“Do you have ice?” This is a problem that is often heard in various stores, supermarkets and gas stations in Spain. In the past, the cheap ice cubes have now skyrocketed, from a bag of 1.4 Euros to a bag of 2.5 euros, so that people are nicknamed “diamonds”. Major supermarkets have also issued a “purchase restriction order”. Each person is restricted to a bag each time, but still in short supply.
First of all, the high temperature, waves of heat waves, and the prosperity of tourism and hotel industries, coupled with a large number of parties, activities, concerts and exhibitions, the market’s demand for ice cubes has greatly increased. At the same time, the rise in power prices, many ice companies have reduced the size of the ice storage in order to save costs and reduce the amount of ice storage, which has led to a decline in supply. Affected by inflation, the price of plastic packaging bags of ice cubes also rose by 20%-25%, which also greatly affected the storage cost.
“The situation of ice cubes in the shortage of ice cubes will continue for a period of time, especially the situation will be very bad. Although the company has been in recent months. Production at full load, but it is still not enough to meet the abnormal needs this summer.