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limits on the number of cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes that shoppers can take home. the supply problems have largely been caused by extreme weather conditions in northern africa and southern spain the regions from which the uk gets a large part of these products at this time of year. i m joined now by retail consultant ged futter, a former senior buying manager an asda. good afternoon to you. have you experienced this sort of thing before in your time, working in the large supermarket chains? what do you make of what we are seeing now? what we are seeing is fluctuations in the supply chain and at times those fluctuations can be extreme. very rarely do you have instances where every single retailer is struggling to get hold of something and that is what we are seeing at the moment. one of the reasons we are seeing this, you mentioned it earlier, is because there have been extreme weather conditions in north africa and southern spain, so out of

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