Stores were caught by surprise when Covid restrictions triggered panic buying at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, causing some food shortages and long queues of shoppers.
Senior supply sources have revealed that some of the largest food retailers are taking steps to avoid a repeat of any chaotic scenes.
An insider at one of the big four supermarkets said: “We are budgeting for a lockdown.
“We’ve been ramping up orders on the 2,000 most commonly bought lines, everything that people tend to buy when they go into that slightly bizarre survival mode.”
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