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Don’t worry if you see empty shelves
Empty shelves don’t mean there’s no more food and supplies. They just mean that stores and supply chains have to get up to speed with the demand growth.
“Our supply chain is experiencing a truly unprecedented event with this crisis. We have never seen levels like this across the United States. And that’s actually impacting supply chains,” said Greg Ferrara, president of the National Grocers Association in the United States.
“So, when you go into a store, if you see empty shelves, it’s taking us a while to get the product flowing through supply chain back to the stores. But it is coming. It is coming through our warehouses. It coming to the stores. There is plenty of supply in the supply chain.” “We just need time to catch up,” he explained.
Certain supermarket chains are narrowing down product ranges so they can concentrate on providing the essentials.
“We need to make food manufacture as efficient as possible – it makes no sense to pause to change packet sizes or change from one type of pasta to another,” explained one US supermarket. “We have 20 different sizes and styles of pasta, we are moving that to six.”
