Supply shortages on everything!

originally posted by: Lemon1234
a reply to: callyrox69

Hopefully seeds will still be available in a few weeks at a decent price. If people from each county,town,city and state grow their own food and provide at a decent price we can get through this.

At least a third of the states won't see soil for a few more months. Planting season doesn't start until April, here, generally.

A bit late for that now, if the shelves go bare the northern cities will collapse long before the rural crops can be planted.

Im in Southeast Alaska and store shelves are definitely a lot lighter than usual.

I work in the transportation industry and it is true customers are not getting their goods even though they are sitting in a can at the shipping company just down the road….

we have also been getting hit with a ton of snow, then rain, then ice, then flooding…….seems to be the pattern for the winter……

shipping in Seattle is all backed up from the weather as well….

and there is a lumber shortage apparently.

bring on the apocalypse I always say.

In Minnesota the problem I have had is determining if there is an actual shortage of items or if there is a shortage of employees to stock the shelves. I shop at typically only three places Target and two grocery stores and staffing has been hit or miss and in some cases at Target they have no staff at registers besides the 1 or 2 at the self checkout. All other staff is out on the floor stocking.

The inventory has been spotty and what I have seen shortages or empty shelves has been strange items such as distilled water, some cereals, boxed crackers, and a few times chicken. The chicken is typically only for a day or two it seems but I have noticed new packaging at one of the grocery stores for the chicken so they may have changed suppliers. I don't know what the deal is on distilled water but I use it at home and at one Target they were out for over 2 months. This weekend I went to the same store and the shelf was already half empty so I grabbed 2. Almost everything here besides eggs has gone up at least a dollar for most typically grocery items.

I think one thing that is overlooked is are the schools in the area having classes? If schools are closed more kids are at home eating food hence more groceries. I know when schools closed down here the last few times the availability of some things was down to nothing because you had everyone out buying lunches for kids that would be home all at once with only a day or two notice. It is hard for stores to absorb that stock loss.

originally posted by: Chance321

originally posted by: Bluntone22

originally posted by: jjkenobi

originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: callyrox69

We've no such shortages here in Detroit/Windsor.

Meat quality....has even gotten better. Well stocked...higher prices tho...

Well there's shortages in PLENTY of other US places, including just a few hours south in Indiana/Ohio. It's happening I've never seen anything like it in the USA.

There are some items missing from the shelves here in Indiana. Pasta of every type was pretty much gone at Walmart and frozen potatoes as well. All they had yesterday was shredded hash browns. Both of those items have been hit and miss for he last month. Other food items have been sold out too but not as consistently.

Same here in Central NY. Bleach is getting hard to come by, Since this started, I've been getting my mothers grocery's, another thing that is very scarce is cat food wet/dry for her three cats, the shelves are empty.

Canada, Thailand and China are the biggest importers of dog and cat food to the US. Country of origin labeling laws in the United States state that pet food products that are put together in the United States (regardless of the ingredients origins) can be labeled as “Made in the USA.”
There are no laws or regulations that requires a pet food company to divulge the source of their ingredients, so it takes a lot of legwork to find a brand that is transparent in revealing their source of ingredients, but worth the effort.
So far, I haven't had any problem acquiring the brand I selected, though the cheaper brands are often 'out of stock'.
This site lists companies that don't outsource ingredients:
associationfortruthinpetfood.com...

SE Michigan today:

Whole Foods
Produce and meats looked ok.
Most of the store stocked, with the few exceptions of "normal" holes on shelves.
Noticed some varieties of cereal lacking.
Better than it's looks in a couple of months, TBH.
Stock person said they are getting stuff, and a shortage of truck drivers is main issue.



Kroger
Most of the stores looked pretty well stocked.
Prices on some items have gone up.
Eggs and biscuits were sparse.
Cereal, better than two weeks ago but Kellogg's still sparse.
Coffee was spotty.
Lay's potato chips better than two weeks ago.
Produce seemed OK.
Paper and laundry products were stocked.
Didn't check frozen.
Saltines....only one brand available, big empty space in that area.

The Liberals in Canada who are still supporting JT and lockdowns, mandates still dont see nor are they blaming JT nor the mandates.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Where i go to shop outside further of the city.
Ground Turkey, Chickens are in short supplies.

a reply to: vNex92

Chain stores or independents?

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

By Chain stores i assume you meant the big box stores?

a reply to: vNex92

Yes.
Like Walmart.

So for the people who haven't notice shortages, check to see if the items seem to be stacked as deep as they used to be.


Here in Chicago, I'm seeing random things sold out but it's more of a shortage of inventory. Before there may have been 10 cans each product - now there are just 2 or 3.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

As the freedom Convoy Truck protest is heading towards to Ottawa a CEO of Metro is claiming that the supply chain is starting to ease? i dont believe this story at all.

