Severe food shortages are plaguing Britain

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2021. 09. 10. 11:10

According to the head of the largest British food industry professional organization, the labor shortage in the sector is now so large that the increasingly perceptible deficits in the British food retail trade may become permanent without the prospect of improvement – portfolio.hu wrote.

Shortage of transport capacity hits UK food supply

Ian Wright, CEO of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), said at a professional event in London at the Institute for Government (IfG), an independent economic consultant and research workshop specializing in the analysis of government activity:

The industry lacks approximately 500,000 workers, and as a result, the always-on-time delivery model that enables continuous supply is no longer works. (portfolio.hu)