Quite remarkably this ABC report on empty shelves is not far away from outlining the truth. They are still obfuscating some of the predictable reasons, and they completely ignore the vaccination mandate aspect that is going to worsen the issue, but they are nibbling the edges, nonetheless.
The backward-looking comparative statistics they cite, “15% shortage for food and beverages” overall, are nonsense. The severity of unavailable products is much higher than that. You will note from your own store visits the most unavailable products are the manufactured food and heavily processed products.
The raw material shortage inside the retail manufacturing supply chain path, combined with the increased demand on those manufactured sectors, is the direct cause of the manufactured food shortage. {Go Deep} [Example: a high demand for citric acid means complex foods that use citrus flavorings (ie. sports drinks) are in short supply. Chase that backward, and you see shortages in citrus & higher citrus costs, etc.]
Each seemingly small issue creates another small issue, which creates another small issue, which ultimately pokes holes in the supply. Poke enough holes in enough small categories from manufactured condiments to manufactured drinks, to manufactured cereals, pasta, grains, soups, pet foods, and the complex food processing system overall begins to show the larger problem. It’s a system collapse by a thousand paper cuts.
Some well intentioned people will claim the shortage of processed and manufactured food is a good thing, and people should eat more fresh foods and be healthier.
Let me be very frank about this. Without full-service fresh prepared food delivery operating normally (restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, lunchrooms, food trucks, venues etc) there isn’t enough fresh food in the U.S. retail distribution system (grocery chains) to feed 350 million people.
We simply need processed and manufactured foods.
Additionally, many of those manufactured foodstuffs (spices, sauces, etc) are additives to what people call “fresh food” preparation. If you want salt, pepper, olive oil, butter, tomato paste, pasta, flour, etc., you need processed and manufactured food.
As we go into this phase, the ABC report was correct on where these issues will be less noticeable, less fragile. The smaller grocery outlets with closer connections to the field. The closer the grocer is to the farmer, the less fragile they are in this shortage phase. “Grocers” (traditionally defined) will do better than “supermarkets”.
Also think about it like this. Does your grocery store have an in-store bakery? If so, their ability to make bread means they are less susceptible to running out of bread. If processed industrial bakeries experience issues, your in-store bakery may not. You will pay much more, but the product will exist. The key is having knowledge of where the product exists.
On a supermarket basis, the total operational excellence comes into play now. Top shelf field-to-fork operations like Hannaford, HEB, Publix and Wegmans will fare much better than Kroger, Ahold, Giant Eagle, Albertsons, Shop Rite, Meijer, Safeway, Winn Dixie etc. You can see how the former group rely more on fresh product supply chain relationships, and the latter group are weighted heavily toward low-price highly manufactured.
What are you seeing around you?
Resource Material:
Supermarkets face empty shelves from labor shortages, shipping costs
https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/supermarkets-face-empty-shelves-from-labor-shortages-shipping-costs/
Thanks to Democrat/Communist “Branch -Covidianism” I hope the residents at the Liberal lunatic aslyum in Covidia enjoy their stay. Bread lines and all
When Xiden was “selected” I told a liberal that I’d see her in the bread line!
“Control Oil and you control nations. Control food and you control populations” war criminal & Nixon Handler Henry Kissinger
Sundance and everyone, it has always seemed suspicious to me that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger surprised President Trump and showed up out of the blue (without an appointment) to visit him (at the White House) the day after President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey. Here are the references:
Henry Kissinger visits White House, surprises media with Oval Office photo-op
As if today couldn’t get any weirder, suddenly a former secretary of state shows up in the White House unannounced
published May 10, 2017
by Charlie May
https://www.salon.com/2017/05/10/henry-kissinger-visits-white-house-surprises-media-with-oval-office-photo-op/
Dismissal of James Comey
May 9, 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_James_Comey
Ty for posting friend. I have brought that up before. He backstabbed the usually astute Ian Smith.
I do not want to bring up who he works for, it is up to all interested to look that up for themselves. Yes that is quite a fascinating chapter in the history of PDJT. Guy has been around forever, how is that possible?
” Guy has been around forever, how is that possible ? ”
Adrenochrome .
I wasn’t finished with my post, above, but it posted, anyway; oops! :/
I was going to ask fellow Treepers for their opinions and/or knowledge regarding Kissinger’s possible involvement in any or all of this horrible elite-driven nightmare, including (but not limited to): absurd authoritarian controls from multiple world governments; a permanent pandemic with freedoms being stripped away, bit by bit; absurd quote, unquote “health” measures such as the denial of early treatment and the blocking and/or restricting of therapeutics that are known to work; a ridiculous push for MANDATORY “v.a.x.x.i.n.a.t.i.o.n” with so-called “v.a.x.x.i.n.e.s” that were barely tested and have no long-term safety data; supply chain problems; impending food shortages (which is the topic, here); devastated economies; manipulated election “results” so that people who can be controlled (in either party) win, whereas someone who can NOT be controlled–such as President Trump–magically “loses” and all the elites and establishment folks in both parties stand up and say “he lost; it’s in the past; let’s move on,” etc., etc.
And just to make sure no one can successfully challenge the election “result” that the elites and establishment wanted, the Feds cause an incident on January 6th and are literally jailing and torturing people that were in D.C. that day. :'(
A good observation from Vladimir Bukovsky comes to mind: The paradox of the Nixon-Kisinger strategy lie in that on one hand, they seem to comprehend the total absurdity of detente and even realize the dangers of these games, but on the other hand, they crawl into the python’s jaws like mesmerized rabbits…” (from Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity p. 338). Bukovsky was referring to Kissinger’s insistence that if the US limited itself in the arms race, the USSR would do likewise. If one believes in the inherent goodness of humans, that training all humans to have the same value system and share all possessions equally will eliminate conflict, that satiating their every whim will cause them to behave well, with a small intellectual elite cabal to shepherd the rest into paradise, the only thing preventing paradise from arriving on earth must be a few bad humans (cannot admit to religiously worshiping a flawed basic theory).
And Mike Lindell is being “de-banked”.
Sorry but Wikipedia is not to be trusted with real facts. They are in the Democrats tent.
Hi, Bob; I agree that Wikipedia can’t be trusted (and don’t use it), but remember quite clearly that Kissinger showed up, unannounced, the day after President Trump fired James Comey. I searched for the date a little while ago and found those links. The Wikipedia link has a copy of President Trump’s letter in which he terminated James Comey as FBI Director. Multiple sites note that Kissinger was in an “unexpected” Oval Office meeting with Trump on May 10, 2017, so May 9, 2017 must be the day that Comey was fired. I can’t confirm either date from memory, but am certain that Kissinger was there the day after Comey’s firing.
