Consumers, Europe, UK, Ireland, Processing, fries, chips

UK crisp shortage eases after earlier supply problems

According to a news report by Reuters, fewer shops in Britain have shortages of potato crisps this week than the week before, official figures showed on Thursday, in a sign that supply problems for the popular snack food are easing.

Some 24% of food shops surveyed by Kantar Public for the Office for National Statistics had no or low stocks of multi-packs of crisps between Nov. 19 and Nov. 22, down from 30% the week before.

Britain’s biggest crisp producer Walkers, part of PepsiCo, had to scale back production at the start of the month after problems with an IT systems upgrade, which it warned could take weeks to fix. 

Supply chain problems have been common in Britain and elsewhere as businesses adjust to shifts in consumer demand and the availability of workers following the COVID-19 pandemic – and, in Britain’s case, Brexit.

Source: Reuters. Read the full story here
Photo: A worker wears a face mask at the Walkers crisps factory, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Leicester, Britain, July 1, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Phil Noble

Lukie Pieterse, Editor & Publisher

Follow Potato News Today!

Please enter your email address to receive an alert right away when we publish a news story.

Join 10,052 other subscribers

Lockwood Mfg

Urschel

PULSEMASTER

TOMRA Food

DormFresh | 1,4GROUP

GRIMME

Volm Companies