And I’ll keep maintaining that until I see different - I’ve listed current prices and we'll just have to see, won’t we? If fruit and veg doesn't go up except by the rate of inflation, will you concede that again, you are predicting, nay, hoping that something goes up in the future because of Brexit. it’s just another prediction like mobile roaming, international driving licences, EU car insurance, EHIC etc etc that have sorted themselves out. Prices won’t go up because people won’t pay so business will win through, again. I say nothing has affected me personally because it hasn’t. I’ll just have to swallow the upcoming EU Visa cost that’s going to be brought in next year which will set me back a whole fiver every three years or so, dammit!
New, intricate and elaborate supply chains into the UK have never been tested in such a way before.
www.bbc.co.uk
Thought I would highlight 1 part of it for you. But I am sure it wont affect you or your shops availability and prices.
The government acknowledges that the extra red tape and checks
will increase food prices, pushing up the overall level of prices by 0.2 percentage points over three years.
That means a notable impact on food inflation, but not a new food price shock of the kind seen after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. That increase was, nonetheless, sufficient for the cabinet to further delay the imposition of the checks last year, at a time when food inflation was rising at double-digit rates.
As Tom Southall, a director of the Cold Chain Federation, puts it: "
There's never been a good time to do it, which is why it's been delayed five times."
and ref availability
Above all, EU official vets are unlikely to be available through the day, night and weekend to sign off perishable exports to the UK. And all of this is made more complex by the requirement to give one day's pre-notification of imports. That is a large proportion of best before dates on these sorts of goods.
"We've lost a day. That's
20% of the shelf life and the products aren't really saleable,"
and
So, in less than 24 hours, an experiment starts.
Can the UK's pan-European food supply chains function effectively within a burdensome system of certification and checks? And what if industry is right that maximum disruption will occur this autumn, around the expected time of the general election? The last piece of the Brexit jigsaw could be its most consequential.