Kissinger was Nixon’s handler. The key lies with who Kissinger is an agent for. He is a very evil man working for very evil
Control the counting of the vote and you control both.
he is a slow learner.
control the media, you control everything.
Reporting the storm as it arrives is akin to a “Bump” sign along the road posted after the bump. Yeah, we got it.
It is noteworthy that Sundance has been all over this well in advance of the rest of the MSM.
Assuming you are commenting about ABC’s telling us what we already know, then (IMHO) your sarcasm is spot on.
Your assumption is also spot on.
😉
The old, “Jump now!” trick of the guy guiding a blind man up to a narrow creek. No warning. Maybe you had to be there.
I stopped by the grocer after church today for a head of lettuce as I like salads. Up to $2. Typical a few months ago was $1.25. I decided to check the frozen potatoes. Looked like it was stocked to about 20% capacity.
Forget lettuce anyway. No nutritional value. Rabbit breeders will not even feed it to their rabbits. Leave it for the progressive Vegans to munch on.
Romaine lettuce has nutritional value..the green part is the part with the nutrition so maybe you are talking about iceberg?
Yes on those parts of romaine – and the darker the green, the more nutrition in any lettuce.
Iceberg is chewable water. I think it does provide a little fiber if nothing better is available. 1 stick of celery would probably do better on that score than an entire head of iceberg…
When losing weight, lettuce is a crunchy substitute for water.
It would be nice if people would stop demanding that others do as they say. You like salads? You like lettuce salads? Get your lettuce. Eat your salad. Your choice. I love salads too. I usually get different varieties of lettuce for my salads. Nothing wrong with that. Don’t like salads? Don’t like lettuce? Don’t buy/eat it.
Thank you.
Not at all true. Iceberg lettuce has little value, all the other lettuces have many nutrients.
It has that cool crunch factor that cannot be replicated by any other on a cheeseburger or BLT.
Listening right now to The John Moore podcast from Friday on Rumble. Roughly 20-25 mins into the discussion with his guest they are talking about not being able to get certain tires and stocking up on their own engine oil and oil filters.
I got tires a couple months ago and had very limited choices for my vehicle. Instead of at least a dozen compatible tires, I was literally having to choose between about the most expensive tires and the cheapest. There was no middle-ground available, so I went with the expensive since they will last at least twice as long and I plan on keeping this vehicle until it’s worn out. It’s an Acura MDX, a 2010, and only has 80,000 miles on it. Good to go for at least another 100,000 miles probably more.
Not sure which model but my daughter has an Acura with almost 300,000 miles on it. It’s a 2010 year.
Went last week to a local Napa store (NE Washington) for tractor hydraulic fluid and motor oil/filters. Zero 10W30 in the Napa brand and very little of the name brands. Bought almost all of their remaining Quacker State 10W30 & one of the last 5 gals of hydraulic fluid and 2 of their last remaining filters for our two daily drivers. Counter man said their entire chain is out of 10W30 and nearly out of 10W40 and 5W30. Said they’ve been told not to expect any oil inventory anytime soon.
Good to know. Thanks.
Canned dog and cat food in short supply. Going to be a lot of unhappy and panicking pet owners soon.
Try your local pet store or national chain.
Pets are family and they depend on their owners just like children with their parents/guardians. A sad state of affairs but I know how we got here.
I checked out Chewy.com to see what was out of stock, and ordered up a couple of boxes of wet food that I know our cat will eat (NOT pâté).
We have some picky eaters as well. But, they all will eat cooked chicken. So, as long as we have a reasonable supply of that, we have a backup. Went to Corvallis on Friday and the local Winco had family packs of breast with rib meat for $2.18/lb and the cooler was well stocked.
We have made dog food for
a series of Bostons for 25 years, using cheap chicken, rice, and frozen green beans or peas. Healthy dogs with shiny coats. They all refused kibble the few times it was offered.
Exactly. We supplement our cats with plenty of cooked chicken. When I cook a chicken most of the time it’s a whole bird and there’s always leftovers and some go to the kitties. My wife even feeds a couple possums that come around every night, just scraps we have that would otherwise get tossed. They are probably in possum heaven.
Their tastes vary pretty widely. My cats will eat only pâté. 😆
I scored a big box from the BJs web site, but the cart would not accept any order over 1 box. Rationing is online too…
Try Chewy.com … very few shortages noted as of last week. Prices are going up, however.
I checked my pup’s prescription food at Chewy last week and it was $93 for 24 cans. This week it’s $123 for 24 cans. My pup eats better than I do!
I bought a case of cat food from chewy.com, well two actually. The third brand that they eat, Halo, was out of stock in every type and flavor. Am planning to start making cat food, at least to supplement.
Feed cooked or raw meat or offal. If offal feed small amount as it is rich. Mix it with dry dog or cat food.
Commercial pet food is convienence and is really agricultural waste you are better off feeding fresh food to your dogs and cats
Orscheln, Tractor Supply, etc. Have pet food too.
Got cat food from our local Orscheln last week and they were well stocked…lots of 25 and 50# bags of dog food too.
SW Missouri here.
Yeap, we always buy our cat food at Mills Fleet Farm, a hardware/farm/everything type store with multiple locations in Minnesota.
Chewy.com, petco.com as well, I’m sure there are others.
PetSmart.
I heard from friends that there is a lot of pet food at Stop & Shop as of this morning
Cats eat meat no problem so as long as you can get chicken, turkey, etc you can feed your cats. Our nearly 20-yo cat loves shredded chicken breast better than canned food actually. The other two cats, well, they actually can eat squirrels and rabbits if it comes to that.
My brother had a cat who would practically do cartwheels when she smelled pepperoni; give her a piece of it and she licked it once and walked away with her tail in the air. Kitty liked salmon without lemon and chicken almond ding; her favorite was plain chicken breast.
If Resident Biden is there long enough, pets may have to settle for Hobson’s Choice. Us, too.
They were eating zoo animals in Venezuela which has an abundance of resources like Petroleum but are communist run. Does one see a correlation to what is taking place in America now that the Soros wizards and their red diaper baby monkeys stole the election and are fully taking over? We are headed that way unless they are stopped justice comes
Tractor Supply is a great resource.
Hannaford, to me, means low quality food…at least it used to be. Harris Teeters is the “upscale” store that is part of Krogers. Yes, Publix is more upscale but so are their prices…the same fresh food that anyone else has sells for more money at Publix…that makes it upscale to some people, especially if you are from Florida.
When I was working a couple of stints in Florida, Publix was my favorite restaurant. I could pick up prepared food and take it back to the hotel where I could take a shower and eat in peace. To me, Publix was a bargain and a time saver.
