Fruit and veg

barge1914

Full Member
Posts
1,951
Likes
3,324
“Although there are currently some issues with the supply of fresh vegetables, caused by the poor weather in Spain and north Africa, the UK has a highly resilient food chain and is well equipped to deal with disruption.” says Gov.

Strange, we’re in France, there seems to be plenty of fruit and veg here, even salads.
 
IMG-20230223-WA0003.jpg
 
An importer sells to all the major supermarkets , the supermarkets all negotiat separate prices. Highest payer , with incoming quality control , gets the best of the crop and priority if there's a shortfall..cheapskate who doesn't check quality gets the poorer quality veg, maybe slightly less fresh and goes short if the importer runs short.

Highest payer and cheapskate supermarkets ain't always the ones the public would expect.
 
Our local greengrocer's has a warehouse where the public can attend, walk around their icy cold storage selecting your own produce and paying as you leave. Their website says they have plenty of fresh stuff BUT prices are much higher than they have been recently.

There have been several reports that the big problem is the British system, whereby supermarkets negotiate long-term contracts "to keep the price of lettuces etc stable" whereas European shops work on spot prices, getting things cheap when there is a glut but more expensive when things are in short supply.

Gordon
 
I just nip out at night as the fields here are full of veg to be taken home.;)
 
trevskoda said:
I just nip out at night as the fields here are full of veg to be taken home.;)
Click to expand...
Seasonal veg but we have become accustomed to having all veg all year around. When it was new tattie season we used to head out at night pinching potatoes and head around to a mates house and have a chip feast all part of growing up in the countryside.
 
To be fair to my local Sainsbury's, I went shopping there the other day and the fruit & veg aisle was well stocked. I saw the manager in the next aisle and commented that the media claims of veg shortages seemed somewhat exaggerated. He said that they're now selling out of many lines by the day's end but are still getting adequate supplies for the next day. So the only shortage seems to be discounted items at end-of-day.
ISTM that most 'shortages' seem to be engineered by the media. We've seen it with toilet rolls and road fuel, and now vegetables. The media report there is a shortage, which prompts the public to panic buy, which causes the actual shortage. Thankfully, most of the population of my town no longer fall for those tactics. Supermarkets have also introduced 'rationing' to help control panic buying. It also helps that, thanks to Clarkson's farm etc., some people now understand how badly the big supermarkets have been ripping off farmers and now buy as much as they reasonably can from farm shops and local greengrocers.
I've also seen a theory that the current shortages have been engineered to 'normalize' rationing and make way for an impending (also engineered) economic collapse and massive global depopulation. I can't comment further because that would encroach into the 'P' word. However, here's a link to an article quickly found via DuckDuckGo: https://citizens.news/703110.html
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who viewed this discussion (Total:0)

Back
Top