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Now supermarkets run out of turnips — a day after Minister urged people to eat them instead of tomatoes
SUPERMARKETS have now run out of turnips — a day after people were urged to eat them instead of tomatoes.
Stores yesterday suggested shoppers switch to swedes instead.
There was a rush on root veg after food supply minister Therese Coffey suggested turnips as a solution to the shortages of salad crops.
All the major supermarkets apart from Sainsbury’s and Waitrose have rationed tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and peppers in a bid to prevent panic buying.
Earlier this week Lidl stopped mum Lisa Fearns, 49, from buying 100 cucumbers for her detox business at a Merseyside store.
Meanwhile growers have warned supplies of leeks could run out before St David’s Day next week. Harvests have been hit by a lack of rainfall and extremely cold weather.
The Leek Growers Association said leeks were in short supply as farmers “are facing their most difficult season ever”.
Despite empty shelves at many stores Sir Robert Goodwill, Tory chairman of the environment, food and rural affairs committee, insisted yesterday: “There’s loads of good produce — there’s good UK-grown parsnips, leeks.”
He did however admit: “Turnips are great, but you can’t eat them every single meal.”
Growers fear shortages will last until next month as it will take that long for crops to grow in the UK with planting only starting in earnest next week.
Retailers blame disrupted harvests in Spain, Morocco and North Africa for the current shortages. Most salad crops sold in our supermarkets during the colder months are imported from those regions.
Some British supermarkets are not even selling turnips after they fell out of favour with the public
Tomato shortage could last until end of April as Tesco and Aldi become latest supermarkets to introduce limits
Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
Some of them even track your precise movements in stores. They then analyze all this data about you and sell it to consumer brands eager to use it to precisely target you with advertising and otherwise improve their sales efforts. Leveraging customer data this way has become a crucial growth area for top supermarket chain Kroger and other retailers over the past few years, offering much higher margins than milk and eggs. And Kroger may be about to get millions of households bigger. In October 2022, Kroger and another top supermarket chain, Albertsons, announced plans for a $24.6 billion merger that would combine the top two supermarket chains in the U.S., creating stiff competition for Walmart, the overall top seller of groceries.
U.S. regulators and members of Congress are scrutinizing the deal, including by examining its potential to erode privacy: Kroger has carefully grown two “alternative profit business” units that monetize customer information, expected by Kroger to yield more than $1 billion in “profits opportunity.” Folding Albertsons into Kroger will potentially add tens of millions of additional households to this data pool, netting half the households in America as customers. While Kroger is certainly not the only large retailer collecting and monetizing shopper data through the use of loyalty programs, the company’s evolution from a traditional grocery business to a digitally sophisticated retailer with its own data science unit sets it apart from its larger competitors like Walmart, which also collects, analyzes and monetizes shopper data for brands and for targeted advertising on its own retail ad network.
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