Ummm...anybody seen the homebrand??

And if not, what about the signature range?????

Not kidding. We just did our grocery shop and it was startling how many shelves were wiped clear of homebrand products and had really limited signature range products!!! Quite honestly, there were several of us customers standing in front of the shelves with our jaws on the ground in disbelief!!

I think it really is starting to show how tights things are getting money wise for people.

Edited by Paws

I noticed that this morning doing my shop at Pak'n'Save that the budget brand and Pams brand were running very low.

Paws was that at glenfield? we noticed it too... and that the shelves were void of catalogue items!! Honestly we are going to have to start shopping first thing when they open.

I did my shopping this morning at 1130 and we were getting bare that early in the morning , I did usually do my shopping after I drop Andrew off at kindy but this morning I had other shopping to do.

Paws wrote: Yup it was at glenfield. We're used to them not having as big a selection of items as Takapuna, but for the shelves to be stripped bare was a little nuts! I'm thinking I should have done the shopping right after I finished work at midday instead of waiting until evening.

Both the countdown and the foodtown are crap there. They NEVER have the specials when I go in, I started shopping at New World in Albany, they always have their catalogue items.

Edited by melnel

It's crazy huh? I was doing the shopping in the middle of the day yesterday and there were tons of big empty gaps on the shelves where the store brands should have been. (This was FT in Sunnynook)
I think they are replacing a lot of the Sig Range stuff with Woolworths brand now, which would explain why some of that stuff hasn't been replaced, but eeek! It doesn't help much when all the other budget brands are low too and you wind up having to spend more on label brand stuff!

I buy homebrand apricots for Neosha but yesterday there were none! and none of any other dried fruit in the homebrand range

I must be weird, I have never noticed that. Everytime I have wanted budget/pams stuff etc it is always there. But I do shop at 9am

Speaking to a progressive store manager recently about this, and he said that part of it is a supply issue as opposed to a DC issue.

I agree sometimes there are whole shelves empty of certain products which can be annoying

I went shopping early on Monday morning at foodtown and the aisles were full of people stocking shelves!!! What a bloody pain!! I guess thats the only time they can do it since stock probably arrived that morning, but thats when their specials start and there were so many people there.