Food tsar blames grocery shortages on ‘weird supermarket culture’
Food tsar and Leon founder Henry Dimbleby has blamed the UK’s “weird supermarket culture” for the ongoing shortages of certain vegetables on grocers’ shelves.
Dimbleby said “fixed-price contracts” between supermarkets and suppliers exacerbate food shortages during periods of scarcity as producers then sell less to the UK and more elsewhere in Europe.
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