From BBC Jersey, today:

Shop shelves in Jersey have been empty of fresh produce since Monday due to cancelled freight ferries. Condor Ferries’ conventional sailings were cancelled on Monday and Tuesday “due to operational reasons”, the company said.

The boats carry freight and fresh food, as well as passengers, to the Channel Islands. Condor Ferries has been contacted for comment.

That’s all. Nobody blames the Channel Islands or UK governments for a failure to invest in new ferries. No islander says – ‘Right! That’s it! I’m off.‘

They have the proof of empty shelves, above.

I seem to remember similar suggestions of empty shelves on Scottish islands when ferries were cancelled. Was it South Uist? Mull? Arran?

All I can find actually published is a 2022 report by the Herald‘s Mark Smith, claiming:

I’m chatting to someone who lives on Arran and ask him what effect the ferries are having on his life. Let me show you, he says. He sends me a picture he took on his phone the other day: Friday November 25 at the Brodick Co-op. He’d popped in to get some veg for dinner. Fat chance. Nothing there. Empty shelves. You’d get more vegetables in the Ukraine than Brodick, he says.

The Herald report has 5 photos but strangely, in the light of the above, not one of an empty shelf.