The Resilience of UK's Food Retail Supply Chains and Business Strategies

The resilience of the food supply chain is essential for ensuring food security, social well-being, and economic stability. The COVID-19 pandemic had tested the resilience of the UK's retail food supply chain and highlighted areas of weakness that need to be addressed to ensure its preparedness for future disruptions. The food supply chain is a significant contributor to environmental degradation, including climate change, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and water pollution.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the UK's food retail supply chain disruptions and the level of resilience in the system and examine the response to identify the factors that could contribute to improving resiliency for future disruptions. The results highlight that innovative business strategies and certain critical success factors could increase the retail food supply chain's ability to withstand disruptions. This emphasizes the importance of innovation and the adoption of new business strategies in the retail food sector to be able to adapt and respond to future challenges.