I did my weekly grocery shopping this morning. I was able to buy everything I needed. But I certainly noticed some supply issues with particular products. The chicken section was depleted, with no packages of chicken breasts, cutlets or tenders. There were signs saying the limit was 3 packages of chicken. Meanwhile, the beef and pork section were fully stocked.
For the second week in a row, the canned cat food section shelves were completely empty. This is the only section at my local Wal-Mart which was bare.
When covid first entered the picture in March 2020, the demand for cleaning products and toilet paper skyrocketed, causing shortages. There currently is not a demand problem causing these shortages. This is strictly a supply issue.
Question #1 – Have you noticed shortages at your local retailers and are they widespread or sporatic?
Question #2 – Do you think these shortages will grow or be rectified shortly?
Question #3 – Are those in power purposely trying to create havoc and chaos in the supply chain as part of their Great Reset agenda?
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The issue is currently sporadic in Central KY, but there are empty shelves or product is only 1 item deep where there is product. I don’t see the situation getting better. Everyone in a position to do something about it is either doing nothing or says that the problem is not there.
Pete was on maternity leave for 12 weeks during the cargo ship backup and not only didn’t come to work, but he didn’t even have anyone in charge to deal with things in his absence.
Brandon couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a flashlight.
Kammala hasn’t got anything more going for her than a cackle. Can’t get supplies by cackling.
Jab mandates for truckers, truckers retiring or quitting, shortfall on truckers to work, and CA regulations that keep older trucks out of CA limiting the ability to have trucks and drivers to unload cargo ships and move containers in and out of CA.
Talking to Meat Dept managers and stock clerks and they confirm that the supply chain is not getting better. Frequently orders are short filled.
How do things get better? Change your paradigm to ‘they are doing it to incite an actual insurrection’ and everything makes sense.
Let’s Go Brandon!
Have a friend who works for the HEB supermarkets here in Texas. Her manager told her to stock up on pet food, that the supply was going to be limited for awhile now. Ditto for many other products, seems the issues range from lack of containers (most plastic comes from evil petroleum products) to lack of workers, to vax mandates to truckers not being readily available to playing catch-up after all the Covid restrictions to fertilizer shortages and other issues. Saw where one feed store owner was saying that l-lysine is in very short supply and that’s needed in pet food manufacturing.
Then you have frozen potato product shortages, a precursor to how bad it is going to get…
Read and weep…
I live in Northern Virginia. My daughter is a manager at a Harris Teeter grocery store in Falls Church City (a Realtor told me about 5 years ago that Falls Church City has the highest household income in the country compared to any other city (it is a VERY small city)). My daughter has been telling me she has increasingly been giving refunds for items that were purchased after the Sell By date. This means many of the items on the shelves have already expired by the time the customer purchased them. She says the labels are already on the items when they take delivery. She also told me that she has had to tell customers that the trucks/deliveries are increasingly not keeping up with demand. I seldom shop there but am going to today just to see what it looks like. On another note, I just paid $16 for 2 chicken breasts the other day.
Honk honk. I don’t give a shit anymore. I hope the truckers bring an end to this whole fucking charade.
“I don’t give a shit anymore.”
Getting there too.
Why do I get downvotes when those aren’t even my words??? SMH
bc you got people – don’t worry… we all do
I see a few others agreed with GNL, but when Abby does…welp, then here comes the dv’ers. I swear, we got some children around here.
AA,
Who cares about downvotes? Just be true to yourself. All of us, guaranteed, have learned from each other and have taught each other from time to time.
Don’t let the downvotes cut too close Abby…
and if it matters I’m not a child unless I’m dealing with sparky and even that has gotten old real fast…
View the downvotes as character builders.
I look at them as my annoyance factor.
It means somebody who disagrees with me values my opinion enough to rate it.
Just down voted you, Dan. Fine post, and I wanted to make “we all do” be factual. Looking out for you, buddy. 😉
thanks, appreciate it
I’m your first UV
That is pretty funny. Maybe time to change your handle?
You are just lucky!
http://www.eatwild.com/products/virginia.html
A list of Virginia farmers who offer meat cuts and meat bundles. You will have to vet them to ensure they are 100 percent grass-fed.
Thank yeeeeew.
you got Joel Salatin right there. I guarantee he is 100% grassfed. He’s like one of the top ‘sustainable’ farming evangelists – Christian, does farm tours. His first book (I think) was titled “Everything I want to do is illegal” what more do you want?
Bunch of bougie fags. Expired food is the best – except dairy.
my dad always used that sour milk to make the best pancakes.
