BUDGET supermarket Aldi placed a limit on bottled water in one store earlier today.
Shoppers spotted Aldi placing limits of up to five bottles of water per customer in a London branch.
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The sign, which was temporarily displayed in a store, read: “Due to high demand at hot weather. Single water bottles limited five items per customer.”
“Limits are necessary for supporting you and your neighbours to find the products you need.”
Supermarkets are able to introduce limits on items in stores at the mangers discretion.
These limits are usually introduced by individual stores as a result of high demand.
Customers shouldn’t panic. The firm has confirmed that it hasn’t set any national limits on the sale of bottled water.
Shops will have anticipated that there will increased demand for certain products during the heatwave and will have well-stocked shelves
Last month when sweltering temperatures last hit the UK, the budget supermarket also placed limits on bottled water.
Asda and Sainsbury’s have both confirmed they have no limits on the number of bottles people can buy.
We’ve contacted the other supermarkets and will update this story once we hear back.
A drought was declared in eight areas of England.
Parts of the South West, parts of southern and central England, and the East of England are now suffering drought status according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.
At a meeting of the National Drought Group, the government’s Environment Agency said the “drought trigger threshold had been met” in parts of southwestern, southern, central and eastern England.
Drought was last officially declared in England in 2018.
Temperatures are set to soar as high as 35C in some areas, making Britain hotter than the Bahamas, Jamaica and Barbados.
The Environment Agency on Friday published a report saying that England as a whole had its driest July since 1935.
