Sorry if this has been asked before, but curious if anyone else thinks the same. Does it appear to anyone else like the shortages in stores is being rotated from one thing to another? It looks like where I live that one week it is this then a week or two it switches to something else while the previous is no shortage again.Like the shortages are being manipulated. Sorry typo on title frens
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I've noticed the same thing in my area, spotty shortages but rotating through various products. Affects dairy, produce and meat mostly, so maybe an issue with fresh goods. Like you said, comes in waves, then clears up. Could be orchestrated by white hats to maintain as much stability in the chain as possible.
....yes so they can price gouge the shit they do have in stock.....8 dollars a pound for bacon is a fucking travesty
Previous discussions here talked about there not being enough truck drivers to move the product so they have to prioritize. Some stores will have more time between shipments as a whole which is a possible explanation for the empty shelves rotating.
I've thought the same thing, fren. In fact, I think I posted about this very issue not that long ago.
I've noticed that you can get everything you need, just not in the same shopping trip. For over three weeks Aldi's was completely out of pasta of any kind or shape. Now, it's back. I thought at the time how hard is it to make pasta? It's what -- flour, egg and water -- and there's no shortage of any of these ingredients.
Once the pasta was back, then other things disappeared briefly, only to make a come-back in a week or two.
I've heard people say that the problem is sometimes the packaging. For awhile here there was a bottle shortage. You could only buy beer in cans -- not bottles. Weird -- especially given that glass is recyclable.
So, our solution is to stock up on what we need when we see it.
Strange thing is, it's only food that we're seeing this with. We've been to Home Depot and they seem to be fully-stocked. Been to a couple of other types of stores and they've seemed stocked, too.
I have a pasta machine, it's really easy
Except for finding wet cat food consistently, my small local grocery store is well stocked. Just bought hamburger for $3.49 lb, $5.99 lb of bacon. I think if you can find somewhere local rather than a big chain they have shorter shipping routes. The chain store by me is outrageous on meat. $4.99 lb for hamburger.
I haven't paid that much attention to that type of thing but I will.
Local grocery chain told me their warehouse is generally full of inventory, but moving the products to the individual stores is the biggest problem. Also explained they put inventory on the shelves as the trucks arrive - so basically, you can buy what comes in on the delivery trucks as they arrive.
Yes, in late summer the candy aisle was always bare. Now it's full. Since late fall, the selection of shoes is almost non existent.