Hopefully everyone has done their preparatory diligence and are well situated to assist their family, because prices on fast turn consumable goods (groceries) are now less than 30 days from entering exponential increase phase. CTH has been counting down the days to impact as the contract terms of 30, 60 and 90 days have begun expiring.
The Wall Street Journal has seen the first pricing notification memo from Kraft-Heinz food group to the buying offices of major U.S. retailers. Here’s how the WSJ presents it: “Kraft Heinz Co. told retailer customers that it would raise prices across many of its products including Jell-O pudding and Grey Poupon mustard, with some items going up as much as 20%, according to a memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal.” VIDEO:
Keep in mind a few points:
(1) The outlined price increases noted are against current price terms and contracts. Meaning, these are price increases from right now to the next fulfillment. These are not inflation price increases which are compared to a year ago. These are 5% to 20% increases from the current price right now.
(2) The price increases are not the final price increase. This is the price of a contract today from the field to the distribution center. The retailer also has additional price increases (transportation, energy, labor, etc) which they need to add to the wholesale price before you see the final price at retail (grocery store).
The final field to fork price is not yet known but will be higher than noted above. We are only seeing the notifications from field, through processing and into warehousing and distribution.
Additionally, the more an item needs to be processed, the higher the price increase will be. Food items that require multiple raw materials, ingredients and bases for processing (ex. condiments), when combined with increased packaging costs (oil, energy), will be much higher than foods with less processing, handling and packaging.
This has always been the nature of this specific supply chain.
Example: Many products, food, drinks and even cleaning products, contain citrus bases, additives, flavorings and distillation. Those products will be much higher in price due to the price increases in raw materials, combined with higher energy and petroleum costs. It is an issue of cumulative price increases in the production of the product from beginning to end.
CTH has recommended preparing for these massive increases in 2022 prices by thinking about the base products you use to make meals at home and holding an extra supply of shelf stable products, so you won’t hit the grocery store and face those massive increases. Another example will be coffee. Keep in mind Kraft Foods is Maxwell House.
(Wall Street Journal) – […] The Labor Department said the consumer-price index rose 6.8% in November from a year ago, the fastest pace since 1982. The food-at-home index, which includes purchase from grocery stores, rose 6.4% over the past 12 months, with meats, poultry, fish and eggs increasing 12.8%.
Coming price increases in 2022 range from as low as 2% to 20%, hitting all sections of the grocery store including produce and packaged goods. Potatoes, celery and other heavier vegetables will have higher price tags next year in part because of higher freight costs, supermarket executives said. Wine, beer and liquor are also likely to get more expensive, they said, especially those that are imported.
Pantry staples such as mayonnaise and frozen meals are expected to be more pricey partly because of higher labor, logistics and packaging costs, some executives said. (read more)
A working-class family who typically spends $200 to $300 a week on groceries is already getting hammered at the gas pumps and grocery store. Another $50 bucks on top of the grocery bill each week can be very stressful.
Even if you don’t have kids at home, perhaps your adult children have kids. Your proactive position can help them, perhaps your neighbors and others, at times of greatest need. Pride can often stop people from asking for help, so look behind the eyes of those who hesitate to accept it.
The price increases will not only hit retail grocers hard, but they will also hit restaurant and industrial food supply companies like Sysco. Food away from home will increase in price, because the food suppliers are all experiencing the same price increases.
Food, fuel and energy price increases will continue to be the most impactful problem into 2022. The problem will compound, because buying offices of the large multinational corporations enter this phase of consumer and commodity squeeze by looking to leverage their size for competitive advantage.
Large multinationals will make advance order purchases today at higher prices. Advanced purchasing becomes a competitive advantage, and they leverage that in the supply chain. The downstream consequence is a material shortage, because the commodity is wiped out, which drives up the price and then those same multinationals execute distribution to a higher profit.
This gaming of inventory for profit, or inventory evaluation/capitalization, is a less discussed outcome of rapid inflation. Multinationals have deep pockets, and they can maximize profits by executing advanced purchase orders to lock in commodity prices. Unfortunately, the little guys have a tough time competing against them when the inventories dry up.
While the examples above all relate to fast turn consumable goods, the same purchasing leverage is used by large corporations on durable goods. Retailers, large and small, then begin competing to secure inventories while supplies are limited; this too drives up prices. It’s a hot mess of competition that squeezes the consumer even harder.
The only thing that stops this process is the inevitable collapse in demand, but that outcome sucks also. In the interim, I hope and pray to have provided y’all with enough advanced notification so that all of us can ride this inflation storm out just a teensy bit better than if we didn’t know it was coming.
All of this was completely avoidable…. THAT makes me angry!
The Democrats will be buying a whole lot of those bins.
They will need them to store all their fraudulent ballots in.
There may not be enough bins.
They needn’t worry – JoBama Bin Xiden will order them 500 million more bins!
…or wait… was it tests…
…or was it pills?…
…uh…wait…
I don’t think Walmart is hoping to sell lots of bins
I think they did that so there can’t be photographs of aisles and aisles of empty shelves
Or is that point so obvious that I needn’t have stated it?
Just returned from WinCo and their seasonal aisle is filled with bins also. It’s one half of an aisle. Limited to seasonal sections, it doesn’t seem like a useful data point. Was like that post Halloween also. Point is it isn’t the basic staples aisle.
After you buy the basics, there will be no money for the seasonal isle.
You’re good – no need to defend…..
What is obvious to some folks still needs to be stated for others. By the time I got to your comment I had realized the reason… but I’ll admit right now that it wasn’t my initial reaction… 😉
I think that’s obvious?….at least to me. I’ve been watching very odd spread-out arrangements of stuff -spread out to conceal empty shelves for at least 6-8 months, both Safeway and Walmart. It’s just getting more obvious
Check the half empty shelves in the pet food isles.
Same at Lowes a few days ago – complete isle of nothing but storage bins.
What Biden forgot to say is everybody’s use by date on the vax will be past the use by date soon. Winter of Death for the unvaxed will include them. What Biden actually meant by Winter of Death is death by starvation.
That 25% permanent increase in EBT he handed out? That will be in the negative soon. Who is going to call Biden out on that one?
Don’t forget death by hypothermia when the rolling electrical and gas energy blackouts beginning in the Dead of Winter.
