Supermarkets including Morrisons, Asda and other supermarkets are being forced to introduce new rules for anyone wanting to buy vegetables.
Retailers have warned a shortage of tomatoes affecting UK supermarkets is widening to other fruit and vegetables and is likely to last weeks. A combination of bad weather and transport problems in Africa and Europe has seen UK supermarket shelves left bare of tomatoes, as well as dwindling stocks of some other fresh produce.
Asda has introduced a customer limit of three on tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflower and raspberries, and Morrisons said it would be introducing limits of two items per customer across tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and peppers from Wednesday. Other supermarkets are understood to be considering similar temporary measures.
