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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: Diana in Wisconsin

I dunnoh Diana, even though I live in a suburb now, I’m going to channel my inner farmer and say that its probably not a good idea to go naming your food!


81 posted on 10/20/2021 10:30:15 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Sure it is! The first steer we raised was named, ‘Dinner.’ The second was ‘Supper.’ Now we have ‘Weber.’ Next year, I’m voting for ‘Chuck.’ (Roast)

The key is to give him a VERY good life, which he has, right up until the last second. If you’ve ever seen a Feed Lot, where steer are crowded in shoulder to shoulder on CONCRETE, in the blazing sun and fed grain all day, you’d realize that Weber has it made in the shade.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for Weber’s bucket of warm beer and daily muscle massage. I’m growin’ me some Kobe Beef! ;)


82 posted on 10/20/2021 11:05:37 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: All

I don’t know what everyone is all worried about. Mother Government has lists at this site of things you should have on hand when disaster (Read: ‘Mother Government’) strikes!

https://www.ready.gov/

According to her, you only need three days of food and water, some sturdy shoes and games and toys to keep the kids amused while she’s making her way to rescue you!

Kinda laughable, actually...


83 posted on 10/20/2021 11:09:06 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: DesertRhino

Read medieval texts on the issue.

Yes, hoarding was viewed as a form of gluttony, avarice, and lust.


84 posted on 10/20/2021 11:41:36 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Noumenon

When the mob is hungry, and the rumor is you have food, you are dead.


85 posted on 10/20/2021 11:44:58 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: redgolum

When practiced as government policy in the case of Soviet Union and the Ukraine, or Maoist China I would agree. (Of course, they actually did steal from the farmers, to begin with!)

Am I greedy to want to keep what I produced? Maybe the ones who want to seize the products of my labor the ones who are greedy. Are you hoarding if you grow it and can it or freeze it or dry it? No, but any weak excuse will do for the left to institute their programs. (Is it not slavery for one man to force another to work without compensation??)

86 posted on 10/20/2021 11:52:25 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: riri

It’s never ending parade here. Gotta love it.

We have a big bayah [bear] problem here.


87 posted on 10/20/2021 11:53:06 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: SeekAndFind

SAFETY WARNING: RECALLED canned Roast Beef and Gravy by Crider Foods, date codes “Best By” 10/22 and 3/23.

Excellent product ruined by outsourced, untested spice in it that appears to contain LEAD. Learned of the recall, contacted Dollar General concerning returning the affected cans we’ve “put back”. This is week 2 of waiting for DG to produce a firm “plan” of how to handle this. I’ve discussed it with one store manager I know so far. We just want our money back or in store credit(s) for ALL of the bad product we were sold. Crider has gone down a few notches in our book for not testing every batch of additive(spice in this case) they use in a food product.

USDA/FSIS recall notice:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/crider-foods-recalls-canned-beef-gravy-products-due-possible-unsafe-levels-lead

Affected Crider labels, not just Dollar General’s “Clover Valley” label:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/food_label_pdf/2021-10/037-2021-labels_0.pdf


88 posted on 10/20/2021 11:53:24 AM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Medieval economic theory is an interesting worldview. Not one that makes sense today.

For produce, the assumption was the Lord owned it, but he owed the farmers a living. Charity was required, but if you were not working you could be seized and MADE to work.

If a rich man had a store of food during a famine, he was expected to feed his subjects with it. Or be killed.

Again, it was a very different system. Responsibilities up and down the chain.

So if you, as a private person, with your own hands, built up a store of food from your own land, you were not required by law to share. But you could find yourself kicked out of church (which brought all sorts of legal issues).


89 posted on 10/20/2021 12:19:49 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: redgolum

If a rich man had a store of food during a famine, he was expected to feed his subjects with it. Or be killed

Of course the food was harvested from his land that was worked by his peasants so it could be argued that it was his responsibility.

In earlier societies you tithed to the temple or paid a tax the emperor or pharoah who held grain against famine periods, at least that was how it was supposed to work!


90 posted on 10/20/2021 12:25:12 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Daffynition

Is that your yard last winter?


91 posted on 10/20/2021 12:34:41 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: metmom

I have been listening to episodes of CBS Mystery Theater and for a stretch around Christmas time they were advertising Polish hams. They were behind the Iron Curtain back then.


92 posted on 10/20/2021 1:14:28 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Daffynition

The deer are just starting to get brave around my house. I’m starting to worry about my arborvitae wall.


93 posted on 10/20/2021 1:16:38 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Pollard

I love dystopian fiction but I couldn’t watch The Road. I would be on the lookout for people keeping human cattle.


94 posted on 10/20/2021 1:19:19 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: EEGator

$36,332.40


95 posted on 10/20/2021 1:33:32 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

Yeah it was pretty morbid.


96 posted on 10/20/2021 1:44:39 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

You are greedy and selfish.

It is your civic duty to report to the Soylent Green factory immediately!


97 posted on 10/20/2021 1:47:54 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Sawdring

Thank you. That’s a lot of soup & beans...


98 posted on 10/20/2021 1:49:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

And *a* change of clothes.

I pack more for a road trip than they recommend for emergency preparedness.


99 posted on 10/20/2021 3:03:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: redgolum
Yes, hoarding was viewed as a form of gluttony, avarice, and lust.

Define hoarding.

You do realize, don't you, that these last couple generations have been the only ones in human history to not plan ahead for a year's worth of food, to get you through to the next growing season and harvest?

At one point in the not to recent past and beyond, those who didn't do what we now label prep, were considered the foolish ones, and very likely, they did not survive.

It's a crazy world when what we do now what our grandparents did all the time is now condemned.

Did it ever occur to you that the government is intentionally painting preppers as hoarders for the purpose of putting pressure on them to not prep?

Its in their best interests to have everyone depend on them for their monthly food handout, doled out by the government, just like Saddam Hussein did and China does.

People who are free cannot be easily controlled.

People whose survival depends on the government handouts, can be.

You may want to rethink whose side you are on by advocating against wise prepping.

100 posted on 10/20/2021 3:10:16 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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