Publix veggies are better than most, and they do BOGO deals all the time.
You should learn the grades of food sold, both fresh and manufactured. It might explain some of the pricing you perceive.
Field grade, select grade, etc.
Anyone have insight on Food Lion ? Sounds like they are owned by a Dutch company?
I always thought of that as low quality high prices..
Our small Food Lion store in the S.C. Lowcountry has a good selection of fresh fruits and veggies. The meat department is fairly small but the quality of their meats and prices beat Sam’s Club.
Well I pretty much buy organic for fresh and also for manufactured. So, comparison-wise, in terms of organics, Harris Teeters has the best quality and price.
My only experience is with the Publix in Western NC. They built one here because so many Floridians either move here or come here in the summer to get away from the heat. I know, my friend from Florida swears by it, but their prices are high … especially fresh organic produce and they only sell the pre-packaged stuff, like packaged lettuce, package baby carrots etc. To me, that is like processed food….they shred it or peel it and rinse it and put it in plastic bag…maybe that makes it more expensive. I like a good head of fresh organic Romaine. a bunch of carrots with the tops still on, celery with the stuff hanging off the top, etc.
Anyway, just my personal experience and opinion. I know Floridians love that store but maybe it is different in Florida.
Fresh Market is upscale in my Florida town. Publix in the middle and Walmart last, in my experience. Although many things I like aren’t carried at WalMart or are sometimes higher priced than Publix. Example Stonyfield organic yogurt is much higher at Walmart than Publix.
I see a lot of similarities between the Biden administration and the Carter administration but I don’t remember bare store shelves during the Carter years. Carter’s gas lines and “wrap around” mortgages only a few months away?
There were empty shelves in the Carter years, just not in retail. We had trouble getting industrial supplies like bearings, gears and drive belts. When we got them, they were double in price, or more.
There were also copper shortages due to the Allende situation in Chile. It led to electrical wire being made out of aluminum. That led to fired.
Wait until China fully takes over Africa and its rare earth minerals crucial for so many military & Intell equipment. Driving out the well run and prosperous white Christian nations and replacing them with incompetent black communist puppets was a crucial step in the process. Do the Blacks in Africa have it “better”? No they don’t
Aluminum wire also led to a massive government-funded rewiring program for mobile homes. Government screws up, government charges you and me to fix it. Government: Your friend in need, your friend indeed.
yep, More government is NOT the solution
This criminal illegitimate dictatoship has many more fresh faced red diaper babies than Carter’s. And you have much wealthier billionaires behind the scenes pulling the strings. Wall St and the Bolshevik revolution. Communism is never grass roots, its the super rich from the top funding and controlling it.
Jamie Raskin, the man who grieved his son’s suicide by launching the 2nd Trump impeachment.
Carter was an engineer and submariner, so he had some IQ points, regardless of how effectively they were employed. Bai D3n, in the immortal words of President Trump, has always been stupid, and you can’t fix that.
There were meat shortages during the 70’s.
Yes, I remember ground beef going from $.45 to $1.35 overnight and it never came down.
I remember when round steak was $.79 a pound in the base exchange at Ft. Sill! But, then again, I remember my dad saying he bought hamburgers for $.05 each!
It’s all relative to how much money you make. We sure didn’t eat steak every night back then!
As a kid in the 70’s I recall dry tough round steak being served quite a bit. My fave, rib-eye steak, was a rare treat.
For the life of me, being a young adult at the time and working in an upscale restaurant as a prep cook I don’t remember that. However, we sourced the beef from a then small local supplier that ranched their own beef so perhaps that is why. They’re huge now, big enough that PDJT met with the owner back in 2016 when in CA. I went on much later to service equipment at their feed lot.
Been a young adult male back then I swear I’d remember meat shortages because I inhaled the stuff and darned if I don’t. I remember inflation, yes, but after the restaurant I was making ten bucks an hour as an apprentice carpenter and later working oil and gas so didn’t really notice it. Mortgage rates were sky-high, I remember that.
Perhaps it was regional. Living in the middle of large agriculture in CA I don’t remember shortages of any ag-related product.
Interest rates to borrow money was 20–yes, TWENTY–per cent. In 1980 we had our 100-year-old Victorian house lifted and a full basement poured. That monthly payment was hell.
And how about the gas lines back then?? Remember the alternative day scheme they came up with? If your license plate ended in an even number, you could only get gas on days that were even. Odd days & odd numbers, same scheme.
My only sister was in stage 4 cancer and hospitalized. I wanted to get her a Sony Walkman so she could listen to her classical tapes. Our neighbor owned the music store and he simply couldn’t get them ordered in. When he would get them, the price went up $50 each time. Should have cost about $125 but ended up having to pay $225.
I remember the tremendous jump in prices. My grandma Ruby just couldn’t believe it when bread hit a dollar a loaf.
I remember sticker shock on coffee.
I think that’s what turned all of us college students into bread makers.
Literally *everyone * I knew – myself included- made their own bread.
I became a bread baker a number of years ago. I now bake wholesome organic bread loaves for a cost of less than .50/loaf. I’m excited that all my adult children have become bakers themselves.
In central IL, early 1982, Aldi opened. Their L’oven Fresh bread was .29 cents. We ate a lot of that.
I remember my mother and her friends discussing the prices of certain grocery items, each week, as they played bridge.
Perhaps that grossly disproportioned photo of of the Bidens hulking over the little Carters was prescient?
I had to make a pit stop yesterday. I purposefully went to a store that is not prominent in my neck of the woods. Its called the Grocery Outlet.
Took some pictures of the frozen food isle which stores the potato products. The isle over all appeared to be well stocked but there was one small section in the isle that had empty space on the shelf. It just so happened to be the potato section.
FYI Mass….It had nothing to do with their size, it was simply a matter of their quantity. Usually anything over 3 links will trigger a comment being held in moderation. 😉
noted, thanks.
There’s a similar store in Murphy, NC. They sell “in & out” stuff: Comes in once and when it’s gone, it’s gone. A great source for prepper canned foods with three-year shelf dates, that’s for sure.
Had a G.O. in PNW when I lived there.
What a great place to shop. Deals upon deals!
You never knew what they’d have, but they always good stuff that I needed at Really. Low. prices.
Saw a Russian immigrant in there one day clearing the shelves of at least 50 boxes of chocolate covered raisins. I asked her what she was gonna *do* w/ all those raisins and she said she was sending them back to relatives in Russia! So, if that was true, I guess it was worth it to her, even w/ the shipping costs.
That’s some nice stock. Surreal that we’re taking pictures of and tracking grocery stock as consumers in America.
