The great British Brexit stockpile
Illustration by Alexandra España for POLITICO
With the prospect of crashing out of the EU looming, the U.K. is battening down the hatches.
Companies are stockpiling food, medicine and car parts — but they’re running out of space to store it all.
Tesco, Britain’s largest supermarket, has rented an emergency supply of refrigerated units to mitigate any chaos in the event of a disorderly Brexit. Marks & Spencer has begun stockpiling non-perishable goods. Pharmaceutical giants, meanwhile, have secured additional U.K. warehouse space for medicines and vaccines that require cold storage. And automakers like BMW are frantically looking to store components.