jason
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03:08:59 pm on May 9, 2008 | # |
Have you been to Waitrose lately and seen a picture like this?
Well this is due to a row between the supermarket group and its supplier in Italy over “quality issues”.
Its supplier in Italy makes all of its own-brand dried pasta and because there has been no stock for three weeks, other brands have also run short. Of the 75 varieties of dried pasta that the supermarket sells, 40 are Waitrose-branded.
Sources within the pasta industry claim the supplier had been demanding higher prices because of soaring global wheat prices. When Waitrose refused to bow to their demands, the Italian manufacturing stopped supplying them.