Meanwhile Australians are experiencing deja vu as shelves across the nation are laid out bare.
Australians are being hit with a
national egg shortage, as consumers move towards free-range eggs amid rising production costs, extreme weather events and worker shortages.
Supermarkets across the country are back to implementing purchase limits, with farmers grappling to keep up with demand after they decreased their chicken numbers during lockdown.
But free-range eggs aren’t the only product Australian shoppers are being stripped of, with supermarkets reporting bare shelves for other household items such as chickpeas, lentils, lettuce, tissues and cold and flu tablets.
We’re experiencing reduced availability across some of our lentil and chickpea products due to supply chain delays,” a Woolworths spokesman said.
The supply chain issues are a combination of the war in Ukraine, flooding and other extreme weather events on Australian shores.