Holy Cow!! My local store doesn’t look anything like that.
I love G.O. Whenever I am somewhere that there is one, I spend some time wandering the aisles to see what bargains I can find. Have to watch the country of origin of some things and the expiration date unless you plan to freeze the food, but always find a number of great bargains.
You would think the companies that depend on sales of processed foods would be screaming.
You would think that supermarkets and their suppliers would be screaming.
Instead, they quietly go along or even support the policies producing these shortages.
Like Hollywood attacking half their potential audience, business doesn’t care. The senior management and boards of directors are now totally composed of leftists whose primary focus is virtue signaling to their peers. Sales and profit are an after thought.
Discussing this with a friend yesterday. Pre-Obama, businesses recognized getting involved in politics or expressing a POV would risk half of their customers going elsewhere. Today virtue signaling is considered the safest approach. Everything is upside down.
Just like in the mass murdering failed liberal Soviet Union. “Everything is upside down”.
Not entirely true. A company I do business with in Texas buys raw meet and sells it, prepared and cooked wholesale. They have had to shut down 1/4 of their lines, and lay off employees
Joey did that.
And here I thought only African nations ran short on food. Silly me.
After they purposely and racily target the productive people creating the food and wealth, White farmers.
After the White farmers are murdered or ethnically cleansed the farms produce little to zero. (there’s a hint there but you have to figure it out yourselves)
Maybe the UN will bring us some goodies!
Trying to post my pics at the grocery store yesterday but I think the post is not getting approved due to the size of the image files.
Northwest Ohio. Stores are stocked as well as they have been over the last few months. Notably no Ramen and low stock of frozen potatoes….
We went across state line and hit grocery outlet in Ontario Oregon and spent a fat chunk of change, mostly on canned fruits and some assorted dry goods to round out our current food stores. They did have frozen taters, which I rarely purchase but I made an exception for hash browns and tater tots. All this talk about potatoes is making me start to crave them 🙂
Grocery Outlet is a good place to stock up.
Bad huh? I’ve been stuck and haven’t been able to get out.
Do you mean moderation?
No sir, I’ve been stuck as in I can’t leave. Personal reasons unfortunately. Thanks for posting the pictures. I’ll try and do the same when I’m able to go to the store near me. take care of yourself mate
You in CA?
Are you in Australia? The use of, “mate” is rather unusual, otherwise.
If so, you are in our prayers!
“Stuck” is a very bad word when spoken from the land down-under.
I love Grocery Outlet. I can’t always find what I need but what I do buy is very affordable. I shop at various Grocery Outlets regularly, between Simi Valley and Pismo Beach.
I was at the Lompoc Grocery Outlet last night and the potato section was the only empty compartment in the frozen foods. Noticed the same thing earlier in the week at the Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet.
Last week I went to the Smart & Final in Monrovia. They had everything under the sun and in bulk. Only thing I noticed that was light was the canned meats. Chicken/Beef.
Smart and Final is also a regular hunting spot of mine.
West Suburbs of Chicago, shopped the local Jewel store today. Frozen potato products were full, got everything on my list except they were out of almost all paper plates. Basically the store was fully stocked.
South West Burbs here…am visiting elsewhere but I hear there are not too many empty shelves in my Jewel. However, there and here…I am looking for kitchen towels…cannot find any other than overpriced very cheaply constructed. Ah…Aggiegirl laments that she has snapped shut her wallet, only necessities.
Where I am at, shortages in a variety of different aisles…
Don’t you love the quality construction of some things these days?
We bought the fluffiest towels a while back, and the lint filter on the dryer is full every washing.
Same thing today on a batch of best quality underwear! I swear you can nearly see through them!
You’d think they would be worried about future purchases, but, I guess when the quality on everything is sorry, they don’t have to.
Speaking of towels and household goods, Mike Lindell sells some really great made in the USA products, and is an amazing Patriot, tirelessly fighting the 2020 coup. He was just a few days ago de-banked, and can really use our support. I used promo code b66 for a great discount.
Nations that have empty headed Presidents get stores that have empty shelves.
There are two huge facilities near me that make disposable plates and such. One for paper and one for foam. They have had trouble filling orders because of occasional mandatory Covid quarantines. They are both 24/7 but there may be whole departments that have to shut down for 10 days (now 5) when someone without symptoms gets a positive result from a mandatory test.
And that’s why the supply chain shortages are not going to go away. Because they are doubling down on the Covid insanity. As Sundance has rightly said.
I have always used styrofoam bowls to feed my cats because they are picky about whether a ceramic dish is clean enough for their sensibilities. I got the bowls at warehouse stores in huge quantities.
All gone now. Nothing but paper, except a couple of packages in a full plate-size.
Soon they’ll get paper and I’ll see how that goes…
Just went to Publix north of Tampa for beef sausage for a boiled dinner that all wanted again tonight ( I know don’t ask) they had only turky sasuage, I asked a taller gentleman if he could see any other on the top shelf, he said yes 1 pack, he pulled it down and it was BEEF! I asked him if i could give him a hug he just made 3 people very happy. The walk around was better stocked today then last week.
We live north of Tampa too. Grocery stores are well-stocked but the prices are out of this world.
In Texas they are changing the prices so fast that the price on the shelve is lower than the cash register price and state law requires they honor the shelve price, but because the people running the cash registers are transplants and they do not know the law and they refuse to honor it. When all these people who do not know the law or refuse to acknowledge it takeover we have a large problem. The large stores benefit.
I have started taking pics with my phone of marked prices, especially sale prices. The cash register shows higher, but if you have a pic of the marked price on the shelf ….well, the cashier pretty much has to give you that price AND you don’t have to wait for someone to go check the price while all in line behind you get mad. There is a shortage of cashiers/baggers at the grocery stores.
Good idea.
Demonrat motto: Laws for thee, but not for me. Gourd I hate em!
Winco Foods is our independent majority employee owned grocery store in the Mountain states. Well stocked.
I keep saying that shippers and truckers would rather unload their cargo in largely rural areas than risk going into Democrat urban areas. Why ship into the cities with their high fuel prices and the product will just be grabbed and no paid for when they can get hard cash out in the country. Watch the starving hordes vacate the democrat areas.
I have suspected from the beginning of Covid that our semi rural area was getting better supply.
The Union Pacific trains won’t go to Los Angeles.
Having seen the videos, smart move. Feral, nasty beasts looting train cars.
Believe things are you described with truckers. Here in Eastern Washington, we shop Winco sometimes when we don’t go over the state line into Idaho. Haven’t really seen much missing at the Winco locally.
WEF wants to force us all into the cities. But the lack of products in town will force the nasty city hoards into our rural paradise.
