Lettuce and spinach shortage prompts supermarket rationing
Tesco in the UK is limiting purchases to three lettuces per customer
Tesco in the UK have put a limit of three on the number of lettuces each customer can purchase in stores due to the vegetable shortage. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
Ireland’s salad days could be limited as chronic lettuce and spinach shortages across Europe have seen the healthy greens disappear from supermarket shelves in recent weeks.
While the situation in the Republic is not as grave as the UK, where some supermarkets have begun lettuce rationing, poor growing conditions in Spain has definitely been having an impact.