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Shortage of ice cubes in Spain: "Begging" customers call the producer crying

2022-08-09T03:37:50.934Z


Shortage of ice cubes in Spain: "Begging" customers call the producer crying Created: 08/09/2022 05:28 By: Victoria Krumbeck Vacationers in Spain will soon have to do without a cold sangria, because ice cubes are missing all over Spain. The first supermarkets are already rationing. Madrid/Munich – On a hot summer's day, a cool drink provides the necessary refreshment. Many holidaymakers in Spa


Shortage of ice cubes in Spain: "Begging" customers call the producer crying

Created: 08/09/2022 05:28

By: Victoria Krumbeck

Vacationers in Spain will soon have to do without a cold sangria, because ice cubes are missing all over Spain.

The first supermarkets are already rationing.

Madrid/Munich – On a hot summer's day, a cool drink provides the necessary refreshment.

Many holidaymakers in Spain like to use sangria in this context, but that could soon be the end of it.

The reason is missing ice cubes.

Temperatures will top 35 degrees in many parts of the country.

Spain recently reported that the current year was the most devastating year of forest fires since records began.

The lack of ice cubes is also due to the heat wave, because demand is high.

Added to this are increased production, storage and transport costs, which contribute to the deficiency.

Spain: Lack of ice cubes across the country - companies desperate

The lack of ice cubes affects all of Spain.

"There is a shortage of ice cubes all over the country," wrote the newspaper

El Mundo

.

The entrepreneur Miguel Ángel Vázquez Gavira is called "Rey del Cubito", "King of the Ice Cube", in Spain.

With his company, he has a share of over 20 percent in the Spanish market and is also active in other countries.

In an interview with

El Mundo

(Sunday edition) he described: "Every day I get calls from entrepreneurs who cry begging me for ice cream." He has never experienced that.

"And the worst is yet to come.

The next few weeks will be dramatic,” warns the 56-year-old boss.

Cold drinks are part of summer.

The lack of ice cubes in Spain could soon change that (symbol image).

© Gudrun Krebs/IMAGO

Whether in Madrid or Barcelona, ​​on Mallorca or Ibiza, the ice cube freezer compartments are now almost always empty.

Delivery companies and large supermarket chains like “Mercadona” have been rationing ice cream for days.

Many companies only supply regular customers.

"If we had to sell to everyone, the ice cream would last for an hour," Mateo Obrador, partner at the distribution company JOP, was quoted as saying by the

Diario de Mallorca

newspaper .

Heat wave and energy costs cause ice cube shortages in Spain

The demand increased enormously.

According to industry information, she climbed from four to eight million kilos a day in the summer.

The problem: Only two million kilos of ice are produced per day.

In winter, because of the high electricity prices, no stocks were produced at all.

The ice cream prices have meanwhile increased sixfold in some cases.

Energy costs will not be cheaper this year.

The war in Ukraine is leading to an energy crisis and high costs in all EU countries.

The winners of the ice cube shortage are bars that have their own ice machines.

"We didn't notice any shortages," commented a waitress at the well-known Nicolás bar in Palma.

The situation in the nearby bar "Lili's" is completely different.

Because orders that used to arrive “within two hours” are now delayed by “up to 48 hours,” owner Lili Zolatorova told the

Diario de Mallorca

.

The ice cream often comes just before closing time.

(vk/dpa)

Source: merkur

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