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Why flour is still missing from supermarket shelves

  • Written by Brigit Busicchia, PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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Extreme shortages of toilet paper, pasta and other pantry products defined the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic for many shoppers around the world. Availability of most these goods has returned to normal.

But not for baking goods – flour in particular.

In Britain the flour shortage has led to the thousand-year-old Sturminster...

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