Well its a huge deal, especially in NY.
Also for dips and snacks.
But I seriously do not see how this can be. I thought it was a domestic product.
Be interesting to learn the cause.
I could joke about cow carbon footprint, cows on strike, collusion to get prices up ...
I think this is just something that happens from time to time. Story says it happened ten years ago.
Intuition says some unexpected demand surge ate the float (in inventory), and lead time to replacement is a few weeks. Truly a transient shortage, unless something other than milk (like a packaging material) is holding up production rate.
“But I seriously do not see how this can be. I thought it was a domestic product.”
But how ‘domestic’ is anything, anymore? Even without foreign ingredients in the end product, I have no doubt that there is tons of Chinese content involved with the making of cream cheese, from microprocessors to heavy equipment.
Now, when one considers that China is getting ready to ‘liberate’ Taiwan from the clutches of capitalism, and that China, no doubt, prefers that the ‘liberation’ be done without any violence, perhaps China is sending little signals to us, pin-pricks if you will, to make it clear as to just what they’re capable of, without even having to fire a shot.