Canada: Grocery stores could close if labour, product shortages worsen: experts
https://q107.com/news/8519786/grocery-store-closures-labour-product-shortages
"With supply chain disruptions and pandemic uncertainty, food prices are expected to continue to go up in 2022 along with availability issues. Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab director Sylvain Charlesbois talks about what's to come.
Grocery stores are struggling with rising labour and product shortages that could threaten Canada’s food security, experts say.
Employee absenteeism due to workers calling in sick and COVID-19 protocols has hit about 30 per cent at some stores and is continuing to rise, Gary Sands, senior vice-president of public policy with the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, said Tuesday. ...
If the situation worsens, some grocery stores won’t be able to stay open _ threatening food security in rural and remote areas that rely on a sole independent grocer, Sands said."
