salt shortage

I can't get hold of granular dish washer / water softener salt at the moment, and I need it for home AND two dishwashers at work. Waitrose don't seem to have it, the local Tesco doesn't, anyone seen it on sale anywhere recently (pref. central London)?

I presume that production facilities switched over to salt for roads etc. for a while, but it seems odd that there continues to be none avaialable for dish washers.

Panic over - someone found some in Sainsburys and bought a couple of packs in.

The Evil Empire

Will I alienate many players if on the third page I describe the Anglo-Saxon Empire of Cole's novel as a genocidal evil empire driven primarily by insane greed? It's more or less how Cole describes it, at about the same point in the novel, but it may be a little off-putting.