Stock Out!

[sonjack2847]

1 hour ago, RBM said:

It's a matter bulk buying. Even S@R can vary week to week, times we have bought selected wines and returned a few weeks later to be told the proverbial....now regardless of how much stock a shop may have providing the expire date is OK it's bulk buying. Seem to think perhaps they transfer stock shop to shop.

 

 

 

 

I have noticed in Lee plaza Hypermart the stock seems to be on a 3 week cycle.If they run out I find it is usually back in stock in about 3 weeks.I don`t bulk buy anymore.

[intrepid]

1 hour ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

 With the huge population of Filipinos in Canada I would have thought someone would get that worked out, and maybe by now they have.

Well if they did in Canada, they sure did not in the US.  Like you said it's mostly the imported stuff that seems to go odd the shelf and long to resupply.  I suspect the problem here is the same as Canada and US.  There is no large distribution centers for imported foods like local local supplies.  Seems most of the smaller stores and even the mid sized grocery stores order their own stock to be imported .  Order, wait, stock shelf, wait to sell out, and maybe order again if it sold fast enough.  Then wait, and the whole process continues.

[Benington]

2 hours ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

I find that its the imported stuff that is out of stock most often.  It can take months to get it here and its a guess whether it will sell fast or slow...

Very understandable that the market would be a bit fickle for imported brands. For one thing many Expats and better off locals have the ability to, and like to, shop over a wide area in different groceries. There's also the specialist importers for eg your Marmite, if you're British. Importing is a bit of a bother and the Peso is weakening. In the past we used to treat ourselves to one or two imported items, but personal financial circumstances and the slide in the Pound sterling have put paid to that.

Stuff from the US, Australia, Europe can be a bit pricey, but I notice there are more "mid level" products coming in now from other Asean countries, which should increasingly be easier to import from.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I cannot get at all excited about much of the local canned/packaged products on sale here. For example,the bread, biscuits and cakes on sale here in Supermarkets. Really missing the selection and quality back in the UK. I can just tolerate one wholemeal bread, a couple of biscuits, especially one type of cream biscuit, and one or two cakes. So when recently there was a stock out of that favourite cream biscuit I couldn't find even one alternative to buy.

Edited August 7, 2017 by Benington
The "Pond" sterling! Well it did go underwater recently!

[RBM]

52 minutes ago, Benington said:

Very understandable that the market would be a bit fickle for imported brands. For one thing many Expats and better off locals have the ability to, and like to, shop over a wide area in different groceries. There's also the specialist importers for eg your Marmite, if you're British. Importing is a bit of a bother and the Peso is weakening. In the past we used to treat ourselves to one or two imported items, but personal financial circumstances and the slide in the Pound sterling have put paid to that.

Stuff from the US, Australia, Europe can be a bit pricey, but I notice there are more "mid level" products coming in now from other Asean countries, which should increasingly be easier to import from.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I cannot get at all excited about much of the local canned/packaged products on sale here. For example,the bread, biscuits and cakes on sale here in Supermarkets. Really missing the selection and quality back in the UK. I can just tolerate one wholemeal bread, a couple of biscuits, especially one type of cream biscuit, and one or two cakes. So when recently there was a stock out of that favourite cream biscuit I couldn't find even one alternative to buy.

I understand you, had same feelings until...Encouraged my SO to get interested in baking cooking. Let me emphasize encourage, fast forward 18 months, she bakes carrot cakes, muffins, lemon cake and heaps more, also makes mango cheese cakes and just loves cooking. We have own herb garden where she obtains herbs spices for her recipies. Spends a lot of time on line searching out different health foods.

These people are extremely adaptive and learn cooking fast, just takes ENCOURAGEMENT 

[AlwaysRt]

I think it is a combination of limited knowledge of inventory management so they guess at what to order when, the amount of capital tied up, in items that are on an unknown delivery schedule due to the process of waiting for container to be filled, container waiting for slot on a ship, waiting for the ship, changes due to weather etc in order of ports docked at, removal and hold for customs, waiting for customs to 'do their thing', paying customs, delivery time to warehouse, and finally distribution to individual stores.

Not feeling great today so I am just filing it as 'an adorable quirk' of the Philippines. I could leave if I wanted to, but decide to stay. No point using my limited brain power on something I have no control over. Just gonna have a happy (to be away from stuck up, nosey, tell you what you're doing wrong and what you should be doing, two faced, hypocrites) day and relax as best I can.

Happy happy, joy joy...

[Mark Berkowitz]

I’m not an economist but I’ve made the following observations:

 

• Back home, the supply usually outpaces the demand.

 

• In the Philippines, demand usually outpaces the supply.

 

• Back home, when the supply is typically greater than the demand, the prices go down.

 

• In the Philippines, when the demand is typically greater than the supply, the prices usually stay high.

[Benington]

Microeconomics 101: Monopolists tend to have higher prices and restrict supply. Many commercial sectors here are dominated by one business, or at best are collusive oligopolies. Yes, a big reason why inflation is persistent.

[scott h]

5 hours ago, JDDavao said:

"Do you carry this or not?"

I can not count the number of times, we look and we look and when we finally decide, sorry out of stock. We end up buying the display item for a discount 

[AlwaysRt]

38 minutes ago, scott h said:

I can not count the number of times, we look and we look and when we finally decide, sorry out of stock. We end up buying the display item for a discount 

Good for you, I have bought the display a few times. No discount here though since without display people won't know it's available... but it is not available, that is why I am buying the display... blank look...

[Dave Hounddriver]

6 hours ago, JDDavao said:

"Do you carry this or not?"

I went to S&R in Cebu over a year ago and looked all over for cans of V8 vegetable juice.  Finally I went to customer service and asked "Do you carry this or not?"  The girl checked the computer and said "Yes sir, we carry that." I said "where is it"  She said "according to the computer we have had "no stock" for about 6 months now."  I said "Do you know when you will get more?"  "She said "I do not know sir, but it is on the list of items we sell".  (Note:  I eventually found a whole bunch of it at S&R Alabang.  They must have been hoarding it there)