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Wednesday 29 March 2017
Supermarkets struggling to source salads in winter (online)
In the past 40 years, a whole supermarket system has
been built on the seductive illusion of Permanent Global Summer
Time. As a result, a cornucopia of perpetual harvest is one of the key
selling points that big stores have over rival retailers. If the
enticing fresh produce section placed near the front of each store to
draw you in starts looking a bit empty, we might not bother to shop
there at all. But when you take into account climate change, the shortages of early
2017 look more like a taste of things to come than just a blip, and that
is almost impossible for supermarkets to admit.
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