N-TV had this short update today, and talked over a perceived shortage of fruit and vegetables....in Germany.
So to the blunt nature of this story. A fair amount of winter fruit and vegetables sold in German grocery stores....comes from Spain/Portugal. In the past month, entry rules have been established and the slow-down of delivery of trucks has started to occur. NO one is saying it's a big deal yet (I need to emphasize that part of the story).
The trucker has to present at the border....a certificate that he's been tested in the past 72 hours. As the journalist says....it's not really a practical thing to accomplish now.
The government folks not really grasping how the delivery system works, and the trucker-mechanism? That's really part of the bigger story.
What the story is leading onto....it's a trend, and you probably will start to notice over the next month....certain grocery shelves will be mostly empty instead of mostly full. German fruit and vegetables will be no issue, but they usually don't start appearing in abundance until mid-spring to late-fall.
Pricing to go up? No one says that....just that the logistical system isn't designed to function with the ban-rules that exist.
The sad thing here is that this whole issue will turn into a chat-forum for public TV in Germany, and five guys will waste an hour explaining how fruit gets picked up in Spain, and moved to grocery operations in Germany. Politicians will stand there in utter amazement that they never really thought much about how they get fresh blackberries in January, and how the trucks fit into this whole thing.
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