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Rabobank: The Next Phase Of The Crisis – Food Shortages In Staples Such As Rice, Sugar, Corn And Eggs
USSA News ^ | 4-29=2020

Posted on 04/29/2020 9:40:56 AM PDT by blam

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To: Bob434

Amazon shipping has fallen thru, too.

I used to be I could get next shipping, as part of my Prime membership. Now things are taking two or three weeks.

I bought some things recently from Ebay that had free shipping and arrived within the week.


41 posted on 04/29/2020 11:17:43 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: GOPJ

>>I’ve seen some food price inflation in Florida... What state do you live in?

The rural part of Mass (yes, there is a rural part).


42 posted on 04/29/2020 11:23:03 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: Bob434

I think I should start a local “shopper’s exchange”.

I could post online something like:

“Just bought self rising flour at my Walmart. Need large curd cottage cheese and hamburger buns with sesame seeds.
Will trade!”

Maybe make the exchange at a local parking lot while wearing masks, gloves and keeping a six foot distance. Use hook to grab trade goods, spray with disinfectant, drive home.


43 posted on 04/29/2020 11:23:20 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: metmom

>>I have found TP at BJ’s mostly because they are limiting purchases to 1 package per person.

Luckily I did stock up ahead of time - of many things - and not just because of this latest news...but my local supermarket a few weeks back was limiting purchases to a SINGLE ROLL...this is why you stock up on things way ahead of time. A single roll in my house of 6 won’t last very long.


44 posted on 04/29/2020 11:25:55 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: Alas Babylon!

lol- we’re almost to the point of having to barter- i think things are gonna relax and get back to at least semi normal (unless there is a second wave because so many people haven’t been exposed to the virus yet because of the shelter inplace edicts- if that happens then people will really go nuts at the stores- and food will be like money lol)


45 posted on 04/29/2020 11:31:08 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Alas Babylon!

[[Now things are taking two or three weeks.]]

Yup i noticed that too- I ordered a few things 2 months ago and took almost 4 weeks to get here- (This can happen with certain sellers though- so i just chalked it up to a bad seller not shipping out very fast)- but i think now it was just a drop off in service now- We had ordered two things from different sellers that ‘got lost’ in shipping- they did refund the prices thankfully- but been ordering from amazon for years and never had shipments get lost in transit before- Coulda just been a fluke i suppose- but we’ll see how future purchases go


46 posted on 04/29/2020 11:36:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: 1malumprohibitum

Denver ‘burb. Have not been able to get country ribs for past 3 weeks at King Soopers. Yesterday, after getting our weekly curbside, we stopped at Safeway. Picked up 3 packs of country ribs.


47 posted on 04/29/2020 11:48:33 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: cherry

Same here.


48 posted on 04/29/2020 12:13:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: BobL

Actually, those of us who were watching and aware were buying stuff slowly months ahead of the Great TP Panic of March 2020.

We got the stuff when the supply chain was just fine and nobody even noticed the extra buying at the time. An extra package or two of meat here. Some extra gloves there. And before you know it, you are sitting back watching the world go to hell and not being part of it.

The shortages happened not from wise people prepping but from those with their heads in the sand who suddenly realized that they had NOTHING to live on when push comes to shove.


49 posted on 04/29/2020 12:19:13 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: metmom

We live in rural Alabama and always have basics with a reasonable back up.
I can give you some input on the current ag problems. As has been mentioned before here, the problem is not lack of product but a repackaging problem. When the restaurant and institutional demand collapsed there just wasn’t the capacity to turn around to retail packages. There is plenty of most everything. I know farmers in the field as I type, planting this year’s crops.
As far as beef, besides the processing end, there is a problem. A lot of stockyards are shut down. The cattle buyers are only purchasing large lots of similar cattle from one entity. The smaller producers are shut out for now. In many of the eastern states, beef production is much smaller per farm. Lot’s of folks only have a small herd and only have small lots of calves or yearlings to market. These cattle are not being marketed right now because of the yard’s closing.


50 posted on 04/29/2020 12:46:56 PM PDT by Himyar (Comes A Stillness)
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To: blam
 
 
Give it time - should the fear porn now being peddled make the full rounds and sink in, they'll have the stores stripped to the bare walls. Crossing my fingers that won't be the case since that will start a whole new round of hysteria with the accompanying fallout.
 
 

51 posted on 04/29/2020 1:03:01 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: metmom
"The shortages happened not from wise people prepping but from those with their heads in the sand who suddenly realized that they had NOTHING to live on when push comes to shove."

Yup, exactly

52 posted on 04/29/2020 1:37:52 PM PDT by blam
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To: lapsus calami

I think that’s exactly what the left wants.

Hysteria and the resultant instability.

Then they will come in and save the day and people will be so desperate for peace and security and food, that they will willingly surrender their rights and liberties.

The coup will happen by deceit because it would never happen by honest elections. They will accomplish by hook or by crook what they could never accomplish any other way.


53 posted on 04/29/2020 2:35:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: metmom
 
 
Looks like the plan is keeping a conga line of crises at the ready from here to November. When one wanes another one will be raised up.
 
 

54 posted on 04/29/2020 7:18:16 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

Just in some of the talking to people I’ve encountered, many people are aware of that.

Many think this whole meat shortage is another manufactured crisis.


55 posted on 04/29/2020 9:52:22 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: Himyar
Lot’s of folks only have a small herd and only have small lots of calves or yearlings to market. These cattle are not being marketed right now because of the yard’s closing.

Yep. We just hired one for the fall (1/2). Agreed to two years. I would have gone whole, but just don't have the freezer space. Went carnivore 2 years ago.

He was happy and we are happy. Another freezer is a big unknown with the supply chain.

I think people should start sourcing locally and direct. With the "no plant" situation, I don't think prospects are going to improve much. Cattle are regenerative.
56 posted on 04/29/2020 10:20:07 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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