Pleased to announce I’ve eradicated the local squirrel population within a 5 mile radius from my shack. Have plenty of squirrel quarters and backs in the freezer. Aim to have the finest squirrel parka south of the Arctic Circle.

Wander..what-normies -saying about BEANDON………

Central east coast rural, small town area. Went to 2 stores yesterday – still have good stock and they look full. There is a good bit of fresh produce including potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, celery, and various fruits. There are canned veggies, soups, fruit, but several pulled to the front of the shelves. Not a wide variety of brands. There is pet food, including a little canned food in one store. There is some butter, but size of the butter display down to 6 feet, lots of margarine. Sugar, flour, pasta are not full shelves. Still some frozen potatoes in both stores, but very few.

Because the stores look fairly full and because people have gotten used to some things being out from time to time since the toilet paper craze, I’m not seeing much panic buying yet, like before a snow storm or a hurricane.

Gas price here is up 20 cents over the last 2 weeks.

Just left Walmart in Kentucky. No french fries, no fish sticks, NO GROUND BEEF.

I am starting to wonder if they are making different regions suffer at different times. My Central Ohio Kroger has had an empty wall in the lunchmeat/bacon aisle for the past month and a half. This week, it was fully stocked. Our frozen potato section was 75% full (don’t use them, but was curious). However, the frozen waffles were wiped out. I don’t really check the frozen section anymore, because my freezer is strictly for meats at this point. Produce was stocked, even potatoes. I didn’t check the cat food this week, but it has been empty for the past month.

Crackers are low, and I also noticed a big store display of a brand of tortilla chips I have never heard of before.

Reporting from the Peoples Republic of Maryland (Bel Air – 40 minutes northeast of the lovely no-go zone called Baltimore):
1) Went to Aldi’s, haven’t been there in about two months. Wiped out of baking powder, parmesan cheese, hamburger and hot dog buns. Corn chips I remember buying for $.89 are now $1.25. Value pack chicken breasts were $1.99. Refrigerated and frozen section was pretty much wiped out. Decently stocked but not anywhere close to when we had a real president. Only 3 cashiers working and had to wait about 10 minutes to checkout. Noticed very easily that prices are up across the board. Maybe 10-30% for most products.

2) Went to Sprout’s like we do every week. Bananas were scarce but enough. Fresh fruit and produce as about normal, maybe slightly less. Definitely looks like they are not getting the usual suppliers for some things. Brazilian mangoes instead of Ecuadoran. Strawberries were $5 for a pound. Fresh meat was for the most part wiped out. Chicken wings were $5/lb, ribs and pork loin $8/lb. I haven’t eaten ribs or wings in about 6 months. Just too expensive compared to other items. Eggs were pretty much wiped out along with dairy products. Bronzini and salmon were $10/lb. Seafood prices and quantity are holding steady.

Definitely looks like people are cooking more themselves and going out less. Just like when the scamdemic first started two years ago, seeing more people who look like grocery shopper virgins and rookies. More people with lists, more people asking staff for location of stuff and whether they have any more in the back.

Spent about 30% more than we usually buy but we picked up some extra stuff like flour and sugar just in case.

Southern Oklahoma Walmart:
1. No large bags of any potato chips ( lg tortilla chips still available)
2. No name brand lemonade drop ins for water
3. Interestingly no 1/2 gal milk, but 1 gal still pretty plentiful
4. No kitchen dish brushes
5. No frozen lasagna or fettuccine pasta

Granted our Walmart has suffered shortages forever based on what I believe is just poor local management.

But I’m paying more attention to gauge how much worse it’s getting short term. We don’t have many shopping alternatives close by.

I’m not seeing any empty shelves, but I am near a port too. The only limited items I have seen so far is pet food. However, I am prepping ahead of time as recommended by your prior articles using your item list.

Good thing I know how to grow potatoes and make my own french fries!

We live rurally in Northern Florida and have not seen any grocery shortages as of yet. We are however feeling the canned cat food shortage.

