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Supermarkets put limit on how much cooking oil customers can buy
22.04.2022 - 23:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Supermarkets are limiting how much cooking oil customers can buy at once due to global shortages and soaring cost increases as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine is the world's leading exporter of sunflower oil, and Russia is number two.
Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month largely because of the ongoing conflict, with the biggest cost increases recorded for vegetable oils.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said its Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for a basket of commodities, rose by 23.2 per cent for vegetable oils, driven by higher quotations for sunflower seed oil that is used for cooking.
Now the BBC is reporting that Tesco is allowing three cooking oil items per customer, with Waitrose and Morrisons both limiting shoppers to two items each. The British Retail Consortium said the restrictions were a temporary measure 'to ensure availability for everyone', said the BBC.
Olive, rapeseed and sunflower oils are all included in the limits being put in place by some supermarkets, both in-store and online. Iceland, meanwhile, have not yet commented on pictures posted on social media of signs that have appeared in its stores limiting sales of two-litre and five-litre bottles of sunflower oil to one per customer.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Waitrose said: "We are closely monitoring the situation and working with our suppliers to ensure customers continue to have a choice of cooking oils." Sainsbury's and Asda are not currently limiting how much cooking oil their customers can buy.
A spokesperson for Sainsbury's said: "We are working closely with our suppliers to make sure customers
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We looked inside Aldi, ASDA, Tesco, Lidl, Morrisons and Sainsbury's to see which still has cooking oil
Over the past few weeks, an increasing number of supermarkets have been forced to ration cooking oil. Stores across the UK have placed limits on how much cooking oil customers can buy due to supply-chain problems caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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