I thought I’d best publish this blog early today because I suspect most of my day will be taken up with panic-buying fruit and vegetables. From today, Asda is rationing the sale of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and peppers, having already imposed restrictions on a number of items including broccoli, cauliflower and raspberries. When I’ve finished here, I’m on my way to buy up as much as possible of all these items to make sure I am able to fill up my food waste bin with the stuff I can’t eat and to make sure you have to go without. And if I overeat, at least I’ll have some use for the hundreds of toilet rolls I bought up from Sainsbury’s during Covid.
You do know, don’t you, that as soon as supermarkets impose restrictions on certain items, urging customers not to panic, that’s the first thing they will do? And even if some people don’t usually buy the products in scarce supply, they will usually ensure they’ll now have a steady supply of their own and sod everyone else. They call it human nature. I called it greedy and selfish, but then I’ve never voted Conservative so I try to be neither.
I’m afraid I am rather dreading going to the supermarket for fear of what people may say or even think. If I venture anywhere near the fresh food department, I can imagine people pointing their fingers at me, tutting angrily at these selfish shoppers who spoil it for everyone else. I’m thinking of raiding the shelves of things people don’t like in order to put myself on a higher moral pedestal. Look at me buying things I don’t like so you can eat what you like.
I suppose there is one positive to all these shortages is that prices will soon be so high no one will be able to afford fresh food anyway. That’ll show those greedy supermarkets.
