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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.

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

LOL, yup, just what I was thinking.


61 posted on 10/20/2021 8:45:55 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Sacajaweau

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.


62 posted on 10/20/2021 8:52:24 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Lurker
I'll be raising my black American flag in another day or two. Like you, I'm done playin'...

And I'm too old to give a damn.

63 posted on 10/20/2021 8:52:34 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: SeekAndFind

Informed and rational people are, um, behaving like informed and rational people. [sorry for the hate speech]


64 posted on 10/20/2021 8:53:58 AM PDT by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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To: ctdonath2

What does nearly $2K in food in 1918 equate to now?


65 posted on 10/20/2021 8:57:37 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Noumenon

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.


66 posted on 10/20/2021 8:59:02 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: EEGator

Same amount of food and 2 cars.


67 posted on 10/20/2021 9:02:56 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: SeekAndFind

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?


68 posted on 10/20/2021 9:06:48 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Levy78

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.


69 posted on 10/20/2021 9:13:57 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: redgolum
That's an essentially communist outlook. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need." That said, preparing for the worst is a virtue, never a sin.

Now, you have to ask yourself, what would you do if people start showing up demanding what you have?

70 posted on 10/20/2021 9:17:06 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: redgolum

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.


71 posted on 10/20/2021 9:21:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: SeekAndFind

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!!


72 posted on 10/20/2021 9:23:20 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: TangoLimaSierra

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.


73 posted on 10/20/2021 9:23:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: fruser1

Then you have to put up with the stench and all the noise. Im just putting up extra wood for the smoke house.


74 posted on 10/20/2021 9:36:00 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: EEGator

$36,332.45 (per https://www.usinflationcalculator.com)


75 posted on 10/20/2021 9:42:42 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: RummyChick

I am doing the same.


76 posted on 10/20/2021 9:49:24 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Daffynition

Looks like my front “yard”. Counted 16 the other morning


77 posted on 10/20/2021 9:53:09 AM PDT by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Environmental regs on truckers is causing a transport crunch, which will cascade across the economy.


78 posted on 10/20/2021 9:59:45 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.


79 posted on 10/20/2021 10:02:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Sacajaweau

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/


80 posted on 10/20/2021 10:04:08 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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