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Tips for Hunting Cheap Cooking Oil at Minimarkets

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Mothers still complain about the difficulty of getting cooking oil.

Whereas the government, in this case the Ministry of Trade, guarantees the availability of domestic cooking oil at affordable prices.

One of the policies that have been implemented is the distribution of cooking oil at a price of Rp. 14,000 per liter, which can be obtained at modern retailers.

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This policy was well received by the community. However, a new problem arises, the act of hunting for cooking oil often occurs so that stock on the cooking oil storage rack, it sells out quickly, aka empty in just a few minutes.

So, how do you try to get cooking oil so that you don’t run out of stock at retail?

Yulianti, an officer at Alfamart Kalisari, said the first tip is to come to modern retailers in the morning. According to him, the morning before the shop opened, the housewives had already started lining up to buy cheap cooking oil.

So it’s no good if you enter during the day, the stock of cooking oil is gone.

“Usually early in the morning, mothers are willing to stand in line so they can get it. So sometimes the afternoon is already sold out. Competing to come in the morning is the term,” said Yulianti to Kompas.com, Sunday (13/2/2022).

The second tip is to pay attention to the goods car, if the goods car enters, the cooking oil must be there.

Yulianti said that one of the signs that cooking oil stock was available was when a freight car came in. He said that usually a freight car would come to carry cooking oil stock every 2 to 3 days.

“Usually it’s like that but sometimes it’s uncertain. But what is certain is that when the goods car is seen unloading in front of the shop, it can be ascertained that the stock of cooking oil is available and it is unloaded from the car,” he said.

However, Yulianti said that the amount of stock is not so much. “Well, at most 4-5 cartons or 3 cartons, it’s uncertain,” he said.

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