salt shortage

[ffutures]

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.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I suspect that people having been spreading their dishwasher salt on the paths, outstripping the production rate.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It seems odd, because it's VERY expensive compared to e.g. the bags of rock salt Tesco were selling for this purpose.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I was using table salt for that purpose, 'cos it was hard going to the shops to get anything else....

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

It's not something I buy myself I don't have a dishwasher, but I find Robert Dyas can be good for that kind of thing.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have never used it in mine, so I had forgotten it existed. But now you come to mention it I haven't seen it when I've been buying dishwasher tablets in Tescos.