Customers say they are facing either bare shelves or 'extortionate' prices
Shortages first hit towards the end of 2022 when producers cut back or left the industry altogether due to the soaring production costs.Read more: Mum's hilarious frozen sausage has shoppers in stitches
Prices have since risen, but the industry says that money isn't always being passed on to the farmers and in many ways is 'too little too late'. Our own weekly price check of groceries has seen bare shelves at Lidl over a number of weeks now and shoppers tell us it's the same elsewhere. “Egg prices have been one of the biggest risers on retail shelves and this has started feeding down through to producer prices," he said.
He added: "However, those price rises were too little, too late. As a result, there have been shortages on retail shelves since November which could have been avoided if retailers had heeded our warnings."
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