Supermarkets are under “increasing pressure” to keep shelves fully stocked, retail industry leaders have warned as the growing havoc wreaked by the “pingdemic” continues to force thousands of workers to self-isolate.
With shops in some areas suffering shortages, and firms in sectors from petrol stations to the postal service affected by absences, the government is being urged to include supermarket staff, lorry drivers and other frontline workers on a list of those exempted from self-isolation rules.
Read the full article on The Guardian website
Government to publish list of exempt critical workers ‘very soon’ – see the Sky News website
NAM Implications:
- Comes with having knife-edge stocks…
- …in that the slightest upsurge in demand, without buffering…
- …has to impact on-shelf availability.
- Key is to blame adequately.
- i.e. a combination of lockdown pressures, Brexit, driver shortages, and unanticipated impact of ’pinging’, and government…
