Thursday, April 24, 2008

Note to self: buy rice today

Sam's Club is limiting how much rice customers can buy because of what it calls "recent supply and demand trends," the company said Wednesday.
The broader chain of Wal-Mart stores has no plans to limit food purchases, however.
Sam's Club said it will limit customers to four bags at a time of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rice. Rice prices have been hitting record highs recently on worries about tight supplies as part of broader global inflation in food costs.