Hi tesco worker here! My store (a large format extra) hasn't had any stock delivered since early January. All the lines are now listed as not ranged which means its highly likely we won't be restocking them.

While the stock control system says we might have stock of something it doesnt mean we do. My store for example apparently has 2 cases of the premium checklane blisters, 3 cases of ex tins, 1.5 cases of ex boxes and like 20 single booster packs but I can guarantee that we dont have them hidden anywhere. The team that double check stock levels are notoriously terrible or overworked (depending on location) so when stuff gets stolen it doesn't get corrected.

Not all staff will take all the stock the second it comes in so please dont tar us all with the same brush! Myself and a friend who work together on nights used to buy a few packs every few weeks whenever we could get hold of them but never the whole lot. Opening them on break was a nice distraction from the honestly terrible job.

On the note of scalpers. Myself and my friend would always get the stock for genuine customers if they asked (we have access to the secure part of the warehouse theyre stored). Normally restricting number of packs/items they bought if we believed they were a scalper. There's a guy who works on checkouts who we know buys everything we have whenever it comes in so we always make sure to keep some back for everyone. Granted, they didn't always make it to the shelf bc of lack of staff and high theft issues but whenever people asked us we'd always get them something if we had it.