China News Service, March 13. According to the European Union News Agency reported by the Italian European Network, as the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to be tense, a series of chain reactions such as the increase in energy prices brought about by the conflict have triggered Italian people's concerns about food and life. Concerns about sharp price hikes for essential goods.
To this end, supermarkets across Italy have seen a rush to buy daily necessities, so that supermarkets have begun to sell limited sales of scarce food and daily necessities.
Data map: People eat at outdoor tables in a bar in Rome, Italy.
According to reports, recently, affected by rising fuel prices, people from all over Italy have entered many supermarket chains to snap up food such as flour, eggs, sugar, coffee and pasta.
On the 13th local time, the bread, pasta and various canned foods in the Conrad supermarket in Rome were sold out, and even drinking water was swept away.
A few days ago, the Italian transportation industry union said that due to the recent surge in fuel costs, the transportation companies jointly decided that freight trucks will suspend service nationwide from the 14th.
People in Sardinia, southern Italy, are worried that logistics cannot be restored, which will lead to an increase in the price of daily necessities in the short term. On the 13th, there were long queues to buy vegetables, flour and daily necessities in major supermarkets in many cities on the island. Many local supermarket shelves The items on it have been sold out.
In large supermarkets in Milan, Florence and Rome, food shelves were instantly emptied.
Florence Unicom Coopers supermarket chain has to introduce a purchase restriction method, which stipulates that each customer can only buy 4 bags of sugar and 4 bottles of oil at most.
Ukraine and Russia account for the majority of global sunflower oil exports, with Ukraine alone accounting for 35 to 45 percent of EU sunflower oil refining, the European Vegetable Oils Association said.
Sunflower oil is one of the top choices for frying in the hotel, restaurant and catering industries, and sunflower oil substitutes canola, coconut, palm and soybean oils are also experiencing price spikes.
Several national retailers have started rationing sunflower oil in the Liguria, Tuscany and Veneto regions as stocks of Italian sunflower oil have dwindled in recent days.
The report said that due to the skyrocketing fuel prices, many fishermen have not gone out to fish for a week, and the supply of seafood products has plummeted, which has directly led to a 30% increase in the wholesale price of seafood.
At present, the selection of fish products in Italian supermarkets is very limited.
At present, it is almost difficult to find fresh seafood products in the seafood market of the Rome Produce Center.
According to the market monitoring data of the Italian Association of Consumer Groups, since February, the retail prices of daily necessities in Italy have increased to varying degrees, and the price of daily necessities in some areas has risen by more than 30%.
(Boyuan)