The article is absolutely correct when it says food prices have gone up. When was the last time you went shopping? Check out the price of coffee. My local high dollar grocery store was trying to get almost 20 bucks for a 30 oz can of coffe. As you can imagine they are still on the shelf. I have dipped into my stash to make up for it. I opened a can I bought in 2017, been in the freezer all this time. Still tastes good.
Went to dollar general and 20 oz cans were 10 bucks. Still no bueno.
As for food shortages, locally I'm not seeing any. Canned goods, frozen goods, fresh produce all appear to be in relatively good supply. At least where I shop. I do not go to the larger stores. I go to dollar general here in my little burg, and occasionally to the high dollar grocery.
I have noticed at dollar general the cooler section where milk and frozen goods are that several of those shelves are empty, and have been for some time. But the rest of the store shelves are fully stocked. At least that is how it appears to me.
The high dollar grocery will surprise me and have regular prices on stuff. Couple weeks ago I walked in and they had a shelf of 28 fl oz gatorade for 88 cents each. So I stocked up.
Went in a couple days later to get more and it was 1.25 each. So I got 8 of them. Next day I go in to take advantage and they were 2 for 3 bucks. Which is still less than dollar general at that time they wanted 1.70 for 28 fl oz.
Anyway. Are you guys seeing any shortages??
Looks like Kamala's "population reduction" comment might be behind the current "Where's the beef" phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteNot yet, but it might be a good idea to stock up a little so that when holodomor v2.0 starts we have an extra couple of weeks to think of things to do...water might have priority though, just sayin...
ReplyDeletethe most common grocery item group I see shortages of is dairy. Lots of meat, although high. Canned goods are back in abundance, although has had some empty shelves in the past.
ReplyDeleteIt's strange to see the dairy shelves low. There's such a glut of milk right now that the dairy farmers are dumping it to keep the prices up! I'm seeing expensive meat as well. Even chicken. Boneless chicken breasts used to cost $1.99/lb. Now they're $3.99/lb. Same goes for most beef. I used to buy meat when I needed it. Now I only buy meat when it's on sale. And when it's on sale, I stock up!
DeleteI've seen this guy's stuff on another blog called "End Of The American Dream." Last week he was going on about the beginning of the Apocalypse being heralded by "triple-digit temperatures in Arizona and parts of California." Is the Apocalypse coming? Surely, at some point. But flagging triple-digit temps in Arizona and parts of California as a sign only tells me that hasn't been to either place during the summer!!!
ReplyDelete...That being said, many U.S. farmers have been having a hard go of it. Some are getting drought, some are getting floods. Russia backed out of its deal to let Ukraine move its grain to market as well. You can count on those things driving prices yet higher down the line.
National and world events being what they are, one would be a fool not to be padding the larder these days if at all possible!
Yep, it's 105 in the shade at 4 pm here in central cally. Been that way for every decade I've lived here.
DeleteBeen through there many times, Fred. I heard they tried to grow corn there once but it ended up popping before it could be harvested!!!
DeleteSnyder is our modern day chicken little; take him with a grain of salt.
ReplyDeleteHe's been predicting imminent collapse for years.
He is an e'ffin idiot, fear monger. That is all. BobT
DeleteA broken non-digital clock is correct twice a day.
ReplyDeleteSnyder is a little out there, but he has been accurate but generally too early several times in the past few years I've read him.
So, what would you prefer? Being too early awaiting that bridge to be gone from the flood or just on time as you go into the raging river?
Personally, I keep receipts for years. Annoys my wife a bit.
Last year this time a 15.5 ounce can of store brand chicken soup (good stuff I think Chunky relabeled) was 1.00 Plenty on shelf, Store stopped carrying it briefly. Last January same can 1.19 and about 1/3 the supply on hand, YESTERDAY same can 2.29 and a small assortment of them among the 3 dollar cans of Canned SOUP.
You tell me if having a very DEEP Larder isn't a bad idea?
I just opened a can of coffee I bought last September, when it was cheaper. Still tastes fine. I date the cans with a maarker so I can be sure the oldest stuff gets used first; FIFO; "First In, First Out." If the stuff will keep, buy a lot of it now for use down the line. Rice, beans, coffee, pasta, and the like have a helluva shelf life! Pay for tomorrow with today's dollars!!!
DeleteDepending on the day you go, there are ALWAYS shortages of something. A couple of days later, plenty of supply. Seems they NEVER plan for enough quantity when they put an item on sale. NOTHING like the shortages of 2020 or 2021. Not that something worse isn't coming, but shortages today could be as much about useless store employees and poor stocking as supply chains.
ReplyDeletePrior to Covid it was exceedingly rare to see any of the major food stores show empty shelves. Since then it's a fairly common sighting. The items in short supply vary but bare shelves are now not uncommon. The commie left in power has LONG looked to Mao and Stalin for inspiration on how to do things...and starving millions of people was one the tools both those evil bastards loved to do. So expect our criminal crop to do the same thing in some fashion or other.
ReplyDeletebacon, and sometimes sausage and hotdogs. of course the price has doubled.
ReplyDeleteWe buy bacon at Winco's deli, as opposed to the vac-sealed stuff. We were getting it for $5.99 per flat, so we went deep on it. Alas, we started running low, so we had to buy more. This past week that SAME FLAT cost over $10.00!!! OH, but THINGS are getting BETTER... Maybe in Traitor Joe's mind...
DeleteWe went to the SafeWal'bertson's on Saturday. Very little chicken in two stores. Whole sections like peanut butter patched together with off labels and off sizes and mostly holes. Lots and lots of off brands, lots and lots of sugary bakery crap on tables everywhere (must be no shortage of food dyes, processed flour and processed sugar). Vitamin sections shrinking and wiped out. Prepack deli sets patchworked with oddball items and many facings of what they could get delivered. Canned sets and frozen sets bombed out. Yeah, I'd say things are getting worse. We can and do shop in a red state and a blue state-its about the same drive. Invariably the stock levels are better at the stores in the blue state. But we hate spending money in a blue state, so we generally shop in the red state.
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