And, as usual, some will also die from sheer stupidity in their garages, trying to warm themselves in the car, in a closed space, providing they have gas in the 1st place. Otherwise known as carbon monoxide poisoning.
My car won’t run for more than 15 minutes before it cuts off…..and no, it’s not out of gas. I know because I’ve tried it.
nimerodman: Another explanation is that stores sell a lot of storage bins after Christmas for storing ornaments, gifting supplies, decorations and all the other crap accumulated during the holidays (all from China, of course, although there are still companies making plastic bins in the U.S. I guess, you could call the “has-bins.”)
stuff really gets shipped in these “bins”?
when I worked at stores 60s and 70s stuff came in cardboard boxes
Bins are often what the goods come in, and then someone has to unpack and put them on the shelves. Is it possible that they are just short staffed and have no one to unload the bins?
I have a Dollar General near me that you can’t walk through most times because bins are stacked everywhere with product to be unloaded and shelved. It has been this way probably since they opened. I went in there without a mask one day back when the whole masking thing started and while I got a lot of stares, not one person told me to mask up. The line was very long too. I would have walked out. I rode my bike there and needed to breathe.
Still have only masked twice.
Nope, if you zoom into the photo you can see those bins are clearly labeled for sale. Just occupying space to hide the blight of empty shelves.
Labels mean nothing.
Seasonal stuff, packed and ready to go for next season, or the next push, Valentine’s Day.
Actually, labels mean everything at WallyWorld. Everything is scanned with handheld devices. Even in that messy wall of socks, each style and size is supposed to have its own devoted peg. (It never works out as corporate has planned, heh!)
WalMart does not receive product in bins, nor does it reuse shipping containers. Those are new bins for sale, spread out to fill empty shelves. Quite common after seasonal transitions, though we may be seeing a lot more of them in the new year.
Yes, did my brief stint at WallyWorld for as long as I could stand it. 😉
Awesome tweet was retweeted down below that Walmart bin tweet..:
The local Sam’s Club, a subsidiary of Walmart, uses an 8-foot wall of bins to separate the entrance from the exit.
Let them eat Bins…
What’s in ’em?
And these stupid Democrats believe that America will care about their BS Jan. 6 inquisition? I really don’t think so.
The show is to keep their insane base with hot rage and talking points to feel superior. Plus for history books to pretend there was a true event there. Pretend play for the insane basically. If those insane folks ever had an epiphany…there would be blood toward their very own favored politicians.
As I have expanded upon elsewhere, I believe the primary purpose for the Insurrection show trial hearings, is to insure the Rino wave isn’t a MAGA wave.
Thats why LIZ is taking the Lead, and McCarthy is “letting” her.
I just don’t see how that could possibly work. The more they attack Trump, the more I want to vote for him again, and I’m sure I’m not alone. This vaccine mandate madness and this inflation madness never would have happened with Trump and everybody knows it.
Amen!
I keep praying and wondering how on Earth the true President is going to be returned.
Call me crazy; I don’t really care.
As bad news that seems to threaten us keeps coming out,
I become more and more assured that more people are
coming around to my way of thinking.
The idea is to find President Trump guilty of insurrection so he can’t run again.
But they have no evidence that he’s guilty of anything and everybody is going to find that out. So again, I don’t see how this can possibly work for them.
Heaven help them if they actually go that route. In so doing they would put millions of people over the edge who would unleash a hell on them they cannot even imagine.
They have ideas pulled out of their *sses 99.9% of the time and this sham committee drama is no different.
It’s all theatre. It’s all Hope. It’s all “thumbs crossed” behind their backs.
And maybe President Trump doesn’t want to run again or maybe President Trump won’t NEED to run again.
Remember, War time is here…information war…disinformation war…misinformation war.
Sometimes things are just not what they seem to be.
Don’t underestimate President Trump.
They’re trying to drown out the demonic voices in their own heads. They know they burned the cities and staged the Plandemic to seize power. They know they stole the elections. They know they staged the Reichstag Riot. They know they are traitors and criminals. They know they are frauds. And they can’t unknow it.
So they try to fill the void with the noise of More Lies, hoping the voices will go away. But they never go away. They love the Swamp.
And the Swamp loves them.
An extremely intelligent person has reminded us many times that the democrats have to pretend not to know a lot of things.
I don’t think the main players in the J6 show inquiry are prone to feeling guilt.
they are betting on Roe versus Baby to be the issue in 2022.
It might well be. The Republicans should expect to lose a lot of votes if Roe vs Wade is overturned or seriously curtailed. Suburban women will not accept an encroachment on their freedoms (guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment). So the Texas Taliban may actually succeed in defeating the Republican Wave. It’s really a pity, since the Democrat (slaveholder) party supports some candidates that are plainly criminal.
Are you being facetious? Or absurd?
sixgeese,
In any other time, you might be right.
However,…
keep in mind that our economy is not in the best shape, and
the working man and woman are about to be brought to their knees
with this inflation.
Bread and butter will trump any other social argument, and…
many Dem./liberals are also pro-life and/or Catholic.
So you are saying the 9th amendment guarantees an abortion? Seriously?
LOL. It’s a lot easier to argue about “women’s rights” or “who did or said what” on Jan 6th when you have a comfortable life and don’t have to worry about how you’re going to eat and still be able to pay for the meds you need to stay alive. In case you haven’t noticed, that comfortable life is being taken away from millions of American citizens by the DNC and the media scum bags who carry their water.
Bull Shit!!!
The democrats want big tech and amazon money. These conditions benefit big tech and Amazon. They’re counting on the media to cover for them. The J6 operation is just a tactical move to get HR1 taken more seriously.
Nobody cares about it now. Their TDS true believers like it but they already have their votes.
so true.
its painful to know the left has guaratneed voters no matter what they do.
The fake president’s reign of torture continues. God help us.
I honestly can see him resigning office next year. I know they want Kammys 51st vote in the senate but I think this inflation beast will force a PR shift for the dems. Likely FJB would cite health reasons but need allow know it’s because its because hes incompetent and trying to punch way above his weight.
The key to the whole communist plan by the current Globalist Criminally Corrupt Kenyan group will be what they do with the Cackling Ho and who replaces her. So far they’ve gotten away with a Demented Fraud puppet as a front man. That’s going to change rapidly when their bs China Common Cold “testing” falls flat and even the dumbest among the most ignorant can’t afford to pay attention much less pay for food and gas.
