You tell me.
Sincere question.
I think it’s a cultural thing. We appear to be a nation of panic buyers. Panic whipped up by the media.
“OMG there are queues at a few petrol stations! Let’s lead with that story on all bulletins.”
“OMG they’re queueing for petrol on the TV! Let’s fill up now.”
“OMG those queues will make great pictures for tomorrow’s front page, and we get to blame in on Brexit!”
There are also a hell of a lot more cars on the road now than thirty years ago, but an awful lot less petrol stations.
They were panic buying bog rolls in Australia weeks before it started here. Social media meant many of us were aware of that over here, and sure enough, it spread.
We were getting very short of HGV drivers here (and globally) long before the referendum was even called. Then Covid hit. All non food shops closed, so there was a massive drop in demand for HGV drivers for an extended period. Many took this a reason to quit, or go home if they were from abroad. It’s a shit job, and badly paid. They didn’t need any more reasons to bin it.
I won’t bore you with the finer details of the inadequacy of Just In Time Inventories in coping with demand spikes.
Blame Brexit if you like, but it’s very obviously bullshit.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 29 Sep 2021, 20:05,
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Australian loo rolls.
Not, as it might seem at first glance, our government making it much harder for foreign drivers to work here. Glorious
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