Just as two years ago, as a result of the most severe confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic, a madness broke out in supermarkets throughout Spain to buy basic products such as toilet paper, this time, as a result of the , a similar phenomenon on sunflower oil. Due to the fact that it is , the fear of a shortage has forced some surfaces to have to limit the sale of this ‘liquid gold’.
The last week has awakened a unique consumer movement in the main food chains in Spain. Because of the unknown of what will happen to the purchases that Spain makes of certain products from Ukraine, even from Russia, it is about sunflower oil to the point of seeing massive purchases in certain areas.
An activity that the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) has requested, since the oil after a year from its packaging begins to lose quality and becomes rancid, and can generate health problems. And it is that although it is a product that is used practically on a day-to-day basis, its storage in large quantities can end up exceeding these best-before dates.
The price of sunflower oil has skyrocketed due to its high demand in supermarkets
For this reason, some supermarkets have chosen to take radical measures to avoid this massive purchase, and therefore shortages on their shelves. Well raising the price, something more normal and that within certain limits does not delve into illegal practices, other chains have put a cap on the number of units possible to acquire.
These are the supermarkets that limit the purchase of sunflower oil
These are, as different users have detected in recent days, Mercadona and Eroski, although also at certain points Lidl, Consum, Carrefour, BM, Makro or some regional or local chains. The majority limiting the purchase to one unit, however from the (Asedas) they have wanted to make it clear that there will be no lack of sunflower oil in Spain.
This is because the products now sold respond to the harvest carried out in the summer of 2021, when Ukraine was not yet immersed in a war like the current one. What’s more, these chains limit themselves to explaining that if there is a lack of stock, it will be due to a massive and punctual purchase, but that it will be quickly replaced.
Facua will take legal measures against the limiting chains
For its part, Facua has made it clear that this position of limiting purchases is illegal, according to the . For this reason, the association is already preparing a “” against the infringing establishments, waiting for the autonomous communities to open files against this.
A problem generated by the chaos of a situation as abnormal as that of a war, which could damage the production of sunflower oil for future harvests. However, from the OCU, as well as other vegetable oil formulas such as olive oil (Spain is the world leader), soybean, rapeseed or pomace.
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