In eastern Charlotte NC. Empty shelves seem to be hit and miss.
The beer aisle is full. Liquor stores are a 1/3 empty but all you have to do change flavors.
Groceries; one day no eggs, last week no cream cheese, paper plates? Meat is very expensive.
Cost is up 30% over a year ago.
Gas can’t seem to get over $3 a gallon.
Lumber is thru the rough, at the box stores.
Find a wholesaler and business only, seller, their prices are better, and they will sell to anybody. Plywood 30% cheaper, I fainted.
Don’t buy a car or a house, until the fed raises rates, the window will be brief to jump in.
My remodeling business is white hot, you just have to be good at it. References are gold.
Hang on Patriots, this is ‘temporary’.

Being KETO, there are a lot of products I don’t eat, or drink, but I decided to look on Amazon at Gatorade and sport type drinks. Many are unavailable, or declaring only a few left!

Here in Georgetown, Texas, just North of Austin, the regional grocery store, HEB is mostly full, with two exceptions- no pasta for two days in a row, and the cat food section is mostly wiped out. In fact, there is a green sign in the cat food aisle that says:

Supplier Production Update
Many of our National Brand and HEB Brand Suppliers
have temporarily halted production
on their normal variety of items in order to produce
more of the most critical items needed during this time.

As soon as critical needs are met
our Suppliers will once again begin producing your favorite items.
and we will get them back on our shelves.

Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.

So, there you have it, an official admission from a large regional grocery store regarding everything that has been discussed here the past few months.

Interestingly, HEB is also offering a lot of coupons for organic items, especially if you buy organic items in bulk. Obviously this tracks with one of the items on Sundance’s list of things to be on the lookout for. But the big green is official confirmation.

well, this is sort of a “pre-report” from chicago area.
have neither the money nor the space to stockpile anything
(a second pack of paper towels has to stay in the car trunk until needed.)
fresh food only keeps so long. very limited freezer space.
don’t do grocery delivery – too costly, 
but mostly, if i didn’t pick it, i don’t eat it.
so, this should be interesting.
guess i’ll be out there once or twice a week trying to find supplies.
local grocery store has been robbed of FOOD twice already –
multiple people come in, overload carts, use the “no-pay lane” and fast exit to waiting vehicle. 
these are separate from the spate of liquor robberies at the same store.
hope the unbalanced, unstable, profiteers, thugs, and/or n’er do wells leave something for the rest of us.😳
my intention is to keep a level head and carry on as best i can.
stiff upper lip and all that.
but when the half and half for my tea disappears, well then all bets are off! 😂
(come to think of it, there wasn’t any tea when i last checked, either….🥴)

Location, King County WA (most densely populated county in the State).

I went to a Store that focuses on stocking food for medium to small restaurants. So the package sizes are much larger and focused on ingredients that go into larger batches than you would fix at home. For example, most canned stuff is in number 10 cans, rice, beans, onions, potatoes by the 50lb bag etc.

Its store I have gone to for many years to rotate our food stock, because its less expensive per unit and we have a big family and a large freezer, so I don’t have any problem storing it or going through it before it gets old.

Status: Frozen French fries ‘gone’, soup ‘gone’, everything else is less well stocked than in the past.

I was able to pick up instant potatoes though, but even that was less well stocked than normal.

California has a barley shortage caused by “drought”? NEVER seen this before.

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Our issues in the Indy burbs have been and continue to be frozen foods.

Canned soups, canned vegetables in Dillons. Walmart Marketplace had lots of holes in multiple shelves. I’m in Kansas. Most everyone in family and friends ordered beef, pork and chicken this summer. We also stocked canned soups and vegetables for winter, no room for frozen. We mostly eat at home. Snow coming, so the unprepared will be emptying the shelves tonight.

I do not by food at CVS but I noticed when I went in for prescriptions that the refrigerated food shelves are empty. So are the shelves where water and soft drinks are kept.

About 45 miles northwest of DC. Tonight no frozen potatoes in any form at 2 different grocery stores. 2 bags of sweet potato waffle fries. 3 containers refrigerated mashed potatoes and plenty of fresh potatoes. We remembered that during the initial run on groceries in 2020, Dollar General had eggs when no one else did. Sure enough, 4 bags of frozen tater tots! Grocery stores also low on sports drinks/Gatorade and juice packs.

