Major food retailers are considering introducing rationing to prevent firms which have not made their no-deal Brexit plan from using food retailers as wholesalers.
It will not envisage that the limits would affect normal retail customers. Supermarkets already use rationing of sorts to limit the amount of items on special promotions people can buy. No-deal Brexit rationing would work in a similar way - with the limits advertised on the shelf labels and enforced at the checkout.
Another boss, former Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King, agreed that some bigger retailers would effectively become wholesalers as it has happened before.
"One potential problem is that businesses who are struggling with their supply chains effectively use ours," he said.
"We would need to limit the amount restaurants or convenience stores, for example, that are short of stock could buy," said the executive, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity.
