Lidl has become the most recent supermarket to add purchase limits to certain fruit and vegetables as the UK experiences shortages.
The discount grocer will be limiting the sales of peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers to three per customer, according to reporting by the BBC.
This follows on from similar moves across Tesco, Aldi, Asda and Morrisons, which saw the retailers beginning to ration select fresh produce last week.
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While Asda is also temporarily limited purchasing to three per customer, it has done so across a wider range of products including tomato packs, peppers, cucumber, lettuce, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflower and raspberries.
Aldi and Tesco have also limited products to three items per customer, while Morrisons has restricted this further to two per shopper across cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and peppers.
This comes as supermarkets are facing shortages as a result of “difficult weather conditions in the South of Europe and Northern Africa,” according to British Retail Consortium director of food and sustainability, Andrew Opie.
British farms have also suffered as many growers have had to cut back due to the rocketing costs of heating greenhouses.
However, in looking to find a solution to the shortages and address the issue, which environment minister, Thérèse Coffey expects will “last about another two to four weeks,” the UK’s leading supermarkets are set meet with farming minister, Mark Spencer.
He has called in supermarket chiefs “to get shelves stocked again and to outline how we can avoid a repeat of this.”
