The U.S. government does not operate in a vacuum without knowledge of what is happening and a solid perspective on what is likely to happen. Whether they listen to the commonsense advisors, or whether the control officers intentionally keep counter positions away from the principle, is another matter; however, the officials generally know what is most likely to happen.
The White House put Port Envoy John D. Porcari, who is also intricately involved in the supply chain taskforce, on the podium today to discuss supply chain issues. The full video of his remarks is posted below, but my spidey sense is telling me they know what we know, and they are starting to prepare for what will ultimately become impossible to ignore. WATCH:
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It’s not just a port issue, as we have discussed on these pages, the interventionist policies and regulations from the people creating the COVID response (writ large) have been fubar from the beginning. {Go Deep} When they shut down the restaurants and hospitality sector (2020 lockdowns), the advisors and bureaucrats triggered a cascading series of events inside the food supply chain.
I know it sounds weird to try and wrap your arms around, but those early decisions in 2020 created a problem that only a very few people could see and follow to its natural conclusion.
The 60/40 supply chain for food away from home (restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, cafeterias etc.), and food at home (supermarkets and grocery stores etc.), is not something you can just fiddle around with. {Go Deep}
Supply chains are challenging on their own. However, within the various supply chains, the supply chain for U.S. food distribution is the most complex supply chain in the world. There’s nothing even close. It was created by decades of free market operators following efficiencies of scale to produce the best, most wholesome and reliable food supply chain ever created. In many ways it is our best national security advantage.
The free-market distribution system would eventually overcome the problem and reestablish its efficiencies. However, given the scale of disruption -and the fact that catch up harvests are seasonal- it was obviously taking several years.
Most Americans were not aware going into the COVID mitigation effort that food consumption in the U.S. was a 60/40 proposition. Approximately 60% of all food was consumed “outside the home” (or food away from home), and 40% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” (grocery shoppers).
Food ‘outside the home’ includes restaurants, fast food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 60 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.
The ‘food away from home‘ sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort, the ‘food away from home’ sector was reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still needed to eat. That meant retail food outlets, grocers, would see sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area.
The retail consumer supply chain for manufactured and processed food products includes bulk storage to compensate for seasonality. As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue noted in 2020, “There are over 800 commercial and public warehouses in the continental 48 states that store frozen products.”
Here is a snapshot of the food we had in storage at the end of February 2020: over 302 million pounds of frozen butter; 1.36 billion pounds of frozen cheese; 925 million pounds of frozen chicken; over 1 billion pounds of frozen fruit; nearly 2.04 billion pounds of frozen vegetables; 491 million pounds of frozen beef; and nearly 662 million pounds of frozen pork.
This bulk food storage is how the total U.S. consumer food supply ensures consistent availability even with weather impacts. As a nation, we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it and smoothing out any peak/valley shortfalls. There are a total of 175,642 commercial facilities involved in this supply chain across the country
The stored food supply is the originating resource for food manufacturers who process the ingredients into a variety of branded food products and distribute to your local supermarket. That bulk stored food, and the subsequent supply chain, is entirely separate from the fresh food supply chain used by restaurants, hotels, cafeterias etc.
For almost four months in 2020, the retail supply chain was operating way beyond capacity, as most “food away from home” was turned off or severely limited. The burn rate of raw food products in storage jumped a stunning 40 percent. Those bulk warehouses, the feeder pools for retail/consumer manufactured food products, started to run low as the various states kept making rules about restaurant capacity and venue availability due to COVID.
Believe me, we don’t want to find out what happens when those 800 mass storage facilities run out. This “bigger picture” was not being considered by politically minded governors, DC politicians, and public health-centric advisors who focused exclusively on using the politics of the virus for control.
Here we are, two years later, and the currently empty shelves, in combination with layers of new short-sighted policy, are a downstream consequence of that originating disruption.
The best thing government could do to avoid a crisis would have been to do nothing. Just let people go back to normal, and that would have allowed the market process to eventually correct itself. However, they didn’t stop -and worse- the Biden administration started implementing massive policy changes (energy policy, regulatory policy, legislative policy, monetary policy) while simultaneously pumping COVID bailout money into the economy.
As the food sector tried to gain its footing, the wave of price increases driven by energy policy only made things worse. We have been seeing these staggering price increases at the grocery store. Then, at the worst possible time, the new Omicron narrative “a winter of death awaits” was pushed. Now, the labor side of the supply chain equation is hit even harder stressing out every facet of the food distribution system.
Instead of just preparing for massive price increases, we are now preparing for massive shortages in this most important sector.
People are starting to see completely blown-out empty shelves and slow replenishment. Soon, as a result of this situation worsening, there is very likely to be public pressure on government to solve the problem which, ironically and insufferably, the government intervention created.
How will the White House respond to demands that someone fix the problem of empty shelves?
You already know the answer to that question, and it isn’t good.
Here’s the full presser with John D. Porcari (prompted):
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…and they still continue to lie because they feel invincible and don’t care!
Long Beach should come out with container numbers on Monday the 10th.
On the 10th, both ports will decide if fees on dwelling containers will be imposed.
Ports of LA and Long Beach keep Container Dwell Fee on hold | Container Management (container-mag.com)
The following Monday, LA should release their numbers.
It was interesting that the WH took ownership behind the fees in the briefing. Whipping companies for making Brandon look bad will only lead to higher shelf prices.
It means shipping companies will stop coming to CA and go elsewhere. Who can blame them?
Seems like just the other day that PDJT took the Port of Long Beach away from Joe’s boss.
https://www.universalcargo.com/u-s-forces-china-out-of-port-of-long-beach-terminal-ownership/
MoPar2020: China is welcome to anything in Afghanistan. China will get booted out, same as the Brits, Russia and the U.S.
I remain skeptical that the 2022 election will be allowed to take place.
So much strife and turmoil that the election must be postponed?
Liz Cheney and Ted Cruz seem to be alerted that something is coming..
“There is no government solution to this problem.”
Pitiful. Your president, not mine.
Where are the monoclonal antibodies? HMS? Let’s start a clammer for the release of this life saving treatment. End of pandemic.
They are the cause of the problem.
The government screwed up everything they come in contact with. Take that to the bank!
