Siege Mentality
I went to my local Waitrose last evening and I have never been more astounded at the lack of stuff on the shelves. They were bare. No veg; limited amount of fruit; no frozen stuff; no meat at all. Some fish but not necessarily what you would buy. I went for some bread flour - no flour at all - hardly anything. Tinned stocks had also been depleted. No milk; no bread. Even at Christmas when the stores are usually hit mega hard From there I went to M & S. Same situation there. Needless to say I am very fed up and disappointed. No doubt I am not the only one. When I got home I nipped to the Co-Op round the corner from where I live. There were people queuing up for the reductions counter here. As I went by I heard a conversation between some of the people in the queue, bragging about what they had got, that they had had to buy an extra fridge and that was now full and that they were sending other members of their fa...