(h/t No9 Coal) This is specifically the #1 precursor, for all the reasons previously mentioned.
Do not be alarmed; be prudent.
What are you seeing in your area?
Feel free to note in the comments section what is happening in your area. Hopefully, most of us are much better positioned than the average person who has not been following this as closely over the past several months.
Initial food instability signs in the supply chain. Things to look for:
(1) A shortage of processed potatoes (frozen specifically).
1.a And/Or a shortage of the ancillary products that are derivatives of, or normally include, potatoes.
(2) A larger than usual footprint of turkey/ham in the supermarket (last lines of protein).
(3) A noticeable increase in the price of citrus products.
(4) A sparse distribution of foodstuffs that rely on flavorings (sports drinks).
(5) The absence of non-seasonal products.
(6) Little to no price difference on the organic comparable (diff supply chain)
(7) Unusual country of origin for fresh product type.
(8) Absence of large container products
(9) Shortage of any ordinary but specific grain derivative item (ex. wheat crackers)
(10) Big brand shortage.
(11) Shortage of wet pet foods
(12) Shortage of complex blended products with multiple ingredients (soups etc)
(13) A consistent shortage of milk products and/or ancillaries.
These notes above are all precursors that show significant stress in the supply chain. Once these issues are consistently visible, we will likely continue toward food instability very quickly, sector by sector, category by category.
The reason I list the shortage of potatoes as the #1 precursor is because every food outlet sells a potato in some form. Every supermarket and every single restaurant (fancy, sit down or fast food) sells some form of potato. Potatoes are demanded by every single food outlet; therefore, a shortage of potatoes is the first noticeable issue.
Links to SHARE (be prudent with whom):
About 50 miles north of the Port of NY/ NJ in the suburbs. So far, no real empty shelves in ShopRite, Acme, Walmart, Big Lots, Save a lot, Food town. Prices seem to increase by the day however.
Potatoes (not frozen) were in short supply around here since about September and had gotten very expensive.
I think that those of us who live near the big port cities may have it a little easier than our friends in the Heartland.
Maybe, but here in the heartland, many of us grow our own. Good Luck!
I think many of us have started even on a small scale. I always grow some summer veggies like lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, etc. but never got into it very seriously. This summer will be different.
As far as our local supermarkets that I mentioned, I don’t think we are bulletproof. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.
We are really getting hit with heating fuels- oil, propane and gas- plus gasoline. I am sure that in the coming weeks heating oil will go to $4 a gallon.
As we get close to growing season perhaps we could share tips on starting a garden and how to’s on canning and freezing; which vegetables, etc. are best. I am a novice and am definitely going to
garden and at least freeze produce this year. At the rate I am going I will have to purchase another
freezer and the one I have is a 35″ freezer only model in my garage!
I would also love that Amjean.
I had the time to garden much, growing season for me was also our very busy season but have decided that I was going to give it a try.
Use to help my Mom and Grandma in the garden as a kid but that was long ago and in a different climate and area of the country.
Would love some garden tips.
No shortage in Detroit area yet.
I bought some Gatorade yesterday. What cost $6 several months ago is now slightly over $9.
Stop drinking it
I only do for my colonoscopy, otherwise never touch the stuff :). This is for my hubby – training for a XC ski marathon.
Gatorade is very helpful to teens with Type 1 Diabetes, especially athletes. Not sure why/how it helps, but my daughter keeps it stocked for her son with T1D.
Make your own!
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/246681/homemade-sports-drink-aka-greaterade/
Get local eggs and wean away from processed foods. It will be the end of processed food industry and that’s not a bad result.
Watch Jacque Pepin videos on cooking simply and enjoy
Without factory foods, there is not enough food. It is the economies of scale and the long shelf life that allows feeding many people cheap.
The processed food industry is absolutely necessary to feed everyone. It is nice to be able to choose processed or not for yourself, but taking that option away hurts some people.
Or you could learn to cook.
That’s not an option that’s always available to many.
Yah but! I grew up on a farm and for 6 to 8 months each year we ate a lot of processed food. Granted we processed it ourselves canned, butchered, etc but it wasn’t fresh. Those times have long since passed. we need the canned and processed food chain.
Could you or do you have the time or storage space for 150 quarts of tomatoes, likewise green beans, 50 quarts of pickles, pickled beets, corn, peppers, etc? that was a normal summer for my Mom and all the generations before her. Oh and we all pitched in to grow the stuff she canned.
C’mon man!!! Its the 21st century. Why you always have to bring common sense into the conversation….
