People panic buying at grocery stores have messed up with the normal operations of industrial supply chains, including food. Not to worry though as toilet paper is still being made and crops are still growing around the world. Due to borders being closed and transportation being limited there is a coming issue around labour migration and farming. Over the last few decades migrant workers have been increasingly relied upon on farms to help with operation and now that labour pool won’t be able to help as they did in the past. There is something you can do this month (or even next month or the month after that…) is to plant a “victory garden”. If we need to keep the practice of social distancing going then having fresh food on hand will save trips to the grocery store.
“The warehouse is full and there are more containers arriving so we haven’t felt it,” she said.
“But I am not sure how we will go for the orders we are placing now because these containers are from orders we placed many months ago.
“We have to keep working and do our best; and hope that in a few months time things will be better and things will be back to normal.”