Shoppers face lettuce rationing amid 'vegetable crisis'

Bad weather in southern Spain forces supermarkets to limit sales – and increase prices

Lettuce
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Shoppers are facing another wave of vegetable rationing after a harvesting drought has led to supermarket putting limits on sales of iceberg lettuce and broccoli.

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