We should start blaming government administrators, not government. That lets the rat bastards hide behind their employer.
The big fail is the culture of administrators who ether enable or directly operate the maladministration and malpractice that damages the American nation and threatens the mutual future on which we all depend.
Government is just another corporate entity. People do the harm. They have names. They have titles. The worst psychopathies rise to the highest corporate station.
Fauci, Collins; it’s all over the modern corporate and institutional governance power culture, state and federal, private and public, profit and non.
A failed generation presides over the bitter harvest of our chaos and demise; preening, posing and pocketing the spoils without shame or remorse.
Time to spotlight the people who take the money and betray the public trust.
The good people in government know who they are.
Perhaps a new genre of Accountability Wanted posters can reinvigorate the positive effect of the Wanted posters of the 19th Century American West, complete with the menacing unfavorably illustrated likeness prominently displayed and the bad behavior listed beneath.
That’s the way to make them famous.
We should blame the tech owners. Did you know Amazon has small container ships that can load, unload in without the cranes in a container port? The first ones to land months ago had containers with sequential serial numbers and Amazon painted on them. Tech knew all this was coming.
Everyone in the shipping business saw this bottleneck coming. Amazon has the deep pockets that enable them to sidestep government’s inefficiency while still staying in compliance with whatever new regulations the bureaucrats come up with.
Yes. Someone posted a photo of Amazon’s ships here many months ago. Interesting.
Found the videos on Amazon container shipping.
Engineering supply side shortages does what?
Prices go up.
One of the oldest tricks in the criminal racketeering handbook. Protected by regulatory capture and a 5th Column in both political parties.
The key is selective enforcement and control over those who select to do so.
I read (don’t recall where; it was some time ago; probably Amerian Thinker) that there are now mega container ships that can only load in deep water ports which are conveniently in California?
If someone knows would they post to verify or correct? Thank you.
Watch the second Amazon video above. L.A. and Longbeach are able to handle the mega ships. 40% of all cargo entering the US stops there.
I like the i9dea of naming the people who are responsible IMO, it is a responsible accountability. These bureaucrats are not without names and they must be made visible.
We don’t need a court of law for disclosure and exposure. We need a face and a name so people can see who is why?
Remember the deck of cards from the “after 9/11” Iraqi war? Let’s create the first 52. Who has the names? Good question. The old “where do we start?”
There certainly is not.
Sure there is…the government needs to get out of the way.
The elected officials and their key employees are likely to get out of the way cause they are benefiting from an incestuous relationship with Big business in all of its shapes, sizes, and forms.
Food only for the vaxxed, for starters.
Military dispensing controlled food distribution.
Then we grow our own.
Started a garden this summer. Great harvest. Froze most of it to enjoy over the winter and into next spring.
FJB!
Today I was at my local Stop n Shop here in CT. The Canned
Cat food isle was completely empty, Litter was scarce, canned
dog food was pretty much bare as well.
there were many bare spot on the other shelves,
in the coffee and tea isle , The canned juice isle,
I will try my small town IGA to see if they have
any pet food. They seem a bit better stocked.
Even the bottled water isle only had on size of
bottle water.
I found that at the beginning of the plandemic the Dollar General and perhaps other dollar type stores had supplies that other retailers did not have. In other words, they had plenty of toilet paper, canned goods etc. Also if you have any independent food retailers, we have one named Hopey’s that buys stuff from close outs, etc, they have a totally different supply chain. Also, for clothing stuff etc, TJ Maxx also has a different supply chain. I talked to an employee a couple of months ago and she said they never had a problem with supply but their problem is with not being able to find employees. Our local grocery chain and Harris Teeters have empty shelves for 2 years. So I do not have an explanation…maybe SD does.
My Dollar General is starting to have problems and expects it to get worse. As for clothing, I have plenty cause I’m a thrift store shopper, and this year I am not making any clothing donations.
TJ Maxx is a “salvage” company that buys out of season and overstock from other retailers. Their supply chain disruption is delayed but coming, since we can see stores like Target and Kohls simply don’t have any surplus, or are not willing to salvage it.
Dog and cat food are produced from “leftover” processing meats, and we know that is way down in volume (since meat processing for humans is way down). Our groceries have been running cat food from warehouse stock for about a year, and now the stock is out. I found a good stash at our local garden / “feed store”, and while we did up to a higher price point (Fancy Feast) we have been able to find food the cats like.
Our Giant supermarket (part of Ahold brands, sister to Stop & Shop ) has had a lot of supply issues, but paper goods are back. I notice that “mega packs” 12/18 counts are now replaced by 4/6 count packaging at slightly higher unit pricing. Wet goods are fully stocked, but dry goods are weirdly stocked. One week salsa will be wiped, then coffee will be hard to find. All local breads, chips, snacks are well stocked, but things like Coke and Pepsi are out in the machines (they were so quick to replace everything with the touch screen Freestyles but they are ALWAYS missing 80% of the choices due to lack of syrup). The other day I couldn’t find unsalted butter, any brand. And my wife couldn’t get any Kite Hill cream cheese. It was so strange.
Unsalted whipped butter has been an extremely rare commodity up here in blueMA, and I prefer it for baking. My favorite Bob’s Mill flour and their coarse-ground cornmeal are 2 other items. Every couple of months I have to search everywhere…
I pre-stock all of these when I can, so I can bake and freeze the homemade cornbread that’s considered a staple around here.
All you have to do is put heavy whipping cream in the blender for 10 minutes. It churns to butter. Just pour the whey off and give to your dog, or drink it.
Glendale Ca has a dollar store that was never at a loss of toilet paper in 2021 while the supermarkets were wiped out. And no one seemed to know to go there either, it was our little secret. Cheap price and plenty of stock… Armenian operated.
My 18 year old cat requires special food that I can no longer find in pet stores or at our vet. I found a place https://osahvets.vetsfirstchoice.com that ships directly from the manufacturer (I use royal canan) to me and have it delivered on auto ship. A little extra $ but I don’t have to call the stores in 3 counties. Her litter is a walmart brand but the only one she will use comfortably; hard to get it in the stores but can be ordered and delivered to my house. Hope this helps any pet lovers perched in the branches. New Year blessings to all and your fur-babies!
