Brits are panic-shopping supermarkets’ empty shelves in fear of price rise

Shoppers face empty shelves in London markets due logistic crisis in UK

12 October 2021

Recently, some retailers have warned of an inevitable rise in UK food prices. Brits responded by panic-buying food products, but found supermarkets empty.

According to the Daily Mail, Britain’s cost of living crisis is getting worse while many supermarket shelves are empty amid a fresh products shortage. Supermarkets have run out of many products, including salad, herbs, milk, cheese, meat, fish, frozen peas and cola.

These specific items have been particularly hit by shortages in HGV drivers which hits products with short shelf lives, and a lack of C02 pumped into packaging to keep produce fresh or fizzy.

Kraft Heinz, the world’s biggest producer of baked beans, ketchup and baby food, warned shoppers they should get used to higher food prices. He indicated that the rise is not only due to the UK’s shortages in HGV drivers and labour, but also the highest levels of inflation the world is about to see.

One manager of a Tesco store in Chester said freezers were empty and bottled water is in short supply, telling MailOnline: ‘We’ve had loads and loads of delivery problems. The deliveries have just not turned up’.

One supermarket worker at an Asda in south-east London told MailOnline today: ‘We have had no delivery. Until then we are suggesting customers buy alternative items’.

Similarly, a Waitrose worker in Kingston, Surrey, told the newspaper: ‘The only gaps you see here are in fresh produce as we are not getting enough supply’.

Source: The Daily Mail