Shortage of sunflower oil: “These shortages are linked to purchases in atypical quantities”

Saturday April 16, Isabelle, who lives in Claye-Souilly in the north of Seine-et-Marne, set herself a little challenge: find sunflower oil. Carrefour, Lidl, Aldi, nothing helped: this mother of two, teacher, returned empty-handed. Week after week, since the start of the war in Ukraine (the world’s largest oil producer), the shortages are getting worse. Here, it is an Internet user who posts on Twitter the photo of shelves robbed in his Carrefour Market. There is a sign at Auchan announcing “purchase restrictions” on oil and flour.