{"id":9097,"date":"2023-02-26T06:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/yes-we-have-no-tomatoes-why-shelves-are-emptying-in-uk-stores\/"},"modified":"2023-02-26T06:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:38:38","slug":"yes-we-have-no-tomatoes-why-shelves-are-emptying-in-uk-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/yes-we-have-no-tomatoes-why-shelves-are-emptying-in-uk-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, we have no tomatoes: Why shelves are emptying in UK stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From fresh produce to medicines and computer chips, a cocktail of problems is playing havoc with supply chains <\/p>\n<p>Early on Saturday morning, as Paul Crane, a trader at London\u2019s renowned Borough market, was arranging blood oranges from Valencia on his stall, he admitted that his industry is facing some of the toughest conditions in a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale price of tomatoes, peppers and aubergines has quadrupled, and English cauliflowers are up too. Some stallholders are not even selling vine tomatoes because they are just too expensive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/feb\/26\/yes-we-have-no-tomatoes-why-shelves-are-emptying-in-uk-stores\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/97c331b0c3d8c243abeaea9689297c78e16d1e1d\/0_302_4032_2419\/master\/4032.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e79a3e00580e50eb2f500d2fb7913c4d\" title=\"Yes, we have no tomatoes: Why shelves are emptying in UK stores\" \/>From fresh produce to medicines and computer chips, a cocktail of problems is playing havoc with supply chains<br \/>\nEarly on Saturday morning, as Paul Crane, a trader at London\u2019s renowned Borough market, was arranging blood oranges from Valencia on his stall, he admitted that his industry is facing some of the toughest conditions in a quarter of a century.<br \/>\nThe wholesale price of tomatoes, peppers and aubergines has quadrupled, and English cauliflowers are up too. Some stallholders are not even selling vine tomatoes because they are just too expensive. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From fresh produce to medicines and computer chips, a cocktail of problems is playing havoc with supply chains Early on Saturday morning, as Paul Crane, a trader at London\u2019s renowned Borough market, was arranging blood oranges from Valencia on his stall, he admitted that his industry is facing some of the toughest conditions in a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/yes-we-have-no-tomatoes-why-shelves-are-emptying-in-uk-stores\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, we have no tomatoes: Why shelves are emptying in UK stores<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}