That reminds me of my bil. He would smell the milk before drinking, even if it had clumps. He is now my late bil. Correlation is not causation, or the other way around. It was still odd to watch.
we used to bow hunt -up nort- and stay at a friends parents.. they were class B – the flies on that morning pitcher of milk ( straight from the milk tank) were disturbing… but usually not as disturbing as the hangover from the previous night.
(re: correlation vs. causation)
Where’s up-nort?
Other side of ’round yonder.
Duh!
I worked/stayed just outside of Falls Church, is that the same as Falls Church City?
Don’t forget Uncle Brandon is inviting a couple hundred thousand new guests for dinner each month
Sell by date on MOST ITEMS just doesn’t matter. I have cans of food well past the date and are just fine. Swollen or leaking cans must be discarded, not even opened at all.
Found a two yogurts in the depths of our fridge yesterday. Same brand and flavor, same expiration date: 12/27/21. I must have bought them on the same day. I figured, let’s just see what the smell test shows. One smelled horribly and the other one smelled and looked fine. Tossed the first, ate the other. So far no ill effects. I must have a stomach of steel!
Don’t mix tuna and mayo, leave it in the fridge for over a week, then make a sandwich with it. What happens next, you will NOT find entertaining, trust me. My wife, however, enjoyed telling me “I told you not to eat that”……….
Yes, there are shortages here in NE Georgia but, not quite to the degree that is depicted in your pictures.
I believe the supply chain issues will get worse as food has always been a way for the oligarch’s to create control over its peoples. I do think that it is a precursor to the great reset.
Yes, here the same. Small market chains seem worse.
$16 for 2 chicken breast! Dang.
I personally cannot eat store chicken anymore (yuck) and I’m not a picky eater.
We buy local meat which is, of now, not more expensive than store Chinese meat. Good idea to scope the farmers/ranchers out. (Buy direct if possible).
This manufactured crisis is an excellent opportunity for local food producers to step up, fill a need, and make some $ that will stay local. I’m an optimist that always sees opportunity in trouble and that optimism has served me well over the years.
Please advise where I can find these places.
store chicken… fecal soup from tyson
I wonder what broiler chicks will cost this spring.
Cappers have gone up from 1.99 to 3.99 to help keep them away from the unvaccinated.
I hoarded earlier and moved on to red onions. I use water and vinegar to soak to take away the strong taste. Then add them to my salad.
Look up high quercetin foods. I do wonder about the Sardinia diet if it’s full of them and like foods?
Capers, not cappers. Sheesh, had me going for a minute there, cappers the new and improved….whatever.
Haven’t noticed any shortages in London, On. That might change in short order, however, with Canada and US governments preventing unvaxxed truckers from crossing the border.
Are those in power purposefully doing this? These are evil people but they’re also stupid. So, who knows?
N. Idaho. No issues or very sporadic.
boundary county Idaho. very few shortages but some brands are gone and about 5% of the shelves are thin in stock.
Central Florida area, shortages on cat food big time in all stores. They had one flavor yesterday with a two can limit @ 1.25, ended up getting shitty can tuna for same price, they’re not even my cats but all of Gods creatures, the homeless guy gave me a big bag of dry food for them.
Meat dept has had issues for months and it’s getting worse. The two for 5.00 coffee bags are gone, now two for 6.00, glad I stocked up on them and tea for the last 6 months, sitting pretty good. Can soup section 30% filled and outrages prices.
I go shopping every Sat whether I need to or not, trying to front run inflation, just pick up extra stocks. The prices are going up a lot and I don’t see it stopping anytime soon.
I think this year we’re going to see prices skyrocket in all sectors because of input costs. I’m seeing this at work, I have access to what stuff cost 10-20% increases and it’s getting scary.
The worst part is everyone I know except TBP’s is just going about as if everything is okay. I’m at the point now not giving a shit anymore like GnL. I think the truckers are doing a great thing, but pain is going to follow for everyone.
amen…
It comes and goes down here in the dirty Verde. I do notice a general lack of products at the rite aid and wal greens. A couple weeks ago our bashes had no milk, creme cheese, eggs, or butter.
I feel as if this is all part of their plan. The chip shortage is probably BS. Right now off in some desert, away from prying eyes, TLPTB are probably mass producing fleets of driverless trucks. That way, sometime soon they will have eliminated their Achilles heal.
I never thought the leafs would lead the way. Congrats Canada on showing us TLPTBs soft underbelly. This trucker blockade should be used on every capitol of every state that pushes the dystopian jab mandate. If we all unite behind this we may be able to roll some of it back.
