rockershovel Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 We haven't seen a courier of any description since the morning of 23rd, although we still have several items outstanding or in transit. The system seems to have collapsed, or seized up. Letter post was still out at 1600 today, we received a couple of cards around then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2020 9 minutes ago, rockershovel said: Letter post was still out at 1600 today, we received a couple of cards around then. Not unusual around here even without the current problems. We had a very late one on one day recently. I had locked up about 1800 but later I could see something poking through the letter box, which turned out to be a couple of cards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2020 6 hours ago, spikey said: Could be worse. Imagine 0200 to 1500 ... tonight is 20:00 to 02:00! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Thankfully I never started or stopped at 0200. That was always break time for me, which was fine - although it did take me a while to get used to sitting down opposite a bloke tucking into the stone cold fish and chips which he'd bought on the way in four hours earlier. At least he varied it sometimes though and had stone cold pie and chips instead. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Worth having a look at the expiry date on medications. We seem to have had packages with a shorter expiry date than some previous prescriptions. Has someone been clearing out the store cupboards? Best wishes Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Don't get me started on expiry dates. My son, who is a gardener, got stung by a wasp. He was having a bad reaction. I could not find our Piriton. Neighbour, would not let us give him their Piriton as it was out of date. Another neighbour gave us theirs and it allowed him to calm down and breathe. (Theirs was out of date, but it still worked). The Ambulance crew then sorted him out. He has now got EpiPen's. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 15 hours ago, burgundy said: Worth having a look at the expiry date on medications. We seem to have had packages with a shorter expiry date than some previous prescriptions. Has someone been clearing out the store cupboards? Best wishes Eric We found some time ago, that some prescription medicines were being dispensed more-or-less straight from the delivery and stocks in store were virtually nil. Given the continuing restrictions on air travel (many prescription pharmaceuticals are imported from India) I can’t imagine that this has improved, and that existing stocks are still being used to maintain supplies from week to week 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4, 2021 Oh Dear Panic buying has started again. My order with Asda which should be about £120 has dropped to £76 because 30% of the items (and any possible subs) are out of stock On the first page of bread only 3 items out of 12 were in stock and they were white rolls! Hardly any soup, short of salad stuff etc. Just have to hope it's better when I come to finalise it tomorrow. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 4, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2021 Mrs Stationmaster is planning an expedition to Tesco tomorrow. i'm not sure if she has thought through the implications but needs must because cat food stocks are declining although the reserve stock of toilet rolls still stands at just over 100 (all of which were bought at reduced prices over several past months). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted January 4, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2021 13 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: cat food stocks are declining although the reserve stock of toilet rolls still stands at just over 100 How did you train the cats to use loo roll ? 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2021 13 hours ago, melmerby said: Oh Dear Panic buying has started again. My order with Asda which should be about £120 has dropped to £76 because 30% of the items (and any possible subs) are out of stock On the first page of bread only 3 items out of 12 were in stock and they were white rolls! Hardly any soup, short of salad stuff etc. Just have to hope it's better when I come to finalise it tomorrow. That’s worrying, our order is due tomorrow and I dread checking the order list this evening now......same old, same old would be a nightmare again. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 FWIW the Tesco order delivered here this morning was as usual complete, and despite the BBC's scaremongering I had no problem getting onto their site at around 0830 to amend our orders for the 16th and the 31st. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJGraphics Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Again, FWIW, Mrs JJGraphics went to Tesco in Wokingham just after 09:00 this morning and not only was the car park unusually empty, the store was, too. The store had the usual people with the big trolleys picking orders for delivery and Click & Collect, but ordinary customers were noticeably few and far between. No empty shelves, no queues for the checkouts and most of the checkout operators were waiting for their next customer to arrive. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
choo1choo Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Shopped at our local Morrisons in Carmarthen this morning....no shortages on the shelves but a noticeable absence of checkout staff. Craig. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2021 Well just checked our shopping list for tomorrow and the whisky and gin is still on it.......sorted 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2021 6 hours ago, boxbrownie said: That’s worrying, our order is due tomorrow and I dread checking the order list this evening now......same old, same old would be a nightmare again. Quite a few things were back in stock but still some missing items. I'll find out what when I finalise it at 9:30pm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2021 When I came to finalise at around 9:30 there was a waiting list to get oin the site. I haven't had that before, even during Lockdown #1. Then I found a shortage of apples, cakes with cherries in(?) but not strawberry jam ones, some kinds of rice and as usual, veggie/vegan stuff. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Noticeably depleted stocks of fresh meat and fish in our local Sainsbury's this morning. However, I suspect this was merely due to one of Sainsbury's periodic stock control snafus since nothing else seemed to be in short supply e.g. plenty of loo roll (so long as you weren't fussy about the brand/pack size) and when I stopped in Morrisons on my way home to pick up certain things that Sainsbury's don't do there was plenty of fresh meat & fish there, which would seem to support the view that it was just Sainsbury's being Sainsbury's. Oh, and Sainsbury's only had raw king prawns - but lots of them - in the frozen shellfish section when usually they have half a dozen different types. Again Morrisons had all of their usual, slightly more limited range available. Oddly there were no 2 pint cartons of milk in either store (though plenty of 1 pint and 4 pint, so it wasn't milk itself that was in short supply, just 2 pint cartons). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 My lad had the job of ordering the bread at the butchers he’s an apprentice at on Monday and accidentally ordered about 25 too many loaves from the local bakery, he was worried at the end of the day the boss would be cross with him for having so many left but by chance the other grocery shop in the village (co-op) ran out of bread and he ended up selling the excess in a couple of hours and at closing time was left with one loaf which he bought home for us! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 Pleasantly surprised, no subs, no OOS........ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 Local Aldi this morning, no queues, no empty shelves. Trundled around and got everything on my list. Everyone wore facemasks and kept well apart. Plenty of hand sanitiser and cart handle spray too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 My wife was worried about not having enough bread flour or wine so ordered a home delivery from her work. This is what it turned up in so I guess we aren't doing dry January!!!!!! 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 14 hours ago, big jim said: My lad had the job of ordering the bread at the butchers he’s an apprentice at on Monday and accidentally ordered about 25 too many loaves from the local bakery, he was worried at the end of the day the boss would be cross with him for having so many left but by chance the other grocery shop in the village (co-op) ran out of bread and he ended up selling the excess in a couple of hours and at closing time was left with one loaf which he bought home for us! Sounds like a bit of forward planning. He should do well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 Received receipt for Asda order 2 OOS - some German Lager and Frozen Broad Beans and only one of two ready meals ordered available. Subs for Cornflakes, Shredded wheat, bananas, apples, onions Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 On 04/01/2021 at 23:30, chris p bacon said: How did you train the cats to use loo roll ? I don't think you'd enjoy the explanation if I did tell you. But the Tesco shop did have one interesting result - 16 roll packs of toilet paper had been reduced by 27%, so a couple were purchased. Fresh veg was in short supply but no trouble with anything else and as she went down in the middle of the day there were no queues either. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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