I paid 4.70 for 32 oz Eden Organic at Vitacost. They have other brands and this one comes in a smaller size for 3 something.
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That is about what I am seeing too. S. CAs high desert. No shortages to speak of but high prices everywhere. Aldis had the best sales last week but you have to jump on them as their supplies are limited.
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
I'm not seeing any shortages, but prices are really going up.
i'm terrible at keeping track of prices, specifically. i can look at something and think - wow, the price has really gone up or down, but can't remember how much. SO --- last week, i bought a gallon of milk, a pound of rice, a pound of beans, 13 ounces of coffee (Folgers), and a loaf of regular cheap white bread. Saved the receipt in my journal and will do the same in following years. it at least will track the basics. I might change this to every 6 months - we'll see.
greysage
On The Level
A lot of empty spots at Hanna fords today. Part of me thinks stuff doesn't get stocked because of curbside pick up. I don't think they bother to put on the shelves only to pay people to take it off the shelves. Not everything but some of it. There were holes today that didn't quite make sense. Still got what I needed. All the store brand stuff I wanted to buy was out of stock, had to buy national brand stuff, especially dairy.
Our local Harps is well stocked. But we notice a lot of brands we have never heard of. One of the frozen vegetable mixes we like is only available in the steam in the bag, bags. It is only contains half or less of the regular bags, but same price. The meats are a bit thin, but available.
annieosage
Inactive
I haven't noticed any shortages at all. I am well stocked on everything so the last few weeks have only gone for things I need to make a specific meal. Oh and M&M's LOL. I haven't noticed a price increase on anything except meat. I wanted to get some boneless strip steaks and a 3 count pack is ON SALE for $25!! That's disgusting. I don't eat beef often but once in a while want a steak or use it for tacos. I won't be doing that anytime soon.
Michiana MaJo
Deceased
It’s pretty easy to make small batches of kraut and avoid paying those awful price hikes. There are probably pictorial guides on You Tube.
mzkitty
I give up.
FL -- I haven't felt much like going grocery shopping, so my son went for a few things yesterday. He comes home all excited, and tells me the store was having some kind of *surprise* giveaway for the upcoming Super Bowl on 2/7. They were giving people a recycle grocery bag filled with: A box of vanilla wafers, a 12-oz can of Pepsi, a 12-oz can of Mountain Goo, one of those foam can holders, a big bag of chips, and a small bag of some hot hot Dorito-y type things. Oh, and $10 off your bill at the register. I'm like hell yeah !!
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
Could the well stocked shelves have anything to do with so many people already have their pantries stocked and aren't buying all the much.
Frankly I don't want or need much from the grocery store, so maybe the things I had been buying are now piling up on the shelves. Just a thought.
When I do go to the store I see higher prices.
God is good all the time
Judy
Frankly I don't want or need much from the grocery store, so maybe the things I had been buying are now piling up on the shelves. Just a thought.
When I do go to the store I see higher prices.
God is good all the time
Judy
parsonswife
Veteran Member
Frozen Fish Pileup in China Threatens Global Supply Chains
Bloomberg) -- Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks Covid-19’s impact on trade. Sign up here, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and analysis on the pandemic.
A huge pile up of fish cargoes at a Chinese port risks impacting shipments of frozen food across the country and beyond.
Hundreds of containers are being held up in Dalian, a major port for seafood imports, as local authorities test the fish for the coronavirus before allowing them to clear customs, according to several freight forwarders, consultants and shipping companies. That’s leading to scant availability of electric outlets to keep refrigerated containers, known as reefers, cold.
The shortage of plug points and dwindling space at the port have prompted shipping liners to cancel new reefer bookings into Dalian, and the congestion is now spreading to other refrigerated items like fruit and dumplings. It also means frozen containers are being diverted to other ports in China, leading to bottlenecks in Shanghai and Qingdao too.
“Much of the recent concern for rollover cargo has focused on reefer containers,” said Josh Brazil, chief operations officer of freight-data provider Ocean Insights. “If there are no power outlets at the port for reefers to be plugged in, cargoes of perishable food could be damaged or entirely lost if they cannot be re-routed to another port.”
The scenes playing out in Dalian echo the start of the disruptions the world saw when the coronavirus snared global trade flows early last year. Back then, lockdowns in countries including China meant ports were closed and ships couldn’t unload cargoes, causing a dearth of vessels across the world with the ripple effect lasting for months.
© via BloombergDalian container ships
Ships carrying both refrigerated and normal container boxes wait in the Yellow Sea to unload cargo at Dalian.
The Tests
It also highlights the impact China’s controversial testing of foreign food for the virus is having on supply chains. The country has been testing imported meat and seafood for traces of the virus on concern Covid-19 can spread to humans, despite the World Health Organization saying there’s no evidence of people catching the virus from food and food packaging.
Read more: China to Sell More Pork Reserves as Imports Stack Up at Ports
“China is probably the only country in the world which claims that the coronavirus can be spread through frozen food,” said Ralph Leszczynski, head of research at shipbroker Banchero Costa & Co. “It might well impact container waiting times at ports.”
