"Over the previous few months, the worldwide and home disruption brought on by the pandemic has offered us with a lot of provide chain challenges. This features a scarcity of picket pallets and transport staff, and worldwide delivery delays," CEO Steven Cain stated in a message to clients.
"Extra lately, a rise in COVID case numbers locally has required extra folks to isolate, which has meant fewer individuals are accessible to work in Australia - together with within the meals trade."
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He stated this had led to delayed deliveries and a few shortages in shops.
Coles this week launched shopping for limits on a lot of merchandise.
Clients are actually restricted to 2 packs per buyer of rooster breasts and rooster thighs - or six items from the deli.
Two-pack limits additionally apply to mince and sausages.
With fast antigen exams in demand across the nation, Coles customers are additionally restricted to only one per buyer.
RATs are additionally not presently accessible to web shoppers.
Yesterday, Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci outlined the impression the unfold of Omicron had made throughout the availability chain.
"In contrast to the surge shopping for of early 2020 (who may overlook the bathroom paper), that is due to the variety of folks in our provide chain in isolation – from suppliers to truck drivers and distribution centre staff members – which in flip is inflicting materials delays to retailer deliveries," Mr Banducci stated.
"To present you a way of the magnitude of the problem, we're experiencing COVID-driven absences of 20 per cent-plus in our distribution centres and 10 per cent-plus in our shops."
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New South Wales is presently the most-affected state, however Mr Banducci stated there have been impacts throughout your entire nation – and it wasn't clear how quickly the system would get better.
The third main chain in Australia, Aldi, like Woolworths has no buying limits in place.
"Though the continued COVID-19 scenario has meant further strain to our operations, ALDI continues to do its finest to minimise any disruption to our clients," a spokesperson instructed 9.com.au yesterday.
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