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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 3, 2022 19:34:50 GMT
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Post by enigma72 on Jun 3, 2022 19:57:22 GMT
Holy Shit... JAMS & JELLIES!Got bread & peanut butter here at home, but needed some more jam/jelly today when I went to the store... That section was half empty, and the store was limiting the purchase of only two jars per customer! Never seen that before... Went to Two Walmarts & a Meijer today in order to make sure I got everything on my list... Got most of it... Prices didn't seem to be higher, but selections were poor for many items or they were sold out... And I noticed a lot of stickers on the shelves limiting the quantities that can be purchased, and these were for things that hadn't been restricted before, during the last two years... LIMIT 2 cans of Dinty Moore "Chicken & Dumplings" and/or "Beef Stew" meals... Lots of canned goods... had purchasing limits... Not sure if companies are preparing for the worst in the next couple of months... or if the demand is just so high, and so they are trying to limit sales to keep price gougings/product scalpings down for all customers, so that everyone can get their fair share. At Walmart I noticed the exact same Thing. Wonder if Walmart is having a supply issue. My other store is stocked. McD, you will be glad to hear, though not surprised 😉, I have bought and squirreled diapers EVERYWHERE in my house. FINGERSCROSSED
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 3, 2022 21:02:37 GMT
July... Just like Jimmy said.
Don't be fooled by those low or normal prices... Rising prices and Inflation are still going on otherwise, even if they aren't not being reflected on the products you are now buying...
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 3, 2022 21:11:36 GMT
And then we still have food recalls adding to the food shortage problem.
The year is 2022...
And we can't figure out a way, to make everything clean and safe, to stop this nonsense?
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jun 4, 2022 18:50:19 GMT
Went shopping yesterday, didn't notice any shortages in particular, though some items I liked getting in the past have simply been discontinued altogether. Poof... they're gone for good. I guess that constitutes the ultimate shortage, lol.
MCDemuth
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 4, 2022 19:00:59 GMT
Went shopping yesterday, didn't notice any shortages in particular, though some items I liked getting in the past have simply been discontinued altogether. Poof... they're gone for good. I guess that constitutes the ultimate shortage, lol.
MCDemuth Yeah. A few things I like have been discontinued too... While I am not happy that those things are gone, I accept that some companies just can't afford to make them any more... But what ticks me off, is that food that I don't like keeps getting made instead and is always sitting on the shelves. I guess my tastes are different that most other people, but it's so frustrating since it happens to me all the time... And then what happens when there is nothing I can eat? I guess the "Junk" food eaters will live on long after I'm dead...
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Post by divtal on Jun 4, 2022 20:33:23 GMT
"At Walmart I noticed the exact same Thing. Wonder if Walmart is having a supply issue.
My other store is stocked.
McD, you will be glad to hear, though not surprised 😉, I have bought and squirreled diapers EVERYWHERE in my house.
FINGERSCROSSED"
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you, too, Enigma.
There, certainly, was no shortage of any inventory at Costco, yesterday. As usual, it was "stocked," and "stacked," to the ceiling.
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Post by sunshine on Jun 4, 2022 23:02:37 GMT
Not only will the price of diesel hurt the farmers, but truckers have posted that it is costing approx. $1,000 each time they fill the tank on their truck and this is EVERYDAY! Another reason there are shortages of things on our shelves. Our regular gas is $4.39 at this time.
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 4, 2022 23:08:58 GMT
Not only will the price of diesel hurt the farmers, but truckers have posted that it is costing approx. $1,000 each time they fill the tank on their truck and this is EVERYDAY! Another reason there are shortages of things on our shelves. Our regular gas is $4.39 at this time. A Chevron station in the coastal village of Mendocino about 175 miles north of San Francisco was charging $9.60 a gallon for regular on Friday afternoon. I posted an article about that here: imdb2.freeforums.net/post/5460925
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 7, 2022 18:32:59 GMT
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 8, 2022 17:09:32 GMT
Holy Shit... JAMS & JELLIES!Got bread & peanut butter here at home, but needed some more jam/jelly today when I went to the store... That section was half empty, and the store was limiting the purchase of only two jars per customer! Never seen that before... Went to Two Walmarts & a Meijer today in order to make sure I got everything on my list... Got most of it... Prices didn't seem to be higher, but selections were poor for many items or they were sold out... And I noticed a lot of stickers on the shelves limiting the quantities that can be purchased, and these were for things that hadn't been restricted before, during the last two years... LIMIT 2 cans of Dinty Moore "Chicken & Dumplings" and/or "Beef Stew" meals... Lots of canned goods... had purchasing limits... Not sure if companies are preparing for the worst in the next couple of months... or if the demand is just so high, and so they are trying to limit sales to keep price gougings/product scalpings down for all customers, so that everyone can get their fair share. At Walmart I noticed the exact same Thing. Wonder if Walmart is having a supply issue. My other store is stocked. McD, you will be glad to hear, though not surprised 😉, I have bought and squirreled diapers EVERYWHERE in my house. FINGERSCROSSED Lol, I know I'm losing it when I think you've typed: you have squirrel diapers. And I'm thinking those are really really small diapers....or you have squirrels as children......
