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.”
“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.
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LOL, yup, just what I was thinking.
SIL got gas for the car yesterday. Paid 3.35/gal. Just two days before I got gas for my car it was 3.27/ gal. Spec its going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Mark my words before its over the government is going to ration certain products. For equity don’t you know.
And I'm too old to give a damn.
Informed and rational people are, um, behaving like informed and rational people. [sorry for the hate speech]
What does nearly $2K in food in 1918 equate to now?
Hoarding used to be a sin, as it was viewed as stealing from those that need it.
In times of famine, food hoarders were condemned and sometimes killed.
Same amount of food and 2 cars.
Overthrow the government, unleash the unholy love child of nazism and communism, start mass repression, flood the nation with third world immigrants, terrorize the population, state that you are going to create a new type of national and world economy, let crime and revolutionary crime run wild, surrender to the Taliban. Put out weekly war scares. Smile and wink at communist riots. Throw people out of work across the nation,...... and people respond by storing all the food they can?
Weird, who would have thought?
Recent demographics have changed this country in profound ways. And those changes are leading to cultural ones. This ain’t your father’s country anymore, that’s for sure.
Now, you have to ask yourself, what would you do if people start showing up demanding what you have?
A sin? Not according to Genesis chapter 41. God told Joseph that pharaoh’s dream meant to store excess food from the 7 abundant years so you don’t starve in the 7 lean years.
Jesus wants me to store food.
Control the food supply and one can control the people. Control the energy supply and one can control the country. Control the money supply and one can control the world. FJB!!
I know a man who really doesn’t enjoy sardines. He keeps a stash of them in his airplane as survival food. He says that way they’ll be there when he actually needs them.
Then you have to put up with the stench and all the noise. Im just putting up extra wood for the smoke house.
$36,332.45 (per https://www.usinflationcalculator.com)
I am doing the same.
Looks like my front “yard”. Counted 16 the other morning
Environmental regs on truckers is causing a transport crunch, which will cascade across the economy.
What?
You mean homemade doesn’t happen in a microwave?????
We had a little neighbor girl (about 5) at one place we lived who used to watch me in the kitchen as I cooked.
One day I was peeling potatoes and put the pot on to boil and she asked me what I was doing. I told her I was making mashed potatoes. She asked, (dead serious) “Why don’t you make them the homemade way, in the microwave?”
By God’s grace, I did not burst out laughing. I told her that this was a different kind of homemade way.
What a world.
Try this brand. They are A W E S O M E ......
Krakus Canned Ham (from Poland)
https://krakus.com/en/cold-cuts/canned-hams/
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