There may only have a short time to press this advantage before they roll out their A_I self driving fleet. At that point we can saboteur and destroy the trucks, which will result in a complete cut off of deliveries to high resistance locales. Then as the stores across the entire continent empty out, they will blame it all on deplorable science deniers, backed by Putins KGB. Don’t think they haven’t thought this through.
Driverless trucks will be stopped in the street with mannequins placed for that and then looted. Even their diesel will be taken.
The day after the Canadian truckers took off, one of the MSM news stories was about driverless trucks they are testing in Houston to Dallas runs.
Q1. No, the stores in my town are fully stocked. I have never seen a shortage except TP in 2020.
Q2. No it will not continue. I work for a company that delivers to every grocery store in the country every week. We have no problems with products or delivery. In fact our business has never been better. We have done an amazing job at finding alternative routes to get products in to over 40k stores per week. It will get better as time goes on not worse.
Q3. They may try but that just makes them a stupid as Bloomberg when he said “what’s so hard about farming? You plant seeds and pick the fruit when it’s ripe.” Supply Chain is by far one of the most complex businesses I have ever worked in. And to put that in to perspective, I am an electrical engineer that worked in the telecommunications industry for 30 years. I made the mistake Bloomberg made when I joined supply chain. I was woefully wrong!
So your saying we will not have shortages?
No I am not saying there will not be shortages. There will be but most of the shortages will come from products made in China and it will be targeted shortages not widespread shortages.
Where is your town? So long as certain politicians retain power it WILL continue, 90% of the ‘shortages’ are due to the actions of politicians. Get rid of them and things will most definitely improve.
I don’t disagree with your point however, as evil as the politicians are, they still need to be re-elected and if their actions cause widespread shortages, there will be a price to pay. And as dumb as they are about most things, they do know this thing.
One word–Dominon
With voting machines in charge of counting the votes, re-election is moot.
It is easy to blame the greedy suppliers or retailers and these ratbastards are masters at shifting blame.
Supply Chain is by far one of the most complex businesses…
especially when the products are perishable.
stats without details are useless. 4ok stores. okay great. specifically grocery? are these store concentrated to regions/states/urban/rural. What products exactly do you source? fruits/veggies and fresh foods? processed? frozen? canned? have these products been coming from across borders from Mx and Can? were your beliefs this wont continue based on information prior to the implementation of these border mandates?
for being an engineer, you give lousy details, unfortunately. it is no wonder you had such difficulties in supply chain.
Are you an engineer? Have you ever had a course in linear programming (logistics)
asking for a tro- er… friend.
and YES is the answer to your next question
The virus is spreading…
Nick told me that Nova Scotia invented a brand new law against cheering for this convoy.
This is all so unthefuckbelievable it is hard to believe. We really see this from a great distance here. As if it is happening on another planet.
One that is round.
Or not.
You may not have seen my question regarding nukes the other day, or you may have and ignored it.
Either way, am curious if you think there have never been nuclear weapons or if you think they are all destroyed/inactivated now.
1. Sporadic – far worse a year or so ago
2. Will definitely get worse before better
3. EVERYTHING that has been done has been done to destroy the global economy so that TPTB can “build it back better.” They are not pulling minor, specific levers, but instead huge levers and we are seeing the outcome. The economy, especially the growing of crops and livestock for food, is not something you can simply “turn off and turn back on” like a light switch. Once off, the wave of ramifications will hit everyone eventually, and they have been turning it on and off like a 2 year old pretending its a strobe light.
Grocery store I use is and has been abundantly stocked. But prices have gone up considerably.
However, friends of mine in a blue state say the stores look like a 3rd world country.
Here in rural Nevada, we have three grocery stores, I don’t shop Krogers due to their Vax. policy for their employees.
That leaves Walmart or Albertson’s. I only purchase a few items at Walmart, decaf coffee has been out of stock except smalls cans. Other items sporadic, there grape juice, has gone up about 30% and few on the shelves. I noticed eggs and dairy has gone up in 25% range. We have hens so I only price eggs there. There are large gaps in some sections.
Albertson’s overall well stocked, but there are empty sections. I noticed quality nuts get bought up as soon as shelves
are stocked. Produce well stocked, beef,pork and chicken many items get sold out. You have to buy sale items quick as they sell out.
Lastly and don’t laugh. I buy some food items at Dollartree, soups, mixes etc. still a dollar an item, place looks like it has been looted a couple days after restocking.
I’ve written about how we pick up aged out baked goods and produce from a supermarket to feed the hogs. The amount of food-90% of which is perfectly fine except for cosmetic or other minor issues- that is discarded by one small grocery store in one little town is staggering to witness. The main cause of these discards are simply poor ordering- usually someone in corporate HQ in a city thousands of miles away controlling what each store gets regardless of what sales require. That’s why we see the exact same kinds of product in similar quantities being DX’ed every single week of the year. Sorry to get off track, but I wanted to fill in the background by way of qualifying the next observation.
