Disgusting lack of Easter eggs in shops - not happy

[Loutwo]

I was hoping to dig out some chocolate egg bargains today (I do it every year without fail), and it appears some greedy people wanted to steal all the eggs for themselves. This has never happened before, there is always a surplus just after Easter Sunday, but for the first time probably ever, nowhere has any.

Happy Easter you greedy bunch of chocolate eating pigs, hope it bloody makes you feel sick. I?m having a chilled beer following by a nice cold sauv, maybe I should empty the shelves of alcohol next year.

Louisa.

[Sephiroth]

It might well be greed by individuals

Or...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/business/brexit-easter-chocolate.amp.html

(Which is about exports rather than domestic. But supply chains are interrupted everywhere. Seems unlikely to me that people just suddenly decided to buy way more chocolate eggs this year)

[jazzer]

loads left over in DKH Sainsbury's Last year, maybe they got wise and didn't over order this year?

[Angelina]

I agree with jazzer.

[JohnL]

It's everywhere not just here.

Similar over Xmas - There is a shortage of things as soon as demand gets to high these days.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/03/easter-egg-hunt-uk-shoppers-disappointed-by-shortages

[JohnL]

And demand might be high but it's not as high as when I was young and loads were still left over

"The supermarket said customers were taking home an average of four eggs each, "

We used to buy far far more.

[JohnL]

Hmmm this is interesting though - wheres a super forecaster when you need one - It was obvious demand was higher this year when the Easter Wreaths sold out a few weeks back :)

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/category-reports/bunny-spoiler-easter-category-report-2021/652387.article

The fact that they messed up at Christmas (I remember arguing with the manager of DKH about stock levels on Xmas Eve) should have alerted them too. Way back in the 1970s before the excesses of the 1980s (when we just shopped and shopped) I remember painting real eggs for Easter.

[Spartacus]

Sorry lou

Only just woken from my chocolate coma and saw this

As they say you snooze , you lose

From what I was told, there was supply problems due to covid and demand was high to make up for Christmas

However in the spirit of Easter, I've got a spare creme egg that you can have for the bargain price of ?50

[Renata Hamvas]

There were some left in the Co-Op in Nunhead yesterday

[Seabag]

Try another shop, other than Iceland Lou

Waitrose had plenty

[Alan Medic]

Can anyone think of anything else that could be reshaped and sold at a higher price for less of it? Does the shape of an Easter egg give you a warm glow (or something else) that makes it worth being ripped off in buying one? Or, are we just stupid?

[Spartacus]

Don't call me stupid

 

[malumbu]

I stockpiled them, more tasty than toilet paper - I tried stockpiling that last year.

[joom]

Oh well, at least you weren't eating crap full of palm oil

[spark67]

I ordered one from amazon .... never again 🙃😂

[Alan Medic]

Okay. I'm a bit late to the party. Anyone know anywhere that still has Easter eggs for sale? Locally?