Jill Biden will not leave the White House without a fight.
Absolutely Jill Biden will not resign and let her hated foe take over.
She’s pulling a weekend at bernies slow morphing of her puppet
He’s not doing these things. He’s a tool.
EXACTLY, He is a brain dead puppet.
Just another day in Joe Biden’s America.
Biden Regime is gaslighting America, again, with claims that inflation is not a real problem and just an illusion.
The punchline that we all know: Obey! Lower your expectations and accept the Radical Leftist agenda as the new normal.
In just one year, Joe Biden has destroyed the American Dream for you and your children. What will this country look like after three more years of this?
he wants us to blame corporations for the price increase – greed.
they are going to topple capitalism no matter what method it takes. and , Kraft will not be impacted once capitalism is gone.
UniParty republicans have been accomplices in said destruction. Not sure I can remember a time when the republican legislators’ and the base of the republican party are so disjointed and misaligned, not even in the tea party years.
I place most of the blame on Mitch McConnell. Without that traitor Trump is still president.
Don’t forget that sellout weasel Pence.
Bat,
Hell will have frozen over and the NHL will be televising playoff games live from there before I forget what Judas Pence did to this country. Benedict Arnold was a stone-cold American patriot compared to Pence. I suspect that when it comes time for him to meet his Maker, he’s going to quickly get a chance to reacquaint himself with Harry Reid and John McCain.
Thanks for the heads up on the inevitable.
I misunderstood the term “transitory inflation” as short term inflation.
I now understand it as my finances transiting away from my pockets.
Any bets on how soon they will “transition” our currency, from 1’s, 5’s etc to $10,000 to $100,000 notes?
A year,…TWO years?
Minimum wage of $200/hr.,…how soon?
Fed reserve has mentioned Bitcoin as something to review, recently.
my guess – bitcoin is a ploy by crypto to lure us off the dollar, and then crash that also.
It’s a ploy to placate the natives with imaginary wealth acquired in a pump and dump speculative mania controlled by whales (large owners) as the value of their dollar plummets by design.
If and when any cryptocurrency presents any real threat to a government fiat currency or official cryptocurrency, that cryptocurrency will be declared to be illegal for use to purchase goods and services and since governments have “life and death” control over businesses and shippers, they will comply.
At that point cryptocurrencies will be worth nothing for legal uses and will not convert to fiat currency or government cryptocurrency.
Note that the involvement of major investment and trading firms doesn’t in any way legitimize any cryptocurrency they handle, it’s just that the greater fool speculative mania has gotten large enough that they want a piece of it via commissions or direct involvement (they’re some of those whales). Rest assured that if the paragraph above ever comes true they will have exited before anyone even knows that’s coming.
you seem interested. a cool think to look up is Palintir – and its relation with the IRS on monitoring cryptocurrency.
Peter Thiel – initial PDJT backer is an owner of it.
but, there is strong evidence the Tech guys split off to manage both sides before collapsing us (righteously possibly)
gold
I believe crypto is a ploy also. Trial run and they will deflate that balloon when it suits their plan.
we will be informed its too “hard” to print the new banknotes and its “easier” and more “efficient” to digitize and dustbin paper and coin.
“I now understand it as my finances transiting away from my pockets.”
haha!
The emptiness of your pockets is inflating.
Deflating my pockets.
haha! again
They’ll blame the greedy Mac&Cheese conglomerates.
and use that to target private cattle farm meat sales.
I already feel the price increase everytime i go to the store. You can’t get out of there without spending close to a $100 dollars.
20% more? wow, really
I just had some much needed office supplies increase 40% in the last week….. so an extra $500 I had to spend. The Biden regime is laughing though because their cut on the sales tax end went up 40% for absolutely no reason, these communist are gonna ruin our whole society at this rate.
yea, people trying to maintain the daily schedule are gonna feel it.
its seem only the preparations for the walking dead will skip inflation.
The options are pretty much pony up the extra money, or do nothing at all. It’s gonna come to the point where the whole economy will implode at this rate, people can’t keep paying these weekly and monthly inflating prices. We all knew what commies on the left were gonna bring when they stole the WH and they are bringing it times 10. Just wait until they try and inflate the social welfare spending even more than the prior 25% on foodstamps, (the BBB plan was to do that and more). We will be paying 4-5 times what we are paying now for food.
Elderly woman in her 90s,
Immigrant from Germany who married a wonderful GI farmboy in the late 1940s
Regaled me with stories of how the hyperinflation in Germany, and the appointment of a very old feeble man (Hindenburg) set the stage for the Nazis and WWII.
And before WWII, in 1938, they purged the medical profession of Jewish doctors and Catholic nurses so orders would be obeyed. The Army protested— one in five of the German Army doctors was Jewish, and Catholic Sisters comprised a very large part of the government medical care system.
Things don’t always happen the same way. But I do think they tend to use the same playbook. Oh, and false flags. That was very useful to the Nazis who murdered and tortured German farmers and pretended Polish citizens had done it.
I don’t want to participate in this ugly game.
Had a boss once, long deceased. He told me in 1957, he and his new wife had no car.
He could not carry more than $5.00 worth of groceries home.
$5.00 bought two, full, heavy paper grocery bags of food.
THINK of it.
PRICES IN 1957
House: $10,000
Average income: $4,494
Ford car: $1879-$3408
Milk: $1.00
Gas: $.24
Bread $.19
Postage stamp: $.03
Can of Libby’s peaches, 17 oz.: $ .25
Swanson TV dinner: $.75
Vermont Maid Syrup, 12 oz bottle: $.33
what do you make of the ‘negotiating Bankruptcy’ argument people have posed ‘PDJT would be good’ at for the USA with the Reserve?
I recall in the late ’70s my mom was pleased she was able to buy a week’s worth of groceries for $15 for a family of 4 (valued at $105 today).
I agree. Just me and my son and I have watched myweekly bill go from 50.oo to 100 over the last 3 months. No change in purchases except less meat.
When the wheat farmer sees all of those new dollars stuffed into the pockets of grain traders, why should he sell at $3.00 a bushel? Let’s make it $6.00 a bushel.
Folks, it is how inflation begins.