I walk through the back of the supermarket and see everything in there and no what they carry, where it is stored and what’s coming in and out. We use the same loading dock as the suppliers and know most of them by name at this point. We always say hello, some minor pleasantries and go about our business and try to be as quick and efficient as possible, but lately there have been major changes and people want to tal about it.
1) Grocery stores are now working on about 60% of the staffing they had going into the Covid hoax. The seafood, butcher shop and deli sections are all now shuttered with signs reading “due to staffing shortage the deli/butcher counter is now closed “. I have no idea how much that has put a crimp into former sales- we don’t take meat or fish discards so I don’t track the waste- but both the salad and hot bars that were big draws have also been closed for a year and a half, so it has to be substantial. That would indicate that sales are down which means the stores go further back of the line in terms of what is shipped.
2) Can’t find truckers. That’s from the guys who still deliver. Most of them are gone from a year ago, there’s only a couple I know lately and most of the replacement guys jam up the system when they come because they don’t know where things go, or understand the ropes, not to mention the turnover. The old shipping/receiving guy who knew everything is gone and his third replacement in the last year just quit so it’s basically assistant managers trying to fill in on that end. It’s a cluster and because of the shortage of labor and the non-familiarity with where everything goes the back of house is a slowly decaying mess. Things aren’t being cleaned and stocked properly and it is starting to look a little threadbare.
3) The giant floor to ceiling racks that line the walls behind the sales floor are at about 35% capacity. 2 years ago they were not only full, there were always new u-boats and palettes staged and waiting to replenish if any hole opened up. It hasn’t looked like that in a long time and it looks thinner every week.
4) Last year at the peak of the flu mania, the store brought in a company to remodel the store; new floors and displays, new paint, all kinds of plexiglass dividers, mostly cosmetic changes, but a big remodel by any standard. They didn’t fix any of the back of house necessities like a new cooler door for the produce locker that’s been in bad shape for years, the huge trash compactor piston broke last Spring and has been sitting there packed with year old trash ever since and the loading dock is a disaster, always packed with empty dairy flats, soda palettes, etc. In other words they not only knew about the changes in supply coming, they knew about it well in advance of the flu to have come up with the plans and all the pre-contracting requirements that far back. What did all the cosmetic things address? Mostly making displays appear full even with very little in them, sort of like a grocery store version of the push-up bra. Not that I’m opposed to conserving on the stocking time and the wastage that comes along from putting everything out, just that it oddly coincided with shortages in everything. Add to that the new display systems for dry goods- fake, glossy high resolution images in full size of the item you want, often fronting for an empty shelf behind it. I looked for razors and aluminum foil a couple of weeks back and there was neither of either.
5) Package re-sizing. Everything is being scaled down. A box of crackers that previously held 6 sleeves now has only four, 50% reduction, 20% price increase. I know what came in what size boxes after having opened a couple hundred thousand of them over the years and I can clearly see that almost everything has been scaled back with drastic price increases.
My guess is- judging from this store- that it will soon become another dinosaur and go extinct. Supermarkets will be closed up, smaller chains first, right on up the food chain until you have fast food or WalMart to choose from as far as it comes to eating. They’ve ruined most restaurants and the ones clinging to life are just one more crisis away from shuttering for good, at least anything that isn’t part of a conglomerate or a tony restaurant frequented by the wealthy.
I’m thinking this is going to be the new plan going forward. Get people used to having less and keep on adjusting things down until there are fewer options, less places available and a higher return for producers on the top.
Soviet Era supermarket line…note the product availability? Note the lines? Now comes issues with animal feed as well, stock up if you have livestock.
Poor child, you really need to study history. You think Venezuela started out like the Soviet Union? Ditto Cuba. Anytime you get the communists in power you get food shortages and the US is getting real communist these days.
…you and your ilk are exactly the reason for the demise of this once fine republic.
That sounds like a baseless claim to me, but I’m always looking to have my mind changed by new information.
Care to elaborate on your premise?
I’ve been reading your posts for the last couple of weeks, anon, and I can’t quite figure out if you’re a conservative, a progessive, or just an antagonist.
There are three main reasons we have been members of a local farmshare: we support a local farm that a family has farmed for 11 generations, we get delicious, healthy organic produce, but maybe most importantly, their demand for membership has gone up so much that I would not be surprised that next year or later they will limit it to those that have been farmshare members in the last few years. Supporting them now is the best foot in the door for future years.
