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5 Grocery Shortages That Are Outraging Customers
Eat This Not That ^ | 01/08/2022 | Kirsten Hickman

Posted on 01/10/2022 5:30:49 AM PST by MattMusson

Whether it's a shortage of grocery items or prices skyrocketing at stores—shoppers aren't happy. Due to supply chain issues that have caused strain on major retailers like Walmart, Kroger, Food Lion, Costco, customers are experiencing frustrations while shopping for food and other daily essentials at their local stores.

We reached out to our readers on Facebook and Twitter and asked them to share about the specific grocery shortages that are currently frustrating them the most. Customers from around the U.S. wrote in their current frustrations at stores—and a few repeated items popped up from shopper complaints.


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KEYWORDS: bideneconomy; buildbackbetter; food; grocery; panic; supplychain
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To: Afterguard

>>>Here in Free Florida we have all the consumer goods (and food) we need.<<<

Well . . . in my neck of the woods, cat food has become very, VERY scarce. Even from Chewy!


181 posted on 01/10/2022 10:01:02 AM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: woodbutcher1963

I don’t need people (employees) that know what they are doing because I KNOW what I am doing.


182 posted on 01/10/2022 10:03:02 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: jmcenanly

“I haven’t seen canned Mandarin Oranges since November.”

Funny you should say that. I just had some last night for the first time. My wife must have bought them.


183 posted on 01/10/2022 10:06:21 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“PLANT a garden!”

I tried, but after shoveling the snow, I found the ground was frozen. /s


184 posted on 01/10/2022 10:08:37 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: mikelets456
Add ground beef, pork products and certain fruits. My wife and I went to a few places yesterday and couldn’t find these items.

Just had a friend in central Texas text me that their local grocery had many empty shelves and no meat.

185 posted on 01/10/2022 10:19:25 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: woodbutcher1963

My mother was looking for a particular type of White Rain hairspray that she likes which had become hard to find for some reason (it may have been discontinued). We found many cans of it in a Big Lots store in her city, so she bought enough to last her for years.

Keep an eye out for your shampoo in any mini marts or lobby shops in commercial buildings and hotels. I saw five or six cans of that same hard-to-find White Rain hairspray in my building’s lobby shop on the toiletries shelf.


186 posted on 01/10/2022 10:21:02 AM PST by Cecily
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To: NEMDF

Most packages are going to get smaller. The companies will say it’s because of the cost of transporting the goods to market.

Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline and his new executive order will dramatically shut down trucks coming from Canada. 70% of goods from Canada get here by truck. Until Jan 15 truck drivers do not need to show a vax ID to drive into the US. This Saturday they’ll have to show an ID. Expect to have some shortages. Canada’s biggest export is petroleum and petroleum products. You’ll be paying more at the pump


187 posted on 01/10/2022 10:30:45 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: mikelets456

My son is an assistant manager in a meat dept. at a Food City store and they are being shorted 40% of their regular loads on supply trucks and steaks are scarce and expensive when they get some.

There are some items that just don’t arrive or arrive a couple of weeks later on the trucks. I tell people there are shortages coming but they look at the shelves and blow me off. Oh well I tried...


188 posted on 01/10/2022 10:35:32 AM PST by sarge83
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To: bgill

That’s interesting! I may have to try those out of curiosity. I always have garbanzo beans around.


189 posted on 01/10/2022 10:40:34 AM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: BiglyCommentary
Thats true. We are spoiled by 100,000 item supermarkets and when a few of those 100k items are not available the blubbering starts.

Agreed! We just need to embrace being more like Venezuela or the old Soviet Union as socialism creeps into our country.

190 posted on 01/10/2022 10:46:23 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: MattMusson
my store ran out of this all the time i buy 2 to 3 a week
191 posted on 01/10/2022 10:49:17 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Colorado Doug

Oh stop it. Going from 100,000 to 99,500 items is not Venezuela’s 50 store items.


192 posted on 01/10/2022 10:49:40 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: woodbutcher1963

and it is my only vice love the tingle on my brain


193 posted on 01/10/2022 10:50:27 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Sacajaweau

Genius is right. I’m the opposite of you though, if I never had to go out again, I would be ok with that. Since this covid crap and watching the reaction to it, I would just rather stay home. Can’t do it though, have to go out to buy my wine. hehe :)


194 posted on 01/10/2022 10:51:16 AM PST by LibertyWoman (Guard with jealous attention the public Liberty. Patrick Henry)
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To: SkyDancer

Where’s the dam**d Pop Tarts!

The Disney channel ?


195 posted on 01/10/2022 10:53:05 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Colorado Doug

No, we don’t need to become Venezuela, North Korea or the Soviet Union, but more self sufficiency (make your own pasta), less consumption of junk and processed foods and some weight loss would do many of us good.


196 posted on 01/10/2022 10:53:13 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Radix

Yeah, just make a nice goulash with the same ingredients, different pasta.


197 posted on 01/10/2022 10:58:06 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: faucetman

“shockingly I needed some electrical boxes”


198 posted on 01/10/2022 11:08:28 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Sans-Culotte

Yup, I know...


199 posted on 01/10/2022 11:21:57 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: ladyjane; ClearCase_guy
I’ve been trying to find Barilla’s pasta, Campanelle, for two years. I was told by the company that they had *temporarily* stopped making it so they could focus on a limited number of pasta shapes because of the shortage.

The way they probably work is they set up for one pasta shape, run a batch, set up for another shape, etc. Each setup involves downtime and overhead.

When you don't have the people and other resources to make all the shapes you used to, you pick the ones that are most popular and easy to make, and just do those.

And when part of the issue is lack of transportation, you pick those shapes which have the higher density, so you can maximize the number of boxes in a truck shipment.

200 posted on 01/10/2022 11:35:16 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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