"Second shop now": Rewe customer fears hamster purchases with an unexpected product

Created: 08/16/2022, 12:30 p.m

By: Yasina Hipp

Empty shelves in a Rewe supermarket.

The next hamster purchases?

© Screenshot/Twitter/telefunker

In the past few months, certain products have repeatedly been sold out due to the corona pandemic and the Ukraine war.

Is the mayo getting tight now?

Cologne – During the corona pandemic, toilet paper and yeast were regularly sold out in supermarkets such as Rewe, Edeka, Aldi, Lidl and Co.

People hoarded these products, which led to empty shelves in the shops.

This phenomenon was repeated again a few weeks ago.

Cooking oil was scarce because of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

Above all, the shelves with sunflower oil in the markets were partially swept empty.

Sometimes the fight for the coveted oil even developed into serious arguments.

After the discovery of a Rewe customer, the next product could possibly be the target of hamster purchases.

Rewe: Empty mayonnaise shelves

The buyer shares a photo of a Rewe shelf on his Twitter channel and writes: "What now?

#Hamster purchases of mayonnaise???

Serious?

Second store now,” and captions the post with an up-rolling-eyes emoji.

In fact, only almost empty shelves can be seen in the photo.

Shelves on which the mayo bottles from a wide variety of suppliers should actually be lined up.

Actually.

Because obviously these were bought empty and, according to the Rewe customer, in another branch.

Other Twitter users confirm this discovery under the post.

But what is the reason for the mayo hamster purchases?

Rewe with mayo deficiency: connection with cooking oil

The resourceful Twitter community immediately provides a possible reason for the new scarcity.

A user writes: "With mustard, it was clear that not enough could be produced.

With Mayo, it was a matter of time when there was not enough cooking oil.

They'll have sold their inventory and won't get enough supplies.” Sounds plausible.

A look at the list of ingredients for supermarket mayonnaise shows that the creamy-white sauce consists of 80 percent cooking oils, such as rapeseed oil.

Mustard, vinegar, egg yolk, and water then complete the mayo.

Empty mayo shelves would of course be difficult to cope with, especially now during the barbecue season.

So does another Twitter user who just writes: "The fun stops with Mayo."