U.K. supermarkets using cardboard cutouts to hide gaps left by supply issues | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80608675 Canada 10/25/2021 02:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow that makes me think of the fake shit you would see in North Korea. Dystopian af. Quoting: GlorpBlorp This has been done FOR YEARS by every supermarket. It's display covers....its all about the optics for customers. No it has not! Yeah, I've never seen anything like that in a grocery store, ever. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81047773 Argentina 10/25/2021 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | U.K. supermarkets are using cardboard cutouts of fruit, vegetables and other groceries to fill gaps on shelves because supply problems combined with a shift towards smaller product ranges mean many stores are now too big. Quoting: Half Past Midnight Tesco has begun using pictures of asparagus, carrots, oranges and grapes in its fresh produce aisles, prompting ridicule on social media. “Mmmm, delicious photos of asparagus,” one commenter wrote on Twitter. Another mocked an oversized picture of the vegetable piled up: “I love that asparagus grows to this size in the UK. It’s our climate, I’m sure.” [link to www.freshfruitportal.com (secure)] bastards! you don´t appreciate the creative hard working marketing and graphic design people keeping you happy while you are being great reseted to death!!!! |
Sandman1!
User ID: 80039739 United States 10/25/2021 02:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | See I told ya, all the shelves were full of food! If you do not have some food and money put away you are DOOMED! How many calories in that cardboard and what is a serving size? Well it's factory made food then! Invisible veggies! Sandman1! |
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User ID: 79523858 United Kingdom 10/25/2021 02:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not see any supply issues here.. Then again I dont shop in the big crappy Brit supermarkets.. I shop at the Polish supermarket mainly.. the Chinese supermarket and farm shops.. . Last Edited by Cannabis Kills People!.... on 10/25/2021 02:51 PM Polish First.. Slav Power!... Quadruple vaxxed and boostered crew.. Go Putin!... I don't give Karma so STFU!... if someone gives you Karma saying CKP, its not me.. only you sad weirdos with no life give users Karma... FACT!.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77067120 10/25/2021 02:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The supermarkets are purposely deceiving people by doing this. Anyone just walking by this section would never perceive a problem .... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80822760 Yes its deceit. They don't want people to be aware of a shortage and how serous the situation is. Actually, I think they are doing this in a calculated way, it helps to cause confusion and then panic, when people believe facts are being hidden from them they become agitated and panic buy even more of what is left... PSY OP! |
Arlie27
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TWash
User ID: 32026270 United States 10/25/2021 03:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bring your Sharpies and write on them. In the US, I'd be writing BareShelvesBiden on it, but in the UK you can write Fuck Boris or something. Or just scribble random shit on them. Quoting: Arlie27 Or just replace Biden with Boris. I think you have the right idea. The whole "Let's go Brandon" deal could easily be adapted for either individual, I'd say. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 81049033 Australia 10/25/2021 03:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shoppers have spotted fake carrots in Fakenham, cardboard asparagus in London, pictures of oranges and grapes in Milton Keynes, and 2D washing liquid bottles in Cambridge. Sainsbury’s has also used outline drawings of packaging to fill shelves. Quoting: Half Past Midnight The tactic comes as shortages of HGV drivers and pickers and packers on farms and food processing plants lead to low availability of some items in supermarkets. Problems at ports, where handlers are struggling to cope with a surge in deliveries for the festive season, are also leading to shortages. Yeah, but the vaxxed don't see anything different. It's only 'the awake' that can see it's a cardboard cutout. |
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jackfoos
