Where’s the (ground) beef? Some Winnipeg grocery stores — including select Sobey’s, Red River Co-op, Superstore, Costco and Walmart — have limited ground beef purchases to just one or two per customer.
But the Retail Council of Canada’s Manitoba director of government relations, John Graham, said those limits are not due to COVID-19 outbreaks that led to shutdowns at two major Alberta beef processing plants.
Rather, it’s due to customers’ changing shopping habits and panic buying in fear of shortages. “Consumers are creating self-inflicted shortages in stores — across the board, retailers are not restricting the availability of meat products,” Graham said.