Desperate Russians are being forced to eat out-of-date food, with supermarkets struggling to get supplies in.
The issues have now reportedly seen Vladimir Putin's Kremlin forced to step in to solve this crisis.
Reports in Russian media claim that the past their sell-by items include diary, water, beer and more.
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As a result of the items remaining on the shelves because of invasion-related supply issues and sanctions, Kremlin officials are now demanding that supermarkets introduce a new digital labelling scheme – similar to barcodes – that tracks the sell-by dates.
And it comes into force in just a few days time.
The President of the Union of Consumers of Russia, Petr Shelishch explained: “The authorities themselves understand that it is in this particular case that mandatory digital marking will be useful.
“After all, if the buyer takes an expired product from the shelf and brings it to the checkout, when scanning the digital code, a signal will appear, meaning that the product is expired and cannot be sold.
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“But I would like more: so that such goods do not fall on the counter at all.
“And so that the store employee is informed in advance – and preferably in the warehouse, in the back room of the outlet – about the expiring, say, in three days, expiration date.”
Shelishch added that rather than desperate Russians having no choice but to eat the items, anything found to be out-of-date will end up going to charity.
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A Kremlin spokesman said, just days ahead of the new scheme coming into force on Wednesday (February 1): “If the experiment is successful, then in the near future, the purchase of illegally put into circulation or expired products will be blocked by cash registers with the appropriate software.”
The new scheme comes just a few months after we reported how a mysterious unlabelled can of “mysterious meat” had been found for sale on Russian supermarket shelves – with nobody able to work out how it got there or why it was being sold.
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