The Philippines has suffered a terrible weather problem with almost continous rain or cloudiness for the past few weeks. But what I can't understand is why the buyers for SM, Robinsons, Ayala, Metro grocery stores can't find alternative suppliers for a temporary solution rather than having store shelves empty of red tomatoes. In USA the buyers find supplies all over the world to make sure they meet customer needs. What is problem here? If there is no stock in country then Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand or even South Africa or Mexico or South America must have supplies that can be flown in to meet the lack here of so many different vegetables. If there is a source here in country it is not meeting the need for any I repeat ANY supermarket here in Cebu. I assume Manila stores are suffering similiar lack of supplies. The government should step in and relax the standards until the supplies return to normal and the buyers should use sources like I easily found by searching Australian tomatoes. The customers want tomatoes and other vegetables and I assume the buyers could find alternative sources until this crisis is resolve as we get all kinds of other offshore dry goods, why not tomatoes and other vegetables?
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