Toilet paper, sunflower oil, flour, aluminum foil: no one wants to put the word in the mouth – but individual items have already been allocated in Styria. Especially to slow down speculators!
Metro communicates openly about the situation: “We haven’t had any delivery problems yet, but there will certainly be,” says the head office. But: “We have taken the first steps to avoid bottlenecks and, above all, speculative purchases.” With sunflower oil as an example: “If new customers come and want to buy three pallets at the same time, that will not work.”
In addition, everyone would be asked to buy sunflower oil in 10-litre containers of up to three units and in packs of up to two of 20 liters. Regular gastro customers are excluded from this. In any case, the experts assume that bottlenecks arise here, since most of Europe’s sunflowers are grown in Ukraine. However, there are currently “quotas” for flour (maximum two containers of 25 kilos) and aluminum foil: “Not because of the raw materials themselves. But there are bottlenecks in their processing.”
“No reasons for rationing”, says Spar-Styrian boss Christoph Holzer. But: “We just can’t handle large orders right now, even if they go abroad. Because for us, security of supply in Styria is our absolute focus.” Some big questions about this should have been rejected already.
Most of these are large food donations to Ukraine. Also speculative purchases – ie where large-scale purchases are made and later sold at extortionate prices – should in any case be avoided. At Lidl, for example, it is toilet paper that is only sold regionally in household quantities (five to ten packs).
Principal covered school with paper
An Upper Austrian, however, has no problems with paper or the lack of it: a school principal from Linz ordered copy paper for the next two (!) school years. Because paper already has terrible prices, and the price increase has not yet reached the ceiling. At the technical school of director Wolfgang Waxenegger, about 100,000 sheets of paper are used every year, and because the director heard that the price would increase by as much as 50 percent, he ordered two full Euro pallets, that is about 200,000 pieces of paper.
“We have saved about 500 euros per pallet and will be delivered until 2023.” If that catches on.
Source: Krone
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