Learn to can, ferment, and or dehydrate
Do you really expect people that have the intelligence level to vote Democrat to have the skills to can food? Canning food is hard to learn but easy if you have some basic knowledge of science. They are people even if they are not smart. There have to be food choices for people that are not smart.
Maybe Natural Selection should start to kick in. Convience cost more money. Adapt or Die
I was hoping the boosters would have the same effect on the dirty Dems!
Sure, but,….
When I see “ready to eat” Mac and cheese, in the refridgerated section of the grocery store, I shudder.
I remind myself, for someone to take to work, where they only have a refigerator and microwave, yeah the convenience is, I suppose “worth it”, but,…c’mon Mac and CHEESE?
Even with the prepacked “cook it yourself” mac n cheese, you are paying a tremendous mark-up, for “convenience”; but the noodles in bulk, and dry powdered chedder cheese, and you cut the price more than in 1/2.
And then to have it “pre-prepared for you, double it, again?
All to save using a measuring cup, measuring spoons, and boiling water?
C’mon, man!
Hence their need to vaccinate and kill, spread viruses to kill, and to introduce plant based soylent green for the sheepy masses!
I agree but it is also nice to learn how to do things for yourself if necessary.
Factory processed food is here to stay and many will use it forever.
But it is also not a bad idea to learn simple basic skills with simple basic foods like dried beans and rice and pasta and root vegetables.
We will still be dependent on the processors to deliver the bags of beans and rice and pasta and cans of fruit and vegetables to us but learning how to use flour, sugar, eggs, milk, yeast, baking powder, cooking oils and other things will help stretch budgets and make healthy diets.
I haven’t been to the grocery store yet, but the local pharmacies (CVS, Walgreens) look like they’ve been picked over. Shelves in CVS had signs apologizing for shortages.
I live in a CVS distribution town and they can’t get drivers or warehouse workers to get the product to the stores.
Are they mandating jabs for the drivers? I thought I heard store employees were required to be jabbed?
I think people should be terrified of the Chinese stranglehold on meds! Trump warned everyone!
Stopped at one of the local markets in NE Louisiana (Mac’s) to search for some eggnog (which they had). The frozen potato section was full of both generic & Ore-Ida potato products. Fresh hash browns were limited to a couple packs of the southern kind. Dairy, vegetable & meat cases were full. (I believe they stock from local vendors.) Lots of wet pet food available too. The only thing they were out of was English Muffins.
South and South Central Louisiana are leaders in the US production of rice and sweet potatoes, so LA residents may fare better than others.
For over three hundred years now, Louisianians have survived on locally grown red beans & rice, sweet potatoes, fish and wild game as staples and in fact are now world famous for their Creole and Cajun cuisine that all began as ‘making do’ by the first EU inhabitants here.
Urban, suburban or rural,… where there’s a will there’s a way to survive, but the rural eaters will fare best,… IMHO.
100 lbs red beans and 100 lbs rice sacks, with 40 lbs of frozen sausage and spices will keep you alive for months. Supplies of flour, oat meal, cane sugar, salt/pepper, powdered milk, coffee and/or tea, fresh eggs with added fresh caught sea food and wild game can fill in the rest of your family’s menu. A back yard ‘victory garden’ will produce most of the veggies/herbs you will need to maintain good health.
Bon appetite and bon chance, Mes Aimes!
“I-Eeee”, chère.
Indeed. Many of us as well can grab a fishing pole and find water near by to bring dinner home.
Red beans n rice……. Mmmmmmm yum. Andouille sausage………. Perfect Monday night supper.
In San Antonio, I’m seeing shortage of frozen potatoes, gaps in soups and pastas. Haven’t seen turkeys pushed out but still see chickens and beef.
Oh yes. Pasta being bought up a great deal as well as simple boxes of crackers.
In new England roasting turkey is a november/Christmas product. Cant even order one after mid-Jan. The breeders grow for TG dinners – kinda like sugar pumpkins grown for halloween and TG pies. Strictly seasonal. I took the last frozen whole breast from Christmas orders from our local market the other day. It’s a fave for winter dinners in our household. I freeze 6-8 bags of cranberries every fall and it takes about 20 minutes to make a really good cranberry sauce when we want some.
Ironically the biggest losers are multinational processed food companies
People will learn that their shit food substitutes are just that – decades of marketing down the tubes lol
Detroit western suburbs, grocery stock down some, bell peppers up 40%, milk up, some items limit of 2 per customer. No bare shelves yet.
