What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[British Red]

Interesting bit of kit, look forward to a report!

Chain oil on order

I rip through chain oil - get plenty!

[Trojanhorse]

Another wood delivery, should be the final one for next season.

Out of interest how much do you pay a bag? We paid £70 for Chesnutt and Ash logs for same size bags.

[pseudonym]

Out of interest how much do you pay a bag? We paid £70 for Chesnutt and Ash logs for same size bags.

£75 from here:

https://thewizardoflogs.co.uk/

They drop the bags as close to where you want to stack them.

[British Red]

Nipped down to B&Q for some slabs and took a wander through Lidl & Tesco.

No sunflower oil OR rapeseed oil in Lidl. Tesco had a small number of 1L bottles of both but no larger containers.

[jennyjj01]

[British Red]

Similar in ASDA. Only 1L bottles. Yesterday they had a couple of 3L bottles of cheapo brand oil at £6 per bottle at the ethnic foods shelves.
Gone now

How long till the 1L are sold out I wonder?

[jennyjj01]

Similar in ASDA. Only 1L bottles. Yesterday they had a couple of 3L bottles of cheapo brand oil at £6 per bottle at the ethnic foods shelves.
Gone now

How long till the 1L are sold out I wonder?

I wonder what the warehouse back room stock situation is. We never really do get to know. Would probably make panic buying worse if we ever got a glimpse.

[British Red]

There is almost no backroom stock in supermarket stores now (Just In Time delivery). There will be / have been some in the distribution centres, but if COVID taught us anything it's that there is hardly any "buffer stock". Providing they can resupply that's no problem - but supermarkets abroad are already limiting purchases if oil, flour etc.

[GillyBee]

3l bottles are now missing from most of the supermarket online offerings. I suspect that only offering 1l bottles is an informal way of rationing. Next the price will rise for the 1l version to discourage purchase....

[Arzosah]

There is almost no backroom stock in supermarket stores now (Just In Time delivery). There will be / have been some in the distribution centres, but if COVID taught us anything it's that there is hardly any "buffer stock". Providing they can resupply that's no problem - but supermarkets abroad are already limiting purchases if oil, flour etc.

Absolutely - I used to work for an electrical big box store when I was retraining for my self employment, and one of the issues was to reconcile what the paperwork said about stock with the *actual* stock behind the scenes. Pre covid, I've asked about a popular item in a supermarket (okay ... pesto ) and the reply has been "there's supposed to be some on the lorry this afternoon".

As to the distribution centres ... if you're going clockwise to the south around the M25 at the Dartford Bridge - Amazon and Sainsbo both have distribution centres there. They're enormous.