I’m selling a lot of rabbits these days… Taking seven to Rural King in Farmington tomorrow…
I’m going to offer my Flemish Giants “special order” for interested rabbit breeders. After LLPOH introduced me to the Giants in Australia, I did some investigating and found some Flemish Giants near Paducah, KY. (Next trip, Bea… we’ll meet)
My goal is to raise lionshead bunnies the size of small lions.
Gotta go… JC is livestreaming.
https://www.twitch.tv/gigaohmbiological
Is it not difficult for you to butcher them? I mean, they are cute looking lions.
I do not butcher the ones I use as breeding rabbits. The kits of the giant are purebreds and I will keep some and sell others as pets.
The ones I keep to breed with my meat does will also be my backyard rabbits, which means they will die a natural death. But the ones in the barnyard hutches will eventually be butchered or sold and that is how I “distance” myself from the food. About 200 yards to the barnyard.
If I manage to breed the lionsmane doe with one of the “young” Flemish Giants, they will be sold as pets too. They are cute as all get out!
The little brown lionsmane is the orphan I placed with the Giant’s kits at two weeks, when their eyes opened. (I bred the Silver Queen same day as the Giant was bred so I’d have a spare lactating female, just in case.)
This one was part of the family, even as they grew, but when I discovered it was a female, I traded it for an identical male. Guess what? That Giant Mom knew I’d made a switch.
I needed a flush valve gasket for a toilet. Lowe’s store was out of stock, but could have one delivered to the store in 2 weeks. AMZN got it to me in 2 days… Still, 9 bucks for a 2″ rubber (r whatever) ring seems pricey.
Sporadic in Minneapolis. I was in the Bay Area earlier this month and didn’t notice any shortages. They’re near to where fruits and vegetables are grown and we’re near to poultry and pork production. I think shortages are probably worse in the East.
I usually buy our groceries at the same Aldi in MA. I usually buy the same items, so I would notice price increases and shortages.
Prices have increased notably, I would estimate 25% over the last 6-12 months. A 16 oz box of baby leaf greens was always $3.79, then went in 10 cent increments to $4.29. Not enough to break the bank, but it is noticeable.
In spring and summer 2021, there would be an occasional item that was not available, but it was rare. I remember popcorn being out for 3 weeks in a row and when I mentioned it to the cashier, he said that they just never got any on the truck for weeks on end.
The wheels have really fallen off in the last 4 weeks I would say. About 25% of the items I usually buy are gone. It changes from day to day, so you never know which exact items aren’t there. Could be our favorite bread one day and then garbage bags the other day. As a result, I have totally changed my shopping habits. I just buy a bunch of those items that ARE there, stocking up when I can. For example, there was no honey ham for 3 weeks straight, so when they did have some last weekend, I bought 5 packages and froze 4 of them. With that strategy, we have not had to change our consumption habits yet, but I am waiting for the shelves to be completely empty at a moment’s notice.
When I mentioned it to the cashier, he says that it is a result of multiple issues: usually, they get two delivery trucks every day, but recently it has only been one. Plus, sometimes they are so short staffed that they do not have the manpower of getting inventory onto the shelves because the stockers are also the cashiers.
Speaking of staffing shortages, I went to Target today and noticed that they do not even issue shirts to their employees any more. They are all simply told to wear a red top, any kind. So they are wearing all different kind of hoodies, Tshirts or sweaters in various shades of red. All of the employees appear to be college aged or younger. I swear, I think they ran the whole Target with red shirted high schoolers.
1. It’s hit & miss here in the Wild, Wild West. The shelve aren’t bare, but there are a lot of holes. There’s also a lot of “frontloading” going on, where the few available products are being lined up toward the front edge of the shelves to hide the empty space behind them. What I’m also noticing is things like smaller cuts of meat at higher prices. The meat lockers are full because people are seeing the prices and saying “F*CK THIS!” Gas prices are in low-Earth orbit. So are the costs of electricity and natural gas. A “forty-pounder” propane tank that cost $19.00 to fill last winter costs between $25.00 and $27.00 to fill this winter.
2. The shortages won’t go away until the means reaches the end.
3. Yes. See answer to Question 2.
If you’ll notice, folks, the only thing that hasn’t gone up in price is alcohol. Why’s that? Could it be that “our betters” want us drunk, stupid, and entertained so we won’t notice what they’re up to; a modern take on “bread and circuses?” Don’t fall for it! Stay sober, stocked up, and well armed!
Alcohol is really, really cheap to produce. Almost all the cost is tax. Next would be marketing and packaging. Unless tax goes up, you are unlikely to notice price increases as the impact of a 10% increase on the actual alcohol would be peanuts of the overall price.
