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SUPERMARKETS IN IRELAND have experienced an increase in the sales of bread ahead of severe sub-zero weather warnings issued for this week.
Stores including Tesco, Lidl and Supervalu, are preparing for increased demand for some items ahead of Storm Emma which is due to hit Ireland tomorrow.
Orange snow-ice warnings are in place for seven counties in the east of Ireland from 3pm tomorrow until 11am on Wednesday. The weather is expected to be at its coldest on Thursday and Friday – gusts of wind have also been forecast.
A number of events have been rescheduled, and the government has made provisions to ensure people, businesses, emergency services and local authorities are prepared.
This afternoon, a number of pictures appeared on social media of empty bread shelves in various supermarkets.
In response to a query from TheJournal.ie, Tesco Ireland said that their stores have been “very busy across today” as “some customers stock up on core grocery essentials in advance of adverse weather expected later in the week”.
Tesco said they’ve ensured suppliers are able to provide extra stocks to meet this demand. A spokesperson said:
From tomorrow we’ve worked with our bread suppliers to ensure 20% more availability of fresh bread and we are also increasing the number of instore bakes to satisfy higher customer demand.
“We’re also increasing stock levels of fresh produce, including milk, with extra deliveries arriving this evening and throughout tomorrow.”
Lidl Ireland said that it also saw demand rise in its stores today.
We have experienced higher than normal sales of bread and milk items in many of our stores, especially across the Leinster region today.
Gavan Reilly / TwitterThe milk section: pic.twitter.com/J3jWY3I9gV
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 26, 2018
“We have our daily deliveries planned to all stores across the country and as of now these are going ahead as normal,” a Lidl spokesperson added.
A spokesperson for Supervalu said:
SuperValu has a plan in place in the event of adverse weather conditions to ensure the availability of stock in store during this period.
“We advise the public to contact their local SuperValu stores to check the availability of specific items.”
A spokesperson for Aldi Ireland said that there was ”brisk business across all 130 of its Irish stores early this week”.
It said that the increased business could be due to its offers on supplies that might be needed during the cold weather, such as kiln dried logs and torches.
A Tesco spokesperson also advised people to check in on elderly or vulnerable neighbours to ensure that they have sufficient essential items for the coming days.
Dunnes Stores did not respond to TheJournal.ie‘s query at the time of publication.
- with reporting from Cianan Brennan
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I think we are approaching the perfect storm in Ireland. Everything is falling apart all at once. Property prices, rents, underpaid public workers now all striking at once. Increasing childcare costs, no support for the government… what a time to be in FG!!
Public sector needs reform with the disbanding of unions and professional contracts for our teachers and guards that are not linked to tenure. On the housing front we need high rise in certain areas of Dublin.
What’s with you and teachers? You have an agenda as you’ve nothing good to say on them or their profession. Some of the largest class sizes in Europe and new entrants paid pittance, that together with rising house prices and ridiculous rents means a husband and wife teacher or guard cannot even think of buying in Dublin or the commuter belt and hope to start a family. But go ahead, those bad teachers and your agenda.
Underpaid Public workers?
Hi rise is that because there is land shortage or just maximising developers pockets
James, out of curiosity which ” certain” areas in Dublin are most suited to high rise buildings ?
Hi=high
@Catherine Mc: The areas that aren’t anywhere near him?
Daisy, that is what I was thinking.
James, you must be a secondary school drop out. Don’t be ashamed of it.
Let’s keep the recovery going.
I do wish people would stop coming out with ‘The government must do/act……’. The government are not going to do a damned thing except throw out some soundbites and bide their time til they’re thrown out, FF will come in, do the same (as in nothing), get thrown and it’ll be FGs turn again. And so it goes…
James Darcy: yeah, lets make conditions even worse for workers in your thatcherite dreamland. That’ll solve homelessness alright
I have been looking for a place for someone with 2 kids. She can not go over 1,400 that’s the max that she can go. No where to be found. The ones that she has looked at and applied for have gone or they wont take rent allowance. Horrible thinking that you and your kids are going to be homeless. Great place we live in (sigh)
All our professional people are leaving this country – Our Garda, our teachers, our doctors and nurses Ireland will be even more strained in the coming years that we will have no one to fill these positions and we won’t have to worry about unions or pay structures.
You’ve just got to love Ireland!
Successive governments have failed this country. Nothing has changed over the last 10 years. What an opportunity we had to redistribute the wealth, but successive FF and FG governments facilitated making the rich richer and the poor poorer. The current govt are on the payroll of lobbyists too. Ireland is no better off than it was in 2006. Despite whatever spin they tell you, the future is more uncertain than ever…..
Someone is making a fortune on the backs of others.
Ireland is a failed society where 1 income is insufficient to put a roof over your head.
Call for Referendum on “Right2Home” in Ireland … amend Constitution like Germany.
https://www.change.org/p/referendum-on-right2home-in-ireland
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