The supermarket company Mercadona is collaborating with those affected by the DANA through donations of essential products from its stores to town halls in ground zero and to reception centers in the city of Valencia, including the one set up in L’Alqueria del Basket.
The company reports in a statement that it is in constant contact with supportive entities such as Caritas and Food Banks of the province of Valencia to help with everything they need. Among the actions, the purchase of 200 pallets of water which have been collected directly at the facilities of the supplier Bronchales for the affected areas.
This Friday, Mercadona opened a store in Saragossaat the request of the Military Emergency Unit (EMU), so that they could supply themselves with everything they needed. For their part, the suppliers that work with Mercadona are also dedicated to solidarity aidamong them Frescos Delisano, which has enabled its facilities for the “Emergency Kitchen” initiative and can prepare 12,000 meals a day.
The company is committed to doing everything you need to be with all the affected people and calls for the solidarity of all customers to avoid unnecessary stockpiling of products.
Responsible consumption and respect near ground zero
This Saturday, Valencian supermarkets have reiterated their call for responsible consumption and have thanked the “respect” in establishments open near “ground zero”in addition to remembering that logistical transport is preferential in circulation.
This has been assured Pedro Reiggeneral director of the Association of Supermarkets of the Valencia Community (Asucova), member of Asedas (Spanish Association of Distributors, Self-service and Supermarkets). Reig has highlighted “the exemplary behavior of citizens who go to open supermarkets near ground zero”, in which in some cases “workers have had to order access due to the large influx, but always with signs of gratitude, respect and tranquility on the part of consumers “.
However, they have specified that in some establishments in the capital of Valencia and its surroundings “a stockpile purchase“. For this reason, the general director has made “a new appeal to the responsible consumption“, since “the supply is guaranteed, the logistical transport lines work and are preferential in circulation.”
From Asucova they have recalled that they are “in contact with the Generalitat and carrying out donations in palletized lots (as requested to facilitate transportation) with the products that the authorities demand.” This Saturday, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that his Executive will send 5,000 soldiers more to the affected area, where there are at least 211 dead people, and that will double up to 10,000 the number of civil guards and police in place.
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