Stock up on alcohol, tobacco, (and firearms), bic lighters, tampons (great for pluggin gunshot wounds until you get to a friendly vet).
Most of the necessities will become de-facto money.
Same as Soviet Union, hard to get food, but Vodka was cheep and plentiful. Socialism 101….
Tallahassee has human food but chicken feed just went from $8 to $19 yoy; hay from $35 to $75; fertilizer from $400 to $1,000; twenty 1X6 fence boards just cost me $400 and he was out of 2X6; galvanized nails are $3.00/lb (I think they were less than a dollar); seed has doubled.
That might explain why Aldi has been out of their normal 99 cent a pound chickens. The space is there, the price is shown, the chickens are absent.
Costco still sells their loss leader rotisserie chickens for $5.
Walmart moved up to $7.88 for a small rotisserie chicken. Family size is more (no idea, they were out ).
Washington State here. Most winters on the ‘coast side’ north of Seattle where I am right now, spring and summer in eastern WA at my little homestead. Stocked up on nails long ago, but light on fence boards. Reused some to rebuild back yard fence with rotted posts by cutting fence height from six feet to four. Too scared to check out local lumber yard prices! Haven’t been to the ranch since fall, but drought really hammered pastures and local ranchers are struggling. Grocery stores? Did a test run for ye olde Nabisco saltines a week ago. None at three chain groceries near me – empty shelves with gourmet crackers alongside. Finally found one lone package at a Costco. Last one. Sent pals to look for saltines at stores on the Olympic Peninsula — that’s far west near the ocean –and in the little eastern WA town of Oroville. NO saltines on the Oly Penn, but local Oroville supermarket had them with their in store brand. Interesting. I read that we are using grain stores – read that flour, etc – in a big way and we are a season behind on replenishing them. Fertilizer shortages, if they continue, will be serious for grain crops and livestock feed. Also noticed there were NO packaged potatoes mixes of any kind at my local grocery. Pasta from strange places too.. Also very small selection of baking mixes.
We do a lot of tear downs and demos on places around here- lake house tear downs, dilapidated barns, old docks- and repurpose the materials instead of putting it in landfill. You would not believe the amount of free material available if you don’t mind hunting around for these jobs. You just need a place to store what you pull and you’re set.
Of course there’s things you have to buy. Not much you can do about that.
A 2,500 box of 3 inch GRK’s is going for $150 this past week. Saw a used pickup truck on Craigslist (20K mileage) going for $90,000. No joke.
“Saw a used pickup truck on Craigslist (20K mileage) going for $90,000. No joke.” OMG!! Crazy!
Cut the propaganda bull shit all shortages are deliberate !
I bought shrimp from Argentina , blueberries from Chili , tomatoes from Mexico , pork and beef from the US but chicken , frozen veggies and some dairy products produced within 500 miles are scarce .
Maybe cut the cost of fuel by increase production
If you have ever entered walmart just before the night stockers (not to be confused with Hunter, the night stalker)have come in, then you probably have seen some empty or low stocked shelves. More recently however, I have seen what appears as the same situation, a lower amount of stock on the shelves at any time of the day. Nothing glaring in shortages just low stock of this and/or that. To answer #2. Things will get worse. I won’t go out on a limb and specify because of the things in play, but I lack confidence in the outcome. #3 If they are not trying to f… things up, then I have to think this is the best they can do. Either way, oh f…
A1.
There have been some. What I have noticed is more fresh meat getting slashed in price “if enjoyed today”. Maybe it has something to do with restaurants not running at full capacity and not buying “fresh”. Not sure….
A2.
The shortages will grow if one insists on looking in the same place. Better to build a relationship with local farmers who can provide the food one needs. And like in Soviet times it is best to start a garden of your own for the other produce. Get outta dodge and work a plot of land. If that can’t be done, well, offer one’s labour for the food you require. Farmers always have fences to mend and cows to punch.
A3.
It is done on purpose. even though it is the height of delusion to think that one can build back better by burning the house down to save it from fleas. That has to be a tough sales pitch when one can drive down the road and become friends with a farmer.
I’m in South Florida, and the only actual ‘major shortage’ I’ve seen has been half-and-half dairy creamer, which vanished from many store six or eight weeks ago, and only recently came back.
We haven’t seen any shortages in ID, MT, NM, and AZ. We were wondering if the problems were more common in high density urban areas (although we haven’t seen any shortages in Phoenix either). This is definitely a problem created by bad policies. Since they never seem to correct bad policies, it will probably get worse.
