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I don’t need to resd a link. I’ve been buying tomatoes for decades and storing them in the fridge. Eating them and enjoying them.
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Toms, peppers and lettuce in local farm shop; no cucumbers.
Hiya,
Full stall at portishead fruit and veg seller.
Have never really purchased fruit and veg from supermarket.
JeZ
I don't like tomatoes.
zip - you don't sell tomato gifts, or tomatoes as gifts, in your gift shop??
What sort of shop do you own?
The tomatoes grown in Morocco and Spain are transported in refrigerated trucks and distribution centres.
Remember the 70s and 80s when stuff came into season? My favourite was sweetcorn.
Anyway, fruit and veg doesn't just pop into existence, this will have been known about for ages.
Just came back from Tesco, no eggs today. Completely empty.
As for tomatoes no problem coz I hardly eat them, well perhaps twice a year. LOL!
However, there are plenty of bananas.
back from Tesco, no eggs today
I believe that unseasonally cold weather in egg export countries has caused some shortages. Things should pick up about Easter.
I believe that unseasonally cold weather in egg export countries has caused some shortages. Things should pick up about Easter.
LOL! We are doomed!
Soon I will be eating preserved vegs only.
Anyway, fruit and veg doesn’t just pop into existence, this will have been known about for ages.
Yep.. I just don’t t get it.
Yes we have no tomatoes, if you have any interest in where your food comes from you should watch Harrys farm
the salad isle
where it’s never frosty 🙂
Good video that. The most relevant stuff starts at 9 mins in.
One of the reasons I rarely shop in a supermarket is the way they treat our farmers. Food is a necessity, crap is dirt cheap (snacks, sweets, salt and sugar laden rubbish) yet proper veg, fruit, salad,nuts etc is dearer in comparison. Luckily we have a proper greengrocer in our small town and a fabulous fruit, veg and salad stall in the nearby village, where the food is a little dearer, but it's fresher, lasts longer and the local growers get paid a decent price.
It's about time the government started hiking up the price of rubbish non-foods (treats) and used that tax to help out the farmers, then lower real food prices, known as healthy options.
Oh and don't get me started on packaging.
Crisis? what crisis? Popped in Tesco Express at lunch and they had a good stock of (Moroccan) cherry toms! plus some very skinny cucumbers! Is life returning to normal already? Lidls later to find out 😊
The local farm shop and a big Tesco today had loads of peppers and tomatoes in stock. What I was more shocked at was the price of their own brand big bag of finest crisp now £1.35
@desperatebicyle tomatoes were rarely imported from Morocco to the UK before this year...
I still can't buy a salad pepper (red/yellow/orange) from the fruit/veg market (wholesale) for less than about £1.40 each. But I can get a pack of 6 large peppers from Booker (Tesco owned wholesalers) for usual price of £4.25 - no tomatoes there though.
Avocados have now doubled in cost - around £1.80, when they were 89p, and that's wholesale prices.
I've had several customers say that they are going to shop at independent shops rather than supermarkets now. But I won't hold my breath, I've lost count of the amount of customers I haven't seen since 2020 who said the same thing....
Anyway, fruit and veg doesn’t just pop into existence, this will have been known about for ages.
Yep.. I just don’t t get it.
It's quite easy to get really - theres shortage, not a famine. British Supermarkets - and its supermarkets specifically, not 'Britain', treat suppliers appallingly. With less to go round than usual producers are in a position choose who they sell to. Which why theres food on the shelves in Ukraine, in my local grocers, but not in Tesco.
all but about 3% of food sales in the UK goes through the major supermarkets and they have the supply line tied up all the way back to the farm in some cases so our food 'security' is pretty much entirely in their hands. But we dont treat the supply of food to be a utility in the same why as water or fuel or even telephones. We don't really regulate it we've just ceded all control to a handful of companies.
Those companies balance their own interests - dividends to share holders and competition with their rivals - and the interests of their customers - making food available at an affordable price. A strategy that leaves the shelves empty seems to show how that equation is balanced.
If one supermarket had a strategy that left its shelves empty while their competitors had ample stock - they'd change their strategy. But if they all do - well they have no reason to, it can only damage them to act - and theres no-one to regulate or license them them to act otherwise.
Thats why Coffey is talking about turnips - I haven't notices mountains of unsold turnips this year or any, or a government initiative to grow/sell/eat turnips for victory - it's because she doesn't want to talk about a lack of government . She can't do anything because the government has given themselves nothing to do.