Im seeing the inflation effect, but not any shortages.
Im in south-central TX, and my guess is that most of our processed food is being shipped out of Mexico. I am certain that our fresh produce is coming out of 'the valley' ... the fertile and produce friendly area just north of the Rio Grand.
Cereal is out of control and if the boxes get any smaller, you'll be able to carry a family size box in your hip pocket. I said if potato chips get any smaller, they'll just sell us an empty bag.
I'm not interested. I've been eating cereal for 70 years. So far it hasn't killed me. BTW, if you're eating modern, not ancient grains, you're killing yourself.
A, Same... bottled water and cat canned food was gone for two weeks, but returned. Edit: This sounds weird saying it that way, I am not a cat lady.... Haha!
I was in line at the grocery years ago with two bottles of wine and several cans of catfood. The clerk, deadpan, said, "I always have red wine with my catfood too." LOL
Same here. I had cats for years and when the last elderly one died, I said no more cats. Then this scrawny feral cat showed up, walked in and announced this was her house.
One thing I have noticed is that doing the usual shopping on weekend thing that's when shelves get emptier. But shop during the week and shelves are fully stocked. Is it a staffing thing or just putting the illusion of shortages out there when the most people are in the stores? It's all fake as hell.
I'm in ND as well our grocery store here is fully stocked but they've always been overpriced, this year they got even worse. We do shop at Walmart when we go out of town to visit family, except for meat we watch for sales at the grocery store here. I hate shopping at Walmart, but not a lot of other options sadly.
Thankfully we were smart and bought a deepfreeze in 2020 and have it and the pantry fully stocked.
Yeah, it must depend on which grocery store you go to then. Sometimes one store seems to be stocked up more than the other. I think they are trying to balance it all out enough so people don't become aware of what's going on.
Good to be stocked up especially on beef. As for Walmart, I don't shop there anymore except for one time last year. I purchased a few items that I needed but well I was there I've noticed how they spread-ed everything out to avoid shortages.
I think you're probably right, my daughter and I did some stocking up in mid December and I didn't notice any shortages at the one we went to, but I was mostly buying cheese and some keto things that I wanted.
Last week I went to buy catlitter and there was plenty so idk, I buy my catfood here in town. I don't r think we would go out of town so much but my mom is older and we want to spend as much time as we can with my family as possible.
I'm not saying there aren't shortages, it's just we haven't quite felt it yet here.
Hubby and I were just talking about that. Take eggs. A truckie drives into the loading area, opens the back door on his rig. Stands aside while the guy from the egg farm loads pallets of eggs. The processing line is mainly automated these days - maybe not. The eggs are collected - not sure if this automated, but I would imagine it is. They are washed, dried, placed in labeled cartons and palletted. Surely you wouldn’t close a whole factory down over say 5 people. Maybe I’m being too simplistic?? Something is not adding up. It’s definitely planned.
Just got back from local Walmart. Virtually no meat except plenty of pork. Chicken section empty except one pack of gizzards. Beef section empty except for some three-packs of really expensive steaks. The cases where they usually display beef and chicken on sale had nothing but brat-type sausages around all four sides, which I have never seen. Virtually nothing in the fish, fresh or frozen, except plenty of shrimp.
It looked like at least some catfood had been restocked but was mostly empty. A handful of bags of frozen potatoes, mostly empty shelves. Fresh vegetables looked well stocked.
Plenty of cheese, I didn't check the milk or eggs. Bread aisle, which was virtually empty the past two visits, had been restocked. Snack cakes (Twinkies, etc.) empty.
Some bottled water but not much. That's normal here when we are expecting or have had snow. With the really cold temperatures (below zero here night before last) people are probably buying water to get by until overworked plumbers get their frozen pipes fixed.
C, for the last couple weeks the shelves have become more empty. I tried going different days and times, it didn't matter. It seems totally random as far as what is in stock and what out. For instance last week all of the pre-made biscuits were out, children's yogurt (all flavors, styles, brands), among many other odd things to be completely gone.
I had a thought after I heard someone's theory that maybe they are having to re-recipe the food because it is/was full of poison and they are removing that? Who knows but it seems random. I can order boxes of a certain type of multi-grain crackers online but can't get them in the store, the whole shelf for that is empty, weird.
