Rationing of rice hits UK supermarkets
- added June 1, 2008
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Supermarkets are rationing rice in some stores after panic-buying by customers worried about a global shortage.
Retailers including Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl have introduced quotas for the staple food, which has increased in price worldwide by 70 per cent in a year.
It is believed to be the first time major stores have limited purchases of such foodstuffs since sugar and bread were restricted in the Seventies because of strikes by producers.
Netto, the Danish-owned chain with 184 UK stores, has limited its 10kg bags of rice to one per customer.
Lidl, the German-owned cut-price group with 380 British outlets, has restricted purchases to ‘family volumes’ to stop bulk-buying by traders.
Most of the limits have been introduced in areas of Leicester which have large Asian populations.
Tesco said that for two weeks its store in the Hamilton area of the city had limited customers to two packs of rice per person.
But a spokeswoman insisted: ‘There is no supply problem. Rice was restricted for a couple of weeks at one store only. No other Tesco stores have been affected.’
Customers at the Morrisons store at Freemans Park, Leicester, were being restricted to six packs of rice, regardless of size, per customer.
The Asda store at nearby Thurmaston imposed similar restrictions, but at a national level the company denied it had any rationing in place
Retailers including Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl have introduced quotas for the staple food, which has increased in price worldwide by 70 per cent in a year.
It is believed to be the first time major stores have limited purchases of such foodstuffs since sugar and bread were restricted in the Seventies because of strikes by producers.
Netto, the Danish-owned chain with 184 UK stores, has limited its 10kg bags of rice to one per customer.
Lidl, the German-owned cut-price group with 380 British outlets, has restricted purchases to ‘family volumes’ to stop bulk-buying by traders.
Most of the limits have been introduced in areas of Leicester which have large Asian populations.
Tesco said that for two weeks its store in the Hamilton area of the city had limited customers to two packs of rice per person.
But a spokeswoman insisted: ‘There is no supply problem. Rice was restricted for a couple of weeks at one store only. No other Tesco stores have been affected.’
Customers at the Morrisons store at Freemans Park, Leicester, were being restricted to six packs of rice, regardless of size, per customer.
The Asda store at nearby Thurmaston imposed similar restrictions, but at a national level the company denied it had any rationing in place
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- cubbingabout
- 4 months ago
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The food shortage isn't going to end well for the US, just like the gasoline shortage. We live on artificially low prices, then when we don't have any friends left in the countries these things come from (a lot of them are pissed of at the US) they're going to put the price back where it belongs, and that is going to hurt.
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- Dmitri_Molotov
- 4 months ago
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Start stocking up now!
Rice purchase limits are already in effect in the U.S. @ bulk warehouse stores.
All staples are going up in price...
This is just the beginning....
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Believe me this is just the start of it
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- patriotgames1
- 4 months ago
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Why is rice suddenly a life or death situation?
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This is an important issue. Rice is a large staple in the world and for it to be in a crisis of shortage is a big warning. Not many people are understanding this concept.
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I worry about my local Indian, if the price of my curry goes up because of this I won't be happy.
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- subsequent
- 4 months ago
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I'll start getting worried when nationwide rationing comes into play. If it does get to that stage, I'll be glad I've got a garden that I can start growing my own veg in, not sure how the neighbours will feel about having a rice field in their next door neighbour's garden though.
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Fuel, staple foods, you dont need degree from the London School of Economics to work this trend out.
We live in changing times when a stuttering globalised market could pull the carpet out from under our feet
But Hey, Watch out Mattbrawn, the man will tax your veggie plot when he realises how much revenue he is missing out on. -
He'll only tax me if i produce anything, and with my gardening reputation that's pretty unlikely :D
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Ive got a huge vegetable plot going and have just bought some chickens and a couple of sheep ( non human ones though unlike our governments)
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- cubbingabout
- 4 months ago
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It's definitely the time to get our gardens working!
It looks like a bit of a return to the days of WW2, I think it would do us good to learn to appreciate food more and stop being so wasteful. Soon we may not have the choice.
Cubbingabout - I'd love to have chickens. We have some very pesky foxes though. Have you got any tips on keeping them at bay? -
Meh, I don't care if the price of rice goes up, I'll just switch to Gretchka.
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Well, now the brown really is going to hit the fan. If the rice is being rationed here, then it's just matter of time before we see riots over food prices on a global scale. We gotta do something, and it really has to be as soon as possible.
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Logically, how can there be a food shortage when we are creating Genetically Modified foods that are supposed to, according to all reports, end the world food shortage?
Rice is a leading crop for GM Foods, yet it is being rationed?
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I will so grow my own rice. I love it too much to not have it. Even though this was not in the same country. Rice is the food for me; forever!
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There's fear in the air and what do the Daily Mail do? They fan the fires. Disgusting publication furthering nothing but it's own loathsome agenda.
Consider this just for one second, the whole thing may well turn out to be a hoax cooked up by the investment banks and hedge funds who are trying to dig their way out of the trillion dollar mortgage-backed securities mess that they created by turning garbage loans into securities.
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