>Saw modest queues around Wokingham this morning,..
Mrs K called at Sainsbury's this afternoon for some weekend shopping. Queues at the fuel forecourt were already holding people up trying to get into the car park.
In the store, despite the "Sorry" stickers on the fresh pasta and fruit juice shelves they'd managed to deliver enough Christmas tins of Celebrations and Quality Street to create an obstacle course in the entrance.
It's almost comical to watch the big retailers whinging about the lack of drivers and trying to ignore the fact that they are partly responsible. They were happy to get rid of their own drivers and contract out large parts of their transport and distribution. They were happy to screw those contractors for the lowest possible price thereby keeping drivers wages at rock bottom. They didn't care that their contractors were having to rely on Eastern European HGV drivers because it was no longer an attractive choice of employment for younger folks and they couldn't afford to train new blood anyway.
And now they're whinging for the Govt. to dig them out of the hole they helped create to save a few bucks?
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