2023-04-23 13:39:00
Orange with 6Medias, published on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 3:39 p.m.
As a result, among other things, of the drought in France, bottles of Perrier are increasingly hard to find on supermarket shelves. But the phenomenon extends to other sparkling waters, reports Europe 1, Sunday April 23.
Supermarket shelves are running out of bubbles.
Perrier, famous French brand of sparkling water, is becoming increasingly rare in stores, reports Europe 1, Sunday, April 23. The fault, in particular, with the episode of dryness which strikes France combined with the shortage of carbon dioxide.
The first reason for the discretion of Perrier bottles on the shelves is the period of drought that France is currently going through. “The real difficulty is extracting the water, because the water tables are low”, explains Frédéric Guyard, editor-in-chief of Rayon Boissons magazine. The Perrier source, located between Nîmes and Montpellier, is therefore not spared.
The San Pellegrino also affected
As a result, customers are trying to turn to alternatives, with varying degrees of success: “We try to do otherwise, we go to other brands, but it goes beyond Perrier. It also concerns the San Pellegrino, to name a few”explains Jean-Philippe Carmona, who works in events.
The other sparkling waters are also affected because of a second phenomenon: the shortage of carbon dioxide. For these artificially carbonated waters, the lack of carbon dioxide paralyzes, or at least slows down, production. “On the scale of mineral waters, in France, it’s a real tremor because Perrier represents 25% of market share.”
A problem that is likely to spread since a prospect of a return to normal does not stand out.
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