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Source: https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/supermarkets-stockpile-as-lockdown-fears-mount/
Supermarkets have begun stockpiling groceries in anticipation of a fresh lockdown as the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreads rapidly across the country.
20 December 2021 News Business Matters
Britain’s largest food retailers are scrambling to avoid a repeat of chaotic scenes from March last year, when they were left unprepared for a wave of panic buying that saw shelves being stripped of everything from dried pasta to baked beans and flour.
“We are budgeting for a lockdown. We’ve been ramping up orders on the 2,000 most commonly bought lines … everything that people tend to buy when they go into that slightly bizarre survival mode,” said a senior source at one of the big four supermarkets.
The boss of another major food retailer said that his company was aiming to hold two weeks’ worth of additional stock than would normally be the case heading into the new year.
“The NHS will be overwhelmed if the government doesn’t lock down … the numbers speak for themselves. We are expecting a lockdown to come in January and we don’t want to get caught out with empty shelves again,” he said...
Supermarkets have begun stockpiling groceries in anticipation of a fresh lockdown as the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreads rapidly across the country.
20 December 2021 News Business Matters
Britain’s largest food retailers are scrambling to avoid a repeat of chaotic scenes from March last year, when they were left unprepared for a wave of panic buying that saw shelves being stripped of everything from dried pasta to baked beans and flour.
“We are budgeting for a lockdown. We’ve been ramping up orders on the 2,000 most commonly bought lines … everything that people tend to buy when they go into that slightly bizarre survival mode,” said a senior source at one of the big four supermarkets.
The boss of another major food retailer said that his company was aiming to hold two weeks’ worth of additional stock than would normally be the case heading into the new year.
“The NHS will be overwhelmed if the government doesn’t lock down … the numbers speak for themselves. We are expecting a lockdown to come in January and we don’t want to get caught out with empty shelves again,” he said...
