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Exactly what products are not making it onto WA’s supermarket shelves?

Millsy & Karl
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With WA’s COVID restrictions halting interstate truck drivers and the flooded rail crossing from South Australia into WA further limiting supply of supermarket goods, just what exactly and how much of it is not making its way into WA?

New West Foods managing director Damon Venoutsos told Gareth Parker on 6PR Breakfast that 90 per cent of his stock normally arrives via rail and his last regular delivery was on January 24.

His company is running out of bacon, ham, salami and other continental meats, as well as beef and pork sausages, cream mozzarella cheese, Tasmanian salmon and plant milks.

“There’s a lot of stock sitting somewhere beyond Tarcoola (in South Australia) at the moment,” he told Parker.

“We would be bringing in on any given week between 200 and 500 pallets a week.”

The program was told yesterday that 50 weekly return services via rail was normally delivered to supermarkets, with each service containing 330 double-stacked containers of food, beverage and other critical household products such as toilet paper.

Tap PLAY below to hear more the full extent of the supply chain issue.

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