I’m really starting to see the pet food shortages, even online. For me personally, it’s the part of the supply chain crisis that scares me the most. I can chew on grass and bugs if I have to, but what are my three cats supposed to do if I can’t get their din-dins?!
Have your cats hunt mice which is what they are designed purposed to do anyway. A fat-cat does not hunt. Our pet cats controlled the mice, rats and gophers.
Canned chicken with cooked pasta
Cats need a significant amount of taurine in their diet. They don’t eat carbohydrates unless there was some in the bellies of their prey. Cats are carnivores- muscle and organ meat eaters.
Rats and mice and birds maybe? Just a wild ass guess on my part though!
Good to know. One of my girls eats Royal Canin urinary diet. You remind me I need to look again for tidy cat for my office kitty. At home, I’m all stocked up on litter.
I am about to start making my own cat food. The stuff is getting hard to find. One reason is that a lot of what goes into a lot of the cheaper brands comes from China.
I ordered a special wet Royal Canin cat food from Chewy today. Chewy.com
You can get it on Chewy with 35% off https://www.chewy.com/brands/royal-canin-7487?gclid=Cj0KCQiAoNWOBhCwARIsAAiHnEgSQ4JMhGjuI4HJ0wlK-TwbLJCeHFs-JpKLtyR2Dh8KOzGjdha067YaAqq7EALw_wcB
I just ordered bags of cat food at Target online. My local Giant was out of staples such as Jasime rice, Dove soap and Pantene shampoo. I had to order them at Walmart and Amazon. But comparison shop. Amazon was charging twice what Walmart was for the soap. And it is going to get uglier.
When the empty shelves first appeared in 2020 I switched from buying pet food at grocery/target/walmart etc. to buying pet food from one of our local feed stores – you know, that sell hay, chicken scratch, etc. The dry cat food came in 2o or 40 pound bags, was a little bit more expensive, but was all MADE IN AMERICA. My animals do much better on it and I have had no further problems getting it. You might check your local feed stores for availability.
Didn’t CT put an extra per mile charge on trucks using CT roads? In the name of addressing climate change?
I remember some discussion about independent truckers just avoiding CT altogether 8n response. Would make some sense if there is a boycott of trucking into CT, beyond the shortages we find everywhere else.
I did recently see a FJB scrawled on a pump in a CT suburb of NYC. Even there people have adopted the slogan.
I made my 2 dogs and 2 cats preppers a long time ago, now they are stocked and 2 of them bring in local fresh food.
In my day growing up on a farm. Our pets became our food. It was a fact of life and had to be accepted however painful.
I hope your folks didn’t make you chase down the chicken and kill it 🥺
Absolutely, and wring its neck when you caught it. There is real truth with “running around like a chicken with its head wrung off”.
Hampton Roads VA area has been scarce on wet cat food for over a year. Had to resort to Bezos’ company.
I have seen two national restaurant ads tonight advertising plant based chorizo and plant based fried chicken.
I don’t know how to make a chicken out of a plant, but these restaurants are not offering this garbage because their target customers want to eat bizarre replica foods.
Be prepared.
You know that old saying “tastes like chicken”? Well, I can tell you that chicken made from plant material does not “taste like chicken” (actually, I think it’s the worst of all Fake Meats).
Mr Piddles this thread reminded me of a family dinner out long long ago- at a local Spanish restaurant. Darling daughter was about 8 or so we ordered frogs legs in as I recall a scrumptious sauce. Me & hub told daughter they were mini chicken legs. She loved it! Years later I told her she ate Kermit the Frogs legs. Good memories.
😂 😂 😂
The same thing with rattle snake….tastes like chicken. lol
I think rattlesnake tastes more like fish.
It is a reptile as are frog legs, turtle and alligator.
Squirrel tasted sort of like chicken to me. We have a lot of deer and wild turkeys in my area
Squirrel is delicious!!
if it does taste like chicken, it’s a safe bet you were never eating chicken to begin with.
my daughter ( love her with every part of my being, so please be polite), is adamant about eating vegan only..no meat or animal derived foods of any type. She is a high level athlete and it makes sense because that exactly how HER DAD performed at top level too, so I don’t give her grief over it. But now that I am not competing, I have liberally relaxed by diet…my old axiom was if you can’t run a 10 miler 20 minutes after eating, you are eating the wrong foods. Because that’s really what it takes. And it worked for me. So I don’t sweat it that she eats vegan.
but I do have a bit of fun with it.
like:
why is it that vegan food is processed and seasoned to smell, feel and taste like meat? bacon? etc?
why is it so important to brand foods with names like “milk”, “butter”, “burger”?
she knows what I am getting at. She knows there is quite a bit of dubious marketing of these foods.
lately, when she cooks, I’ll ask first: “does it taste like chicken?”
it’s my routine…I’m sticking with it. Just so she never forgets to have a sense of humor
But does it taste like Spotted Owl?
I have a friend, his wife is vegan, and she makes the best.
lol!
when we invite outsiders to our local crawfish boils, the questions always comes up:
what does it taste like?
A; a bit like owl…
we do have some fun here in freedom land.
The punchline is, “hmmmm kinda like a cross between a Northern Spotted Owl and a California Condor.”
Happy to type the entire joke upon request, lol.
awesome, our twist is baby seal.
Mine are those little fish that they shut down the California farmers’ water off for.
You mean the unarmored three spine stickleback?
Fun!
100% free, it’s all perspective.
My bride and I had just that conversation this morning.
Be well!
Or Grannie’s favorite: opossum.
regitiger, don’t forget this one:
“How do we know that carrots don’t scream in agony as they’re ripped from the ground and we just can’t hear them?”
screaming carrots.
I think I know what that sounds like.
sounds alot like chicken!
🙂
Classic!
Worse yet, when the pea pods are eviscerated!
Reminds me of the Roald Dahl short story about the inventor whose machine could hear the plants scream. It was creepy but interesting…
I forget the title…
i have a vegan niece and daughter…what a pain in the ass it normally turns out to be.
It tastes like a tender rubber tire might “taste”.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/kfc-to-launch-meatless-fried-chicken-made-with-beyond-meat-nationwide.html 🤢🤢🤢
This has been a bit of a thing over the last few years… Impossible Whopper… Dunkin had some fake sausage sandwich.
