FACUA – Consumers in Action reports that some supermarkets are raising the price of extra virgin olive oil illegally. They are increasing the price of oil by taking advantage of the tax cut imposed by the Spanish Government . The organization has published a pdf document with all the supermarkets that have carried out the study, you can find the .pdf in this link.
Analyzed supermarkets
Alcampo, Carrefour, Hipercor, Eroski, Dia and Mercadona have been required by the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 to certify that the increases have not been caused by a benefit to the margins obtained.
Analyzed cities
Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Málaga, Zaragoza, Soria, A Coruña, Almeria, Valencia, Salamanca, Linares (Jaén), Valladolid, Ourense, Tudela (Navarre), Sant Sebastià, Pontevedra, Vitoria, Eibar (Guipúscoa) and Pamplona. The study was carried out on 20 brands of extra virgin olive oil, in the formats of 750 ml, 1L, 3L and 5L. Facua has also detected price differences according to the neighborhoods where the supermarkets are located. According to reported channel 324, this price increase is not carried over to the field. “The Le farmer is being paid 75 cents less per liter” according to statements by Rubén Sánchez. Facua complains that it has found differences of up to 4.67 euros per liter in the same bottles in the same supermarket depending on the city where the virgin olive oil is bought extra
