It’s not just food supplies that are feeling the pressure – medicines like paracetamol can’t keep up with demand.
And that’s led to a rise in costs and ultimately an increase in prices while the public copes with the coronavirus pandemic.
In Birmingham on Thursday morning, a customer was asked to pay £6 for a box of paracetamol that she said was priced at 60p just last week.
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