POPULAR products including Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Marmite and Pot Noodle have been pulled from Tesco shelves and its website amid a dispute over prices between the supermarket and supplier Unilever.
The supermarket giant are locked in a dispute after consumer goods firm Unilever reportedly requested an increase prices by up to 10% because of the fall in the value of Sterling.
It is understood deliveries to Tesco stopped after the supermarket refused.
The pound has fallen 17% since June's vote for Britain to leave the European Union.
Tesco said only:"We are experiencing availability issues on a number of Unilever products. We always work to ensure customers get the best possible prices and we hope to have this issue resolved soon.”
However, it did not indicate when that might be.
Unilever, one of the world's biggest manufactures of consumer products, makes dozens of household brands including Dove soap and Signal toothpaste.
Products have vanished from Tesco's website while in some areas of the country Unilever products have sold out.
These include: Persil, Surf, Dove, Comfort, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Elmlea, Colman’s, Helmann’s, Marmite, Knorr, Bertolli, Flora, Comfort and Pot Noodle.
Tesco's chief executive, Dave Lewis, spent a large chunk of his career working at Unilever before joining Tesco two years ago.
He indicated last week that he would fight against suppliers who sought to use the falling pound to justify price hikes.
Unilever has declined to comment, but chief executive Paul Polman warned in June that a vote to leave the EU's single market would mean increased prices for consumers.
It comes after a survey by the Food and Drink Federation found that three-quarters of members have reported the cost of ingredients increasing, as well as falling profit margins.
And former Sainsbury's boss Justin King, has indicated that shoppers should expect higher prices because supermarkets will not be able to absorb the extra cost of imported goods.
According to media reports of a conference speech by Mr King, he said: "Retailers' margins are already squeezed. So there is no room to absorb input price pressures and costs will need to be passed on."
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