Why not get your groceries delivered to your home? We do.
I used to get them delivered when I was working, but now Iām retired Iāve got all the time in the world to go shopping. Itās sometimes the only thing that gets me out.
Thatās a bit sad I think. Shopping was my least pleasant chore but I made the best of it. I was single dad with three children so it was a bit of a challenge. To make it easier I developed a spreadsheet with every item we would ever need. For the weekly shopping I listed what we needed for that week and off we went. The kids were brilliant. They each had specific Items to find and and one each as a treat. We were in and out in about thirty minutes and most of that was the checkout at the till.
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Water in plastic bottles in shops is wrong on so many levels and I for one am very happy to see emplty shelves where water should be.
I have certainly noticed empty shelves but so far they have not impacted on my shopping unlike when the panic buying morons were out in force at the beginning of the pandemic.
I note Poundstretcher has man empty shelves but they have had a 50% off sale for a while perhaps it is closing which would be a shame as they do the best fat balls for birds.
Temporarily scarce have been flour, toilet tissue (rationed at Aldi)
and pasta. Here seen at Lidl. What are hoarders preparing for?
Surely the morons have not run out of toilet paper and pasta as their cupboards must be full of the stuff for the reason I posted earlier? 
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There are genuine shortages in the supply chain.
In relation to food these are going to get worse.
Costs have risen that much that farmers can make more money from not planting and leaving the land fallow.
When my Sainsbury delivery arrived on Monday - it had everything I asked for except onions!
The only thing I have had trouble getting is Florida Orange juice but there was some available yesterday albeit a brand I have never heard ofā¦it tastes OK though
Havenāt got ice cream at Sainsburyās today
If that happened, you wouldnāt need any of those items, would you?
@ Dachs, on the contrary, we would be stockpiling them for our bunkers?
Donkeyman!! 
This is obviously a first world problem but Tescos were out of Double Gold Caramel Billionaire Magnums
But Iām a brave little soldier and will try to carry on!
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Another first world problem - missing in my supermarket for months now has been something to carry home bottles of wine.
If I know Iām going to be buying wine in bulk, I take a few āwine carrying bagsā or cardboard carriers to transport them home but, if I happen to be in a supermarket and see a special offer on a particular wine I like, I used to be able to use one of their free cardboard carriers or buy a re-usable wine carrier.
They have not had either in my local supermarket for at least 6 months - whenever Iāve asked, the staff tell me they are out of stock - I didnāt let it deter me from buying 12 bottles of wine at 25% discount today, though - I managed to spread them them around in the bottom of my ordinary re-usable shopping bags to carry them back to the car. 
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My goodness ā¦ itās a conspiracy to force us all to be healthier.
Running out of ice cream is sacrilege ā¦ but wine too?
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There is nothing missing from my Waitrose delivery today
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That would be bonkers. 
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Nothing missing from my Waitrose order today either Meg. 
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On Tuesday Sainsburyās didnāt have the oven chips that we usually have but yesterday they did.