Don’t drink milk
Strange statement coming from a self-professed milk trader?
milktrader says “Don’t drink milk”. What is going on here?!
Milk is best infused.
I have been consuming Almond milk for many years. Although just a tad every morning in my 3 cups of coffee. No longer use dairy milk. Still like dairy foods, love sour cream, cream cheese and pretty much all cheeses.
Growing up in a very rural area in Arizona we went grocery shopping about once a month.
I remember shopping for “fresh produce” in the stores and only during certain times of the year could you find certain produce.
We were use to that and made adjustments for the nutrients needed that were provided by the different items only available during certain “seasons”.
Now we have become use to having access to citrus all year round and garden vegetables like tomatoes and lettuce all year that use to be available only in the summer.
Some how our parents were able to provide good nutrition all year round by feeding us a varied diet provided by what what in season or by feeding us what they could store through out the off season.
We are now so accustomed to having citrus in the summer and tomatoes in the winter that we just have almost a frenzied fit when they are not there when we want them and we do not have the ability to adjust or think of a way to accomodate the situation.
It is a different time in America and I am glad I learned how to live when things were not quite so instant and right there all the time.
L.A. Valley girl here. (North L.A. county, not City of Los Angeles where they’re vaxx passporting people.)
Grocery stores are fully stocked. Boxes at the tops of the shelves, waiting to be unboxed.
Prices are up.
Gasoline is running between $4.79 and $4.99 per gallon.
Rough guesstimate, 70% of people are wearing anxiety napkins. Every time I see people out walking their dogs alone all face masked up, I want to yell, “You’re trying to catch fruit flies with a chain link fence!” 🤣 Apparently 70% of Los Angeles never had to take basic biology.
Other than face diapers and wide eyes, I’m not seeing much difference. I wonder if the fully stocked shelves is because of the proximity to the Port of LA and the Port of Long Beach? Or is it because California is (until the liberals successfully destroy California farming) a heavily agricultural state? Or is it because we are being rewarded for being solid blue? (Gee, do I have them fooled! Gun-toting, Christian conservative, who bleeds red-white-and-blue here! MAGA!)
A couple things of note: I drove past the stockyard in Coalinga. Huge, huge stockyard. I have never in my entire life seen that many cattle in that stockyard. There is no shortage of beef! Now maybe there is a breakdown somewhere else in beef processing. But there is more beef resource than I have ever seen before. Out in the fields, too. And in the dairies. An abundance of cattle!
The other thing of note is since August/September, the explosion of ambulances blaring up and down the street is unprecedented! I talked to someone who lives about an hour away, and they said it’s the same there. Unprecedented ambulance activity. Why? Is it just people dialed up to 11? Or is this vaxx injuries? It is interesting looking at the insurance death rate statistics they just released, because those stats seem to coincide with the uptick in ambulance activity.
So I trust none of this situation! However, food supply holding steady. Thanks be to God!
Thank you, Sundance, for keeping us informed.
SW RivCo: Trader Joe’s, Costco & Ralph’s look okay, notice some slight reduction in inventory but able to get what we normally get. We eat simply, not much reliance on meat except poultry. Prices are quickly rising, as expected thanks to this site.
I’m a valley girl too! West hills, where are you?
I am just up the road a bit, from you girls in the Valley. I am in Camarillo, Ventura County.
Is venture county way relaxed on masking?
The ambulance thing is most noticeable to me, too. I have lived on a 4 lane highway with center median on the outskirts of Huntsville, AL since May of 2019. Hearing an ambulance was very rare until this summer, like once or twice a year. Now, there are several weeks where there is one almost every single day, but never a week goes by without one now. These are patients being transported from the more rural hospital in the area to Huntsville Hospital.
More ambulances may be running with their lights and sirens during routine runs in order to plow through traffic and be able to return to base. Short staffing in the EMS might cause such a change.
The reason for the additional cattle is there are NO MORE cattle or dairy farms in the Chino Hills/Ontario/Norco area any longer. 1000’s of acres of cows and farms were moved to make room for new housing.
Many weeks/months ago, when vaxxes were rolling out there, an Israeli Treeper commented on the constant commotion of ambulance sirens where he was living. It could be vax injuries. Or it could be people coming apart at the seams from anxiety. Or both —
Also, crime has increased especially in and near big cities, a sure way to hear more sirens.