In the middle of doing some reno’s in order to get wifes parental units back home…
Contractor that laid tile in the bathroom went an bought a sheet of 3/4 melamine to make a couple ends for the vanity to sit on, until I can frame a carcus in the spring. I paid $35 a sheet in October, he paid $115 before tax and thats the contractor pricing.
I knew wood prices were going to take a jump so I bought the wood for a ramp back in October. I paid roughly 7000 and the contractor just said add another 2000 if I were to buy it today. And its going to go up further.
Everything is going up… no surprises. the fake never holds up, it always crashes…
Question #1 – Have you noticed shortages at your local retailers and are they widespread or sporatic?
Yes, sporatic but expanding. Zero sausage last week, but 1 lb. bacon ok; this week reversed. Bread went from .88 to 1.38 and stocks are 1/3; coffee from $10 to 12; frozen french fries tots, hash browns, extremely low inventory for the past month or more. All in all, price incr. are between 20 and 30%
Question #2 – Do you think these shortages will grow or be rectified shortly?
They will grow.
Question #3 – Are those in power purposely trying to create havoc and chaos in the supply chain as part of their Great Reset agenda?
Without question this is purposely done. The only debate is- who and why…..and that leads to the only explanation that makes any sense to me, one with a supernatural author.
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As elite establishment political figure Henry Kissinger remarked in 1970, “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”
I live in an American county centered between the counties to my east and west, just north of the county to my south and southwards of the county to the north of where I live. My wife went grocery shopping yesterday so I asked her today if there were any empty shelves and she said “no”. Not yesterday, at least, at the stores where she shopped. She did notice one store’s rotisserie chickens had increased 30% in price since last weekend, though. FWIW.
In Beaufort SC we shop at Publix, period (waiting on a new HarrisTeeter to be built); in Charleston at HarrisTeeter & EarthFare around 30% of the time, Publix 70% as it’s a 1 minute drive from our condo.
In all stores the sports drink shelves are never more than 20-25% full. Tomato juice is out of stock most of the time. Plenty of V-8® though. Have not seen a bottle of Resveratrol in those for over a year. Canned veg shelves are usually 20% empty. Limit 1 on TP & paper towels. Organic grassfed half & half usually out of stock. We order Maltipoo puppy food online.
No shortage of wine or liquor, thank God. Ditto for meat(s).
It’s not going to get any better. As for a conspiracy, who knows. But, it has all the hallmarks of one.
Resveratrol easily available online.
Listening to a Tim Poole podcast about a week or more he said something that I found was interesting. Lives out in the boonies, 20 minutes between two cities(lol). He stated some of his staff live and shop in either of these cities, one is a red the other a blue city. And I have no idea where he lives.
He was saying that those living and shopping in the blue city are seeing shortages and those in the red cities are not. It could be vice versa I can’t remember. Is there anything to this???
If so it could be shortages in blues cities, is my guess, because of the militant masking/vax mandates. Truck drivers will just refuse to drive into those places with mandates and following will be shortages. Red cities, no mandates… less shortages.
Anyone else see this???
I work in supply chain in Europe. There are plenty of goods moving all the time but there are specific issues with particular products, manufacturers, distributors, and transport routes that create specific shortages. E.g. first week in January some companies had lots of “omicron cases” which caused them to slow down or limit production. Most of these are resolved but these sorts of issues keep arising from time to time and place to place. It’s not a systemic collapse, but I expect to see less variety and higher prices on retail shelves over the next few years.
Sporadic here but prices going up so fast you can almost stand there and watch as they change. There hasn’t been anything I needed that I couldn’t get except raspberry vinegar which is definitely a first world problem.
I think the shortages will grow because it benefits TPTB. Hungry people can be bribed. At least that’s what has worked in the past.
In answer to #3, I think that’s part of their plan but I’m not sure it’s going to work.
FYI, someone brought up the chip problem. Cisco and various companies that compete with them have had their chip orders diverted by the Biden administration to the vehicle manufacturers and health care. Orders that were destined to go to one area of the supply chain has been diverted to another area of the supply chain. So companies that were trying to upgrade their hardware will now have to wait possibly as long as 2 years to complete those projects. How do I know? My husband is a project manager for one of those companies that does the hardware upgrades.
Sporadic
Keep a light in the window
The last time I looked, the main issue is that people have changed their buying patterns substantially, due to the “pandemic”. People are buying less services and more product. The result is that there is much greater demand for products.
When you increase demand significantly across the entire range of products in a short period of time, the supply chain will hiccup. The demand for more mobile phones will affect the supply of chicken, for instance. It is hard to see the connection, but it is there. The higher demand for mobile phones will result in resources transferred to the handling and distribution thereof, and those resources will come from all across the supply chain. Demand for truck drivers will increase, truck driver wages will increase, and truck drivers will be faced with the decision as to whether they prefer to drive trucks full of squawking, stinking, shitting chickens to meat processing plants, or trucks full of mobile phones to the nice clean Amazon warehouse. Gee, I wonder what the answer is. And so chickens become difficult to get through the supply chain, even though chicken demand itself may not have changed.
