Letter to the editor: I'm alarmed to see food being sold so cheaply

Three weeks ago we had letters that many people were being selfish and greedy, leaving shop shelves empty. This was across a wide range from toilet rolls to bread and milk.

Even chocolate ran low. The supermarkets struggled valiantly to cope and now one can get chocolate and usually a toilet roll. Sadly panic buying of perishable goods has caused a distortion in the market.

While tissue can be stock-piled, perishables have to be sold off cheap or thrown.

We should not necessarily feel too sorry for large bodies like supermarkets, at times like these they are in it like us all.

I was not too concerned that some bread was being sold off but at the weekend I was alarmed to see what seemed hundreds of loafs being flogged off at less than 10p. Clearly many customers had failed to heed the calls of Norman Adams and Christina Mould and bought far more than they needed.

In an effort to cope, the shop over-stocked something that is costly in the present climate.

It might be good for me to purchase a loaf for coppers.

Normally I would have snapped up a dozen and passed them round which at that price is not generous.

At present is difficult to pass on the redundant stock to a good cause.

Colin Bricher

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