Their regular chicken is crap anyway. Bojangles is the best fast food chicken.
While a plant based diet is good, fake meat like the Impossible Burger is actually less healthy than a real one. Contains just as much or more fat.
Meat substitutes are made from soy which is rocket fuel for prostate cancer!
The beauty of the free market is options have appeared. Unfortunately, the ones we like always seem to disappear. There was a cauliflower based one and quite a few made of pea protein now.
I was told by a hospital dietician that a plant based diet is actually bad for humans
Cows eat plants so it must be good.
I agree, cows are very good to eat.
It is good for the cows.
Cows have 4 stomachs to process it. How many do you have?
They have 4 stomachs.
my pawpaw refused to eat vegetables..
I don’t eat the food my food eats.
I don’t trust any of em. Lol
God gave us incisors for a reason.
They have to fill it with something to compensate for the loss of something else. Notice low or fat free is always full of sugar, sugar free is full of fat.
Fat gets a bad rap. As long as you keep it to reasonable levels, it’s fine unless you have heart issues.
I eat it in small amounts but the real thing: cream, sour cream, cheeses, butter – yum. Also plenty of the other type of the plant-based fats – olive oil, avocado, nuts. Love it all…
A plant based diet isn’t good at all. Most cancers require sugar for growth. Plants are carbohydrates and carbs are sugars! Food is supposed to be balanced, and protein should always come first.
Sugar is cancer.
Bill Gates is pushing this fake meat. No thanks!
He’s pushing fake PROCESSED meat. Not good at all. Much of it will eventually be sourced from China.
Yes, just read that as well.
No, of course their customers don’t want it, but the Green New Deal does…so they will do it.
It’s the new narrative for the sheeple, no meat. ADM, cargill and company put up the funding for the propaganda
Anyone remember Euell Gibbons? “Many parts of a pine tree are edible.”
We made fun of him in the 60s. Ever eat a tree? Ever licked a lake?
ha
Carolina Girl: Sure, I remember Euell Gibbons. Also, Wilfred Brimly, of Grape Nuts fame.
Euell Gibbons “Stalking the Wild Asparagus” comes to mind every spring when I go looking for it. LOL
I remember Euell. I once worked for a guy that was just like him. He ate ants. He once ran over a squirrel in the parking lot, so he cooked it for lunch. Tragically I was unable to join his feast.
You should have brought your car and joined the hunt.
I noticed this also and thought the same.
At Costco yesterday and saw a significant increase in plant based “meat” products.
My concern is purely health based. There are a number of essential nutrients which are only available in animal products.
Vegans can take supplements, but many people don’t realize they need to do so, and I personally don’t believe most supplements are an adequate substitute for the food source.
Besides, many of these plant based products are highly processed and downright unhealthy.
Anyone considering should do their homework, as always.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-get-from-plants#3.-Carnosine
Yup, saw a Kentucky Fried Chicken add just about an hour ago for a new “plant based chicken”.
Thinking these fake, plant based meats and poultry are highly processed, just did a bit of research and confirmed. Here’s an article in which the CEO of Whole Foods concurs:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/whole-foods-ceo-john-mackey-plant-based-meat-not-good-for-your-health.html
If it comes down to “they” making real meat and poultry unavailable to us, I’d rather go “forced” vegan with real foods and not fake meat and poultry.
Could always eat them if things got real dicey.
I remember the first time I saw a menu with plant-based hamburger. More calories than beef. More salt. More fat. There is a method to making it taste more like beef.
I actually prefer Chipotle’s plant based offering. Really it’s texture that is key (especially with plinken, lol just made that up) since chicken tastes like everything! But seriously, any chef worth their gristle can create a plant based meal as good or better than with animal products. One of the best meals I’ve ever had was in OKC. Unfortunately the place shut down, but the chef was Matthew Kenney and it was a vegan raw food restaurant. If you enjoy food and have an open palate that doesn’t mind venturing away from “the usual” I’d recommend searching for one of his restaurants.
They did a bit about this on The Five tonight. Gutfeld had ordered the Vegetable Chicken from KFC and everyone was supposed to try it. Only Gutfeld did. His take: It was the only thing he could think of that really did not taste at all like chicken.
There is only one cure for communists and hell is waiting to get paid.
Yes, they are preparing the narrative. Today NPR featured a WSJ reporter with a new book out, titled something like “Arriving Today ” all about the supply chain, ports, truckers, etc.
Blamed the disrupted supply chain on Americans buying too much stuff when the pandemic hit because they were all sitting at home and could not go out!! Seriously. You just cannot make this #$%% up.
This was followed by an acknowledgment of the fragility of the just in time delivery structure (though he did not use that term), so once it is bolluxed up, the dominoes falling make it difficult to get back to smooth functioning.
Sweet timing on the WSJ book coming out and getting pushed on NPR. Explaining “just in time” to the upper middle class suburbanites why they can’t get pet food. Or electronics. So they can all NPC “the answer ” to their friends in “the Conversation. ” H/T Mencius Moldbug.
Not suss at all, that.
Plenty of wildlife here in my Leafy Green Suburb. Problem is now I have a good size Coyote stalking the neighborhood and rummaging around my backyard at 9AM. So I’m going to have to figure that out first.
“So I’m going to have to figure that out first.”
Pellet gun or sling shot. No need to kill, just run it off. Might take a morning or two.
Bottle rocket, hand-held.
With a little “meep meep.”
You can probably find some recipes on the internet.
Interesting. My brother sent me a pic of a bobcat that was slinking through the trees at the dog park while he was walking his dogs in Fort Worth yesterday.
I think the park is on a creek. Maybe the bobcat made its way to the park by walking along the creek bank.
I’ve said for years that Just In Time delivery as a system of supply management is a national disaster waiting to happen.
It’s something which should be used ONLY for perishables, such as fresh produce, meat, and temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals. Everything else is just a step closer to Idiocracy.
I read a study many years ago in one of my manufacturing journals. It was just as JIT was becoming a thing and it was the Japanese that were the experts. They went to manufacturers to determine how the process worked. The assembly plants put together assemblies of parts that were built from subcomponents. Each step in the process was done JIT and it was like magic. There was no inventory, everything got delivered JIT.
