The war in Ukraine is beginning to be noticed in stores and supermarkets, as this country is one of the main exporters of cereals, such as wheat or corn, and sunflower oil.

Some Spanish supermarkets have begun to ration the sale of sunflower oil, due to the excessive stocking that some consumers were doing, due

to the fear of shortages

.

Some food distribution companies

are "adopting measures to limit the sale of sunflower oil

due to atypical consumer behavior that has occurred in recent hours," Asedas, the Spanish Association of Distributors, Supermarkets and Supermarkets, points out.

This situation was already experienced in the week prior to confinement due to the pandemic,

just two years ago, in the first days of March, when a large part of consumers shot up their purchases and overstocked some products, such as toilet paper. , fearing that they would end.

Asedas is one of the associations that represent food distribution, with some 19,250 stores (70% of the food retail area).

They justify this decision of many chains to restrict the sale, or ration it, in the fact that

there is "an anomalous demand",

although this, they say, affects "a very limited number of products related to sunflower oil from Ukraine and there are alternatives both of origin and product".

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Mercadona

, for example, has limited the sale of sunflower oil in its stores to five liters per customer per day in order to guarantee normal use of its products.

They have also done Makro or Eroski, among others.

From Asedas they recall that "

the Spanish food chain is extraordinarily efficient

and has sufficient capacity" to supply the market with these products" and also point out that the Government, the affected sectors and the European institutions are working to alleviate this situation.

The war in Ukraine has created enormous uncertainty in the supply chain, given that it is one of the world's leading producers of grain and sunflower oil.

25% of Spain's imports of sunflower oil come from the Ukraine.

The distribution sector always guaranteed supply during the pandemic, although in this case the situation is different, as there is a dependency on certain raw materials that could affect the entire supply chain.

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