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Labour shortages in the food industry means consumers may not be able to find the products they like in supermarkets, an industry boss has warned. "The just-in-time system is no longer working and I don't think it'll work again," Food and Drink Federation (FDF) boss Ian Wright said at an Institute for Government event on Friday.more

The huge West End shop that was home to Topshop whose owner fell into administration, could become a Ikea branch, with a deal reportedly agreed.more

JD Wetherspoon is the latest chain to suffer with shortages as they have been unable to serve some customers toast.more

Supermarket chain Morrisons has said it expects the UK's lorry driver shortage to stoke inflation during the rest of this year.more

Each year, Poles irretrievably lose over 5 million tons of food, although at the same time almost 1.6 million people live in extreme poverty on the Vistula River. Poles throw away food unused at home and destroyed in the production, storage and trade processes - reports "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

Marks & Spencer has warned of a range of problems for food imports to the UK when Brexit rules change next month.more

A high street worth of shops closed down every 24 hours in the first half of 2021. Almost 50 chain stores were permanently shuttered on a daily basis as big brands found themselves on the wrong side of pandemic-era changes in shopping habits.more

Ikea has apologised to customers blaming Brexit and Covid for their failure to supply hundreds of items to their stores.more

Price rises for consumers are "inevitable" as a consequence of the HGV driver shortage, the boss of Iceland has warned. more

Coca-cola is the latest company to be hit by supply issues which have affected major supermarkets, pubs and restaurants across the UK in recent weeks. more

From November, Tesco stores will disappear completely, because the British giant is not interested in further operations in Poland. According to the Netto Polska group, some supermarkets will now operate under the Netto discount brand.more

UK shop prices rose last month, according to the latest data from the British Retail Consortium, in a sign that driver shortages and the costs of Brexit-induced red tape are beginning to hit household budgets.more

Nearly a quarter of people are spending more on takeaways and food deliveries now than before the pandemic, according to market research group Mintel. more

A shortage of fruit pickers in the UK is set to spread to warehouse workers in the run-up to Christmas, the boss of toy chain The Entertainer has warned.more

A solicitor accused of using syringes to inject blood into food at three west London supermarkets has appeared in court. Leoaai Elghareeb is charged with contaminating or interfering with goods with intent at three stores – a Tesco Express, Little Waitrose and Sainsbury’s Local - on Fulham Palace Road.more

Businesses have been told to prioritise hiring UK-based workers rather than relying on labour from abroad to fix a shortage of lorry drivers. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng rejected calls from firms to loosen immigration rules, saying it would be a "short-term temporary solution".more

The boss of supermarket chain Iceland has warned that the Brexit-linked supply chain crisis could “cancel” Christmas. more

Bargain hunters face slim pickings this Black Friday as many retailers will be forced to ignore the annual fire-sale completely. In the face of rocketing shipping costs, major delays to orders and a nationwide lorry driver shortage, shops face too many challenges to complete the stocking and restocking necessary for the late-November event.more

Food at three west London supermarkets is suspected to have been contaminated after being ‘injected with needles'. Anyone who bought an item from Tesco Express, Little Waitrose or Sainsbury’s Local on Fulham Palace Road yesterday evening is being told to throw it away.more

Britain’s economy has been plunged into a supply chain crisis, with major retailers’ stock levels at their the lowest since 1983 as a result of worker shortages and transport disruption caused by Covid and Brexit. more

Due to supply problems, McDonald's is temporarily withdrawing milkshakes and some bottled drinks from the menu at all venues in the UK. This is another company in recent days that shows the effects of the deficit of truck drivers.more

A fifth of all gambling premises in the UK are now located in the poorest areas of the country, new research has found.more

Meat processors and others say they must have more day release workers as they cannot find enough staff.more

Waitrose has been rated Britain’s worst large online retailer for grocery freshness, according to research. The consumer group Which? investigated the quality and longevity of fresh produce from British supermarkets. Twelve undercover shoppers ordered more than 1,000 items from six retailers to examine how fresh their food and drink products were.more

Several foods at the Lidl discount store that contain cannabis aroused the interest of the German police. The prosecutor in Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg) confiscated the goods that were subject to examination.more