Ocean Isle Beach, NC-Publix store is fairly well stocked except for shortages of soups, pasta, rice and dog food. The meat supply was about normal but prices have sky rocketed. There are limits on certain dairy products and the milk supply was lower than usual.

Detailed article giving reasons even down to brand level:

Cat Food Shortage 2021-2022 | Wet and Dry Pet Foods Shortage
16 Nov 2021

https://www.mybestcatfood.com/cat-food-shortage/

Pueblo West Colorado – Walmart is missing more than half of their frozen potato products, chicken is all but gone – just a few bags of wing pieces. We don’t do ramen noodles, but they were wiped out. Most other things that I pay attention to were well stocked.

Didn’t know ham was a last line of protein…must be why Kroger has their spiral hams for 49 cent/lb? Also must be how I ended up with a 14# one (I do pickup orders). NE Indiana

Reporting in from the Peoples Republic of New York (someplace upstate). Two Ahold owned joints across town from each other, both large stores and both well maintained under normal circumstances – Sections within categories that were abnormally low or out: Canned beans, boxed potatoes, vinegar, ketchup, and mayo, Asian specialty foods, raman noodles, canned soup, pasta, sauce, tortillas, cooking oil, canned fruits, coffee and teas, peanut butter and jelly, cereal and breakfast foods, fruit drinks, frozen food – fish, chicken, prepared meals, breakfast foods, Texas toast, veggies, frozen pizza’s, pet supplies and pet foods in general, especially canned cat food, pretty much sold out – all orange juice, 1/2 and 1/2, paper plates and paper goods in general, pedialyte and baby formula. Some fresh fruits and vegetables are either low or absent. Some items were out in one store but not in the other. Frozen meals (like lasagna) were totally wiped. Overall – some things are a sustained out, others probably on order with a chance of coming in. Next week will be the tell when the trucker bs comes into play, but I would say these two stores are pretty much limping along.

Made a run into Albany/Corvallis, Oregon today.
Mainly to shop for certain items at Costco

So, Costco was stocked well in all departments.
No limit on TP or other paper products.
Made you put a mash on to enter. Put up my gaiter t be nice to the door person
lowered it as soon as I was past her. About 8-2 on average maskers, but
every body was nice and no Karens.

Winco -(employee owned major discounter grocery store similar to Kroger’s/Fred Meyers)
Well stocked, not visible shortages in any of the departments.
Able to pick up 2# loaf of Darigold medium cheddar for $5.48 / loaf.

BI-Mart (another employee owned discount store) Again well stocked. No apparent shortages.

Trader Joe’s (Boutique natural food store) – Same

Natural Foods (natural foods and vitamins) – Same

If I didn’t know better, I’d say they are making sure blue state cities don’t starve.

South Texas, trip to Costco yesterday was a pleasant surprise. Fully stocked on everything I could see, even frozen French fries. Almost no one there when I went. Only line was at the gas pump, 20¢ a gallon cheaper than all other stations. Obviously I loaded up and went straight home. Happy treeper here.

central Oklahoma, friends and relatives cannot find pasta anywhere. big box stores and local groceries are empty-shelf for pasta. can’t understand that, as it is a grain-based food product, and we grow and process it. where did it go???
also… but TP is in plentiful stocks – everywhere. and TP comes from the Pacific NW and deep southern states. just fyi,
your wingman,
reeko

Southern NH, regional grocery store chain. Sparse selection of fresh orange juice, soup, eggs. Produce still well-stocked, frozen section was barely holding its own (French fries were picked over), frozen name brand veggies were running low. Plenty of meat and chicken. Was actually able to buy a few items (La Choy noodles, white fish) that I couldn’t find in a different store/same chain a few miles away.

Warren county Tennessee Walmart. no frozen potatoes except small section of great value tater tots. Most pasta gone except for specialty types that go for $2.75+ plenty of sauce tho

PickNSave (Kroger) Milwaukee,
1) Lean Cuisine – gone.
2) Cheap gallon milk disappears fast
3) Real orange juice all gone

Just a few observation on a perfect shopping day before the shelves get raided.
Meat strange notice. Everything stocked well except not many quality beef steaks available. That section filled with ground turkey.

