People are stocking up on things they believe will be in shorter supply in the future. It may account for a slight rise in prices but the food producers right now aren’t having problems filling the grocery store shelves.
slight rise in prices but the food producers right now aren’t having problems filling the grocery store shelves.<<<
Here in the Kingman, Az area, we are finding that things we have bought for months is not in stock, and I mean the common items, that are on the list every month.
And yes, the prices are going up.
I have seen what the only large market in this town looked like with all the shelves bare, during the Truckers strike in the late 1970’s.
The Store Manager was hauling all he could from Las Vegas, over a 100 miles away, and you were allowed to buy one of each item, mainly bread and milk.
I have always stocked up, as a child we were sharecroppers in Texas and you went to town once or maybe twice a year for supplies, IF you made a crop that year that was salable.
I have also had a husband come in and say “Can you take me to the hospital, I think I am having a heart attack”, it was two years before he could work again.
So I am for food storage, I may live under the tree, but I will eat, if God is willing.
As for our future here, I think all of you will one day wish that you had supplies on hand and a garden, our future is not all that bright in the coming years.
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