Dallas nothing too severe other than increases in prices of 20%+. Canned pet food has been in short supply everywhere for past 3-4 months
As to our Unintended Consequences thread …
We will reconnect with healthy living by shunning processed food
Reported a few days ago that zero frozen potatoes at my local Publix. Artificial sweetners: Zero at my local Costco (where I have bought them for decades). Employee told me they have been out for over a month. Really, no more Sweet n’ Low?
I use allulose from Amazon
In Northern Kentucky, chicken is starting to get harder to find. A large supermarket chain didn’t have onions for 6 days.
Store shelves aren’t bare, but their are certainly starting to show empty sections. Half and Half has been hit or miss.
ugh. I dread no onions.
So funny that processed food and drink companies will destruct as a result of our madness
Be healthy, eat local ingredients and learn to code (cook)
Back in the 80’s an old lady that had a small restaurant that also doubled as a bus station in Silverton Colorado told me that potatoes every nutrient in them you need to survive. She might have been Irish. She also might be right.
Sounds like it was a lovely day for a Guiness.
And you can make vodka!!! I’ve always said if I could only have one food on a desert island, it would be potatoes!
While the Irish are known for growing and eating potatoes, the tubers are actually native to the Americas. They were abundant in South and Central America as well as parts of North America, long before they appeared in Europe. There is evidence of potatoes in present day Southern Utah, about 11,000 years ago, which coincidentally is quite close to Silverton, Colorado!
Central Arkansas here. Wife just got back from the grocery store. Reported all of the above.
I can remember during the Bush years the media got really involved in sabotaging his campaign. Never saw it so much before that. The media “insinuated or questioned” – are we headed for a RECESSION? If you yell it loudly and often enough, what happens? People become fearful, they start holding on to their money and quit spending it. If you need a new car, you try to forego that for a while. What happens when people stop spending their money? RECESSION! The media shouted this over and over and did create a mild recession.
That photo of nearly empty frozen potatoes looks like Hannaford’s brand. Here in Maine, at the Hannafords I was at today (60-70% masked), not a lot of bagged potatoes but all other produce ok. Frozen potatoes…not empty, but not as plentiful as usual. Only thing out completely was any and all Nabisco saltines.
In NW AZ, rightvoff I40, and near (but not TOO close) to Cal.
Raw potatoes seem plentiful, processed, not so much.
Beef climbing rapidly, hams still available, chicken frozen parts in bags still plentiful but whole chickens getting rare.
Still seeing turkeys, however.
I don’t eat a lot of saltines but aldi had store brand Savoritz for 85cents a box so I bought a box. I like their oyster crackers and tortilla chips best.
Aldis is awesome.
I made a trip to local Sam’s Club yesterday. It was packed with people since the local weather was calling for weekend snow. I did not see anything in short supply. I did not check potatoes. They were out of store brand detergent that we like, but there was a lot of everything else. Everyone was buying TP and paper towels and racks were stocked to the gills with supply. I did not need them, but I bought a bale of each anyway. You never know.
I was at both Sam’s and Costco in Knoxville, TN on two different occasions this week. I also have noticed the number of people buying toilet paper and paper towels. What I have not found at either is yeast. As we rarely eat potatoes, I didn’t look for the frozen. There were plenty of the fresh. Earlier in the week there was a customer who was buying many, many cases of bananas. Couldn’t figure out what that was for. Half and half in stock but no heavy cream.
bananas could be dehydrated, freeze dried, puried and frozen, frozen whole, banana bread…
Here in Utah my very local grocery store was completely out of fresh vegetables a week ago, but has restocked since then. They have been consistently out of instant potato mixes for about a month. TJ Maxx looks like it has been raided – very little new merchandise and sparse shelves. Local Wal-Mart is totally out of certain types of makeup and has been since December. Above all else, I would recommend purchasing some sort of water purifying system, even the small ones that you would use for drinking water. If you can’t get clean drinking water, you are screwed.
Glad someone else sees the make up shortage too. Never seen that in my life.
I actually forgot to slap on a little makeup this morning and ran by the Dollar Tree to grab some base, concealer and mascara. No base of any sort, no concealer and one kind of mascara. I don’t usually buy makeup from DT, this was just for a quick fix, but there wasn’t any! I did find one tube of tinted moisturizer, so I didn’t scare anyone today!
Also went to the bakery outlet….Dave’s Killer bread used to be 2/$5, bagels and English muffins 2$4…now it’s $3 a loaf for any flavor..
You are paying 1/2 what I do for Dave’s Killer bread here in East Texas.
Doesn’t matter. I am spoiled and am willing to pay for that good bread.