Why steaks gone? Meat suppliers need to give locals enough to feed themselves with the cheap stuff, but NYC will pay 400% per pound more than here . So guess where our Midwest steaks are going?

Costco DesMoines, IA, Costco owns the chickens on some farms and so has direct access to their growers. Costco “blue light” special to attract customers is to sell a whole baked ready to serve chicken for $4.

The future of the food supply chain is ownership or exclusive product purchase contracts from farm to shelf.

In S California OC I haven’t see shortage of fresh produce (veggies/fruits).
Proces are ridiculously high though. Becausee of diet restrictions protein comes mostly from eggs and fish. It’s very jard to get fish at affordable prices now. All together, inflation on food is way above 10% , kind of scary

South Allegheny County, PA: Yesterday, Jan 13, Giant Eagle was completely stocked. Potatoes and citrus full. Egg case about half full. All other shelves full.

Only three bags of sweet potato fries at Food Lion in SW Pa.

Western Washington – similar vacant shelves in cold and freezer sections. Lots of canned goods, 1 can deep – someone at the store(s) is going to a lot of trouble to make it “look good”. Pet food area is 90% empty. This was observed two days ago at QFC and Safeway.

Georgetown Texas, HEB/Walmart this week….no potato, fresh or frozen to be had. There were some bags of potato tots, at Walmart, but that was it. Funny that you mention ham. At Walmart, the whole center section that divides the frozen foods from the refrigerated, was FULL of hams. The spiral sliced type, that comes in a net type carrying bag. Before I saw this story, I mentioned to my wife I thought it was odd to put the hams out “so early”. I was thinking it was the Easter supply. I kid you not, there must have been over 1000 hams in their longest run of open air, refrigerated cases. No heb brand sausage either, usually there are 5 or more flavors, I thought that was odd. I did ask if they had any “in back” the guy told me all they had was frozen sausage. I went to check, and it was turkey breakfast sausage. Interesting.

Chattanooga TN area has been interesting. Aldi had many bare spots last weekend but had signs up saying the shortages were due to the bad weather (Lexington KY storms). WalMarts have had big holes in the meat dept. and fresh produce in several stores over the entire week. Sams club also had big holes in meat dept. and fresh produce. Publix looks well stocked.

Spokane, WA here. No chicken except whole and those are $15, use to get them for $5. Beef selection is ok but way too expensive. The can good section has improved greatly. Fresh produce is still stocked but in smaller sections, meaning they moved the green leaf and romaine lettuce to a small section from the large section. No cabbage and haven’t had any in a week or so. OJ is very limited. All in all I’d say it’s doing ok but it also depends on when you go to the store.

Good Lord … I just spoke to someone in my universe (a Liberal) and suggested he might want to stock up on the little cans of wet food his cat prefers … We usually avoid talking politics but, for his sake, I mentioned some of what Sundance posted about the possible effects of the vax mandate on truckers at the Canadian border … Well, his response was essentially, “That’s hogwash. If there’s a shortage, it will be due to the scarcity of aluminum that started months before now.”

It looks like ebb and flows here cen NJ
This week looked much better then last at Aldi’s
The only noticeable things were no potatoes and hardly any chicken
Trader Joe’s only had hashbrowns no frozen potatoes
You can see signs of stress in Costco
Lots of empty spaces in the racks
Junk food took over the produce area
produce is mostly old
They had dry and wet dog food
No cat food
You can see it in some stores like Costco and stop n shop
Are rearranging the shelves
Others not so much yet.

Pontotoc County, Mississippi here. I shopped at Price Cutters today and found our small store well stocked except for dry pastas and most varieties of crackers. I was able to pick up a couple bags of tri color rotini and boxes of whole wheat spaghetti. The only crackers were Ritz Honey Wheat and Townhouse.

I’m happy to report there were frozen and dry potatoes, cream cheese, all cheeses, real butter, milk, buttermilk, cream and half and half. Meat counter fully stocked as was produce. Prices are higher by about $30-$50 depending what I buy.

