Food Rationing Confronts Shoppers Once Spoiled for Choice
- North American retailers curb purchases of milk, pasta sauce
- Possible meat shortage looms as packers grapple with virus
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At a Publix store in St. Petersburg, Florida, handmade signs limit customers to two packages of beef, pork and Italian sausage. In Toronto, shoppers at a west end Loblaws can’t buy more than two dozen eggs and two gallons of milk.
Spoiled for choice before the pandemic, North American shoppers are finding they can’t get everything they want as grocery stores ration in-demand items to safeguard supplies.