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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Nobody takes better care of you than those people, when you have treated them well. They are pure gold.
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.
#7 McDonalds is having trouble getting hashbrowns.
I tried 3 stores yesterday and no patties found. Just the loose kind.
Well, that is usual when we get a snow storm. Bread was low too.
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.
Good advice.
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.
Starting to see empty shelves in the grocery stores here in New Hampshire.
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.
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 …
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.
CA grocery stores are all stocked to the max. Yesterday I bought the large 24 pack of TP…says equivalent to 96 rolls. $25,
At least the liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries are fully stocked!!!
Try to keep up.
Oh the horror.
I was at an HEB in Conroe yesterday. The frozen vegies section was 3/4 empty. But they had plenty of meat.
Stocked up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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