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‘People are hoarding’: Food shortages are the next supply chain crunch
Seattle Times ^ | 10/20/2021 | Leslie Patton, Kim Chipman and Brendan Case

Posted on 10/20/2021 7:25:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

n Denver, public-school children are facing shortages of milk. In Chicago, a local market is running short of canned goods and boxed items.

But there’s plenty of food. There just isn’t always enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.

More than a year and a half after the coronavirus pandemic upended daily life, the supply of basic goods at U.S. grocery stores and restaurants is once again falling victim to intermittent shortages and delays.

“I never imagined that we’d be here in October 2021 talking about supply-chain problems, but it’s a reality,” said Vivek Sankaran, chief executive officer of Albertsons Companies, who echoed the laments of other retailers. “Any given day, you’re going to have something missing in our stores, and it’s across categories.”

‘Whack-A-Mole’

In Denver, broken parts at the milk supplier’s plant affected shipments of half-pint cartons, on top of disruptions at one time or another in cereal, tortillas and juice.

“We’ve been struggling with supply-chain issues with different items since school started,” said Theresa Hafner, the executive director of food services at Denver Public Schools. “It just continues to pop up. It’s like playing whack-a-mole.”

In Chicago, Dill Pickle Food Co-Op ran out of certain dry goods because its two main distributors haven’t been sending orders in full in recent weeks.

“Early in the pandemic, panic buying was the cause of many of the out-of-stock situations that grocers experienced,” general manager I’Talia McCarthy said in an email to store owners this month. “Although the food industry was able to somewhat rebound, the sustained nature of the pandemic, combined with the slow pace of vaccination globally and the recent surge caused by the delta variant, have resurfaced the problem.”

The shortages aren’t as acute as they were earlier in the pandemic.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; fakenews; fearporn; food; hoarding; shortages; supplychain
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To: JoSixChip

Trending: #Bidenzuela :)


21 posted on 10/20/2021 7:43:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: goodnesswins

Agree...better option? Maybe the ham in a can? We have outages here...a week at a time in winter..


22 posted on 10/20/2021 7:43:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lurker

Enter an expansion of defense-related anti hoarding law to cover food. Wasn’t that long ago that Clinton era mouthpieces were declaring that no one NEEDS more than a week’s worth of food. Canadians are, as we speak, being told that hoarding is “unpatriotic. “ easy to see where this is going.


23 posted on 10/20/2021 7:44:08 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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ALL PLANNED by leftists / globalists, and you know every time they hear the great news, as it spreads throughout the USA, they will orgasm in satanic delight, like the DEVILS THEY ARE!!!!


24 posted on 10/20/2021 7:45:13 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: SeekAndFind

“I never imagined that we’d be here in October 2021 talking about supply-chain problems, but it’s a reality,”

Same here, until the commies stole the election.


25 posted on 10/20/2021 7:45:54 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

They keep a selection of entertainment ranging from the NFL to Downtown Abby on the screens and most people too concerned with the next mortgage payment, that revolution will never materialize...


26 posted on 10/20/2021 7:46:02 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: roving

And an excuse to crack down on “unpatriotic” hoarders.


27 posted on 10/20/2021 7:46:15 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bidumb.


28 posted on 10/20/2021 7:46:24 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use all: (optio. )
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To: cuban leaf
We're hoarding food too... in plain sight.


29 posted on 10/20/2021 7:47:06 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: silverleaf

My word for it is preparing.


30 posted on 10/20/2021 7:48:03 AM PDT by teevolt
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To: silverleaf

It’s your fault, you deplorable hoarders!


That’s right! It’s the peoples’ fault. Never the government’s! If only we’d be content with what they give us.
/s


31 posted on 10/20/2021 7:49:14 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SeekAndFind
America is becoming more and more like a third-world nation as shortages and soaring food inflation crush the working poor.

One thing that is NOT in short supply is government spending - as in any mismanaged third-world nation, the federal government seems unable to resist throwing trillions of dollars it does not have, at any and all problems, real or imaginary. And the consequences will likely crush the working poor, more certainly than any shortages or food inflation...

32 posted on 10/20/2021 7:51:14 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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To: Starboard

Precisely. We are turning into my native Cuba.

My husband and I have been prepping for a couple of years. Our prepper pantry isn’t big but we keep it stocked. Pasta, rice, bottled sauces, canned vegetables and fruits, soap, meats in freezer, etc. We have a lot of chicken, lol! Preppers don’t hoard; we buy things a little extra at a time.

It makes sense, too, to buy now before prices get even higher under Bidet.


33 posted on 10/20/2021 7:51:33 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: Daffynition

Venison is good eating. Better to thin the heard than to have them hit by cars. Suburban ordinances that ban 8 foot fences allow them to wander around feeding on flower beds and gardens. When the population is too big, feeding them is just the wrong thing to do. More will just get hit by cars in developed areas.


34 posted on 10/20/2021 7:53:50 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: SeekAndFind

You don’t need to hoard if you build cages strong enough to hold your neighbors.


35 posted on 10/20/2021 7:54:22 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: teevolt
My word for it is preparing.

The difference between prepping and hoarding is whether you buy a bunch of stuff to stock up BEFORE or AFTER the shortages occur.

36 posted on 10/20/2021 7:54:35 AM PDT by Wissa (The Gods of the Copybook Headings shall return.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Just checked my heating fuel bill (oil)

12/21/20 $2.09/gal

4/26/21 $2.59/gal

10/18/21 $3.07/gal

37 posted on 10/20/2021 7:55:14 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: SeekAndFind

Communist coups carry catastrophic consequences.


38 posted on 10/20/2021 7:55:31 AM PDT by Manic_Episode ( “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

No they are not

Just another Leftist lie to manufacture a scapegoat and avoid holding Biden Democrats accountable for their bad fiscal, monetary and energy polices

The supposed quotes here are almost a word for word recitation of the Biden regimes propaganda.


39 posted on 10/20/2021 7:55:59 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: cuban leaf

“Always?” We ate it in the 1950s...and we we would have been considered poor by today’s standards.


40 posted on 10/20/2021 7:56:24 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolyution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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