Food shortages.

No shortages in East Norfolk

As far as HGV drivers are concerned:

Large Goods Vehicle tests dropped by nearly 43,000 since Mar 2020, when COVID struck
CPC tests (needed by professional truck drivers) dropped by 98% (Q1 2020 compared to Q1 2021)
Only 48 CPC tests were conducted in the first three months of this year. Recruiting 27 new examiners to speed up the process

The global situation is not any better - there are driver shortages almost everywhere except Africa

Truck driver shortages globally expected to increase by 25%+ this year, says International Road Transport Union
Germany was already reporting 45,000 vacancies back in 2018, says British International Freight Association
No.1 reason for driver shortage was ‘drivers retiring’, according to (UK) Road Haulage Association survey in July

I think Marmite production was affected by the slowing down of brewery production, that's Covid not Brexit at play.  

Many shortages of UK HGV drivers it seems is down to the work enviroment, many older drivers are retiring and it is a very at times lonely job, that with so many more regulations does not fit in with what the younger generations that have been to "university?"think is for them?

When we had a bad spell of winter weather few years ago.and deliveries to our supermarkets were disrupted, I was told by my daughter who was then involved with John Lewis distribution,  it was their Eastern European drivers who were keeping deliveries going as many Uk drivers either "could not or were not well enough?"to get into work

We have noticed some gaps on supermarket shelves which usually are filled the following week all except for a particular brand of runny honey that we have been after, that has not been on the shelves in any of our local stores for about 3 months now.....global warming, shortage of bees or bees on strike maybe  

It’s not the shortages of certain items that is the only concern. The quality of some of the fresh fruit and veg in the supermarkets is shocking at the moment. I went rummaging for courgettes in our local Tesco before we came away, and some of them were just bags of mush, rotten already. Enjoyed being in Cornwall though, there’s always lots of lovely fresh veg for sale at the roadside, and we stopped off at such a stand very close to Marazion Site a few times. Grown in someone’s small holding just over the road. Best quality veg I have seen for ages. 
No doubt some will be panic buying certain items. 

Just completed my Click & Collect order from Sainsburys for tomorrow.  Stuff I ordered earlier in the week (I set up an order then amend the day before) now not available: long life Grapefruit juice (this has been very hit & miss) kabanos, dried milk, dates (the ones from the baking isle).  We will wait & see what I dont actually get tomorrow.

There have been items unavailable each fortnight for a couple of months now.  Sometimes they are available in store next time I go in.  e.g. low sugar baked beans, sweetner tablets, fine sea salt (as against coarse)

Apparently, according to one report I read, last week there were no bottled water deliveries in the  east of England.  Certainly those shelves in Sainsburys have been empty for about three weeks (maybe people will have to drink water from the tap!!!), as have shelves of Long Life juices.

There isnt apparently a shortage of goods, just of deliveries.

But none of us will go hungry because of this.

It doesn’t seem much KJ but it’s a 20% hike on £1 jar🤷🏻‍♂️

Everyday food has for a long time been too cheap to buy, perhaps with a rise to a sensible level and that rise going to where it should go, then food wastage would reduce.

I doubt that there will be any significant reduction in waste. Most of my waste is with veg and due to pack sizes

It's been quite "interesting" for the last 3 weeks as we've been away for that time at various points in the South West so have popped into whichever shop happened to be near to where we were when we wanted some shopping.

Been to most apart from Waitrose, although I did notice one in Dorchester today but didn't need anything, and think that the Co-Op has seen the most shortages, particularly in Fruit and Veg section. We have consistently found a shortage of some of the same items, such as a certain Fruit Loaf for Mrs WN. The GF pasta seems to have been snapped up, last time in Covid shortages it was blamed on nonGF buyers who couldn't get normal stuff, and the usual items such as Toilet Rolls.

I do think generally that shelves are not as well stocked as usual but we haven't starved yet and I haven't resorted to fighting with Herring Gulls for scraps. It might yet come to that though.