There are fresh fears about the future of White’s Supermarkets and the 85 people they employ as customers reported nearly bare shelves and the pharmacy at the Southside store closed.Two local wholesalers have also filed legal action against the company.Earlier this month Pitt & Company Ltd and BGA Ltd took out writs against White’s “carrying on business as White & Sons Supermarket, Southside Supermarket and Haywards Supermarket”.“The simple answer is that the situation there has gone from bad to worse rather then from bad to better as they had suggested back in April,” a senior food industry source said. He added: “I live near White’s in Warwick and have observed the steady decline of cars in their parking lot.”Efforts to reach White’s management were not successful.Customers of the Southside store complained that it was “running out of everything”.“They had no pasta, no starch!” one customer, who contacted us, said, noting that shopping at White’s Southside was convenient for her and her family because she had no transport and was able to walk to the store from her St David’s home.“I would hate for it to close, but they don’t have staples in stock,” she said. “They seem to have produce. I don’t know what’s going to happen. Staff don’t seem to know.”Another customer who lives in St David’s said she goes to shop at the store “with fingers crossed”. She gave us a photo she took showing just how bare shelves were.Asked why the pharmacy at White’s Southside was closed, a staff member, “Because it closed!”An industry source said that the supermarkets would not likely be able to be sold in this economy.A source said any closure would be a sad development for the staff and community but in the short term could help the local retail food industry.In April the owners of White’s told this newspaper they and their staff of 85 were working hard to turn things around after a difficult period.Gary White told The Royal Gazette that with “much hard work and difficult decisions, we are on our way back”.“To set the record straight, as of right now, White & Sons is not closing,” he said then. “If it was decided that White’s would be closing, we would inform our customers promptly and make no secret of it.”Admitting stock has not been what it should, he had assured that management was working to change that and appealed for customers to stick by them for the sake of the company’s many long-serving staff.