U.K. supermarkets using cardboard cutouts to hide gaps left by supply issues

Shoppers have spotted fake carrots in Fakenham, cardboard asparagus in London, pictures of oranges and grapes in Milton Keynes, and 2D washing liquid bottles in Cambridge. Sainsbury’s has also used outline drawings of packaging to fill shelves.

The tactic comes as shortages of HGV drivers and pickers and packers on farms and food processing plants lead to low availability of some items in supermarkets. Problems at ports, where handlers are struggling to cope with a surge in deliveries for the festive season, are also leading to shortages.

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and it looks better then real stuff... Who needs food?



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TRUTH.
I thought it WAS real, I had to look 3 times and it STILL looks real.

Mmm cardboard

Remember the good old days when they had cardboard cutouts of REAL FOOD in the stores?

Hell, I remember when there WAS REAL FOOD in the stores!

GTF outa town!

Just got in from work and had to stop at local supermarket on way home for a few bits.

No supply shortage, no empty shelves so it's obviously hype. Having worked in a supermarket years ago whilst at college it was common practice to use 'cover ups' and plug gaps....it's all about display management as it looks bad having gaps.

They just need the outer walls of the supermarket on tracks. So the walls can keep closing in. All shelves still stocked but the store is only 8 feet long now.

Wow that makes me think of the fake shit you would see in North Korea. Dystopian af.

Looks legit

Brits will be reduced to eating cardboard soon.

This has been done FOR YEARS by every supermarket.

It's display covers....its all about the optics for customers.

Lol....I think not. We don't have supply problems that's for sure.

So? Rip a section of cardboard cut out and put it in your fucking basket. What's the problem?

The supermarkets are purposely deceiving people by doing this. Anyone just walking by this section would never perceive a problem ....

Real life is becoming a scene out of a Seth Rogen movie about North Korea.

Only the ignorant sheep would not notice, i on the other hand relish in the clown and have already taken sections of cardboard cut out. Thank you very much. Next clown move..

does the UK have ships sitting off their coast too? or is that just California?

This is a tactic used in North Korea and other Communist arenas to make it look as though they are a functioning society, when all they really are is a movie set with re-education camps and warehouses (that hold dissenters/political prisoners) behind it.

They are literally covering up the fact that there is no food to put there. Bread lines incoming.

Our new Chinese owners in the U.S. will probably start implementing this same tactic shortly.

Also, I love how social media users have all become professional comedians in the last few years.

Instead of actually getting off of their asses to FIX this problem, they would rather make a joke about it online.

But who cares--as long as the Liberal/Democrat/Socialist/Communist Nazi leaders who are quickly and quietly taking over EVERYTHING are laughing at your stupid jokes and giving you a thumbs up on Twitter, all is well with the world.

Right?

SMH

It gets worse. Many of these same supermarkets have banned bags during deliveries - in favour of making customers carry stuff from a crate to their kitchen. They claim it's to 'save the environment' but mysteriously have no problem wasting carboard for fake displays on shelves.

I can't even begin to imagine what heights the nonsense will reach after the big meeting in Scotland.

crazy

Yes its deceit. They don't want people to be aware of a shortage and how serous the situation is.

That made me laugh!

i like the cardboard cut-out policemen at petrol stations.

sure sport,all is well.

It is all optics. If they go to this length to deceive you and not reveal a real problem, imagine what they are doing with the jab.

Get stickers that say 'supply shortage' and put em everywhere

No it has not!