Tell me you don’t understand how a commodity market works, without telling me you don’t know how a commodity market works…
why don’t you enlighten us or are you just here to troll?
Lighten up, Birdog357. We’re all in the same boat here.
Like a stampede – run of get trampeled underfoot.
20% on top of the current orice ? No wonder Jimmy Carter posed for pictures with FJB…so he could say “not so bad after all was I?”. This kind of pain leads to spikes in crime too. Be vigilant.
mondopinion>
The headline did not mislead me. ” . . . Price Increases Will Be 20 Percent . . . . ” does not mean ALL prices increases will be 20 Percent
You’re a guest here. Your rudeness is inappropriate and not in keeping with the tenor of true treepers. Do better or you are just another PITA.
Thanks, admin. I should’ve known you’d tidy up the place.
How do you know who’s a guest or not. Just wondering.
We are all guests here.
Well I know that. I was wondering what rvsueandcrew was talking about. I’ve been around for awhile, but not much since the platform change. Just thought something changed.
Hilton, I think the clean up on aisle three had already been handled by Ad Rem which is why we don’t know what R&C was talking about.
I know I missed something.
I guess the increase in Social Security payments will not go far after increased Medicare deductions and the increased cost of food. I think the Biden gang is trying to get rid of the elderly poor people on SS. It’s like covid was not working fast enough for them.
The SS increase is already long gone before I even start buying groceries or fuel for the car because of other increases (natural gas, medicare supplemental, other insurances, etc.)
I’m glad for the increase because it means I won’t get behind as fast.
Exactly how we view it.
Yup.
You’re just waking up to that reality?
Did you read Sundance’s comments, or just the WSJ that you apparently put your trust into?
Back during the reign of Obama, 2009, I was helping a number of people with disabilities through a local agency. Many of my coworkers through the agency were living hand to mouth then. One of them was a grandma raising seven grandchildren (because all three of her children had succumbed to addiction and did not parent effectively). Another coworker had four schoolage sons she was raising with her second husband (who was unexpectedly laid off)… she was also caring for a younger disabled sister, disabled because of her late mother’s crack addictions. Food, fuel and school expenses dont go far on $8.15/hour. That was in 2009. These hardworking, good people are probably invisible to you.
Are there people out there struggling? Oh yes. And Sundance is correct. Watch out for, and help neighbors who are struggling.
If you want to pretend everything is okay, that is your privilege… and your privilege sure is showing
Lesko Brandon & Co
Note: The above is addressed to mondopinion
you guys went after that person quick! they arent around anymore.
treeper pitbulls.
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LOL! Best compliment ever!
Wondering – thank you for this perspective. Not everyone has a perfect life, nor makes perfect choices. Some of us come by difficult times, but if we help each other out – our communities can thrive.
I love WalMart for that reason. It is bare. It is real. It is humanity. It is community.
OK that does it!!!
No more pricey meals of Kraft Dinner slathered with Heinz Ketchup.
once i reviewed the list of ‘food companies’ using ‘aborted baby cells’ to ‘taste test’ on ‘baby cell taste responses’ on their food. I removed plenty from my ‘daily commerce’.
Where does one find this list?
look up the company -> Senomyx; and any company similar. Then any food contracts with this company.
https://familycouncil.org/?p=4666
https://www.kingdomclaritylabel.com/news/a-comprehensive-list-of-food-companies-and-products-that-use-senomyx
And it all depends on who you believe, and what your gut tells you.
Here is the “Fact Check from Reuters” so you can make your own choice.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pepsi-fetal-idUSL1N2OR1O3
Thanks for the info.
Thank you for the links. I saw some items on that list I’ve been consuming and will now never touch again.
WHAT😳😳😳. I had no idea!!
When does the Biden Foodstamp increase of 25% per month going to Heinz family via increased prices equate money laundering to Lurch Kerry? This on top of sending money to the Waltons for their pet projects. Biden is buying everyone off on the left with our taxpayer dollars.
hah, one of my favorites was “Married with Children” mom, opening up kethup packages, she had gotten from fast food restaurants (whole purse full) and squirting them, one at a time into a ketchup bottle,…while talking.
Then, she took a pan of noodles off the stove, squirted the ketchup in it and said “Dinners ready, we’re having SPAGHETTI!”
LOL!
Peg’s Toaster Shakin’s!
My mom used ketchup to stretch spaghetti sauce. It worked!
Read AE Hotcher’s memoir King of the Hill, about growing up in the ’30s. The opening story is about two young folks getting a meal – hot water and free ketchup packets to make soup. A few times the book mentions kids grabbing blades of grass to eat. There’s another scene of the boy, who had been abandoned at home, no care, no food, cutting up pictures of food from a magazine and eating them to kill hunger pangs. That book’s an eye-opener.
I saw that in real life while staying with my husband during the furniture market in Atlanta (long time ago)….homeless guy in downtown Wendy’s getting hot water and opening up the ketchup packages to make either tomato soup or just a hot tasty drink….no charge.
Kitty-Kat – you Canadian?
Canadians I’ve known called it “Kraft Dinner”
Americans usually say “macaroni and cheese”
And – yes – I know it says “Kraft Dinner” right on the box
Just cheerfully asking – if I have any talent at all, it’s for belaboring the trivial
Who can afford Kraft? I buy Food Club (previously Western Family) mac & cheese. Less than half the price, pretty much the same thing.
buy frozen mixed vegetables, mx together with boxed mac and cheese, put in a pan, sprinkle bread crumbs, salt, pepper bake at 400 for 8 minutes….. epic
Yep. Get used to hobo food. Darn good cookin’
Do you prep the mac n cheese first or add it dry out of the box?
I make mine from scratch
Boil the pasta
Make the white sauce with cheese
Mix in with some frozen veg and top with sliced tomatoes and more cheese
You can skip the the white sauce and use a mix of soft cheeses like ricotta and cream cheese for a lo cal option
I never buy any pre-made frozen food or even packaged pre prepared food
I do buy tins of tomatoes, dried lentils, pulses ,dried chickpeas,rice, barley
“Just cheerfully asking – if I have any talent at all, it’s for belaboring the trivial”
Yes I’m Canadian, with tons of American relatives, from Texas to Georgia. My American Dad, in the mining business, married a Canadian. My brother has dual citizenship, which I’m eligible for too, but haven’t yet done the paperwork.