As trucker convoy rolls to Ottawa, grocery stores say supply issues have ‘started to ease’

a reply to: Daughter2

A CEO of metro claimed on global News that the supply issues have started to ease i doubt their words.

originally posted by: Charliebrowndog
In Minnesota the problem I have had is determining if there is an actual shortage of items or if there is a shortage of employees to stock the shelves. I shop at typically only three places Target and two grocery stores and staffing has been hit or miss and in some cases at Target they have no staff at registers besides the 1 or 2 at the self checkout. All other staff is out on the floor stocking.

The inventory has been spotty and what I have seen shortages or empty shelves has been strange items such as distilled water, some cereals, boxed crackers, and a few times chicken. The chicken is typically only for a day or two it seems but I have noticed new packaging at one of the grocery stores for the chicken so they may have changed suppliers. I don't know what the deal is on distilled water but I use it at home and at one Target they were out for over 2 months. This weekend I went to the same store and the shelf was already half empty so I grabbed 2. Almost everything here besides eggs has gone up at least a dollar for most typically grocery items.

I think one thing that is overlooked is are the schools in the area having classes? If schools are closed more kids are at home eating food hence more groceries. I know when schools closed down here the last few times the availability of some things was down to nothing because you had everyone out buying lunches for kids that would be home all at once with only a day or two notice. It is hard for stores to absorb that stock loss.

that is pretty funny

all these freaking young teenagers eating up all the food from boredom is definitely a big factor. I see that first hand every day…….

and the ones who are allowed to have phones are hopelessly addicted to the technology and social media………they are super intelligent when it comes to all the latest stuff but there is now a generation that is unlike any other……….early cyborgs with a weird digital social construct if you will…..

i’m getting old……i need to go to bed…….

originally posted by: nugget1

originally posted by: Chance321

originally posted by: Bluntone22

originally posted by: jjkenobi

originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: callyrox69

We've no such shortages here in Detroit/Windsor.

Meat quality....has even gotten better. Well stocked...higher prices tho...

Well there's shortages in PLENTY of other US places, including just a few hours south in Indiana/Ohio. It's happening I've never seen anything like it in the USA.

There are some items missing from the shelves here in Indiana. Pasta of every type was pretty much gone at Walmart and frozen potatoes as well. All they had yesterday was shredded hash browns. Both of those items have been hit and miss for he last month. Other food items have been sold out too but not as consistently.

Same here in Central NY. Bleach is getting hard to come by, Since this started, I've been getting my mothers grocery's, another thing that is very scarce is cat food wet/dry for her three cats, the shelves are empty.

Canada, Thailand and China are the biggest importers of dog and cat food to the US. Country of origin labeling laws in the United States state that pet food products that are put together in the United States (regardless of the ingredients origins) can be labeled as “Made in the USA.”
There are no laws or regulations that requires a pet food company to divulge the source of their ingredients, so it takes a lot of legwork to find a brand that is transparent in revealing their source of ingredients, but worth the effort.
So far, I haven't had any problem acquiring the brand I selected, though the cheaper brands are often 'out of stock'.
This site lists companies that don't outsource ingredients:
associationfortruthinpetfood.com...

I imagine the cheap stuff is sold out because the majority of people are too apathetic to look into or care that they’re feeding their pets with Chinese mystery nuggets……….some are probably aware and just too dang broke…..

I know my cat is spoiled…….it may be easier to spoil a cat than a dog.

a reply to: GoShredAK

Ground Meat ones are becoming harder to find.

This Democrat party despises Americans.

They believe Americans are living too good when compared to eveyone else. The foreigners in the party yell this the most.

So they are going to bring Americans down a few pegs. Make them pay and suffer.

Any ideas?

a reply to: Bluntone22 I live in eastern nc by camp Lejeune and local Wal-Mart's always out of frozen potatoes except krinkle cut small bags and tater tots, regular taters are also missing from produce section, beef and chicken is only available on certain days. On the water aisle it is mostly empty pallets. Only water available is high dollar core water and Fuji water . On the chip lane there is a very limited number of varieties ships and the cheese dip from Frito lay is hard to find. Ramen noodles you only find beef or chicken un less you want yakisoba they seem to have plenty of that.little Debbie cakes you better hope you there when it gets dropped off or else you gonna be s.o.l. usually plenty of soda but there are to distributors close by. Gas station in town runs out of gas every other week.. All the grocery stores in area are seeing shortages in pork products like sausages and bacon

originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
Saw a story on the news (in Australia) last night where they said the big supermarket chains are struggling to keep their shelves stocked, so they are going to "simplify" their product range to make it easier. In other words, many brands will no longer be available on shelves. We've been losing product diversity for many years, now we're losing a massive chunk of that diversity in one hit. Eventually we'll have a single brand for all our products and they will be absolutely terrible quality because they wont have any competition.

Walmarts already do that. Most of their stores have Great Value or a name brand or two.