Went shopping yesterday, looking for a few items mostly as fillers. Locations near Beaver Dam, Juneau, and Hartford, WI.
Small Amish store south of BD was pretty well stocked. Found plenty of citric acid. Fresh potatoes in plenty. Flour, sugar and other baking supplies also plentiful. Bought 4# of thick cut bacon for less than $20.
Aldi’s in Hartford was well stocked with a variety of fresh produce. Meat case was full. Freezer section had a plethora of processed potato products. Had plenty of whole, frozen turkey.
Piggly Wiggly in Juneau was well stocked with everything.
So far, so good. We’ll see how it goes long term.
Thanks for reminding me! I bet our local Amish store has plenty of things. I’ve noticed milk has been very low in stock. I’ve been contacting all the locals who sell milk from their farms and so far, no response. I may get a dairy cow or two, but I know I can buy in to the Amish shares and get milk there. A buy in can be anywhere from $25 – $50, which is to pay for tending the cows (hay, feed, etc), and then each gallon is generally $6-8 each depending upon where you live but the milk is fresh.
Been wanting to but some cowshares for a long time now. I’m thinking this is the year I do it.
Years ago a friend of ours brought over a big box full of of canned sliced carrots. I don’t remember which government program she was participating in, but a lady in his building received regular supplies of shelf-stable goods and she didn’t like the carrots.
We turned them into a big pot of carrot soup, and now I’m wondering about government surplus (remember the cheese?) and if they still make it available. Food pantries? Soup kitchens? Charitably operated food trucks?
Maybe it’s too early to tell, but I’m still unclear if we’re facing a famine of Biblical proportions, or just seriously inconvenient shortages.
My late father (b.1923) said that in Arkansas during the depression that when the sweet potatoes came in, you ate sweet potatoes 100 different ways. Nobody starved, though you could get awfully tired of eating the same thing for weeks on end.
The children and grandchildren of the Depression know all about shortages and NOT wasting food. They were full of knowledge and stories that could really fill books. I have a soft spot for them
So true. I feel really blessed to have been raised in large part by grandparents from tenant farmer families. Not only do I understand frugality, the CRT hustlers can’t raise any guilt or privilege bs with me.
Nope! I remember standing at the end of a LONG row of cotton with a hoe in my hand on a hot summer’s day. Also bleeding hands from picking cotton and how heavy that bag would get.
Even after they had a successful business, my mother never quit cutting open envelopes and using the insides for notepaper!
Seems like our inner moral compass always turns towards TRUTH.
In the old days, they would buy surplus food and give it away. They decided that it was far too inefficient. Now they just buy it and throw it away, or pay farmers to plow it under, and then give people money to buy food. They eliminate all of the production and shipping costs.
An exception is milk. Milk is converted into all sorts of things that can be dried, frozen or has a long shelf life and is then distributed. Mostly it is to food banks and commercial kitchens like schools.
Protein is also different as the product is produced regularly all year and goes to slaughter as needed. Veggies, nuts and grains are once a year harvests that have to be spread out over time.
Way back about 50 years ago when I was in school, the government would send truck loads of stuff for the schools to incorporate into their menus. Our cooks were artists in making things from whatever showed up. They would get flour in huge lots and would make homemade bread and buns. They got butter and lots of cheese. There would be canned vegetables so about three times a week we would get some sort of veggie thing like soups or cheesy casseroles. It was all good.
VibeMan, let’s just say that things have changed since you last enjoyed a school lunch.
Retired teacher, here.
Once, our school in the mountains of El Paso went without power during the morning. The Principal knew that if she sent the kids home, she would lose $ from the gov’t.
She also knew that she needed to get the add’l money for the free/reduced lunches. So, instead of having a hot lunch offered to all students (no power), she ordered the cafeteria to make sandwiches with the usual “meat” and “cheese”, of which there was a glut.
All students were offered meat and cheese sandwiches.
Wow! I asked my kids if anyone knew what kind of “meat” or “cheese” we were eating. Seventh-graders would have laughed, but they were each putting their sandwiches back down. Disgusting.
Whole milk can be frozen. Just remove about cup full and close it tight. It will last about 12 months. If you don’t have one, get a vacuum sealer, or 2. Get a canner and learn to use it, get a Ball or Kerr book on canning. It’s not that hard and you’d be surprised to know all the things you’re able to can at home. Be sure to get an All American, and a presto pressure canner, and a water bath one . be sure to get extra gaskets for the presto.
Flour, rice, sugar and salt. All can be frozen.
Just canned a bunch of flour, rice, dry beans, potato flakes, etc., all dry goods, by filling large jars and leaving just enough room to add packets that remove oxygen and water. The tops all sucked in just as if they were “canned.”
The contents in these jars should last for years — if they aren’t opened until they are used.
Spent the last 2 days canning chicken,carrots, and potatoes. Here in SW Florida we grow veggies all year long. Canning is easy to learn and all meats can be canned.
I recently tasted a soup I’d never heard of: Artichoke and Carrot Soup! It was creamy and smooth and terrific.
Here in NC last year the National Guard and Army were shutting down secondary roads, setting up at Churches and High Schools and handing out loads of groceries.
Only requirement was you give them your information.
They game me more cabbage and bananas than I knew what to do with. Very fast, very efficient.
But, the implications scared me. They had evidently trained for this for some time efficient as they were.
When the pandemic started and a lot of people were unemployed, MN was one of many states with a law that forbid giving food to the homeless. Not sure how it was found out, but there was outrage when people learned that due to required sell by dates, up to 40% of food in grocery stores was thrown away. Now there’s a law that you can’t throw it away without first trying to find someone who needs it. And there are a ton of programs providing food to schoolchildren; you know the ones, free breakfast and lunch for poor kids, send a backpack of food home with the hungry kids on the weekend, provide summer lunches and they’ve revisited those to provide for kids who are at home instead of in school for class.
I live in a building that’s part market rate, part low income and part secion 8. We now have an official food shelf; literally one shelf of a shelving unit that’s near the management office, designated to put food on to share. People leave random things, often a bunch of what the kid won’t eat – single servings of goldfish, individual applesauce containers, a bunch of apples. But there are also donations from no idea where, of boxes of non-perishables with pasta products, canned vegetables, peanut butter and instant oatmeal, no idea what else because I see the things that got sent back. There are often 2 lb bags of basmati rice, occasional bags of some type of grain from Africa but not familiar and I read the bag but can’t remember, and weekly shipments of gallons of milk. Sometimes there’s bread. Occasionally there are bags of flour tortillas, a bag of carrots or something and one day there was a bunch of gallon zip-loc bags half filled with fried rice. Inexplicably one day there was a big open bag of potatoes. They’re not really on my diet but I was making pot roast and grabbed a few for it-I stopped buying potatoes because I’m supposed to be on a low-carb diet and was happy to grab a few. If I’m broke, which can happen in my pay cycle, I’ll sometimes take a bit of something; last time it was a gallon of milk because I had nothing for my tea and I had nut butter so took bread and dining solved for the week.
