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Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 4:44 pm
by AleisterCrowley
Well, the following seem to have been out of stock for months, everywhere I look
BioTex pre wash powder
Little Willies vegetarian sausages (the other Vegetarian Butcher stuff is still there)
Imperial Leather talcum powder
"Supply chain" or something else?
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 4:54 pm
by bluedonkey
Talcum powder has been a problem for a long time. Can't remember why but I think it's permanent.
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 4:56 pm
by AleisterCrowley
Johnson's baby powder still available... not much else
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 5:06 pm
by kempiejon
bluedonkey wrote:Talcum powder has been a problem for a long time. Can't remember why but I think it's permanent.
Doesn't give you cancer.
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/talcum-powder-cancer
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 6:39 pm
by AleisterCrowley
I know the (inevitably) US law suits are/were dragging on but it's odd that talc (well, Imperial Leather in the red package) just disappeared, with no product recall/explanation...
It's PZ Cussons I think - I may email
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 8:04 pm
by Mike4
AleisterCrowley wrote:Well, the following seem to have been out of stock for months, everywhere I look
BioTex pre wash powder
Little Willies vegetarian sausages (the other Vegetarian Butcher stuff is still there)
Imperial Leather talcum powder
"Supply chain" or something else?
Also, there is a problem again with tissue paper. In the gigantic Tesco in Newbury the other day, no boxes of tissues. Not even an empty space in the aisle where they ought to be. "Sorry sir, we don't sell them any more." Eh??!!
Waitrose was a bit better. At least they had a 3m stretch of empty shelf where they should have been.
Same with Wrights packs of crusty white bread mix. Vanished off the face of the earth. Yes I know I can weight out my own flour, yeast etc but I'm SO lazy....
(Speeling edit.)
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 8:20 pm
by AleisterCrowley
I'm quite a regular at Newbury Waitrose, so watch out....
Although I have transferred my allegiance somewhat to the smaller one in Caversham, as it's near a really good pub
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 8:25 pm
by csearle
AleisterCrowley wrote:Little Willies vegetarian sausages (the other Vegetarian Butcher stuff is still there)
Maybe they have gone the same way as small and medium sized condoms? Have you tried Big Willies vegetarian sausages old bean? C.
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 8:27 pm
by AleisterCrowley
No medium or large Willies available either.
I think they are Dutch, so maybe they have capped exports out of spite?
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 9:14 pm
by Mike4
AleisterCrowley wrote:I'm quite a regular at Newbury Waitrose, so watch out....
Although I have transferred my allegiance somewhat to the smaller one in Caversham, as it's near a really good pub
The Fox and Hounds?
I bin meaning to go in there and try it out for about 40 years now....
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 10:07 pm
by AleisterCrowley
The very place. Lennon and McCartney worked behind the bar there for a while and performed a gig as a duo before they formed the other band
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 10:18 pm
by Mike4
AleisterCrowley wrote:The very place. Lennon and McCartney worked behind the bar there for a while and performed a gig as a duo before they formed the other band
Really?!! Dammit I missed that.
Mind you I was probably only about 8.
Re pubs and shopping, I find this really difficult. Does one shop first and risk leaving it in the pub? Or does one pub first then stagger around Waitrose breathing beer breath over everyone...?
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 10:35 pm
by AleisterCrowley
If I'm combining a trip to the F&H with Waitrose, it's Waitrose first
Generally small stuff so it'll go in my rucksack, or in one 'bag for life'. I haven't left it behind yet...
I'm going to try the Treble one night - Waitrose, Fox&Hounds, then fish and chips from Wings before staggering home over the meadow
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 11:03 pm
by csearle
AleisterCrowley wrote:...from Wings...
Really? You couldn't make it up! C.
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 8th, 2021, 11:49 pm
by AleisterCrowley
csearle wrote:AleisterCrowley wrote:...from Wings...
Really? You couldn't make it up! C.
https://goo.gl/maps/sB5qEWnqUCn1JmCb8
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 9th, 2021, 7:22 am
by stewamax
AleisterCrowley wrote:No medium or large Willies available either.
I think they are Dutch, so maybe they have capped exports out of spite?
But do pharmacists still stock Dutch caps*?
* now known as diaphragms
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 9th, 2021, 7:31 am
by servodude
stewamax wrote:AleisterCrowley wrote:No medium or large Willies available either.
I think they are Dutch, so maybe they have capped exports out of spite?
But do pharmacists still stock Dutch caps*?
* now known as diaphragms
As worn by the wee fella that stuck his finger in the dyke?
I imagine they might have them in the suncare section; have you tried Boots?
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 9th, 2021, 8:55 am
by bungeejumper
servodude wrote:I imagine they might have them in the suncare section; have you tried Boots?
Boots? Yes I have, but their contraceptive value was always questionable. And they kept falling off, you see. Very embarrassing. Maybe it would have been different if I'd bought a seven instead of an eleven?
BJ
Re: Missing in action- supermarket items
Posted: December 9th, 2021, 9:21 am
by servodude
bungeejumper wrote:servodude wrote:I imagine they might have them in the suncare section; have you tried Boots?
Boots? Yes I have, but their contraceptive value was always questionable. And they kept falling off, you see. Very embarrassing. Maybe it would have been different if I'd bought a seven instead of an eleven?
BJ
I remember when spurs were fashionable in Glasgow
- you could buy them in the Savoy center
- turned any boots in to contraceptives as far as I can recall from those I knew who wore them
All I can remember of those days about boots was being allergic to them; if I slept with them on I'd wake up with a huge headache
-sd
ps: if anyone of a literal bent is about to start a discussion re the above... half of it is a joke about a correlation v cause fallacy
- the other bit about not getting a lumber because of your footwear is true (I think - although the chap was also called Jeremy and living in Glasgow so it's quite tricky to normalize the dataset)