Some retailers introduced a buying limit of three items per customer on tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - One of Britain’s most experienced retail bosses has blamed the country’s current shortage of salad vegetables on a lack of government support which has meant home growers have been unable to make up for supplies hit by poor harvests overseas.
This week, social media has been awash with pictures of empty fruit and vegetable shelves in supermarketsThe crisis has been exacerbated by less winter production in greenhouses in Britain and the Netherlands due to high energy costs. “There is a genuine shortage but we did rather bring this problem upon ourselves,” he told BBC radio.Horticulture has been excluded from a government Energy and Trade Intensive Industries scheme that provides help with energy costs.
Mr King said that most UK supermarkets still had “very good” supply of salad vegetables coming in but overall the country is short.
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