Yes I recall the 5 lb. blocks of Government cheese. Store in the fridge a few months to age, and I’d be hard pressed to know of a better tasting American blend cheese.
A lot of foods that used to be processed inside the United States are now processed outside the country.
Thanks to the criminal/treasonous NAFTA/WTO/CAFTA etc etc
“..You will pay much more, but the product will exist...”
Boy, are you ever right on that one!
SoCal, coastal Irvine.
I went shopping on Friday: Costco Tustin II, Le Target next to it and Trader Joe’s by UCI. Last weekend we went shopping at Tokyo Central in Costa Mesa.
Tokyo Central was well stocked… some empty shelves on food stuffs imported from Japan. Rice supply a bit low, but good selection. Prices THROUGH THE ROOF.
Costco. A few things missing: Pepperoni Pizza has been MIA for two months, Frozen chicken thighs gone since last July, mostly they had stuff but the prices have really gone up. A bottle of Jadot’s Puilly Fouisse has gone from $17 to $25 in about five weeks! Adieu… Heavy cream is now over $10 bucks! Salted butter over 10 bucks!!! Spam is at 20 bucks, but it was 22 in April of ’20… but it is still awfully expensive. I was told the price of tequila is going up because farmers are shifting production from agave to corn… so there, load up NOW! Pork… available…. 6 bucks per lb for chops. Chilean seabass, $23/lb, is plentiful and cheaper than prime New York cuts, $25. Ribeye prime at $29/lb. Remember folks, this is Costco!
Oh, more Costco.. I noticed a lot of American Wagyu beef, which at only a couple of bucks more than the prime ( used to be a huge gap, no more ) is actually a better buy now.
Trader Joe’s: well it’s an expensive place, so they were well stocked. I bought frozen hash browns there. They got rid of their Mayo ( no sugar, been buying it for like 40 years ) and now only sell the “organic” 16 oz for 4 bucks. Damn pendejos!
Target…. I was SHOCKED. The food and paper stuff ailes were like 1/5 empty with crazy gaps. No Woolite at all. They had plenty of toilet paper but some sizes were completely out. Huh? Campbell chicken soup in the standard size, completely out. It looked like they had a bunch of stuff but every thing look light in stock… you’d see the first two rows and then empty space behind them… No hash browns… VERY LITTLE ICE CREAM… Lots of empty gaps in the coolers. It was shocking.
I guess some stores are raising the prices and keeping the supply going but others that are trying to stay cheap are getting hit.
A good time to own a bidet and make your own chicken soup.
Oh, sidebar.
Masks required at Le Target and Trader Joe’s. Recommended at Costco. So, I didn’t wear one at Costco. When I asked for help from a young girl from the crew she looked up and jumped away: “Oh, you’re not wearing a mask!“… scary cat. I just laughed it off: “Hey, you really believe that is gonna stop a virus? Come on… where’s the shaving cream anyhow?“.
It was funny to read “A good time to own a bidet and make your own chicken soup” in the same sentence. Took me awhile. LOL. So, right now there seems to be plenty of toilet paper, but I urge everyone to buy a few yards of soft flannel material. You can cut it into squares, whatever size you like, and use that for toilet paper should the time come that all paper products, including baby wipes, disappear. Yes, you have to wash it, just like we used to wash baby diapers. But, it beats not having anything. Just sayin’.
Great idea on the flannel squares, I remember my mom used my old diapers for decades as household rags, use, wash, use again, those things lasted forever.
Oh, no bidet or TP? Use an enema bulb, great portable bidet, as well as assistance for occasional constipation instead of drugs.
I’ve become so efficient I ended trash service over a year ago. Burn, repurpose, compost.. Tin cans get used in the shop or to start seeds in the greenhouse. I try to avoid anything in plastic. Five bucks a day for food is getting tough but still possible.
No complaints. Was raised by Depression era parents. Learned frugality early.
”I’ll pretend your mask works if you pretend I’m wearing one”.
nice
Brilliant! As much of a smart a.. as I am I can’t believe I never thought of that.
Hi Tony, scary cat,
Buy the $5 roasted chicken that Costco uses as a “loss leader”, a few fresh carrots and a stalk of celery (and my secret additive of fresh parsley!), and make your own soup.
It’ll beat the heck out of the canned stuff!
I was thinking similarly, but over rice with whatever veggies the garden has ready. My parsley stash is currently overwintering next to the bedroom window.
Went to our local Morehead City, NC, Food Lion yesterday to check the supply situation. Since so many here at CTH are describing empty shelves in their grocery stores, I was curious about ours.
The Food Lion shelves were fully stocked. Prices higher but stock plentiful.
You live in paradise. My hometown. I wish I could move back.
I shop for my perishables at my local grocery store on the central coast of California; a place surrounded by a variety of ranches and family farms. There has been a significant price increase in meat, but it is at least high quality and bountiful. Produce and dairy prices are slightly up, but nothing as dramatic as meat and processed food.
I buy my household goods and personal care items at a variety of supermarkets and chain drugstores, depending on where needed items are the cheapest. Prices are significantly up across the board. It is at the supermarkets and chain drugstores where I see the supply shortages and empty shelves.
I also spend half of my time in hill country Texas where I have a trailer on 5 acres owned by an adult child. We are in the process of setting up a small sustainable farm, including rain catchment and solar. I would be in Texas full time but my husband and half my grandchildren aren’t ready to abandon our home. To me, home is where the heart is and California has been circling the drain since 2008.
Better get out of Cali, while the getting is good. Go to Nevada, but please don’t come to Texas. You’ve got a lifetime of Cali indoctrination baggage.
The Texas Hill Country! Lucky you!
I love it! I’ve been ranch sitting outside of Medina for a dozen years and now am spending more time in Texas than California. I’d be in Texas full time, but we are all multi-generation Californians.
And nobody needs to worry about me or my family voting in Texas. Try to think of us as Cuban refugees in the 1960s. California was majority right of center until the arrival of college student rejects from other states and the invasion of illegal aliens.
Yes, people forget that California gave them Ronald Reagan. They don’t know “old Californians”. It was the Wild Wild West. It was beautiful and we were free. Every young boy had a rifle and would go hunt small game after school. Kids would play outside until the sun went down. There was no crime where I lived. I was born in SoCal.
