“Since Tuesday at 6 p.m., farmers have been blocking access to our distribution centers in Ollignies and Gellingen. Dry food, water and drinks leave from these distribution centers to our stores in Belgium,” Colruyt reported today. Campaigners do not allow trucks to enter or leave the site, but the stock of these products “is currently sufficient in our stores”. The staff planned for the night from Tuesday to Wednesday could not work.
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Transport of goods is currently possible from the distribution center in Halle, from where the stores were supplied with fresh products. Still, deliveries are delayed because trucks face blockages on the highways. It is therefore “inevitable that at some point products will be missing from some stores,” the group concludes. Colruyt does not venture to make precise predictions, because stocks differ per store.
Comeos, the sector federation of supermarkets in our country, wants farmers to stop blocking distribution centers. “The blockages lead to a huge amount of food waste. There are fewer fruit and vegetables in the shops, but they still produce their own products. The signal has been given, but food waste must stop.”
2024-01-31 10:19:59
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