Citizens of Great Britain pressed the lack of food and fuel. According to the report of the National Statistical Service, 23 percent of citizens declared that they could not buy food, and 15 percent faced difficulties when trying to purchase fuel. At the same time, 61 percent reported a change in consumer habits due to the lack of necessary goods in the stores and the impossibility of finding them a replacement.
17 percent of the Britons cannot buy the necessary foods that they need every day. At the impossibility of getting prescription medicines complained 23 percent of consumers. Every tenth Briton said that in general, reduced his expenses and began to buy less.
The growth value of goods and the deficit of the proposal originated due to interruptions in the global supply chain. Local locations due to the flashes of coronavirus created logistics problems, the consequences of which are still reflected in the transportation branches. In Britain, labor deficit because of Brexit further aggravated the crisis. After the release of the United Kingdom from the European Union, some migrant employees did not return to the country due to restrictions related to pandemic and visa difficulties.
So, for example, Britain faced a shortage of truck drivers. The lack of truckers led to the fact that there was no one to deliver fuel to filling stations and food on store shelves. Also in the United Kingdom there is not enough butchers and poultry farms. The meat processing industry enterprises complained that they would have to destroy cattle due to the deficit of employees.