Except there was. At the beginning of the manufacturing process were materials that were made in bulk and stored. Huge inventories of stored steel and raw plastic. Also at the bottom of this chain were small manufacturers making the basic components of just about everything. Nuts, bolts, brackets, small parts and other components that were fed into the system that built larger parts. In Japan, many of these first line manufacturers were mom and pop shops literally. They might operate out of a rented warehouse or even their garage. They found them packed to the brim with made parts awaiting the call for parts to be assembled. The inventory was still there, but it was held in a different place.
The efficiencies made it a money maker, but it was never due to reduced inventories. JIT requires inventories at the beginning of the manufacturing process, which works great until that segment starves. It is the energy and labor intensive segment of manufacturing, the two places that have been punished the most severely by the policies in place by this administration. This has starved the entire supply chain. If we were not JIT and were storing parts sub-assemblies, there would have been a greater buffer, but the crash would still occur and the stored parts began to disappear.
That was the concept for the Toyota plant in San Antonio. Surrounded by all the support suppliers, Toyota greatly increases margin by not having capital tied up in inventory.
“In many ways it is our best national security advantage.”
The puppet regime may be FUBAR but those directing this are well aware. None dares speak the truth of this intentional sabotage, which makes them all traitors in the war within.
The day of reckoning for these saboteurs is coming. For one, there’s going to be a ton of pissed off military.
Joe hates America.
The feeling is mutual.
I think it’s worse than that: he just doesn’t care.
You know… the thing.
He can’t care because he doesn’t have a clue what’s going on. I think he used to hate America, back when he had a few brain cells working.
Yes, he always hated America and Americans, and still does, but now only when he remembers to!
And so does Susan Rice and B Obama, the immediate powers behind ‘fog head’
just got back from another huge Costco run
the cart was so heavy I was getting a workout pushing it
probably got enough to last a year
going back again in a few days. lol
plenty of goods there but
I did notice no canned soups as I was going to grab some
maybe next time
my anger is not directed at you, OJF, because i’ve been saying the exact same thing a lot recently….
“maybe next time.”
what is this, friggen russia?
it costs money to go on these supply hunts, which are more miss than hit lately.
but i guess for the caviar, sea bass, and lobster roll set it’s not even a ripple in their pond.
hope you can bag some soup on your next costco run!😊
Keep a running list so you can hunt for the tough-to-find items.
I just got back from an outing. On the way, I managed to score 18 months of furnace filters.
My entire summer and fall were list management. Ya score sometimes, ya miss sometimes.
FYI, we had a hard time finding replacement filters late 2020-early 2021. I just Vacuumed the dust off and reused them.
Every grocery store manager I have talked to has said there would be no shortage if everyone just kept their normal shopping habits.
Here in the touristy beach panhandle of Florida I have several chain food stores (Publix, Winn-Dixie and Wal-mart) within 5 miles of my home. At various days of the week, bare shelves are in the different stores, so instead of one store-shopping, I go to 2 or 3 to get my family’s food. Over the previous year, I’ve been stockpiling staple food items. Along with my proximity to wooded areas for hunting game and the gulf and bays for fresh fish I’m raising confidence I will be able to feed my children and grandchildren for 5-6 months when and if the SHTF. Our son’s fiance is a manager at Winn-Dixie and she says orders arrive with little knowledge or what’s in them. They send what they have and I’m thanking God daily I don’t reside in Atlanta, Memphis or New Orleans when SHTF.
SWFL here. Plentiful grocery store choice (Publix, Winn Dixie, Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Walmart, Target) for all budgets within 10 miles of our home.Frozen potatoe shelves empty today at Publix but found them at WD. Lots of empty cereal shelves at local Publix, we think due to lots of families with kids vacationing here over the holidays. Meat, fish, produce always plentiful at local Publix.
The chicken shelves were bare at my Publix.
I have the same experience, except for my town being small. Today, I went to all five stores that have some food and supplies, just to get the things that I realized I hadn’t bought yet and set aside. I also realized that food doesn’t have to go ONLY in my kitchen cabinets. So, I have a pantry in my living room bookcase…..LOL!
Do you live in Perdido Key? I vacationed there and would like to know more about the area. If CT goes full woketard, I will move.
Fyi .. I left CT on 6/4 for pensacola not too far from Perdido Key. Its nice there but fairly expensive in Perdido. I’m a single guy with moderate income at best so maybe that clouds my feelings a bit. I couldn’t deal with CT anymore.
( Stratford)
I remember back in the day, my Mom would shop three or four stores to find what she needed at a good price. Coupons etc. We had a family of 10, with 5 growing boys and three girls. We’d also stop at the day-old bread store to get our bread supply. Milk was delivered by a milkman. Now we have to shop at Walmart, Lowe’s Food, and Food Lion to find what we need. So far, so good. I always go prepared not to find stuff. Boy how times (and our methods of shopping) have changed over these past two years.
its been said many times, eventually, this fraudulent manifestly corrupt government will create a problem that has no solution..no way to back out.
this is it.
everything you see in the world today..the collapse of economic stability…to the devils bargain with CCP.
that is today.
and there is no one to blame for it, except this administration and its handlers.
Not to nit pick but the cheese in storage is for the most part government owned and it is usually cheddar which is not frozen and gets better for up to ten years.
I’ll be ok, if you are here, you probably will be ok. If you put stock in the Federal Govt you have much to learn grasshopper. A snow covered I95 is only a precursor of what awaits.
I believe the official word is
“lower your expectations.”
my enthusiasm is curbed.
The first boss I ever had gave me some of the best advice: Expect the worst and you will never be disappointed.
Huge 4X3′ end cap sign today at CVS with various cold remedies under the sign. In large bold print.., “Cold Relief”, next three lines, “The average cold lasts 7 to 10 days”. Bottom two lines, “Strive to underachieve” Looks like the collective they are pushing the sub par theme everywhere.
Believe me, Brandon’s administration has exceeded my lowest expectations by leaps and bounds-fold.
When ever Sundance or any CTH member posts a key name I like to see the career trail.
