Crisps in Japan are on sale for six times their normal price after the country’s main manufacturer stopped sales due to a potato shortage.

Local media reports suggest Calbee and its main rival Koike-Ya are discontinuing almost 50 products.

It’s after typhoons and floods in its main potato-growing region of Hokkaido last year meant the worst harvest in more than three decades.

Crisp lovers are panic buying and many supermarket shelves are bare.

This guy has been “mass buying” because the pizza-flavoured crisps are his brother’s favourite.

He says “everyone around [is] sold out”.Bags that normally cost about 200 yen (£1.39) were going for more than 1,250 yen (£8.71) in online auctions, Bloomberg reports.

Other top flavours include French salad and soy mayonnaise.

BBC