Supermarkets, already rocked by the cost-of-living crisis, Brexit and the Russia-Ukraine war, have started rationing selected fruit and vegetables 🍅 🥦 Here's why the UK is unique in it's current empty shelves 👇
Shoppers have been left with lighter baskets with food options now limited Supermarkets, already rocked by the cost-of-living crisis,A combination of what retailers say are bad weather, transport problems and poor harvests in Africa and EuropeMorrisons has placed limits on how many tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and peppers shoppers can pop in their baskets and trolleys.
‘At the moment, it is mainly speculation as more information is missing, but other causes could relate to staff shortages – from pickers to drivers to logistics handling personnel to get fruit from the grower to the supermarket shelves.’ ‘The food system is designed on “just-in-time” logistics,’ he said. “There’s no storage. So if things go wrong, disruption in supplies is quick to emerge.‘The weekly monitor by The Grocer, for example, known as the Grocer-33, has found availability dropping for some time. By last November, it was about 91% whereas it used to be 97%.
‘The UK doesn’t feed itself; nothing like. In perishable goods – fruit and veg – it’s heavily reliant on mostly European land and labour,’ he said. Climate change certainly isn’t making getting food to our tables any easier, said Dr Tilly Collins, senior fellow and deputy director for the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.‘Weather and climate are seeing greater variation which makes agricultural production less predictable,’ she said, ‘the current shortage of some crops in our supermarkets is driven by several things that have crashed together.
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