Olive oil has become the most stolen product in supermarkets across Spain. Organized crime gangs stealing the "liquid gold" reselling it on a secret market.
Europe has almost run out of local supplies due to extreme weather that has damaged the olive crop for the second year in a row. The shortage of olive oil has hit all the Mediterranean countries, and according to the Financial Times, similar thefts of oliveOil are also happening in Greece and Italy. In Spain, buyers who paid less than 5 euros (about NIS 20) for a liter of extra virgin olive oil four years ago now see the same bottle being sold for 14 euros.