Ukraine-News: Aldi has to ration cooking oil - "We no longer get deliveries"
Created: 03/15/2022 10:53 am
By: Lisa Mayerhofer
The Ukraine war is also causing delivery bottlenecks in supermarkets in Germany.
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The Ukraine war also caused delivery bottlenecks in Germany.
Cooking oils are now becoming scarce at Aldi, Rewe and Co.
The associations warn.
Berlin - Ukraine is an important supplier of wheat, soya, rapeseed and flax.
The invasion of the Russian army* in the country therefore also has an impact on the food supply worldwide.
Sunflower oil in particular could become scarce in Germany in a few weeks because of the Ukraine war.
Ukraine war: There is no sunflower oil supply
This is the assumption of the Association of the Oilseed Processing Industry in Germany (Ovid).
"The supplies are expected to be enough for a few weeks," said Ovid Managing Director Gerhard Brankatschk on Monday of the German Press Agency.
There is currently no supply from the Ukraine - the most important supplier of sunflower oil.
According to Ovid, the world's top exporters of sunflower oil are Ukraine with 51 percent and Russia with 27 percent.
Germany covers 94 percent of its sunflower oil needs with imports, only 6 percent of the oil consumed comes from domestic production.
"There is nothing more now," emphasized the association with a view to the Ukraine conflict*.
The situation with sunflower oil was already tense due to a failed harvest in Canada and corona-related logistics problems.
As a result, prices rose noticeably even before the Ukraine war.
Ukraine war: Aldi rations cooking oil - other supermarkets are also affected
In the meantime, the shelves for cooking oils in the supermarkets are getting emptier.
The Lebensmittel Zeitung
reports that Rewe and Netto in particular are affected
.
But other supermarket chains are also noticing the bottlenecks: "There may be delays in delivery for individual products," the Schwarz Group, parent company of Lidl and Kaufland, told the
world
when asked about the cooking oils.
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Aldi has already reacted to the bottleneck: "We are no longer getting deliveries," said
a saleswoman to a customer in the Aldi market in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria , according to
Focus .
“It is now rationed so that only two liters of oil can be sold per household.”
Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord confirmed to the
world
that they would limit the amount sold per customer if demand increased.
"We cannot yet reliably foresee to what extent the availability of individual raw materials will change specifically for our range in the coming weeks or months," Aldi Süd told the newspaper.
At the same time, demand for cooking oils in Germany has risen sharply - although prices have almost doubled.
Cheap cooking oils now cost almost two euros, instead of not even one euro as before.
Do consumers hoard cooking oils to refuel their diesel in times of high fuel prices?
The ADAC* warns of this: "Vegetable oils lead to starting difficulties and have a negative effect on the performance and service life of the engine."
With material from dpa and AFP
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