Any other items seeming to be in short supply?
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Eggs and chicken are my staples, I've seen a couple times where one or the other were out but nothing ongoing.
I was mentioning in daily chat the other day I saw/bought some eggs on clearance, something I have never seen before. I've also been finding some really nice pieces of beef on clearance, much better that pre-inflation where it was mostly cheaper cuts.
Speaking with a butcher, the cattle ranches are slaughtering early because the grain supply is failing for feed, and because of lower fertilizer supply, the plantings for new feed are smaller and more costly.
Locally they don't seem to be reporting FDA pressure but have definitely felt screwed by large processors. They see the supermarket prices climb, but are not getting better prices themselves, despite higher costs.
That is probably the stuff that was sitting in the ships off the coast of CA for over a year. So much stuff they need to get rid of.
Meat and eggs? If they were sitting off shore they spoiled and were destroyed. I'm on the east coast, so it's likely travelled but not through a port.
They all have a finite shelf life, when marked down to clearance they have 1-3 days until the sell by date.