Morrisons becomes first supermarket to reinstate Covid restrictions

The supermarket is restricting some key products – including toilet rolls, cleaning products, kitchen roll, hand sanitiser and soap. It is also limiting sales of flour, rice and oil sold in its world foods aisle.

The retailer said in a tweet that it would introduce caps on in-store purchases to ensure “good availability for all our customers”.

A Morrisons spokesman later said: “We’ve got decent stock levels but we want to be sure that they are available for everyone.”

Tesco has now followed suit and introduced bulk-buy limits on a “small number of products”.

The supermarket giant said there will be a three-items per customer limit for flour, dried pasta, toilet roll, baby wipes and anti-bacterial wipes.

In addition, it has introduced limits for a small number of products online, such as rice and canned vegetables.