California was a frontier for Baby Boomers. Independent thinking paired with self-reliance, this was a great place to live.
Remember, as goes California, so goes the nation. America took a turn for the worse in 2020 just like California did in 2008. Neo-marxists perfected their take over in California before unleashing their tyranny nation wide.
Went to the store yesterday to check out what was going on. The shelves, to my unexperienced eyes, looked full. Will be interested to see how the upcoming months unfold–probably slowly and unevenly.
It would be really helpful if those posting would give a geographic region or community where they are shopping. Otherwise, the post has little meaning…..at least to me.
Boston area
My local grocery remains well stocked with high quality fresh meat, fruits and vegetables. El Rancho Market is a great little store. In the last 10 years or so they’ve opened two other stores in the San Luis Obispo and Pismo Beach. The service there is second to none; something that has been on decline in many places for awhile.
My concern is what happens when cities start to run out of food and other essential items. It must be terrifying to live in a city, knowing if society breaks down criminals will target neighborhoods. Things could quickly devolve into something straight out of Mad Max:
Well, here’s what will happen! They’ll spread out to the suburbs and take what’s there. Then, they’ll keep on spreading out and taking until a bunch of people get killed!
You can also expect a massive increase in rustling! The waterfowl in city parks will disappear, and poaching will become common, also with people getting killed.
It is so weird how the stores seem to play the game of hide the bare shelves. It has to be corporate, too – as the “advertising” that now sits on shelves in the local Rite Aide don’t appear to be homemade…on another note,
I made my husband go shopping with me yesterday – pet food, breakfast cereal, frozen section – all with huge gaps on the shelves. Now he understands why I have a year of canned food for our pets stockpiled in the garage 🙂
I went to Pet Smart yesterday and the whole time I was there a gentleman was lining up all the products across the front of the shelves to make it look like there was a lot more than actual situation.
I’m seeing the articles pop up on Yahoo news. I don’t watch TV at all. It’s being couched as being caused by staffing and Covid issues implying it’s just a short term thing that will resolve soon. My usual places got all stocked again with some missing items. “Adapt 2030” which looks to severe food supply issues in the coming years due to solar patterns (he’s interesting but a little fringy) managed to include what looks like screenshots of Sundance’s list here in a video released a couple days ago:
I wish he had credited the CTH. it’s all about preparedness. He’s extreme in my opinion, but certain things he’s been talking about are actually happening. Those are 1) late winter, early spring cold spells which affect agriculture by damaging buds & newly pollinated flowers and 2) early winter conditions which impact getting the harvest out of the fields. The result is a compression of the growing season which reduces food supply.
if northern hemisphere planting is delayed and/or Southern Hemisphere harvest is impacted this year then there will be only more pressure on the food supply.
The Solar Minimum will take the wind out of the sails of the Global Warming alarmists…
You got that right.
Nah. They’ll just call it a pause, no mater how long it goes.
You should respond on the video citing the CTH. Whoever he is, he shouldn’t be ripping off the written work of Sundance!
Lots of “fringe” people have been all over this topic for quite some time now. I was pleased that Sundance addressed it. It is finally getting to the point that it can’t be ignored by the general public. Just sayin’.
I was in Austin yesterday to have lunch with a friend that teaches in Bastrop. She told me at times she doesn’t get enough to eat for her students. She recalled when she was only given four cartons of milk for her class so no milk for the kids. She also told me they are so short staffed on bus drivers they have asked teachers if they would drive the busses. Both morning and afternoon routes would be accommodated in accordance with the class schedules. Austin is in full blown hysterical mass covid psychosis with masks and fear everywhere. I am surprised I wasn’t thown out of the restaurant we ate at because I walked in and left without a mask.
The restaurant probably needs the money. I live part time in Dripping Springs. Very few people wear masks there. In Austin, most places require masks but the employees don’t seem to enforce the rule much. It seems like other customers are the only ones who complain. Of course that is just my limited experience. I see a Dermatologist and a Podiatrist in Bee Cave. The Medical Buildings have “Mask Required” signs on their front doors but the actual medical staff and doctors laugh and say “Heavens no!” when I ask if I had to wear a mask.
As for the my experience with stores in the Austin area, most are still well stocked but certain selections are missing from HEB and Walmart. I also shop at a Randalls in Lakeaway and one in Austin. My favorite Keurig drink, Chai Lattes, has been MIA for about 6 months. I’ve also seen Vitamin Water become scarce. Everything else seems to be available, but with less selection that I am accustomed. Also some decline in quality, but not terrible. Yet.
Oh, and my thyroid replacement has been in shorter supply, sometimes getting only a one week supply, while CVS “waits for another delivery’.
I am also amazed at how busy it is at CVS. Pharmaceuticals are the new tobacco.
I’ve had the same problem with finding Chai latte k-cups. The only place I have found it is at Target. There is a limit online.
Many of my prescription meds are being doled out in partial portions. Scares me bigly!
First, the Austin city government monkeyed with the minimum and maximum spreads for the stages they created and then, amazingly, they moved us to “Stage 5” which I think is best defined as unreasoning full on vax/mask/panic mode.
I quote their idiocy below:
I’m surprised, too! I believe guns were drawn over that last year.
On the other hand, Austin is normally psychotic!
“there isn’t enough fresh food in the U.S.”
If so how did it get processed?
additionally processed foods are killers!
Processed foods have a longer shelf life giving supply time to build. This lends to stable and available foods.
When fresh food supply dwindles we have a lag in seeing less on the shelves; processed or fresh.
When empty shelves are evident the supply problem is already bigger than people realize.
Add in out of country truck supply issues and it gets ugly, fast. Yesterday was the 15th, how long before we see images of backed up semi trailers at the Canadian border like cargo ships anchored at sea?
Notice the other part of the drive by media propaganda? Notice the people in the clip who are “suffering” with the empty shelves? Yup, black people. Its a rayciss thing y’all.
At least Aldi’s is straight up blaming shipping delays (acc’dg. to vid).
In N. FL., I just went there w/ a 12 item list. They were out of 4 things.
Kinda unusual for this Aldi’s. Sometimes they’re out of 1 thing, but I’ve never had 1/3 of my list unavailable. And a couple of the things (Jasmine rice and baguette), they’ve been out of the last 2 x I went there.
It’s Ok, I’ll live. They had the most nutritious items on my list, so there’s that.
While the part the mandates play is an atrocious omission and media malpractice in its most predictable way (sooner or later they will have to notice and report on it), it won’t matter why the shelves are empty.
That they are empty is going to affect them as well. Perhaps it has never occurred to them that they would be affected at all.
It will be the lesson of their lifetimes.