I started posting here during the President Trump’s campaign — I so much wanted him to win.
thx, Kitty-Kat – nice to know more about you
Bienvenue.
8 Ways to Say You’re Welcome in French:
“Next, we’re off to the Canadian province of Québec, where a distinct form of French, québecois, is spoken. One of their regional phrases is bienvenue.
However, it’s not the bienvenue you’re used to. There’s a good chance one of your first French words was bienvenue, meaning “welcome” (as in “welcome to my home”).
While this is indeed a common and certainly helpful expression,
However, it’s not the bienvenue you’re used to. There’s a good chance one of your first French words was bienvenue, meaning “welcome” (as in “welcome to my home”).
While this is indeed a common and certainly helpful expression, in Québec, the exact same word is sometimes employed to communicate “you’re welcome.”
Yes we refer to eating Kraft Dinner, for lunch, supper. It used to be cheap, now not so much from $.59 cents a box to double that now. By we, I meant Canadians.
Red Gold catsup is all I buy. Even store brands are either made by Heinz or Hunts.
any Catsup made with corn fructose like Heinz is nasty
Hey I just had that for dinner!!!
Easy hahah
who here, has bought enough can goods in fear of the Biden presidency that they could eat for at least a year if all stores shut down
^
That’s not gonna do you any good, when your extended family is starving and they want some… you still don’t have enough. Nice thought though, you are gonna need a warehouse full of food.
Buy crappy stuff for the hand-outs. A few boxes of Ramen and a bag of generic rice should keep them at bay for a while.
I don’t have enough can goods to last that long, however, what I did do was buy a small freezer.
I recently stocked up on turkeys and hams.
Once that runs out I’ll revert to my old favorite, Kale Soup!
Maybe not a year, but quite awhile.
One thing I am good on is coffee. We have a local roaster here whose coffee is the best for me, and I have enough bags of it to last, yep, probably a year, especially now that my consumption got cut in half by going through the delta. Expiration dates late into 2022.
I definitely have a coffee stash. It is an essential food group.
Raise hand here
I’ve been a prepper for many years. Closer to 2 years stored for us.
“Rotate your stock” is great advice…that I don’t follow often enough.
Why just last week I found a jar of Nutella from 2014. 😳 it was a bit thick….had to eat it with a spoon rather than spread it LOL!
Destashjan, I will forever remember you as an image of you eating Nutella with a spoon
… rather than the cute animal in your avatar
I’m a bit of a Mousaholic, nimrodman. I collect them, paint or pencil them.
That is a photo of a colored pencil piece that I did 2 years ago. It was published in an Int’l Collection of Colored Pencil art.
Ah, the good ol’ days of a studio filled with eager students. I miss it…
Sharpie the date on top of the cans – easier to identify.
Canned goods, dry goods (beans, rice, flour, sugar, coffee, spices and more) and two large freezers full. Seeds for my garden, fruit trees and ammo for hunting. I worry about my kids and all those who are already living hand to mouth and especially those who have lost/will lose their jobs.
this will be the new grocery.
All of us responding – trading with others.
I’ll pray for your electric service. Do you have a bicycle/windmill/solar panel generator?
Our local electric coop is powered by hydroelectric produced at two dams within twenty miles of me. I also have a whole house generator and a thousand gallons of propane, two gas powered generators and plenty of gas storage. Make a plan and stick to the plan until all preps are complete.
I’m at 4 mos. supply, give or take. No family around. Even so, 4 mos. isn’t very long.
I do have two pecan trees that are so loaded with nuts the branches are bending toward the ground. And my sweet hens keep on layin’ . . . .
If you want to stretch it out a few more months, I recommend 20 lbs of rice and a few flats of Dinty Moore beef stew and some canned chicken. Add garden veggies to the mix when available.
My plan is similar. I can get three hearty meals out of a can of Rotel crushed tomatoes with green chilis, a can of turkey chili (my preference), and two cups (uncooked) of rice. Yeah, I stocked canned chicken and have 40 lbs of rice with several cans of various beans to go with it.
Depending on which way a person wants to live, I have six months’ to two years’ supply. Five chest freezers, and 15′ row of floor to ceiling shelves full of whatever. Make my own wine.
If things really go to hell, I’ll put in chickens. Don’t want to, they stink, but they are very useful critters.
Stink is such a harsh word….
That “stink” will be like perfume when eggs are precious.
There are lots of videos on YT about keeping chickens. Some of the videos are feelgood rescue videos about sickly bedraggled chickens adopted from tiny industrial cages; they transform into healthy free birds pecking in the grass and sunshine.
Anyone thinking about doing some backyard chicken farming will find a goldmine of information and support at backyardchickens.com Also people there who know how to raise ducks, geese, quail, and other domestic birds, how to keep them healthy, harvesting for meat, egg production, dealing with problems like predators, etc.
Rice and beans- cheap and last a looong time.
and several large orders of long term supplies from Patriot Foods
I’ve got thousands of rounds of ammo – bet I can trade that for some pork n beans
yup sold
Trade with Malatrope for some of that homemade wine.
I spent the summer gardening. Last week, I made home made spaghetti sauce. Been working from home for almost 2 years and I’m not going to let this opportunity go to waste.
My wife has always kept about 6 months worth of canned goods and various other staples in our pantry.
Im blessed with a wife that does same. She bakes all our breads & rolls.
I just discovered some youtube videos – in german – about how to bake easy bread.
They’re out there – and very useful. The best prepper is a homesteader!
Question is who has not already stocked up? Know we just replace what we use. Trade an barter will come.
How’ya doing on your essential medications?
There is also the compounding aspect of fuel/transportation surcharges, conditions written into contracts that provide the seller an option for adding a surcharge to the already agreed upon price, based on increased transportation costs.
IF you have your food issues well in hand, you might consider what you need, to keep your vehicle functioning, and that certaun parts ARE “consumables”, like break pads; eventually you WILL need to replace them, and if you buy them THEN, they will cost more than they do now, IF they are even available.
They don’t “go bad” sitting on your shelf, but when the old ones on your car wear out, you are grounded until you replace them.
So, a few minutes thought on necesary, consumable car parts, that you might want to stock up on, is perhaps warranted?
making the poor vote for food in the midterms. nothing like a sick democrat plantation owner.
Yes, exactly. Democrats will always be slavers at heart.
