This isn’t news. It’s been over $4 here ($4.69) for weeks
now. Diesel is up to $6+ here in central New York State.
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True but not sure what will happen but rising petro prices will
impact the supply chain and thus the consumer at some point.
The supply chain has already been disrupted. At the Walmart here in Rome, New York, I started seeing empty shelves at least two years before the State locked down for Covid. They moved everything around, and stopped carrying a lot of other brands that you used to be able to get there. They rely mostly on their Great Value products. I don't have access to storage to stock up on extra food, or a separate freezer other than the small one in my apartment's icebox, so ordering off their website for extra stuff isn't really an option. I don't buy Walmart's produce or meat, but get what I need at the two other grocery stores here. Even those have been low on a lot of things for quite a while. Over the past 4 years, whenever I go to this Walmart, it looks like they're having a "going-out-of-business-sale...and I've told the clerks that too.