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 8, 2022 17:13:47 GMT
At Walmart I noticed the exact same Thing. Wonder if Walmart is having a supply issue. My other store is stocked. McD, you will be glad to hear, though not surprised 😉, I have bought and squirreled diapers EVERYWHERE in my house. FINGERSCROSSED Lol, I know I'm losing it when I think you've typed: you have squirrel diapers. And I'm thinking those are really really small diapers....or you have squirrels as children......
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Post by enigma72 on Jun 8, 2022 18:04:28 GMT
At Walmart I noticed the exact same Thing. Wonder if Walmart is having a supply issue. My other store is stocked. McD, you will be glad to hear, though not surprised 😉, I have bought and squirreled diapers EVERYWHERE in my house. FINGERSCROSSED Lol, I know I'm losing it when I think you've typed: you have squirrel diapers. And I'm thinking those are really really small diapers....or you have squirrels as children...... 🤭😘
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 9, 2022 3:24:22 GMT
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Post by sunshine on Jun 9, 2022 23:39:03 GMT
Don't know why, but there was absolutely NO dry pasta of any kind on the shelves today!
Our store never has any Wheaties, which mr sunshine wants. I read that there's a definite shortage of them.
Meat is there, but the prices are really going up.
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 10, 2022 3:33:09 GMT
Don't know why, but there was absolutely NO dry pasta of any kind on the shelves today!Our store never has any Wheaties, which mr sunshine wants. I read that there's a definite shortage of them. Meat is there, but the prices are really going up. I usually shop at three Walmarts & two Meijers for food... They're all in different parts of town. I noticed dry pasta was in short supply at one store I went to last week. I managed to get a box of what I wanted... small shell pasta. Went to a couple different stores today, and one had more stock. Got two more boxes of the small shell pasta... I Was going to get one box, but with the shortage at the other store, and a heat wave coming in next week, I thought I should pick up an extra box so I wouldn't run out, if I don't go shopping for the next two weeks. PB&J shelves were half empty at Walmart today. No restrictions. Couldn't tell if it was just the Jelly or if Peanut Butter was also affected... But it was more than obvious that the shelves for that section were half empty. I really can't tell what's going on... Shelves are about as equally empty as they have been for two years. With different stores on different days, it hard to predict, but there is always something every store is out of, and sometimes it seems like a store has been cleaned out like a major blizzard was coming... But now, the products are shifting... As I said before, I never saw a shortage on Jellies until last week... and again today. Dry Pasta was always well stocked until recently too... Not seen a Toilet Paper shortage recently, but as I recall, they went on Manufacturing overdrive for a while, so maybe the warehouses are able to keep up with demand now... I like to buy store brand bags of frozen x-small size cooked shrimp... and they have been harder to find lately... Sometimes the stores are all out of ALL bag sizes of frozen cooked shrimp, sometimes they're well stocked... Again, hard to predict. I'm buying a couple extra bags at a time of those too... I just all seems so random... it's highly frustrating.
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 12, 2022 17:06:28 GMT
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Post by NJtoTX on Jun 12, 2022 21:47:51 GMT
Haven't noticed any shortages. I did see a chicken value pack limit sign and thought, uh oh, it's back.
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 13, 2022 22:03:18 GMT
I'm sure this will have an effect on us, at some point in the near future...
...But it could have been food or other supplies.
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Post by mmexis on Jun 15, 2022 3:14:32 GMT
In my economics class we noted the following as we discussed the supply chain issues:
shortage of truck drivers/dock workers trucks/ships sitting in situ and not going back and forth with cargo high price of fuel (all kinds) environmental disasters embargo against Russia sanctions against Russia war in Ukraine not allowing Europe and other parts of the world to get wheat war in Ukraine not allowing farmers to plant for this growing season war in Ukraine now having Russia bombing stored wheat from last year instead of exporting war in Ukraine causing a global fertilizer shortage that impacts farmers globally Already supply chain issues when the big boat Evergiven was stuck in the Suez for almost a month Pandemic caused shut downs of manufacturing plants of "non-essential" goods Pandemic shut downs continue (first Shanghai, now Beijing) Employees have had a "re-think" about what work means to them and HOW they are going to work. Presently it is an employees market. Unemployment at its lowest rate in decades (if not historically)
I'm sure I forgot something, but that is how we tackled this program from a macroeconomic level.
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