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Supermarkets have been left with empty shelves as an egg shortage has continued in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As shoppers continue to report empty shelves, many major retailers, including Sainsbury, M&S, and Tesco, have been raising their egg prices and implementing a limitation on quantities of purchase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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M&S: maximum of 2 packs per customer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Sainsbury: limit of three boxes of eggs per customer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Tesco: limit of three boxes of eggs per customer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Previously, customers could expect to pay an average of 0.99 pounds to two pounds for a pack of six range eggs, but now the cost has risen to over two pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A staff member at Tesco on West Street in Sheffield, who asked not be named, said the shortage will continue in Easter according to a huge supplier reduction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said customers who are looking for eggs should arrive around midday after the delivered time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shopper Eric Davis, 24, a fitness coach said: \u201cI already went to three supermarkets this morning, but still not finding any eggs on the shelves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although shops have established restrictions on how many eggs customers can buy, the market’s shelves are sometimes left bare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recent months, as a bird-flu outbreak has killed millions of poultry in dozens of countries and the costs of production have increased during the pandemic, as a result egg prices have escalated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the huge decrease in supply and unaffordable prices, the egg shortage is negatively impacting people’s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alice Shen, 19, a university student said: \u201c I\u2019ll say the biggest impact of this problem to me as a student is the rising price. We used to celebrate Easter by painting and hiding eggs, but now they\u2019re too expensive to buy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Davis said: \u201cTo celebrate Easter, our family always makes bunny cakes and meals together, but this year we might have to change the menu due to the hard access to eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Moving closer to a fresh food shortage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apart from egg shortages, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, and other salad items are out of shortage at the current stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vegetable industry in Britain is being impacted by a combination of high energy costs and a shortage of crop pickers. This has resulted in many retailers having to import vegetables from other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, poor weather conditions in Spain and North Africa, where they are primarily produced, have been identified as the main cause of recent supply shortages of certain goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNow would be a challenging time for all customers and retailers in the food industry,\u201d a staff member at Tesco on West Street added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Supermarkets restrict sales as bird flu causes a national shortage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":47893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18,21],"tags":[869,174,38,147],"class_list":["post-47891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-health","category-news","tag-egg","tag-food","tag-sheffield","tag-supermarkets"],"yoast_head":"\n
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