Have you personally noticed or experienced any of the following in [YOUR COUNTRY] in recent weeks? [Shortages of food items in shops/supermarkets] Yougov, 12/21

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  3. Before the whole pandemic times if something was out of stock then I just took a different brand…

    Maybe there is a shortage in Germany, maybe there is none. I will survive. We will survive.

  4. They stopped selling my favorite vegan yoghurt in my local supermarket but apart from that no shortages whatsoever.

  7. At the beginning of Covid my local Supermarket didnt have every kind of meat on every day for 2 weeks or so. Thats about it

  8. Have I personally found it hard to carry on buying my basic necessities and experienced shortages in any of the shops I visit here in my city in England, or my family home up in Scotland? No. Am I then going to extend my own experiences onto the rest of the country, and pretend like covid / brexit hasn’t affected supply chains across the country leading to other people suffering from shortages? No

    It’s as simple as that really

  9. “Yougov, 12/21” which I assume mean “December 2021”

    If only there was a way to clearly show it’s a year ……

  10. Probably WWII and its aftermath for France, I don’t think there were any real food shortage after that.

  11. Welp, there was that one time where it was difficult to find my brand of toilet paper. But food? Cigarettes? Beer? Cheese? Lighters?

    You know, essentials. Not really.

    Except a very specific brand of flowers.

  12. My local corner shop was out of ready meals for a day a few months ago that’s the only issue I’ve experienced since covid last year here in the north of England.

    What category does that put me in?

  16. I’ve only noticed a small shortage in terms of perishable goods. It was extremely hard to find frozen white fish fillets for some reason, and I had to make laps around my local Sainsbury’s, Tesco’s, Lidl etc to find something similar.

  17. One week Tesco didn’t have the samphire I ordered with my groceries delivery. I was offered frozen doughnuts as a substitute. Unfortunately salmon and doughnuts don’t go well together. I’m still not over it.

  18. I think no, not food in Portugal. Except maybe something which is really PISSING me off, which is my favourite (everybody’s favorite) brand of half-skim milk, it seems to sell out really early on the day on a lot of central city places! The half-skim Vigor sells out first, the full fat (yum) is on stock for longer but not all places stock it, and you get to a random place late in the afternoon and only the pink, skim, urgh, stuff is left. Why do people even sell skim milk?

  20. In the UK.

    Aldi on the 23rd of Dec. A4 printed pages on the meat ilse saying all turkeys 50% off. Literally one of the craziest food shopping days of the year and they are so over stocked they have to sell at 50% Off.

    Sainsbury’s on the 24th of Dec. Same situation but this time various cuts of meat. My wife picks up an organic beef roasting joint. 1.5kg at 50% Off.

    The pyramid of beer in tesco a few days ago would put the Egyptians to shame.

    It’s been like this since before Halloween.

    The supermarkets are definitley struggling with managing stock but it’s not about shortages.

  23. This is likely a chart of political polarization. In countries that are sharply polarized, the talking points of certain parties have stressed how the “shelves are empty” and “how high inflation has gotten under _________’s policies.” And so of course followers then note the section of the supermarket where beans have gone out of stock, or the normal 20 cheeses have become 17. It’s the same as surveys that talk about crime as “the worst it has ever been” yet crime is at 20 year lows.

  24. I’ve seen shortages here lately but it’s usually something like 1 brand out of 15 possible types that may not be available. I’ve had no issues at all with staple items like meat, vegetables, bread… etc

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