Bought Oreo’s last week and there were 8 empty slots where cookies should have been.
Back door inflation.
Canned Hunts spaghetti sauce: same price, same size, but they have diluted it so much, might as well just buy tomato juice.
I don’t know but we spent $172 at the grocery last week, which is about $60-$70 more than usual. Granted, we got a few higher cost items (coffee, cat litter, laundry detergent), but it still seemed outrageous, especially since we got almost no meat. Pretty standard 10% increases lately on the store brand products (which are generally priced better than the name brands....).
We are back into lockdown. It’s fun to live in a quasi Soviet State.
(I take it you mean the cookie shelving) Been seeing that a lot in a local WalMart, in everyday items. Large gaps, two-three feet wide in some shelves. OK, there's been a damaging frost in Brazil, but their ENTIRE coffee section was stripped clean - reminded me of the toilet paper mania.
And not only scarcities, but their delivery system - in the last three weeks, three out of four on-line orders were shipped to wrong out of state cities. The other is listed as delayed (canned /sliced potatoes, sliced carrots and beets, etc. Hardly exotic foods.)