Rock Hill, SC here. Went to Harris Teeter yesterday. No Kraft cheese products at all. No cream cheese of any kind. Ground chuck was supposed to be on sale but case was empty. Butcher rolled cart out and I asked about it. Didn’t come in so he was putting out premium ground beef for reduced price of $3.99 lb packaged in 1 lb pkg with limit of 4. No bone in pork chops. They had big steak roast for around $100. Large Boston Butts, Hams and Turkeys. No pickles. Out of milk but this is the South and they are calling or snow.
OMG, saw this on AceofSpades. Remember the old W.I.N. buttons. I think it stood for “whip inflation now’. The old Nixon days.
sorry wrong thread, going on other thread.
I do remember those days. I worked at an independent grocery in 1973 and prices were still marked on cans using an ink stamper. Constant increases meant the old price had to be removed with a cotton ball and rubbing alcohol. Customers thought it was my fault by the dirty looks and snide comments I received.
I remember those ink stampers too. I was a bag boy and helped out with stocking sometimes.
So cal, was at the store today and once earlier this week- no shortage of potatoes or frozen potatoes. Had a shortage of a certain brand of frozen chicken nuggets. Some days more meat and fish options than others. Certain crackers (not big brand) are missing a few weeks now. Sometimes the bread shelves are sparse and sometimes it’s the fruit juice and water that’s sparse.
Central NH. Went to a local BJs (a warehouse store). Everything seems fairly plentiful though prices are rising. 10 pounds of chicken wings was $26. That’s high around here I think – wife does most of the shopping :). Fresh produce is less plentiful today than it was a few days ago. Not sure if they’re waiting a delivery or its tough to get. Other than that shelves are stocked with some small open spaces, etc. Bought 20 pounds of chicken for the freezer and grabbed a thing of TP. I noticed that is lower in stock too though they have it (pricey too). Good luck to all.
I remember some people saying not that long ago that truckers should stop making food deliveries to large American cities. I don’t think I said anything at the time, but I got quite angry because I’m firmly opposed to making other Americans suffer.
Unfortunately, the lib/progressive/Marxists have no such qualms. Would starve you in a NY second.
These are the majority of the people responsible for this mess.
SW Fla here.
As before in the last “shortage” attempts….Big Box/National Chains, are showing empty shelves and sparse product inventory – while the smaller stores do not, or show little sign of stress. It’s always the odd things that run out too.
So my immediate takeaway is I should stock up on Woody Creek Potato, Chopin Potato, Chase Oak Smoked, Edwards 1902, Ogilvy Potato, Luksusowa and Karlsson’s Gold Vodka.
God bless you Sundance and team. I’m on it! Cheers!!!
Levi,
Good list. Now find something over the counter that treats cirrhosis…;-)
Gosh Sundance. I am an anal person. Your picture of empty freezer cases is troubling, but I am focused on the fact that someone put a bottle of ketchup inside it (lol). Thanks for what you do.
They were going to buy fries.
LOL!
They grabbed the ketchup for their fries but there weren’t any, so they left the bottle behind….poor soul.
Look a little closer, shelf is on outside. Common suggestive sale practice.
One favorite that works well is the bottle of hot sauce with the fried chicken.
You are correct! Whew!
Reporting from Austin, TX. Our main main grocery store chain is H‑E‑B is significantly less well stocked than the local Walmart. Raw meat like chicken seems in short supply. Haven’t been able to get poweraid in a while, mostly they just have the sugar-free options. This is the same at gas stations too. Other coffee energy drinks like Starbucks are getting scarce at gas stations too. High quality dry Dog and cat food is low self supply as well. Sometimes there is only 1 or 2 bags on the shelf. All frozen potatoes have been scarce since this fall. CVS and Walgreens have bare shelves. Make-up products are seeming to be in short supply too.
It’s alarming seeing bare shelves in what used to be the land of plenty.
Local grocery store yesterday about 85 miles from Dallas Tx.
I spoke with the shelf stocker who works for Coke out of Dallas which per their site is one of the largest Coke bottlers in the US. Not including direction from Dallas here as I don’t want to ID the person. I said “Looks like you’re out of all of coke’s diet flavors other than Diet Coke which is also kinda short.” Person said yes that’s route-wise and the word they get is they’re short on cans but the suspicion is it’s a labor shortage. Either way (maybe it’s both) that’s a sign that I’ve never seen anywhere I’ve ever lived which includes 2 blue states and Canada. Yes I’m happy to be in rural Texas. People are so nice and respectful here.