“but when the old ones on your car wear out, you are grounded until you replace them” (tires)
Yep. I just got rolled for 4 new tires
Took my car in for annual safety check and the gal checking me in noted slender thread left and recommended replacement
I might sell my car soon (but indeterminate) and preferred to postpone, but she said “well you might not pass inspection with what’s left”
So I shelled out $500 bucks
$500 for 4? Not bad. Don’t beat yourself up for that.
mighta been $540 or $560
Not sure if I could afford what you have, or live close enough to make it practicable, but keep me in mind if you want to sell instead of trade. I cannot find a decent, affordable used car. Will pay cash.
would do, but I’d have to ship it thru Long Beach or Seattle … I’m in Honolulu
Nope, not gonna work…but enjoy the weather, ha!
Dutchman, my brake pads will last longer than I will.
I was just at my local Kroger store, which has been out of the 1 lb boxes of pasta for a couple of weeks. It was regularly $1. 29 a package and I would usually pick it up when it was on sale for a dollar a package. Now, it’s back in stock but it is now $1.79 a box!
and we don’t notice that price increase (some don’t, i’m not detailed in shopping) as we are picking it up (20 cents more sucks, but it doesnt keep me from picking it up), but at the register its immediately noticed (all combines to say STOLEN ELECTION)
and they SLIGHTLY reduce the size of the package, hoping we won’t notice.
Stick to the perimeter of the grocery store, as much as possible.
The center is where all the heavily processed foods are.
I’m a potato chip person. I’ve noticed half of its Air.
so we get the double guilt of getting screwed, and eating a bag of chips in 1 sitting.
popcorn
make your own
I’ve got a Meijer, Aldi and a Kroger store practically next to each other and less than 3 miles from my house. Online ads and coupons do help – we eat what is on sale.
There will be a pushback at some point…not only from consumers but from the very corporations that drink at the DMC trough.
With no products on the shelves to sell…then no profits for the corporations that manufacture them and no profits for the stores that sell them. With the few products on the shelves…consumers thinking twice about spending extra dollars for those products…few will be sold and albeit little or no profits for retailers and ultimately the corporations that produce them.
Question will be when will the tipping point occur? I think the summer of ’22 before the mid terms…heh heh…sorry Dims…
its not a problem for the corportations, they will be bailed out
I remember the 70’s and how devastating it was to the working class. Oh how I remember.
Same here, bought my first house – 12% mortgage. Thanks to the dems we’ll likely see those rates again very soon.
Finished a refi . . . part of my prep.
Feh, you are a piker. My first house had a 21% mortgage.
With 30 year contract I’d bet.
our first house in the ’70s was 18%
I was working for a saving & loan in the 70’s when the mortgage rate went to 16%. When it went down again, my boss, the president, tallied up the number of people who had established mortgages at that rate. He dropped the rate for all of them. Awesome man.
I opened a roadside fruit market in 1974 and the hard times of the 70s helped to make my business thrive. Figured a real estate license would be a natural tie in so I got one of those in 1978 – just in time for 18-22% mortgage money. It all worked out thanks to God and luck.
I’m 70 now and am closing Thursday on selling my nest egg fruit market location for about half what it was worth 10 years ago – Who wants a roadside business these days?
Not many because they’re too lazy to do the hard work to make it pay.
12%?! You got a deal; my best friend got nothing less than 15%!!!!
And they bought it!!
I was active duty military so used VA that was the only way we could qualify.
Abigail,
I got my first house for 10.5%. My banker, a family friend, told me I should be doing backflips down the street for joy at getting such a low rate. I remember you could also get U.S. Treasury Bonds paying 14 percent at that time.
The ’70s. Nothing like saving up to buy used tires for your car.
Or buying a set of used Maypops, as they were called.
LOL!!!!!!
1970s-1980s: My mom bore the entire burden working (with overtime and a side-job as well) while raising 3 kids. She left dad because he was a do-nothing – he worked so little in a 15-year people that there was no point pursuing him for child support. We qualified for welfare, but mom refused to take it. She never broke down – except once, after we were asleep, and I woke up to hear her crying at the kitchen table. The only time I ever saw her cry.
correction: “15-year period”
you were blessed with a mom of character
but you know that already
Just a TOUCH of truth, in the news clip. Talking head cited “PACKAGING costs, as one of the factors contributing to higher costs.
Most food packaging involves PLASTICS, and plastics are 99.9 percent refined PETROLEUM, so yes, “packaging” costs ARE rising, as a result if Brandon Co. insane energy policies.
“Render unto Caesar, that which is Caesars.”
Its NOT your $, its Caesars, er Brandons, er the Feds, er the International bankers, er,…well DAMNIT, its NOT yours!
We have stopped using “quick” products at our house (i.e., Kraft macnchz).
The salt and unpronounceable ingredients, in addition to the price vs. volume of product, inspired me to do a little better for my family.
Thank you for the updates, Sundance.
Good. I want to see all prices up. People who support Biden, Democrats or mandates should feel the consequences.
They are mostly Rich Leftist, Gov’t workers, or foodstamp welfare recipients. They aren’t gonna feel much at all.
“People who support Biden, Democrats or mandates should feel the consequences.”
Where I live, BuildBackBetter is sure looking like a wealth transfer. Some receive the printed and borrowed money – some of us pay for it.
For some, the consequences are looking up. Near me in NC is an major growing urbanization region – Cary/Raeigh/RTP. I go there often. Global capital flows like water. Big multinationals cannot get buildings up fast enough. Phama, BigTech, Multinaionals, Goverenment. People there vote for this all – for their sizable paychecks, million dollar homes and luxury cars. Luxury supermarkest on every corner – shelves are always overstocked. $4 gas and 20% more at the checkout will barely be noticed. Raises will surely follow.
Less than an hour away in almost any direction, good hard working people are hurting.
damned right – we are more self sufficient than they are
Just went through sundance’s very useful photographs of the Kraft and Heinz brands, and the only item in either that I use is Philadelphia cream cheese (I’ve tried the others, sadly, to no avail, I’m hooked).
That item had been in very short supply around my area for months. But not long ago I lucked into a supply splurge on it a few towns away – stocked up a lot, because it really keeps a very long time on the coldest refrigerator shelf.
I greatly appreciate the useful information sundance gives us!
