8 eur per liter? I havent lived in spain for 2years already but it’s crazy that that is the price when Spaij the biggest producer of olive oil in the world, even in Austria now I can get oil for 6€ a liter, and no oil is produced here
[Austria] and no oil is produced here
Steirischer Ölkürbis: Am I a joke to you?
The olive oil you’re buying is probably stuff people in south Europe wouldn’t touch, I don’t think the comparison applies
Yeah they keep the good stuff for themselves and export the crap. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-of-us-are-blissfully-ignorant-about-how-much-rancid-olive-oil-we-use/
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Worse harvests due to a major drought in the mediterranean. Olives and Trees now get stolen. Costs are also up, so it is a terrbile mixture.
How do you steal an olive tree? I can’t imagine that it’s easy to run around with the root system.
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Ah, they’re cutting them down and selling them for wood.
As price of olive oil soars, chainsaw-wielding thieves target Mediterranean’s century-old trees
Most of the thefts are branches. When an entire tree is cut down, the thieves typically cut it up and load the pieces into a pickup truck, selling the wood to lumber yards or firewood vendors and taking the olives to an oil mill.
“The (robbers) look for heavily loaded branches and they cut them,” said Neilos Papachristou, who runs an olive mill and nearby grove in a fourth-generation family business. “So, not only do they steal our olives, but they cause the tree serious harm. It takes 4-5 years for it to return to normal.”
Welcome to the new normal, I guess
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
“We are seeing a major surge in shoplifting,” said Ruben Navarro, the CEO of Tu Super supermarket chain, which operates 30 stores in Spain’s Andalucia region.
Since September, Tu Super has been chaining large 5-litre bottles of olive oil together and padlocking them to shelves to prevent theft.
STC, a Spanish company providing anti-theft solutions to retailers, saw a 12-fold increase in orders this summer from supermarkets for devices to protect olive oil bottles, managing partner Salvador Canones told Reuters.
While thefts of olives and oil have increased especially, the measures by supermarkets also reflect a broader shoplifting surge.
Spain’s top business organisation, CEOE, said there was a 30% increase in repeated thefts targeting retailers in 2022, and a further 12% so far in 2023.
Navarro said thieves are taking advantage of lower numbers of staff in stores and shoplifters’ often abusive behaviour towards workers is exacerbating the labour shortage.
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is canola/rapeseed oil just not imported to Spain? seems like a good investment, that shit is cheeeeeap
Lots of sunflower oil used to come from Ukraine, until it didn’t. The cooking oil disruptions in Europe are close to those we had with loo paper during COVID.
bunches of oilseed grown in the US and Canada though…