As of 5 minutes ago and 30 minutes worth of searching, there is a 20+ year career Internet INFO gap between college Graduation and his assuming the role of Maryland DOT director in 1997.
The Puppet Masters are getting better at covering tracks before exposing people.
The one interesting note about the Education Background is that this guy has zero “technical” credentials in anything Transportation…its all public policy junk.
Another democrat Obama hack in a role where he can cause maximum damage via incompetence.
Their big problem is that, while they dearly want crises, in order to justify a totalitarian shift, it’s just that, in America, compared to most other countries, the federal government (thank you founding fathers) are sharply limited in the things that they can do. And what they can do, at least in the Biden Administration, they do incompetently. Meanwhile our private sector has been fabulously successful for so long in leading the biggest economic success in history, we have high standards of what to expect.
Their big problem is that the Big Brother they so want to impose on us looks and acts like the Keystone Crises Cops. Plus, much of the power needed has been reserved to the states (thank you again founding fathers), and there is actual governmental competence going on in states like Florida and Texas. While the Keystone Crises Cops try to so hard to bluster at the states to stop their intolerable behavior and recognize their non-existent authority and competence, the public is moving in mass to the Red States, while the courts are systematically ruling against them.
They’ll blame the market system say it doesn’t work, they’ll start nationalizing certain industries. That’s where this is going. Venezuela playbook.
Yep… that speech the FJB gave in regard to capitalism and the meat kept me awake. Did anybody else catch that?
Won’t work in U.S. Americans are accustomed to things working well. When they don’t, presidents lose elections. Ask Carter how that whole price control on gas worked out for him.
The Supreme Court is going to reverse its Truman Era decision the Truman had no power to nationalize the US Steel industry?
I don’t think so. The Roberts mask would not only have to be down, his underwear would have to drop to his ankles at the same time.
There’s propbably a photo of Roberts on the Lolita Express with his Fruit-of-The-Looms down at his ankles.
The Circle Back Bitch is the Pinocchio Rose of Ginger Goebbels.
Yes!
Retired Magistrate here: Went to the store again today and continue to stock up. Will continue to go as long as there is food to buy. We don’t travel, spend a whole lot on clothes, cars, etc. so we have money to purchase food with and pay for electricity, fuel oil, nutritional supplements and the prescription drugs that we take. We exercise, keep fit and do our best to take care of each other. My husband and I also pray a lot that GOD will restore our country to its founding principles.
Everyone please get prepared for what is coming. Buy as much food and non perishable goods as possible. We will survive this.
Our nation needs the prayers, thank you.
Considering how Biden’s first instinct was to “Mandate” Vaccinations instead of leaving it to the individuals to decide, I believe Biden will “Nationalize” all companies connected to the Supply Chain.
Thus FUBARing the situation worse, he’ll then proceed to blame President Trump who has now been out of office for almost a year and had no part in this Cluster F#@K!
Considering Brandon is demented, after he destroys more of American wealth he’ll proceed to either sniff Jen Psaki’s hair or nibble on “Dr” Jill Biden’s fingers in front of the Camera.
I am not able to explain to my Georgie cat that his favorite cat food ,Sheba, is now almost disappeared from shelves. We had a good year with Walmart but now that has been compromised. Luckily, if possible, he will be getting braunsweiger sausage at 2.79 a log to hide his meds in. Hopefully, that won’t disappear.
Same happened to me at Wallyworld. I know Chewy is woke, but, so is Walmart. I got my shipment of Sheba today from Chewy. I ordered several last month because the cat food was bare at WM. So far, no problem. Just a suggestion.
Cats gotta have what they want!
“If you can’t lie no better, might as well tell the truth”
-Delbert McClinton
Called my sister today who has worked at Hy-Vee for 32 years. I had one question for her, what knowledge can you share about the grocery supply?
She told me how the stores are fine right now but it is crazy what people will buy us out of, it is surprising. Then she said, if you are asking me should you stock up, do it.
buddy of mine drives for hy-vee and there was talk of mandating the vax.he said alot of the truckers will walk. and they are already down 4 route drivers.if the supreme court upholds the vax mandate its gonna get real ugly real fast.the trucking industry says they are already down 80k drivers,the vax mandate will take out probably that many.when they announce their decision if its to uphold you better get stocked up.
here in fly-over iowa i was in walmart,hy-vee and fareway today.all well stocked.bread was kinda thin and soup was soso,and hash browns were real thin.dog and cat food was also soso maybe 50% of normal.
Believe you me I did some shopping earlier tonight.
My experience, same as yours in both Walmart and Hy Vee.
Go Hawks!
I’d love to see the ginger succubus NutPsaki choke so damn hard on her lies that it triggers the booster jab effect that happened to this fellow:
https://thepalmierireport.com/triple-vaxxed-reporter-collapses-live-on-air-suffers-five-cardiac-arrestsvideo/
I know that everyone here is a better Christian than I am, and that’s cool. I will bear the taint upon my soul for all of us on this one.
I made a large trip thru a market today for as many non-perishables as I think I can store without looking and feeling like a hoarder. I’ll be able to last until we can harvest fresh meat and produce again for sure.
Full disclosure… I live by myself. No wife, no kids, no girlfriend. under the current regime I often ask myself why I bother working a job that stresses me out, and trying to fight this fight that seems hopeless. Then I remind myself that without the fight, life would be even more boring. If I can frame our tyrannical government as challenge to be overcome, it adds some zest to my day. I just hope that there are enough guys like me out there that will go all in with their defiance of this sick regime running the planet right now.
Always fight the good fight. And, stay strong.
Thank you, William.
I think the answer may be that we as consumers are gradually at first and then more rapidly lose our ability to consume.
Beans and rice?
Better than nothing.
I was relieved of my services, after 14 years with Daisy BB guns (Buyer/Import Logistics) for refusing to bend the knee to Fed Contrator mandate, however I have kept an eye on our supply chain
surcharges on containers adds $17 per sq ft of space on a container, therefore low value high volume/weight items remain in China.
As Sundance pointed out this problem happened early 2020. The textile industry canceled PO and ships headed to the breaking yards. Then China suffered losses and US demand went nuts. Shipping lines making huge profits and Im not seeing any improvements till late 2023.
