Grocery giant Tesco is the latest supermarket to ration cooking oil in the wake of the ongoing Ukraine crisis.
Rival chains Waitrose and Morrisons have already announced they were rationing shoppers, as supplies become more difficult, forcing up the price by around 20% compared to last year. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has choked off supplies of sunflower oil to the UK's food industry, as most of the UK's sunflower oil comes from Ukraine.
In order to preserve stocks for everyone, Tesco will now only allow shoppers to buy three bottles of cooking oil per person across its entire range. The UK’s biggest retailer has said it has good availability of cooking oil, but on its website a small number of vegetable oils are out of stock, including 3L bottles of sunflower oil.