Other than that there’s some spot shortage of things now and then but nothing severe yet. Seeing more turkey than usual after for the holidays. Beef prices are up in Texas and that’s like kale being up in California. Regular gas is around $3.00
I will not hit the panic button until beer, potato chips and pretzels become scarce.
Whew! Glad you didn’t say bacon!
ha
It will take the aftermath of an all-out nuclear war to produce those conditions. If that happens, go ahead and hit the panic button. Then go looking for alternate sources of alcohol…
I can’t fathom looking for an alternative for beer.
I can’t tell a good wine from a bad wine – especially the kind they serve with those little pizzas in church.
Although whiskey tastes very good, it makes me want to be friendly to liberals.
I can’t take that chance……………
Have a great day!
A month ago, since Kroger had been out for over a week, I bought a 30 lb box of french fries at Sam’s Club for about $20. It was more than a 6 month supply so I gave half to the county food bank.
its the tots, stupid.
I would point out that although Sundance has rightfully focused on these supply chain issues regarding FOOD supplies, the underling causes of supply chain disruption (JIT system, Covid mandates, Port restrictions) apply to EVERYTHING.
Therefore, as you have well stocked for food, and are hopefully transitioning to self sustaining by growing/raising your own, take some time to consider the other ESSENTIALS, beyond food.
Specifically, TRANSPORTATION. In our modern world, transportation has become ESSENTIAL, and shanks mare just don’t cut it; whether to go get food, to “bug out”, not having transportation when you need it could easily mean the difference between life and death.
Routine maintenance is something people often neglect, when $ is short, and small repairs postponed, inevitably lead to big repairs, or “downed” vehicles.
I am already seeing some “standard” replacement parts being harder to find, or unavailable.
Things you know you will have to replace, “consumable” parts like brake shoes, radiator hoses, tires, oil filters, shock absorbers etc. are things that, if they are unavailable at any price, your car/truck is either grounded, or driving it risks further damage.
And, rest assured the price of these items is only going to go up.
OIL, auto Trans fluid, brake fluid being petroleum, only going to increase in price, as well.
Even more perhaps than food, this requires careful thought, but if you have $ to invest now, SOME investment in “spare” parts now, may pay dividends later.
Told my husband about your advice on this several weeks ago. We know we’re going to need tires so he won’t to order them and have them on hand. Low and behold they are back ordered until mid February. He placed the order and hope they will be available.
Anything we can anticipate needing is going to go up. Our money is losing value everyday. If you can, buy what you know you will need now, because the price will only go up.
Very wise action Red.
I hate to keep bringing up all of the things people need to think about when trying to prepare for shortages because so many are freaking out over the nice choices of canned cat food or processed potatoes.
But if this is just the beginning of things then everything will soon become difficult.
Spare parts, nails, dryer hoses, parts for washing machines etc.
You could go crazy trying to get everything and should work with first things first which is food to keep alive but need to think beyond.
If possible do so but do not panic and keep faith that things will get better but they will not get better until we make them so.
It is overwhelming, and there is no way to anticipate every need. I agree food first, even that is an overwhelming thought. But everything will help, and throw nothing away that may be able to be used or bartered with. Almost anything can be re-purposed except for food but peelings go in the compost pile…..
My parents grew up in the rual south during the Great Depression. They had little of nothing. I’ve heard the stories all of my life, now I believe it may be our turn.
My parents and grandparents also seem to love telling us kids their endless stories of how they did without in the old days.
We usually tried to tune them out because we had heard them over and over and over but some did stick with me, especially the stories my Mom told about living in Paris under Nazi occupation during WWII.
Foraging for just about everything in the city and took up a lot of her time as a young girl so she took nothing for granted when she was able to come here and live.
The best you can do is the best you can do and to keep thinking and watching and being as creative as you possibly can in solving all of the problems that are going to crop up.
The Treepers here are amazing at their suggestions and advice and knowledge and have been helpful in so many ways.
I did a day job for one of my industrial customers today. Their back lot was full of the stuff they make. I asked why the extra inventory. They said they got behind in 2020 and got 4 weeks behind in shipment to their customers due to material supply shortages. They worked OT all year in 2021 just to catch up and now they are in the process of getting 7-10 days of ready to ship inventory at all times. No more JIT for them.