C. Western NC. The biggest shortage I've seen is with meat. Barely any on the shelves and astronomically high prices. Then dried goods such as ramen noodles are cleaned out. Some supermarkets barely have toilet paper.
Desmoines is fine in the outer burbs on food stores but you can see blank spots here and there. Menards is out of some tiles and power grab isle was bare. Inflation is here tho
It's all about supply and depend really. For awhile my Dad had a hard time finding a toilet until he was able to find a specific model at Menards. See Lowes was out of the good models.
Went shopping this morning. Everything was pretty well stocked. Dairy was on the low side. Chicken was almost gone. This was at 8am. Fresh produce was well stocked. There is still everuthing available for emergency food supplies. All on sale too. Was able to get another week or two of reserves. Overall still ok here. With all the trucks heading to ottawa, that may change quickly.
Gilbert, AZ here. Local Kroger (Frys) is very picked over in the veggie section today. Trying to force us to buy packaged crap? Plenty of unhealthy snacks available.
B -- Rural SW Missouri, but that's been the case for a year or so. It's only noticeably worse in cat food and soda crackers (none at all in two local grocery stores).
Here in Australia our main food stores have shortage on ALL MEAT, some fresh food like fruit and veg, but it’s funny you mention cat food. Same here. Around a month ago when her fav. started to wane on the shelves, I jumped online and bought up from a bulk supplier. I’m not sure how the processing works, but does that mean they are not killing chicken and livestock? As far as I know, it only takes 1 Truckie to drive so it must be at the processing end.
Prices are up. We’re not buying what we used to and we have money.
Correction. The Alaska red king crab season was canceled. This explains the lack of supply and high prices.
We like king crab, but the price has went into the stratosphere at $70 per pound if bought by the pound. I could not find a 10 lb box at Costco the last time I went there. 10 lb box is usually the way to go for price per lb and quality (hasn’t been picked through).
I’ve been using Instacart since moving to tn and the app shows me what’s running low in all the stores within a 30 minute radius. It’s a widespread shortage on everything from chips to chicken, juice meat etc. we eat very healthy and the options left are things that I wouldn’t feed my children. It’s getting to be more and more week after week. East tn.
I've seen similar here in NC but it appears to vary with different grocery stores. Harris Teeters near me are pretty well stocked but Food Lion has plenty of empty spots (mostly dairy, random packaged goods, cat food, paper products low). The stores are only a few miles apart so it makes me wonder if the difference is the distribution centers / trucks.
B. Some strange items like Mexican rice only comes in ever so often. Sam's Club is out of chicken now all the the time. Food costs a lot of money now. Middle of Kansas.
B I'm in a town of 50 thousand. Not too bad, still get what I need. Cat food is sparce. Meat prices are off the charts. 6.99 for bacon. Crazy !
Peanut butter went up by a dollar. Gas is 3.49 Gal.
I shop Market Basket in Ma.
A same
Im seeing the inflation effect, but not any shortages.
Im in south-central TX, and my guess is that most of our processed food is being shipped out of Mexico. I am certain that our fresh produce is coming out of 'the valley' ... the fertile and produce friendly area just north of the Rio Grand.
lol they are $7.50 here in Canada they used to be 4. You can get it on sale for $3.77 though.
That's really cheap compared to where I live
Cereal is out of control and if the boxes get any smaller, you'll be able to carry a family size box in your hip pocket. I said if potato chips get any smaller, they'll just sell us an empty bag.
I don't like granola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iG6Hrh4v08
I'm not interested. I've been eating cereal for 70 years. So far it hasn't killed me. BTW, if you're eating modern, not ancient grains, you're killing yourself.
I don't know anyone with a perfect diet. It's life and the older I get the more I loosen the rules of my food choices.
A, Same... bottled water and cat canned food was gone for two weeks, but returned. Edit: This sounds weird saying it that way, I am not a cat lady.... Haha!
I was in line at the grocery years ago with two bottles of wine and several cans of catfood. The clerk, deadpan, said, "I always have red wine with my catfood too." LOL
Same here. I had cats for years and when the last elderly one died, I said no more cats. Then this scrawny feral cat showed up, walked in and announced this was her house.
Similar here. Random items out of stock for a week or two. We haven't been able to make any connection between them... Weirdly random.