User ID: 75483061 United States 10/25/2021 06:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What kind of asshole thought that up? Whoever it was might be the greatest troll ever. I couldn't think of any reason other than to just fuck with people's heads. So, I says to myself it's gotta be fake. Hilarious and ever more infuriating if true. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81037891 United Kingdom 10/25/2021 06:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow that makes me think of the fake shit you would see in North Korea. Dystopian af. Quoting: GlorpBlorp This has been done FOR YEARS by every supermarket. It's display covers....its all about the optics for customers. No it has not! This. I don't know where these pictures come from but it's full of shizen. Notice how the petrol crisis disappeared when the news stopped talking about it. They find 2 empty shelves it's a food shortage. Plus I'm sure these cutouts are used to help people restocking. So all the migrants can restock shelves without having to use words. There was an article about it in the dailymail once. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81037891 United Kingdom 10/25/2021 06:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What kind of asshole thought that up? Whoever it was might be the greatest troll ever. I couldn't think of any reason other than to just fuck with people's heads. So, I says to myself it's gotta be fake. Hilarious and ever more infuriating if true. Quoting: jackfoos It's so all our new 'visitors' by boat can restock shelves for us. |
Malleus
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Half Past Midnight
(OP) User ID: 78659823 United States 10/25/2021 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What kind of asshole thought that up? Whoever it was might be the greatest troll ever. I couldn't think of any reason other than to just fuck with people's heads. So, I says to myself it's gotta be fake. Hilarious and ever more infuriating if true. Quoting: jackfoos Are you saying all those people who posted pics on Twitter are lying? Did they all make their own cardboard signs and bring them in the stores, affixed them to the shelves , took pics and posted them online? That seems like a Lotta trouble. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12389098 United Kingdom 10/25/2021 06:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Its such a strange concept, the only thing that's there's been a shortage of recently are Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Tea Cakes because the Wokey's tried to have a stab at the company and the whole country ran out and bought them all. They are delicious! [link to www.sainsburys.co.uk (secure)] (We're sorry, this product is currently unavailable) LOL |
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Only Me
Strawberry Girl User ID: 79665715 United States 10/25/2021 06:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's creepy as all heck that they use these cardboard cutouts to cover up the shortage. They should be proclaiming the shortages loudly because they should be looking to the community en masse for assistance in getting this under control. This just sends the message that I'm sure they want us to understand - You will have fake food, and you will be happy. Let's go Brandon! Goodbye, halcyon days... There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 12389098 United Kingdom 10/25/2021 07:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NFL copy cats. Too funny, EXCEPT here where I live in the US a package of bacon now costs $10. Ground pork is $5 a pound. Generic seasonings are $4 for ~10 oz. Quoting: FlockOfSmeagols Anyone think these prices are going down? UGH Here (prices in USD) Minced Pork = $1.10 per lb Bacon (1kg or 2.2lb) $4.82 Generic seasonings 10oz $6.50 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78148665 United States 10/25/2021 07:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NFL copy cats. Too funny, EXCEPT here where I live in the US a package of bacon now costs $10. Ground pork is $5 a pound. Generic seasonings are $4 for ~10 oz. Quoting: FlockOfSmeagols Anyone think these prices are going down? UGH Here (prices in USD) Minced Pork = $1.10 per lb Bacon (1kg or 2.2lb) $4.82 Generic seasonings 10oz $6.50 AAAAHHHHHH I live in the wrong country for groceries. Groceries bust my ass every month. Fk. Interesting, though, about the seasonings. I mean, wtf is up with that? Peace. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 12389098 United Kingdom 10/25/2021 07:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NFL copy cats. Too funny, EXCEPT here where I live in the US a package of bacon now costs $10. Ground pork is $5 a pound. Generic seasonings are $4 for ~10 oz. Quoting: FlockOfSmeagols Anyone think these prices are going down? UGH Here (prices in USD) Minced Pork = $1.10 per lb Bacon (1kg or 2.2lb) $4.82 Generic seasonings 10oz $6.50 AAAAHHHHHH I live in the wrong country for groceries. Groceries bust my ass every month. Fk. Interesting, though, about the seasonings. I mean, wtf is up with that? Peace. Probably because you have more of those in the Americas. People often think of tomatoes, peanuts and potato as being from wherever we come from, but they are Brazilian. |
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Half Past Midnight
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