No ramen noodles at any grocery store in town. Gillette, Wyoming
I definitely see everything you mentioned at my GE in NE Ohio. First alarm bell when off… when I entered thru the first set of doors at my GE. They have floor to wall display of chips/crackers. That was gone. My store also moved and compressed isles. Fresh produce was minimal. There was meat there (turkeys included) but also minimal amounts. Bread was low. My little grand loves eat Hostess Chocolate Chip muffins and those are now getting hard to find. Waffles and frozen breakfast choices are getting thinner. Pasta isle was thinner.
Also very evident was the inflation. Good golly Molly!
This is NOT going to be good at all.
The wife and I were in the Costco in a western suburb of Indianapolis early afternoon 1/14 and everything seemed to be well stocked. I was looking for gaps but didn’t see any except for the rotisserie chicken but that was because the hoard had cleaned them out and the batch in the rotisserie wasn’t finished yet. 😉
One of our children is a store manager for a big box retailer and he warns us if something’s about to get squirrelly but he was by to see us Wednesday and he said everything seemed normal to him.
‘Course we all know it can go to he-double ell in a hurry… Oh, and gas was $2.99 at Costco.
In PA about a half hour north of Lancaster. Two different Giant stores were completely out of Orange juice, all brands. At one of the stores, where I don’t usually shop, I asked one of the workers where their orange juice was. He pointed and said “there, at the end of the aisle, but we really don’t have any.” I checked at my usual Giant the next day (we have three of them close by). Same thing, no orange juice, any brand. So I bought oranges to make my own since we drink a lot of it. The next day I was in a different grocery store, Redners (we have all these grocery stores nearby but even in the best of times you couldn’t really do all your shopping at any one of them). Redners had orange juice. They even had our brand, so I bought it. Now they haven’t had the large gallon containers of it in a long time. And they were now out of the middle size containers. And of course the small ones cost as much as the middle ones used to. But I bought a couple and felt very successful.
I used to buy some of the Amy’s organic frozen foods. Those shelves are practically bare now. One of their items that I like used to cost about $3.00 Now it is $5.99. There’s no way I’ll pay that for it.
Cat food is another problem. My two male cats cannot have dry food because of urinary issues. I’m very picky about the wet food I’ll give them. The prices of their cat food have gone up astronomically. I bought some online at chewy. com and also bought cat vitamins so that I can start making their food from scratch.
Notice how the news cycles are blaming OMICRON
I saw “due to the spread of omicron” and decided to give the propaganda a pass.
West of Albany OR. No significant shortages but buying different brands to check off the grocery list. Bought a highland cow w/calf. Have wheat and potatoes planted. Seeds for spring planting on hand. Flock of chickens and a few sheep. Think we are good. If the stores fail we have beans and rice- and old magazines with lots of pages in them.
Here on the Gulf Coast of Florida in beautiful Bonita Beach the supermarkets are well stocked especially Publix!
Written on the Internet 6 days ago “I work for a cheese company that supplies Walmart, Sam’s, etc. We are the number one cheese supplier. We supply subway, McDonald’s, braums, etc. We are seeing now from all ends the ripple of this. Scrambling to get cardboard for the plant production, ingredients are starting to show up low on supply. It’s gonna come BIG here soon. You’re only seeing a small ripple in all this. Disclaimer, this is just my view from a cheese warehouse”
buddy owns a couple of used car lots. Should have 40-50 vehicles in inventory now he has 18-20 but he mentioned the price increase in disposable gloves they use to detail cars. Up big time.
I am east of the Washington DC beltway (belly of the beast) and grocery shelves are bare for processed potatoes, hard to get chicken, lots of turkey just as you said. Milk not well stocked. Produce prices are way up. Restaurants have signs saying certain items may not be available. No one is working, well that’s exaggerated but I expect poor service at restaurants because they’re barely staffed.
The county executive forced a mask mandate against the vote of the county representatives. I ignore it. Not wearing one, not taking part in the Covid theater.
The only good thing to report is a feeling that in my blue state and blue county there is red that is seeping into the consciousness and a will to resist the tyranny. I can see it when I’m out and about. People don’t care about the Covid manipulation anymore. They’re awakening.
Good news LeAnn!
Gotta be PG County.
Above picture appears to be Whole Foods. Whole Foods has been spotty on frozen potato’s since the covid experience began.
Any Shortages of Street Drugs?
My family who still lives in Az down on the border tells me that heroin, cocaine, fentynal and marijuana are still pouring over the unguarded and unprotected border near their homes.
So probably no shortage there MicClued.