God forbid we bring this manufacturing back to the US. We are paying burger flippers and food shleppers at least $15 an hour now. I’m not talking down on food service jobs… I was a line cook when I paid my way thru college (when that was semi-affordable).
Point being, if we can afford to pay servers and line cooks $15+ an hour, we ought to be able to make it work that skilled labor can manufacture products critical to our nation on our own soil without a fuss.
Very sorry to hear Randy that these horrific mandates have claimed your job as well.
I lost mine on 12/1 under State of MA mandate for executive branch employees.
So, is hoarding in response to a coming crisis smart or sinful? I can’t help but think of folks on fixed budgets or tight on money because they have kids going to the store, needing food, but not finding cause others with money stocked up.
Hoard as much as you can share. Those on fixed budgets right behind widows and children.
Survival of the fittest. Grow vegetables, buy some chickens!
Ah..it is hard to call saving up for lean times “sinful” when there are numerous reference in the New and Old Testaments of the Bible extolling the habit of storing up for bad times.
As long as we remember tithing and charity. Even on a fixed income I still do it. But if inflation keeps getting worse, I’ll have to dip into savings.
It is cheaper to buy in bulk and freeze in individual packets. It is not hoarding to buy in bulk and save. it is hoarding to buy and not use, not buy to use…big difference.
I agree. I started buying in 25 lb bags years ago because I needed grains/beans/dried fruits that were not cross contaminated for my youngest child. Some months those “clean” foods were unavailable, which led me to stock up when they were available. We make everything from scratch due to a litany of food allergies. I feel not a twinge of guilt whatsoever for stocking up. This has been my habit for years now.
All I see are the foodstamp folks with 2-3 carts full every time I go to the store. Maybe Joe Stalin should rethink that 27% allotment increase. Thinking…… he’s too stupid to connect the dots on that one… LMAO.
That huge SNAP (food stamp) increase came right after Cargil and other large food processing companies visited Biden and urged him to increase them. They knew they would reap the benefits.
Hoard now, help out your neighbors later.
you can always donate later to a local food pantry
There are two analogies to your question. In Atlas Shrugged, the corrupt government kept reminding the corporations that they must help people, that if they go out of business, if they don’t keep churning out goods, even if they don’t make a profit, the masses will starve. But any profit was being syphoned off by the corrupt elites and the masses were still starving. In socialism, the good of the whole society is what the government focuses on, taking from the productive and giving small amounts to the masses who remain dependent and poor. In capitalism, the individual works for his own good to build a business that thrives, thus being able to provide jobs and products for all.
The second analogy is from the Bible. The wise man built his house on the rock. The foolish man built his house on the sand. When the foolish man’s great house fell, the wise man wasn’t required to save the foolish man from the consequences of his own choices.
Socialism says that if I have savings and have a reasonably comfortable life, the government should take those savings and earnings away from me and spread those out to the people who have less money, even if those people have been spending foolishly and not saving anything. The result is that everyone ends up poor.
I don’t consider it hoarding to provide for my family. Everyone has had a chance to see the often empty store shelves and missing grocery items that appear some weeks and disappear other weeks, to hear about a “supply chain crisis”, and has had an opportunity to think, “Hmmm, maybe I better buy an extra of this or that because the store may be out of XXXX next week.”
If you are prepared, you might be able to help someone else. If you don’t prepare, you and all those you could help will not have any help.
That’s a great question, and one I’ve considered. I do buy items weekly now that I would normally have bought monthly or longer, and sometimes will buy double. I’m helping out a single daughter and 2 granddaughters who make next to nothing by supplying them with non-perishables. But I do think about the consequences to others who can’t afford to stock up.
Children and food.. that’s the ticket.
A few days ago there was no fresh produce. Yesterday they were totally out of saltine crackers.
I’ve never seen anything like this
When the Force-5 side-ways shit-storm of misery, pain and suffering severely impacts a very strong majority of families living on Main Street USA is when enough folks will (hopefully) wake up from their apathetic and pathetic stupor to want to do something about it.
When the crisis hits home, the totalitarians masking as benevolent freedom loving politicians will rush to act by directing businesses to fix the problems. They don’t know how things work … it just happens … somehow … and when things don’t work they’ll do what tyrants always do … they’ll point their guns at businesses and demand they make things work … somehow … immediately.
The great reset.
My state of WY has decided to implement a 20 cent/gal gas increase over the next 2 years to fix highway infrastructure. Talk about the worst possible moment. Don’t these CoC supporters realize the devastation this will create for the non grocery businesses? If they’re out to destroy the WY economy, I can’t think of another way to do it.
Oregon implemented their 38 cent/gal increase all at once, on January 1.
Interesting. Missouri just passed a huge increase in gasoline taxes, too — what is it with these states? —but is phasing it in over several years. Passed it while gasoline prices were President Trump era prices, not the current prices.
Build back better breadlines, aka the great reset. The myth about WY is that its a solid red state.
wyorino.com
Jus Wundrin: Wyoming has highways? I thought everyone there rides horses or ATVs. 🤠
LOL! Bridal paths and trails need fixin!
Several years ago when Obama drove gas prices up to over $5.00 a gallon I was in a gas station and witnessed people dumping their pocket change on the counter to buy gas to “hopefully” get to work. The low income people will hurt the worst even with the government paying them.
I know people who literally ran out of money and had to borrow to get to work under Obama.
Worthless POS he is and was….
The low income people usually don’t have much government assistance, if any. Its the stay at home
welfare participants that bleed us dry and I believe 64% of refugees are on govt. assistance.
In the 1990s I served on a Federal task force, and advised on several others. The most important thing I can relay is that the people who convene such task forces, committees, etc., already know the result they want, and the experts are “convened” to support the desired result. Its a carnival midway game. Its a gaffed faro bank. Its Soapy Smith on steroids.
I don’t remember who said this but it goes with this thread. It could have been Jesse Kelly.
“At its soul, communism has always been an anti-human religion. It’s no accident poverty, misery, and death has followed it everywhere it goes. To the communist, the problem is humans. And they’re going to find a solution for that “problem”.