I heard that famous cheesecake place in NYC (forget the name) is suffering because cream cheese is the main ingredient in their cakes.
Juniors Cheesecakes
Stock up on the cream cheese! Cheese Cake season is about to get into full swing!!!
Philadelphia Cream Cheese is the best by far. I am a pasty chef and it is the only one I will use.
One thing, if you are stocking up on it, DO NOT FREEZE!! It ruins it.
Thanks, SMS. I was about to ask that question!
steph_gray: Cream cheese? You mean guar gum.
I was at Walmart yesterday and the 1/2 gal. of Silk almond milk was priced at $4.98!! Price I have always paid until now was $3.27. So I purchased Walmart’s own brand, Great Value, for $2.98. I wonder if Walmart will raise their brands’ prices.
you make a good point!
got to wonder if all this – is to get us buying the Grocery Store Brand (which most likely is the same cheap company supplying all the chains!)
I worked 7 years in the grocery business. I found out all of our store brands, were packaged by one of the big boys at a slightly lower quality.
Yes. I make wine from their grape juice and its gone up!
🙂 🙂 🙂
I find their Great Value brands are just a good as the name brands, as I’ve just told my youngest as she and her husband are sitting down tonight to draw up a budget.
The only product I will not compromise on is Hellman’s mayo. That s non negotiable for me.
Haha! My sisters and I are the same way. It has to be Hellman’s (also known as Best Foods).
Hellmann’s is the best. But I’ve tried Duke’s, which is a good. I try to avoid WalMart or anything Great Value. Anything Kraft always tastes like plastic to me.
Betsy, PJ, all the rest of you mayo-liking people,
Be glad I’m not dictator of the world. I’d come closer to making heroin and cocaine legal for unlimited sale in convenience stores before I’d allow mayo. That stuff just seems awful. White glop!
For me, it’s V-8. I’ve tried other stores’ own brands of vegetable juice, but none of them comes close. I’ve been paying a bit extra for years, knowing that I can save on other items.
One of the Waltons just got a $500 million loan from govt to build solar panels ….. in India.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/biden-megadonor-scores-a-500-million-federal-loan-to-build-a-solar-factory-in-india/
Will it be named Solyndra?
Solindia 😉
And thus the recent softer posturing from this illegitimate government on Covid ‘rules’, because they know that the SIDEWAYS economic CRAP-STORM is about to hit this country very hard and they are trying to, although they will not be successful at it, de-pressurize the populace.
I’ve said it here before, that the general population is going to have to moderately to greatly SUFFER the effects of this illegitimate government to knock some semblance of understanding into them as to what is actually going on in the country.
Looks like I will be taking an extra deer this year.
Haven’t had the need to in years. Could make it through with out doing it.
Yet I refuse to spend extra for the same products because of bad leadership.
Guess the extra venison will help offset cost of gas
Or be given to others that are truly in a bad spot.
Fortunately where I’m at there’s never a worry about starving. 🤷🏼♂️
Just depressing knowing we have 3 more years of this SH.T
LETS GO BRANDON!
Talkofthetown: Did you need to buy a tag, or, do you have your own property?
I got my own property.👍 I don’t have to buy a tag. I do buy 1 a year to help the DOW.
Also umm have great secluded fishing in walking distance.
Some chickens and could plant a really nice garden.
No worries for food what so ever. If Shtf .🤷🏼♂️😁
The federal government and a catholic hospital in Michigan killed my deer hunter this year for the covid money. He always came home with 2 or 3 deer. He liked to share. I miss him.
The FED will print 20% more dollars, stuff them into BBB and give to Democrat voters to lower costs. That’s the plan, it lowers inflation, they have 200 climate change scientists er economists that testify it’ll work.
The left have just made sure they remain out of power for a decade plus as this type of financial incompetence is not forgotten by voters. In the UK Labour made themselves virtually unelectable for over a decade after the Winter of Discontent in ’79.
The rest of the Democratic agenda next year will be chum for their base, but the parties global backers might take action sooner rather than later, especially if the Obiden cockup machine starts to threaten the elite’s crown jewels. Global warming, juxtaposed with trade with the CCP.
If you haven’t stocked up by now, there’s still a little time, but not much.
And don’t forget pet food!!
Make sure you get quality pet food, as they have been selling contaminated food that will make your pets sick, or die. The food has been sold under a few names, which is how they still sell it when one brand is recalled. This has been a real problem over the past few years.
Yes! We’ve had to switch brands because the former brand we used has been in short or no supply for several months 😣
Agree been stocking up on dog food also. Have year of chicken an turkey food also.
It’s hard to find and super expensive!🙄
We got our daughter a $50 grocery gift card for Christmas, it’s worth $25 today, she heads home early January, it’ll be worth $10.
Welllllll….hope everyone here cleared as much debt out as possible over the last couple years; that none of you need more debt to cover existing debt. This is now all going to head in an inexorable direction.
Hope a war isn’t their “get out of jail free” plan.
Btw…..they will claim enhanced GDP growth – be sure to account for inflation to determine real growth.
“Food, fuel and energy price increases will continue to be the most impactful problem into 2022”
… and are conveniently LEFT OUT of the CPI inflation index
‘6 percent inflation’ my a$$
Inflation is atleast 25% if not more…. they are con artist selling us a bag of hot air.
Sorry no link, but I saw a Twitter screenshot of Anderson Cooper suggesting to Bill Gates the Fed Govt withhold Social Security payments to the so-called vax hesitant. Scott Adams retweeted it. All I saw was the screenshot but apparently Gates gets giddy. I don’t have Twitter so hard to look up. I am not of the age but many of us have parents and grandparents that are reliant on SS and Medicare. I would say there’s no way in hell they would do it but I am not so certain they won’t. Not sure they care about elections at this point. This coupled with inflation is a surefire way to wipe out the middle class; a little trick Commies love to pull. Again, in normal times I would say NO WAY, but normal times don’t live here anymore. For those of you who want to compartmentalize this and compare it historical events in the past I say go ahead if it helps you keep sane. But I say with entire Western World following the same script along with today’s modern technology we are in uncharted waters. That Hurricane pic is a pretty good barometer for where we are heading. Is it an infamous Cat5? No not yet, I don’t think they want the building to come down; again not yet as they would have to disappear into their hidey holes.