We live in Orlando and Publix seems to re-stock many items, chicken breasts were gone and I checked back and they were not re-stocked. I bought a rotisserie chicken and had to laugh at how small it was, 7.49 for a toddler chicken(it was a bit bigger than a baby chick, so i’m guessing it was a toddler). Now the Walmart Marketplace is just bare, but they actually had more produce than Publix, but not much else. Got to hit both stores to find what you need and get creative with substitutions. One more thing, freezers are very hard to find right now, so if your looking and find one, buy it.
U.S.-Mexico potato battle takes another turn
May 24, 2021
https://www.idahofb.org/News-Media/2021/05/usmexico-potato-battle-takes-another
The excitement that U.S. potato growers felt following an April 28 decision by the Mexican Supreme Court to open up that entire nation to fresh potato exports from the United States has been blunted somewhat.
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled 5-0 April 28 to overturn a 2017 lower court decision that prevented the Mexican federal government from implementing regulations to allow for the importation of fresh U.S. potatoes throughout the entire country.
Fresh potatoes from the United States are currently only allowed within a 16-mile area along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Gaining access for fresh potatoes to all of Mexico, which has a population of 130 million, has been one of the U.S. potato industry’s top priorities for more than two decades.
Idaho leads the nation in potato production and gaining access to all of Mexico would be a huge win for the state’s fresh potato industry.
Idaho potato growers brace for ‘inferior crop’
August 24, 2021
https://www.potatonewstoday.com/2021/08/24/idaho-potato-growers-brace-for-inferior-crop/
“I’ve never had this happen before, and I’ve got an agronomist who works with me on potatoes and he’s been doing it for over 20 years and he said he’s never seen a worse crop than this,” said Hardy, who raises spuds for the fresh market and serves as chairman of the board of Sun Valley Potatoes.
So, did the combination of a really bad crop and increasing the market by 130 million people cause the tater shortage?
SW Idaho (rural)
No shortage of potatoes but this is Idaho. Local chain grocery store advertising stock up sales but very limited quantities actually available if you’re really attempting to “stock up.” Not a big price difference on too much that I’ve noticed except for citrus fruit and not much out of stock at non-big chain grocery stores, but Albertsons on the other hand has more out of stock items including milk/cheese products. Historically, local Albertsons had good deals but those have begun to disappear altogether and price hikes are significant.
Nearby in Ontario OR at Walmart (closest to us), prices on potato products (limited availability/options) have risen over 25% and they have MANY out of stock items including dairy products, pet food, canned food, cleaning products etc. That’s for pickup orders.. I don’t go inside the store there as they’re mask Nazis to the nth degree. I generally place pick up orders for 15 lb boxes of old roy dog biscuits that my 5 dogs love that I can’t get elsewhere along with a few things that stores near me don’t stock. The dog biscuits are now limit of 1 box WHEN they’re in stock. WM is about tapped out on a usefulness scale.
All of this will begin snowballing quickly. IMO, that’s the reason for the concrete barrier around the WH. Imagine the rioting that’ll start when people in all walks of life are hungry and unable to feed their children.
We also grow lots of potatoes here in my area of Colorado and the warehouses are somewhat full and still shipping everywhere.
No shortage of potatoes in our area if you want them not processed.
Shopped this morning at Winco, Grants Pass Oregon. No noticeable shortages, only noticeable increased prices. Shopped earlier this week at Albertson’s in which the only notable shortage was pasta.
Our Grants Pass Walmart has aisles of empty shelves, so I have been told. We rarely shop there.
GIANT store Food pickup Friday 14 Jan 2022.
Metro DC area, Reston VA. (20 miles from the cess-pool center).
Just returned from picking up my Giant Store online order/curb-side pickup. Misc items $200 total. No oranges. Anticipated meat issue before (thanks Sundance) so did not need to order any on this trip.
Ask girl who was loading my truck general question about product availability.
It just wasn’t here response, but her non-verbal expressions on about the shortness of products; “. …we haven’t had delivery in over five days…..” shortages in meats, produce…… “.
The concerned look in her eyes and facial expression told all.
Giant Stores have about 15-20 retail stores in the metro DC area.
Don’t believe many local people are aware of pending food availability problems. For one thing too many supported the BO-Biden regimes.
FJB, FBO, FAF, FBG. We will see.
Hello there. I was at the same store this afternoon mid-afternoon and may have been right behind you watching your food being loaded in your car.
It was shocking how little was in the store. Only one or 2 rows of cans or boxes on the shelves. They posted signs at the front door apologizing for lack of items from their weekly ad.