Cardiff supermarkets are temporarily limiting purchases to three tomatoes per customer.
Recently, many supermarkets in Cardiff have imposed purchase restrictions.
Due to the shortage of fresh vegetables, some supermarkets have limited each customer to buying only three tomatoes and three cucumbers.
Despite this, tomatoes and cucumbers in supermarkets are still sold out.
And in Cardiff market, prices have risen a lot, despite plenty of tomatoes and cucumbers being still in stock.
Omar Sharif is the manager of Yeates Fruit & Veg Ltd in the Cardiff market. He says: “There hasn’t been a huge shortage of fresh vegetables for a short period of time, we’ve been managing it, but prices have gone up to the point where it’s very expensive. ”
“Six tomatoes, 4 pounds…,” Jacqueline Baldwin says. She is a regular visitor to the Cardiff market.
She says her brother went to Lidl yesterday to buy lettuce but failed to find it. So she came to the market today to buy vegetables.
The shortage of vegetables has also brought great challenges to vegans.
Sam Dobedoe works for the Atma Lounge vegan coffee shop in Cardiff. He says “We use a lot of vegetables. Obviously, the prices in the supermarket have gone up, and we spend a lot of money buying vegetables from suppliers, but we’re quite a low priced cafe, you know, and that also challenges us to try and keep our prices low as well. We haven’t raised any prices on our menu for anything yet.”
People have had to change their food lists, but as the weather gets warmer, vegetable lovers will be hoping prices come down.