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Christmas food fears as 'factories could shut in weeks' as shop shelves 'stripped bare'

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Christmas could be ruined through a combination of panic buying and factories closing, with many shoppers already suffering from food shortages, according to reports.

Figures from the Office of National Statistics suggest that roughly one in six people in the UK have struggled to buy essential food items at some point in the past fortnight.43% of people have found that supermarkets have had less variety as of late, and 14% have needed to trudge across town to different shops to tick off their shopping lists.

Moreover, with a third of shoppers either 'worried' or 'very worried' about shortages ahead of Christmas, record numbers of people have booked up delivery slots for December.Waitrose opened their December bookings last week.

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