It’s kind of a dismal picture I am painting. But if there’s one possible positive outcome that will come from this and that’s the sheep; the 40% who go along to get along. They might start to wake up which is very desperately needed. Downside there’s not going to be much excitement in the “I told you so” moment. If you know you are going to need something soon I would buy it this week.
Bill Gates is mentally unstable. 🤨
Feh. Why should he be any more stable than his operating system?
Way too kind Guyski.
I told my hubby the other day that I’m surprised they haven’t made a move to cut the unvaxxed off from Medicare or from SS checks. We joined the 65 age group on our birthdays this year. I’ve been on Medicare for less than 2 mos & I can tell you it stinks. I’m expecting an announcement any time that says no vaxx no check or an increase in CMS premiums
Medicare and SS were enacted as laws by Congress. My view is that threaten though they may, these monsters have not the legal means to do it.
Add in that they’d be cutting their own throats electorally, this all sounds like loose talk meant to terrorize those who depend on both programs.
Absolutely!!!!!
Luke, I’ve been of the mindset that they will either withhold SS from seniors or place a fine or “deduction” if you will, on the SS check. They will claim that seniors who refuse to take the jab are driving up the cost of health care, hospital stays, etc. I put NOTHING past theses evil ba$tards. And who better to target than the elderly and the children?
They’d better think twice before messing with seniors’ income. We’re already old and without money we just might go into a what-the-hell-do-I-have-to-lose RAGE.
RVSue,
I saw a T-shirt last week that said, “Before you start something, remember that, at my age, life in prison isn’t much of a deterrent anymore.”
WILL NOT HAPPEN.
P.E.R.I.O.D.!!!
They will refuse to allow us to use Medicare.
My thoughts exact-expressed much better you …thanks! 🙂
Your picture is no more dismal than the whole darn thread. Stop the world. I want to get off.
Blimey, it might already be happening. From Ace of Spades HQ
Civiqs | Joe Biden: Job Approval
37%, from a Kos poll!
New Progressive Poll on Biden Is Likely to Terrify Dems – RedState
The left turning on him as well!
He’s toast and so is his maladministration. Next might be the demands for audits coming from Democrats and their backers, as a way to remove him or blackmail him and his Obama backers to leave.
As has been said a few times here, Biden is an expendable puppet. They are going for broke. One and done. To them, the polling means nothing.
hopium tires me
Food prices climbing, store shelves empty, high fuel prices and a government that looks to institutionalize voting fraud.
Where have we seen this movie before?
When referring to life, I often tell people “I’ve seen this movie before… the guy dies at the end.”
We got 25 year freeze dried food, dried beans, rice, frozen meats, frozen veggies and fresh vegetables. I had a hydroponic garden, that rocks!
We have very few boxes of packed food and never buy name brands if we do!!
Get to know a local farmer!
Best of luck to all!
I am considering a hydroponic garden. Tell me more.
I fully expect to hear the media breathlessly crying “unexpected” inflation while the left wing fringe cry about price gouging.
Isn’t that convenient. So Lurch gets a job and a raise? All after illegally counseling all of our adversaries to ignore President TRUMP while he was in office, violating numerous laws, along with The Kenyan. PIGS.
There is no factual reason to raise prices. It is just the globalists greed for more money before the big crash when the people totally wake up . I have enough stuff in storage to last me until next summer, so I won’t be feeding this globalist monster by buying any of their fake high priced stuff. It is time they suffered.
Inflation boosts the economy in the near term because people buy whatever they can now because they know their money is worth less in a week, month, year. After the short term boost the dwindling purchasing power will squeeze the middle class causing significant damage.
Oh no, Pudding going up! Poop On Mustard going up! Joe is going to have a fit when he can’t afford his essentials.
Just think 4th of July next year will be 16 cents more than this year, how are they gonna cover that up, LOL.
Also, grocery store brands that are cheaper than national brands are many times run on the same machines on the same day so their prices are going up also. The tip-off is the bottles are identical, just different labels. The highest number of different labeled products I have heard of run through the same machine in a day is 23.
Aldi isn’t for everyone but their house brand products are good and they will save you serious money.
We have discount grocery stores like “Grocery Outlet” here in Norcal . You get name brands and substantial discounts,but the inventory changes frequently.
We are in wine country and the discount on wine is amazing, if you know what you are buying.
Sometimes grocery labels are changed or product is near expiration but really very good values.
Manager: Should we raise prices?
Owner: No, we shouldn’t, there’s no reason.
Manager: But “they” are raising them 15%.
Owner: Oh, ok, let’s do 20%.
Manager: Should we give our people raises?
Owner: No, it’s transitory.
Same folks that brought you Gate’s, Zuckturd, Biden, Fauchi, Buffet & The Vauxcines etc… Plus controls 80-90% of all the World’s Corporations. BlackheartRoc & Vanguards of everything & all angles!
It’s a lot easier to top off your preps with a couple items each month, even with price increases, than buying a cart of weekly groceries
Elections of consequences.
Also General Mills said it would charge its retail customers up to 20% more, starting mid-January. ( https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/11/23/report-general-mills-will-raise-prices-up-to-20-percent-in-january/ ) So cereal and flour prices will rise.
And since more people will make their own bread to save money, I’m guessing more people will buy yeast. So I’d guess there will be a shortage of yeast pretty soon, along with higher prices for it.
I don’t know how long this will last, but you can still get frozen vegetables for a good price, if you get their store brand.
At some point the same style of Patriots who stormed Utah, Juno, Sword, Gold and Omaha will draw a line and say enough of this woke monkey business and our great Republic will rise again, like the Phoenix.
I like the way you are thinking….especially on THIS thread.
Don’t forget the added cost of transportation. Diesel fuel prices have almost doubled since Biden took office. Pay to Class A licensed truck drivers (big rig semitrailer) has increased from 55¢ per mile to 75¢ per mile, yet there is a shortage of truck drivers.
The smash and grab looting that started a little while back was intentional, happening in many blue states at the same time. It is to make it common place so that once the supply chain hits a tipping point looting will take off all over the place.
Once that happens they will have to call in the military to control the situation. After which the supply chain will be totally destroyed and rationing will start but only for those with a vaccine passport!
The people responsible for this will be just fine. They park their money at the right spot and are invested in assets that they know will gain value.
They are loving it!