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Media Beginning to Notice Food Supply Chain “Perfect Storm” as It Arrives
The Conservative Treehouse - The Last Refuge ^ | January 16, 2022 | Sundance

Posted on 01/16/2022 7:34:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Quite remarkably this ABC report on empty shelves is not far away from outlining the truth. They are still obfuscating some of the predictable reasons, and they completely ignore the vaccination mandate aspect that is going to worsen the issue, but they are nibbling the edges, nonetheless.

The backward-looking comparative statistics they cite, “15% shortage for food and beverages” overall, are nonsense. The severity of unavailable products is much higher than that. You will note from your own store visits the most unavailable products are the manufactured food and heavily processed products.

The raw material shortage inside the retail manufacturing supply chain path, combined with the increased demand on those manufactured sectors, is the direct cause of the manufactured food shortage. {Go Deep} [Example: a high demand for citric acid means complex foods that use citrus flavorings (ie. sports drinks) are in short supply. Chase that backward, and you see shortages in citrus & higher citrus costs, etc.]

Each seemingly small issue creates another small issue, which creates another small issue, which ultimately pokes holes in the supply. Poke enough holes in enough small categories from manufactured condiments to manufactured drinks, to manufactured cereals, pasta, grains, soups, pet foods, and the complex food processing system overall begins to show the larger problem. It’s a system collapse by a thousand paper cuts.

Some well intentioned people will claim the shortage of processed and manufactured food is a good thing, and people should eat more fresh foods and be healthier.

Let me be very frank about this. Without full-service fresh prepared food delivery operating normally (restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, lunchrooms, food trucks, venues etc) there isn’t enough fresh food in the U.S. retail distribution system (grocery chains) to feed 350 million people.

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To: Pelham

Nobody takes better care of you than those people, when you have treated them well. They are pure gold.


21 posted on 01/16/2022 9:39:58 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Luke21

And they truly appreciate it. Always support local if you can, the alternative is to make the huge and indifferent more powerful. And we know which group has been supporting the Woke revolution. The clerks who work for them have no vote and you can still make them allies.


22 posted on 01/16/2022 9:54:38 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: blam

#7 McDonalds is having trouble getting hashbrowns.
I tried 3 stores yesterday and no patties found. Just the loose kind.


23 posted on 01/16/2022 9:56:23 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: japaneseghost

Well, that is usual when we get a snow storm. Bread was low too.


24 posted on 01/16/2022 9:57:33 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Pelham

The other day, a young woman I’ve always given some money to in this way gave me her store discount. These people are working, and they are on duty when no one else is.


25 posted on 01/16/2022 10:06:24 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Luke21

Good advice.


26 posted on 01/16/2022 10:12:17 PM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: Luke21

I worked similar jobs when young and never lose respect for those who do. Glad to know others share that sentiment and reward their effort.


27 posted on 01/16/2022 10:30:55 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Starting to see empty shelves in the grocery stores here in New Hampshire.


28 posted on 01/17/2022 4:26:26 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“I’m not the only one!”)
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To: Luke21

The other day I went to the bank and was surprised by a sign on the door saying the teller desk was closed due to a staffing shortage. Only the drive-thru was open.


29 posted on 01/17/2022 4:43:19 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Redleg Duke

Went food shopping yesterday in NH and there were a few gaps in shelves or else stocked with lots and lots of one item to make it look fully stocked. No doubt in my mind, “Something wicked this way comes.”

The garden will be rockin’ this year for sure. Potatoes for starters …


30 posted on 01/17/2022 4:46:08 AM PST by DNME (... at that awkward stage. Too late to work within the system; too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pretty much all of the grocery stores in PA and NJ are stocked. The worst I can report is occasional spot shortages but for the most part everything is available.


31 posted on 01/17/2022 5:01:45 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!i)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

CA grocery stores are all stocked to the max. Yesterday I bought the large 24 pack of TP…says equivalent to 96 rolls. $25,


32 posted on 01/17/2022 5:13:10 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: sanjuanbob

At least the liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries are fully stocked!!!


33 posted on 01/17/2022 5:45:08 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!i)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Not production, for now. Distribution.

Try to keep up.

34 posted on 01/17/2022 6:14:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: ponygirl
I’m having trouble finding stuff like Icelandic yogurt, coconut milk

Oh the horror.

35 posted on 01/17/2022 6:38:20 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: blam

I was at an HEB in Conroe yesterday. The frozen vegies section was 3/4 empty. But they had plenty of meat.

Stocked up.


36 posted on 01/17/2022 6:43:04 AM PST by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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To: sanjuanbob

Ironic, isn’t it? All those ships waiting to get into the CA ports, the shortage of trucks in CA…and there are no real problems here.


37 posted on 01/17/2022 6:47:50 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: Luke21

I like to tip in chocolate. I pick up one of the specialty candies buy it then give it to the clerk. It is out of the norm and they really seem to like it.

I do the same when at a hotel. You get really good service because they remember you. A couple dollars and a Godivai chocolate go a long way. One place I went every one called me the candy man. Got the best taxi that time from the doorman. Bigger taxi’s not the tiny cramped ones.


38 posted on 01/17/2022 6:59:44 AM PST by jimpick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I went to three grocery stores this week. Two Walmarts and a Harps. All had plenty on their shelves. I did notice a few empty areas in the juice isle at Harps.

But the prices were up-UP-UP! at all stores.


39 posted on 01/17/2022 7:03:13 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK IN FACEBOOK JAIL, Another 30 days. On GAB now. Some real cranks there!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The local Publix had so much cereal that it’s had a buy-one-get-one-free offer for the past two weeks. Ditto for nuts, spaghetti sauce and olive oil.


40 posted on 01/17/2022 8:47:01 AM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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