Then of course chicken farmers must increase the price they pay for transport to recruit drivers who would naturally prefer to truck phones, all else being equal. That forces up chicken prices. Some chicken farmers will go out of business, as they may not be able to sustain the higher costs. Or they may be paid in 90 days and the truckers need immediate payment, and the chicken farmers do not have the cash flow. Or there are contracts in place where the farmers are stuck with a certain price. Etc etc etc.
And on it goes, across the entire supply chain.
There are many issues at play, such as the govt paying more for people not to work, high absentee rates, unlimited printing of money, etc etc etc but the biggest one is the shift of buying patterns from service to products, which has jammed up the entire supply chain. It will eventually sort itself out, but the increased prices may be here forevermore.
1. Not only shortages of food items, but have also had problems getting spray paint for the wife’s hobbies. Mgr at Hobby Lobby told me he might get 25% of his spray paint order filled each week. Went to Sherwin Williams for some latex wall paint and they did not have the pure white base to mix up a gallon for me. Nearest store that had a limited supply was 30 min away and were charging a 6% “supply chain” charge to every ticket. Grandson loves canned biscuits and they are extremely hard to find. A lady in front of me at Wally World last week took the whole flat of biscuits.
2. Shortages are only going to get worse as the supply chain gets further eroded. Company vaxx mandates are causing a lot of people to retire early or to find another job. Many production facilities that has an employee test positive takes the line down for an extensive cleaning and mandates quarantine for any employee who has come in contact.
3. I think it is obvious by their actions that they are determined to bring down the whole thing so they can Build Back Better. Nothing else explains the idiotic rules/mandates.
Question #1 – Have you noticed shortages at your local retailers and are they widespread or sporatic? Here in the KC metro area (Olathe, O-LAY-THA), I’ve seen Walmart have empty shelves in the bread, milk, orange juice, cat food, paper towel and TP areas for the past 6 months. Most of the local grocery chains are pretty good at keeping things on the shelves, some are better than other. Prices are WAAY up on everything. Bacon prices are over $6; rose by $3 in the past year. Prego pasta sauce has risen $1 in a year. Even the Dollar Store has raised prices; the base price is now $1.25. Bought a 1/4 cow this winter, enough GB and steaks for a year (household of 2 adults). We’ve been shopping more at Aldi as it has the best prices around, even better than Walmart and the quality is great.
Question #2 – Do you think these shortages will grow or be rectified shortly? It will get far worse before it gets better. Note: I am natural pessimist.
Question #3 – Are those in power purposely trying to create havoc and chaos in the supply chain as part of their Great Reset agenda? Yes. Chaos and confusion now make it easier to force people to COMPLY to whatever is coming.
Not very smart and your a genius !
I know shortages on shelves start appearing 72 hours after trucks stop rolling regardless of why
At the equivalent of Kroger, with the exception of Kleenex and frozen fish, which were empty, the aisles were packed. The problem(?) Is that $20 packages of meat were slashed by 25% because they were going past the sell by date. The discount slashed by 50% in the produce section. They had plenty of stock at regular price, but I saw more than one person shake their heads as if to say NFW am I paying that.
Will it continue? At this rate, yes.
Was it by design? Who knows? That sit could go either way. Hungry people can become compliant, because they want to be fed. They can also become defiant. If sleepy Joe gets to eat, so should I. Would we really do guillotine justice again?
What ever shortages you are seeing now is nothing compared to what is coming. We now have a government that rules by panic, and Covid is about burned out as a method to create that panic. Shortages will be the next ploy to keep the sheep in a panic state. The great thing about shortage panics is they are self fulfilling prophecies. All the government needs to do to create shortages is to have the lying traitor media announce there is a shortage and the public will panic, and hoard, creating the shortage. So long as we are in a panic state, they can feel safe we will never unite and hold them responsible for their crimes and treason against the American people.
It is everywhere, all around the World, some days no chicken but Beef is ok, somedays no Taco shells and Toilet paper, Fish and Veggies seem Ok. I could not buy rice for three weeks, This week Noodles are none existent. Cooking oil is expensive but Beef is for royalty, and even they cant get it some weeks. Kitchen paper is this weeks missing Item along with flour.
I have a good Pantry and freezer but both are emptying as these shortages happen.
Word of advice Line up before the shops open because the vultures do.