Here in NC we have Lowes Foods and they promote Carolina products and they have a bakery. I was there this afternoon and their shelves were not bad, even frozen potatoes were fairly well stocked. The one thing they did not have was Coke Zero, this is my coffee, they were well stocked on Coke and Diet Coke. Went to Food Lion and same no Coke Zero, if this continues I may have withdrawal symptoms.
And to think I just have a 12-pack sitting on my shelf. Someone brought it over and we don’t drink it.
Same here coke zero is my coffee and we have plenty of 2l bottles Coke Zero, which I use daily, and 24 pack cans but 12 pack cans were empty at Walmart and the major grocery stores like Publix. Don’t live close to any Sam’s Club, Costco nor Target so don’t know status there. Am a member of Walmart + so can order it and have it delivered and they say if it is delayed due to being out of stock or will be delivered in multiple shipments.
The price of Pepsi has skyrocketed in the grocery stores in northern Minnesota.
In NE NC, Pepsi products 2 liters are on sale 2 for 2.50 at Dollar General. Over 5.00 a 12 pack cans tho.
Yeah I’m a Coke Zero fan too. Getting harder to find.
Wheeling, WV area. It’s not horrible. You can definitely tell that some stock is low, though. Not only in Walmart grocery section, but in places like the Target kitchen area. In St. Clairsville, OH at Riesbeck’s, the employee that was stocking part of their refrigerated section (cheeses, eggs, butter, etc) said that they cut 40% of his stock coming in. He mentioned they also cut incoming stock for the freezer section. It was more than 40%, but I forget if he said 50 0r 60. Guess it’s just taking a bit longer for it to hit in our area.
Definitely the one thing we’ve seen that’s mostly out of stock is canned cat food. That’s hard to find. We don’t have cats, but I’ve been checking out of curiosity. Canned dog food seems to be going the same route.
Hampton Roads VA has been mega scarce on canned cat food for at least a year. Our senior kitties need it, and I have had to resort to Bezos’ company. Major price gouging there! Tractor Supply is a good resource on dry pet food and supplies.
The enemedia will spin this ruthlessly on the un”vaccinated” the first chance they can.
Should truckers be faced with “vaccine” mandates, that will be the narrative.
Everything would be fine if the selfish (fill in the blank) would get their “vaccines”.
Hospitals are overrun because (fill in the field) are not getting “vaccinated”.
The blame game will be come on full strength to demonize the average joes choosing to make their own medical decisions.
I think it’ funny. The a-holes think they can force the clot shot but will not have food or medical care instead. I like the thought of them finding empty shelves and waiting months for surgery.
Panic buying and hoarding are a necessary part of the manufactured crisis. Any dysrythmia will do. Cloward-Piven marches forth as planned.
The communist I tangled with in school had a blurb on the back of his book by “political scientist”–that is, socialist operative–Frances Fox Piven. Didn’t know who she was at the time but do now.
Time to reread THE LAST CENTURION by John Ringo, again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Centurion
I have Wegman’s, Harris Teeter, Giant, Safeway, Food lion and an Organic market all within a half hour drive. I shop primarily at Wegman’s, Harris Teeter and the Organic Market. So far the only empty shelves I’ve observed is frozen potato products at Harris Teeter – that was on Friday. Hubby told me Giant had bare shelves last week but they seem to have recovered.
I swear as I was reading this article I began to think a silver lining is my family will eat less processed foods and then…
“Some well intentioned people will claim the shortage of processed and manufactured food is a good thing, and people should eat more fresh foods and be healthier.’
Doh!!! There goes that bubble.🤣🤣🤣
Cental valley, ca.
Winco, costco well stocked. Both busier than normal, packed even. No problem getting everything we needed. Mask naught-z’s at the entry to costco. No enforcement inside.
A “Stupid” Tax should be applied to media to pay for the COVID Fear Porn induced social expenditures. Here is an article that can serve as a test case:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/utahs-largest-newspaper-calls-unvaxxed-endure-draconian-lockdowns-enforced-national-guard
I think public input via internet polling services can be used to determine a fair amount to be paid by the media company as a stupid tax.
Ah, and they lay responsibility on….the “pandemic.” Didn’t hear biden and democrat policies mentioned once. How many are fooled?
Just looked at the Tyson Foods job openings.
The company has 1209 positions posted.
511 are in hourly productions operations.
206 are in hourly maintenance operations.
Appears that they run on 12-hour shifts. (Not going to be able to draw in many retirement age workers that way.)
MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED.
Good luck with staffing up.
I would take an industrial maintenance job at a reduced rate because at almost seventy I’m not as fast as I once was.
However NFW am I wearing a mask (for virus) let alone the death shot so I guess I’ll keep surfing the interweb.
That is how I feel too.
Tyson, the Walmart of poultry. 😀
I remember we used to laugh derisively at their ‘super chickens’, those things looked like turkeys. Being a vendor wasn’t any more pleasant than being an employee.
Maybe red states need to stop shipping to blue states?
For what reason?
To hurt your fellow American?
It’s dangerous to condemn an entire State due to corrupt politicians.
You know those in power aren’t there legally, they were installed.
That line of thinking is exactly what the ‘Cabal’ want (division).
It’s Americans against the Global Cabal.
Rural SE Kansas. Just in the last several days there are now noticeable stock issues at our small local grocery store. Only 4 cans of cream of onion soup but stacked side by side, 2 cans each row to make the shelf look fuller. Hummm. Plastic plates are gone. Only styrofoam available. Still plenty of meat, eggs, potatoes (both fresh and frozen). I didn’t notice any other areas that were short…..yet.
Food grade citric acid has been under stress for years. It is an intergral ingredient in an unimaginable number of products. I bought a pail of it several years ago to maintain my water softener and recall the difficulty in obtaining it.
Naples, Florida… shelves are stocked. Some items are light (cream cheese). From what I’m hearing it’s the packaging deli container, lids, plastic anything is in short supply now. I shop mostly at Grocers, so fresh items are readily available. Oakes Farms have their own farms, bakery processing, condiment processing,etc. so they are in a great position. Even with the giant influx of people, we are good at this point. Prices are increasing. A container of fresh fruit was 9.99 last week, this week 12.99. Still prepping…
What I see way out on the “left” coast in Eugene OR is not so many shortages- yet; but prices are going bonkers for everything. Worst culprits are:novelty ice cream (Albertsons), fish & beef (Costco).
No shortage in masks.
So reminiscent of the Soviet food shortages. Veggies left to rot in the fields due to supply chain problems.
Imagine, LA says no trucks older than 5 years old may enter the port. If you apply that to the airlines landing at LAX, it would be a ghost town.