Very true !
in the middle 90’s, one of my responsibilities for the US COAST GUARD (SEMPER PARATUS), was to research and detail port security through the lens of national security. Where the security risks existed wrt terrorism or natural disaster. Essentially part of a tiger team to advise DC *USCG HQ, where contingency planning and readiness exercises should focus based on a myriad of threats. It was not easy work. We were tasked with developing these findings with local authorities and also with commercial vendors, as well as the downstream retail and transmodal sectors/industries.
At NO TIME, did it occur to any of us that one day the biggest most consequential threat to port operations would come from the inept corrupt moronic policies from our own government. We had focused on what would be most likely threats. For those threats, we developed contingency plans …real solutions to ship traffic rerouted and port operations restored. Some very creative thinking and we would demonstrate these plans with real world exercises.
how do you fix malarkey?
In the mid-90’s there was a lot of focus on external threats–terrorism, cybersecurity, transnational crime, chem-bio attacks from rogue nations…who would have thought that 25 years later the real threat would be from inside traitorous infiltrators working through inept demagogues?
Everyone that thinks the large food processors will still keep moving the food should keep in mind that they have ALL signed on to the Great Reset. They are an integral part of the movement to force us to change our diets. Also, the inputs to crop production such as fertilizer, weed killer, diesel fuel and DEF, repair parts for tractors combines, etc. are in short supply or non existent. Replenishing the warehouses will not happen until the crop production puzzle is fixed. That means this will be a multi-year problem made even worse because so much of the items needed comes from China. Garden seeds will be your best hope for long-term survival.
The 30% ‘mass formation psychosis’ will appreciate the “temporary” solutions of food rations & energy rations. (There remains 70%.)
I am prepping. But, if we had a crystal ball we would know how much food to stock up! How long did it take for the Venezuelans to begin eating the zoo animals? Seriously.
At least three years but likely more. Even if we get rid of the democrats control the supply of food takes three years at least to make headway in replenishing.
The democrats have an indoor lever at most large grocers, most notably Walmart where HRC still pulls the strings. I remember when some appointed DOJ high ups were serving under Trump, and mysteriously they were offered high paying executive jobs at Walmart which they ultimately took. What that did was open up slots for underlings loyal to democrats to take over their positions at DOJ. That being said, they will create a shortage if the Democrats see that serving their goals. Gavin Newsome holding up the countries supplies in LA area ports is another part of this scheme to get a certain OUTCOME…. just like the 6th Piglosi frame job.
And remember you still have to eat a lot less because you need to look like you are losing weight just like your neighbors.
WEF founder Klaus Schwab is the author of the book COVID-19: The Great Reset, published in July 2020, which argues that the coronavirus pandemic can and should be used for an “economic, societal, geopolitical, environmental and technological reset”, including, in particular, advancing global governance, accelerating digital transformation, and tackling climate change.
Where is Buttigieg?
MIA on every transportation and supply chain issue this month! Infuriating!
Maybe we should be thankful!
Yep, always be careful what we wish for…
It’s better he’s off the grid. He’ll make it far worse if he comes back to work.
Again as a branch sitter here and a farmer by trade, I must keep reminding everyone, us farmers are not getting rich on this, fuel and input expenses are eating up any price rise (very little) that we are getting. Just replacement parts are up 25% plus and backlogged.
If you can find a farmer and buy local, we need you as much as you need us
Well said.
I am prepared to feed my cats for the long haul. As for me, I have a stash of rice, beans, canned veggies, and various condiments. Definitely need to make a run for some more canned veggies and fruits, I’m for sure not looking forward to produce shortages. But I will not be going hungry. And I have a couple big bags of mini reeses peanut butter cups, cause a girl cannot live on bread alone, LOL. I’ve been amazed at my discipline not to touch this food. But I went hungry as a child and, well, never again!
Port Envoy=Pete’s a Moron
I am so fortunate to have not just one but two, large chest freezers full of Elk, Bear, Deer plus a few turkeys. I also have about a year’s worth of food in freeze dried survival supplies. Of course if things get really bad, there is a herd of about 100 elk who hang out on my property.
Elmer Fudd: Please provide OnX map coordinates and permission to hunt. For an old friend 🙂
The only time Joe Biden was in a grocery store in the past 50+ years was for a photo op. Same for most of his DC peers in their bubble. They’re setting policy for something they don’t have a clue about.
If a million new gun owners thru the ammunition market into chaos, what is 12 million new mouths doing to the food supply chain?
Heard here probably that the processing of each container of goods went from $ 3,000 dollars to $ 18,000 dollars.
That tells me that we have no idea because the do not dare tell us the Sunami like wave of inflation of everything that is getting ready to hit us!. There may eventually be good all over the shelves but NOT many of us will be able to afford much of it.
From Atlanta suburbs-
I’m the backroom receiver for a major grocery chain. Pepsi is imposing order limits for how much product a store can receive. Pepsi and coke are a day or 2 late when they deliver. Nabisco struggled with a strike that has resolved. But product has stopped being delivered. Orders are being greatly reduced. Many bread companies are also struggling to deliver product. They can’t even focus resources on only the best selling products. Chip manufacturers also cutting orders. Pepperidge farms and little debbie also struggling with production. Being told staffing seems to be the issue
Due to the so-called “Omicron variant”; Colleges and Universities in San Diego just went back to “remote-only learning” starting this winter quarter keeping all university students off campus. Public Primary School Districts are considering keeping kids home again as well, but are stalling that decision for now. Governor Greazy Newsom just extended his “mandatory” indoor masking edict throughout the state to February 15th which means he’ll likely extend it again in a few weeks because Omicron isn’t going to just disappear anytime soon. Grocery shopping is truly very expensive and getting more and more expensive with every routine trip, plus there are more and more bare shelves each time we go. And, gasoline prices are not coming down but the prices for buying used cars that burn fossil fuel are now skyrocketing.
Also, cities and public school districts can’t get rapid antigen COVID tests that were promised long ago and they are freaking out about it. Parents are on the news literally crying, balling their eyes out on camera, because they can’t get at-home rapid antigen COVID tests. The politicians are on camera blaming everything and everyone but themselves, natch, but they promise they’re on it and they shall provide respite for the weeping masses soon-double natch. What a sh*tshow.
Ration cards next