I'm looking for a first hand account of the supply chain issues in Great Britain.

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Right, so fruit comes in via tanker or plane not lorry and most meat sold in the UK comes from the UK.

0/10 for shilling, must try harder.

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    [–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Seriously, you think a lorry across Europe in the sun is the way fruit and veg is imported. That only happens in refrigerated lorries which wouldn't be effected by delays at borders.

    Yeah, I have worked in a supermarket, I know how things move. Very high tech and large scale these days. Most fruit and veg in the UK comes into the store half frozen to maintain freshness and this has been the case for a couple of decades. Things go to in large scale to regional distribution centres and then go out in lorries from there.

    Maybe you should also look at the labels some time. We get a lot of fruit and veg from Africa, south America, Israel, etc. That stuff definitely isn't coming by road. Have a Google about food miles.

    [–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    They are not shilling. We have been seeing similar weird shortages in the US too. Like for a good while there were hardly any canned tomatoes on the shelves.