Turkey hill iced tea randomly out of stock yet store is @ 20 miles from the bottling plant and Turkey Hill minimarts have all flavors
A. Same as always. I've been in at least 4 different grocery chains plus a local meat market and all is fine.
One thing I have noticed is that doing the usual shopping on weekend thing that's when shelves get emptier. But shop during the week and shelves are fully stocked. Is it a staffing thing or just putting the illusion of shortages out there when the most people are in the stores? It's all fake as hell.
Ohio
Living in North Dakota... For grocery stores I'd have to say B and for Dollar Tree across the state it is C
Just shows you where everything in the dollar tree comes from lol
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I'm in ND as well our grocery store here is fully stocked but they've always been overpriced, this year they got even worse. We do shop at Walmart when we go out of town to visit family, except for meat we watch for sales at the grocery store here. I hate shopping at Walmart, but not a lot of other options sadly.
Thankfully we were smart and bought a deepfreeze in 2020 and have it and the pantry fully stocked.
Yeah, it must depend on which grocery store you go to then. Sometimes one store seems to be stocked up more than the other. I think they are trying to balance it all out enough so people don't become aware of what's going on.
Good to be stocked up especially on beef. As for Walmart, I don't shop there anymore except for one time last year. I purchased a few items that I needed but well I was there I've noticed how they spread-ed everything out to avoid shortages.
I think you're probably right, my daughter and I did some stocking up in mid December and I didn't notice any shortages at the one we went to, but I was mostly buying cheese and some keto things that I wanted.
Last week I went to buy catlitter and there was plenty so idk, I buy my catfood here in town. I don't r think we would go out of town so much but my mom is older and we want to spend as much time as we can with my family as possible.
I'm not saying there aren't shortages, it's just we haven't quite felt it yet here.
Agreed... Better to stock up now then having to deal with it later.
B: Rural NZ centre here: shelves sans toilet paper and catfood. Weird, but plenty eggs, meat and chicken.
Same as always. But it's coming. The shortages are unnecessary, fake, contrived and stupid, but somehow it fits in the plans of the evil bastards.
Hubby and I were just talking about that. Take eggs. A truckie drives into the loading area, opens the back door on his rig. Stands aside while the guy from the egg farm loads pallets of eggs. The processing line is mainly automated these days - maybe not. The eggs are collected - not sure if this automated, but I would imagine it is. They are washed, dried, placed in labeled cartons and palletted. Surely you wouldn’t close a whole factory down over say 5 people. Maybe I’m being too simplistic?? Something is not adding up. It’s definitely planned.
Colorado here 🙋🏼♀️. I said B as well. Random things will be out of stock but the inflated prices are what I notice more than anything.
A. Philadelphia area
B: It’s weird things like Gatorade that’ll be gone for a couple of weeks then show up
I also shop at a wholesale store for restaurants and it’s the same. Certain things will be out for a week or so then show up again
Just got back from local Walmart. Virtually no meat except plenty of pork. Chicken section empty except one pack of gizzards. Beef section empty except for some three-packs of really expensive steaks. The cases where they usually display beef and chicken on sale had nothing but brat-type sausages around all four sides, which I have never seen. Virtually nothing in the fish, fresh or frozen, except plenty of shrimp.
It looked like at least some catfood had been restocked but was mostly empty. A handful of bags of frozen potatoes, mostly empty shelves. Fresh vegetables looked well stocked.
Plenty of cheese, I didn't check the milk or eggs. Bread aisle, which was virtually empty the past two visits, had been restocked. Snack cakes (Twinkies, etc.) empty.
Some bottled water but not much. That's normal here when we are expecting or have had snow. With the really cold temperatures (below zero here night before last) people are probably buying water to get by until overworked plumbers get their frozen pipes fixed.
Location?
Virginia
Haven't been able to get my regular cat food for a while. My kitties aren't eating much and their lack of energy shows.
A. Florida. No bat shit crazy rules here.
C, for the last couple weeks the shelves have become more empty. I tried going different days and times, it didn't matter. It seems totally random as far as what is in stock and what out. For instance last week all of the pre-made biscuits were out, children's yogurt (all flavors, styles, brands), among many other odd things to be completely gone.
I had a thought after I heard someone's theory that maybe they are having to re-recipe the food because it is/was full of poison and they are removing that? Who knows but it seems random. I can order boxes of a certain type of multi-grain crackers online but can't get them in the store, the whole shelf for that is empty, weird.