While out I gassed up. It’s $2.89 9 for regular. The arctic blast is coming in over the weekend and I don’t want to go out if I don’t have and be prepared if I do.

I remember in 2020 when people began stocking up that I could usually find what I needed at Price Cutters or the Piggly Wiggly when Walmart shelves were bare. If the three stores were out of something I figured I didn’t need it yet. When I did need it the items were there. I would give thanks to my Lord for providing each and every time. He is so very, very good.

Here in South Dakota, everything looks to be in stock, except for the cat food. Empty shelves in the cat food section.
Prices do, however, appear to have nearly doubled on meat, and a few other items, which is very distressing.
What concerns me here the most is, the pharmacies can’t keep medication in stock. I’ve fairly recently had to wait a week for my meds to be in stock, when before there wasn’t any delay. Then yesterday, while picking up medication for my daughter’s pneumonia, two customers were throwing a fit because one hadn’t been able to get his medication for two weeks, and the other his wife’s needles. The pharmacist explained to both that it was a supply chain issue, and the shortages would hopefully be resolved soon. But, as one would guess, that doesn’t help those needing their medication that day.

Boise, Idaho: I only shop at Winco foods (employee owned, discount grocery.) Haven’t seen shortages yet, some price increases but not too bad.

As an aside, it’s not too early to start praying for Idaho potato farmers and that they gave a good crop this year…..

Went to Aldi in southern Palm Beach County this afternoon. Instant rice section picked over. A bit surprised to see zero salmon, replaced with gross tilapia. And not much of it at that. Canned chicken was back in stock after many weeks. Grabbed a couple cases of those. “Fresh” chicken and ground beef in stock. Plenty of produce.

Mid East Coastal Florida here. Groceries mostly well supplied, holes in some dry goods, pasta, and staples. No wet cat food.
Lots of 60 can packs of Friskies cat food at Costco.
Compared 50lb bags high gluten bread flour, GFS $25 / bag, Amazon $75 / bag.
Limited selection of canned sodas everywhere. Manufacturer sheet aluminum supplies short, prices high.
Canadian / US Border Vax mandates go in force on the 15th, so truck crossings will slow and maybe stop as “recent Covid Tests” are required.
John in Indy

Went to our college town, Columbia MO yesterday to stock up. We’ve had covid so haven’t had the opportunity to get out much lately. I stopped in at Aldi’s and Walmart. Didn’t notice any shortage of the products I was looking for other than than dry pet food supplies was low. Surprisingly, paper products were plentiful. Not feelng the best, I forgot several things and hope they’ll be there the next time I get to shop.

In Florida’s panhandle beach area the three major food store chains, Publix, Winn Dixie and Walmart have sporadic outages of all food items. The shortages/outages seem to rotate between the chains so at least one of the stores will have the item…so far. Excessive amounts of turkeys and hams and they’re not on holiday sales. In town we have several Grocery Outlet stores and Piggly Wiggly that buy in bulk. We have been stocking up on condiments and all types of canned goods. The prices have been slow to rise, maybe 20-25% increases. Dairy products are still stable and if they run out of milk for my chicory coffee, let the revolution begin!!

First time commenter. This whole topic has been eye opening, and it’s motivated me to prepare for an extended supply disruption. Here in Santa Barbara I am seeing everything reported across the country: no frozen potatoes, very low stocks of wet cat food, one store that only had cream of chicken canned soup and etc. I am stocking up slowly, and I’ll store my dry goods in 6 gallon metal pails with lids to keep them safe from rodents. They will be double bagged in those pails along with moisture absorbent.

I’ve been a reader of CTH many years, and it’s time for me to jump in.

In Fredericksburg, TX., 70 miles west of Austin, there are no frozen potatoes available at HEB grocery store. Since we are a rural farming and ranching community, there is plenty of produce that is reasonable in price thus far. We are a town well known for hunters and this year we tagged 4 big bucks in our family. Freezers are full.

Dayton Ohio. Mostly stock at Aldi’s and Kroger but prices have gone UP sooooo much. I love to cook and usually enjoy shopping for items to make new recipes but today was, well, traumatic to be blunt. May God Bless and have Mercy on us .

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