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Supermarket bosses have warned that the supply chain chaos is getting worse, just as retailers start planning for the key Christmas period.

Richard Walker, Iceland chief, told the BBC he estimated the UK's shortage of lorry drivers was now about 100,000, with the company itself about 100 short.

Tesco boss John Allan added that "there may be some shortages", but that people should not "over-dramatise" by panic buying, as was seen in the earliest days of the pandemic.

"It's very easy to make a drama out of a modest crisis," he told the BBC, adding that the continuing shortage of HGV drivers is starting to make retailers nervous, mainly because, despite it only being August, outlets are already in the heat of planning for their busiest trade period of the year – Christmas.