London — Britain’s biggest supermarkets, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda, imposed limits on purchases of pasta, toilet rolls and long-life milk on Wednesday after shoppers stripped shelves bare to hoard for possible isolation in the coronavirus outbreak.
The spread of the virus has triggered hoarding across the world. While European countries have restricted travel, British companies say the supply chains which bring fruit, flour and fish from across the world are so far still functioning...
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