C. Western NC. The biggest shortage I've seen is with meat. Barely any on the shelves and astronomically high prices. Then dried goods such as ramen noodles are cleaned out. Some supermarkets barely have toilet paper.
Desmoines is fine in the outer burbs on food stores but you can see blank spots here and there. Menards is out of some tiles and power grab isle was bare. Inflation is here tho
It's all about supply and depend really. For awhile my Dad had a hard time finding a toilet until he was able to find a specific model at Menards. See Lowes was out of the good models.
Went shopping this morning. Everything was pretty well stocked. Dairy was on the low side. Chicken was almost gone. This was at 8am. Fresh produce was well stocked. There is still everuthing available for emergency food supplies. All on sale too. Was able to get another week or two of reserves. Overall still ok here. With all the trucks heading to ottawa, that may change quickly.
B.
You can tell now which products come from out of country...those are low or gone.
The local Walmart is removing rows and widening existing isles to hide the missing product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59DcWJbsLYo
In spanish but you'll see the point.
Gilbert, AZ here. Local Kroger (Frys) is very picked over in the veggie section today. Trying to force us to buy packaged crap? Plenty of unhealthy snacks available.
B -- Rural SW Missouri, but that's been the case for a year or so. It's only noticeably worse in cat food and soda crackers (none at all in two local grocery stores).
I wonder what's up with the cat food!
Out here in melbourne, meat shelves are pretty much empty (as of last week). More expensive cuts still around, cheaper ones not so much.
Here in Australia our main food stores have shortage on ALL MEAT, some fresh food like fruit and veg, but it’s funny you mention cat food. Same here. Around a month ago when her fav. started to wane on the shelves, I jumped online and bought up from a bulk supplier. I’m not sure how the processing works, but does that mean they are not killing chicken and livestock? As far as I know, it only takes 1 Truckie to drive so it must be at the processing end.
B in Houston.
Prices are up. We’re not buying what we used to and we have money.
Correction. The Alaska red king crab season was canceled. This explains the lack of supply and high prices.
We like king crab, but the price has went into the stratosphere at $70 per pound if bought by the pound. I could not find a 10 lb box at Costco the last time I went there. 10 lb box is usually the way to go for price per lb and quality (hasn’t been picked through).
I’ve been using Instacart since moving to tn and the app shows me what’s running low in all the stores within a 30 minute radius. It’s a widespread shortage on everything from chips to chicken, juice meat etc. we eat very healthy and the options left are things that I wouldn’t feed my children. It’s getting to be more and more week after week. East tn.
I've seen similar here in NC but it appears to vary with different grocery stores. Harris Teeters near me are pretty well stocked but Food Lion has plenty of empty spots (mostly dairy, random packaged goods, cat food, paper products low). The stores are only a few miles apart so it makes me wonder if the difference is the distribution centers / trucks.
B. Low on pasta and rice. Toilet paper and dairy also low.
Central Texas
South of Llano here. Howdy neighbor.
Canned cat food has been low at both Walmart and the local grocery for a few months now. I keep stocking up but the little beast keeps eating it.
Milk sometimes out or nearly out, especially at the local store.
Bought 15 gallons of gas for my car and that was $60.00. A year ago it would have been half that.
B. Some strange items like Mexican rice only comes in ever so often. Sam's Club is out of chicken now all the the time. Food costs a lot of money now. Middle of Kansas.
B
B, things missing here and there. The price of meat has gone up and come back down.
Washington State. It is a military town but also a democrat shithole, a marxist/leftist epicenter.
A
A. I live in KCMO (pretty much heartland) and I’ve yet to see much of anything out of stock. I’ve been able to get everything I need each trip.
I go to a non-mainstream grocery store. We're definitely in camp B. I can't speak to the "normals" (e.g. Safeway)
Edit: I'm West of Denver
B I'm in a town of 50 thousand. Not too bad, still get what I need. Cat food is sparce. Meat prices are off the charts. 6.99 for bacon. Crazy ! Peanut butter went up by a dollar. Gas is 3.49 Gal. I shop Market Basket in Ma.
B, the wife shops and comes home and says "I couldn't get X,Y,Z"...I keep telling her it will only get worse!