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- Supply chain crisis affecting retailers stocks and food ranges
- UK plunges towards supply chain crisis due to staff and transport disruption
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The supply chain crisis is also hitting the UK tourism sector, as hoteliers and bar owners try to juggle a surge in holidaymakers and staff shortages.
“Hospitality is the first to get locked down and the last to reopen and a lot of people have not been able to get onto furlough and have struggled. It is really hard to find chefs.
“We’ve reduced covers, we’ve reduced opening hours and on a day-to-day basis we’ve had to look at how many staff we have got in and manage it accordingly.”
“You can substitute drinks a lot more easily than food. It’s just random stuff that is not available – it’s just bizarre.
“Guacamole, tortilla chips and one week it was orange juice and another week it was apple juice and cranberry juice. It is random stuff and it is just down to distribution.”
“Traditionally we would normally have thousands of people from EU countries here working in hospitality having been trained in their own countries and that has more or less been cut off entirely.
“We used to have lots of people from northern cities working in places like Newquay for the summer and they problem they have is there is no housing as every landlord who has got a rental property has converted it into a holiday let.
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Britain’s supply chain crisis is deepening by the day, with retail stocks running low, supermarkets struggling to get their normal food ranges onto the shelves, and hospitality firms
“It’s quite striking, I don’t think we can dismiss this as a flash in the pan. Now that lockdown has been eased, we’re seeing a truer reflection of the impact of Brexit and issues building up before the pandemic.
“We could see this persisting for longer than people expect. Skills shortages could go on for a few years, the impact of Brexit on our ability to attract workers from the EU is not going to go away quickly and the process of training was quite significantly disrupted by the pandemic, when people were not working and furloughed.”
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“The shortages are at a worse level than at any time I have seen”
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“Some of the pig processors are having to cut down on how many pigs they are processing a week so that’s starting to have an impact back on the farm.”
“We are cutting back and prioritising lines and cutting out on things, so there just won’t be the totals of Christmas favourites like we are used to.”
Post-Brexit staffing issues: Shortage of festive favourites like pigs in blankets and gammon looms https://t.co/vtUSUV5h8C pic.twitter.com/s9jCtVGUbL
Longer-semi trailers (LSTs), which are up to 2.05m (6.8ft) longer than the current limit of 13.6m (45ft), could save up to one in eight journeys by fitting more freight in, according to a nine-year trial by the Department for Transport (DfT).
The Government had initially planned to conduct a 15-year trial until 2027, but last year consulted on ending the scheme early after it concluded that the experiment had yielded enough data.
