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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Business
Claire Donnelly

The real reason why supermarket shelves lay empty - while corner shops are piled high

At the end of the usually ­bustling fruit and veg aisle, an elderly man is eyeing up a ­sad-looking, solitary cucumber.

“Is this it?” he says, putting it in his supermarket basket and looking puzzled. “Where’s the rest?”

It is a good question, and one we have all been asking.

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