At least four cold-storage vessels have been waiting near Dalian port for as long as two months, nine container ships are docked at the port, and at least six more are waiting in the Yellow Sea to unload, according to Bloomberg data. Reefer containers typically travel together with thousands of normal containers on ships, as long as they have a power source to keep the cargo cold.
Liaoning Port Group, which runs the Dalian port, didn’t respond to calls and an email seeking comment. China customs didn’t immediately respond to a fax seeking comment. Officials at the cold-chain subcommittee of China’s Federation of Logistics & Purchasing declined to comment.
Chinese port officials have increased coronavirus tests, causing refrigerated shipments to wait as long as 20 days to clear customs at most ports across the country, according to the China Shipowners Association, adding that importers have to foot the bill for electricity and demurrage costs. Besides Dalian, the other major reefer-handling ports are Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Ningbo.
AP Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s biggest container shipping line, said it’s stopped taking new reefer bookings for Dalian. French rival CMA CGM SA said will levy surcharges on cargoes headed to Dalian, and diverting reefers where it can. Shipping giant MSC Group also said it’s unable to offload reefers in Dalian, and has told customers their cargoes may be sent to an alternative port and held there -- incurring daily costs -- until they can be forwarded.
© BloombergContainer Flood
And it’s not just within China, according to Philip Gray, a reefer analyst at maritime consultant Drewry. Russian vessels filled with seafood that were headed to Dalian and Qingdao have now been re-directed to South Korea’s Busan, raising the risk that its port will also become congested, he said.
“Dalian and Qingdao are very big seafood hubs with a thriving import, export and seafood processing industry,” said Gray.
The issue is also creating a shorter shelf life for fresh fruit imports such as bananas, which normally arrive in Dalian to supply northern China, said Gray.
Read more: Vital World Trade Route Roiled by ‘Black Swan’ Container Crunch
The impact from the situation in Dalian and other ports is stretching all the way to the U.S., where companies are waiting for empty reefer containers to ship frozen goods out of China and across the Pacific.
Steve Kranig, the director of logistics at freight-forwarding firm IM-EX Global Inc. in Wisconsin, U.S., said it took him six weeks before he was able to book a reefer to ship soup-filled dumplings known as xiaolongbao and other frozen foods from Qingdao to the U.S. The shortage of refrigerated containers has been costly -- freight has almost doubled from a few months earlier, and many items in his customers’ inventory have run out.
“China continues to be protein hungry and, at the same time the knock-on effect will come to the U.S., where ports are already bursting at the seams struggling to cope with the surge in trade,” Drewry’s Gray said. “U.S. exporters will need to plan very carefully and should expect further rise in supply chain costs.”
Bloomberg) -- Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks Covid-19’s impact on trade. Sign up here, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and analysis on the pandemic.
A huge pile up of fish cargoes at a Chinese port risks impacting shipments of frozen food across the country and beyond.
Hundreds of containers are being held up in Dalian, a major port for seafood imports, as local authorities test the fish for the coronavirus before allowing them to clear customs, according to several freight forwarders, consultants and shipping companies. That’s leading to scant availability of electric outlets to keep refrigerated containers, known as reefers, cold.
The shortage of plug points and dwindling space at the port have prompted shipping liners to cancel new reefer bookings into Dalian, and the congestion is now spreading to other refrigerated items like fruit and dumplings. It also means frozen containers are being diverted to other ports in China, leading to bottlenecks in Shanghai and Qingdao too.
“Much of the recent concern for rollover cargo has focused on reefer containers,” said Josh Brazil, chief operations officer of freight-data provider Ocean Insights. “If there are no power outlets at the port for reefers to be plugged in, cargoes of perishable food could be damaged or entirely lost if they cannot be re-routed to another port.”
The scenes playing out in Dalian echo the start of the disruptions the world saw when the coronavirus snared global trade flows early last year. Back then, lockdowns in countries including China meant ports were closed and ships couldn’t unload cargoes, causing a dearth of vessels across the world with the ripple effect lasting for months.
Ships carrying both refrigerated and normal container boxes wait in the Yellow Sea to unload cargo at Dalian.
The Tests
It also highlights the impact China’s controversial testing of foreign food for the virus is having on supply chains. The country has been testing imported meat and seafood for traces of the virus on concern Covid-19 can spread to humans, despite the World Health Organization saying there’s no evidence of people catching the virus from food and food packaging.
Read more: China to Sell More Pork Reserves as Imports Stack Up at Ports
“China is probably the only country in the world which claims that the coronavirus can be spread through frozen food,” said Ralph Leszczynski, head of research at shipbroker Banchero Costa & Co. “It might well impact container waiting times at ports.”
At least four cold-storage vessels have been waiting near Dalian port for as long as two months, nine container ships are docked at the port, and at least six more are waiting in the Yellow Sea to unload, according to Bloomberg data. Reefer containers typically travel together with thousands of normal containers on ships, as long as they have a power source to keep the cargo cold.
Liaoning Port Group, which runs the Dalian port, didn’t respond to calls and an email seeking comment. China customs didn’t immediately respond to a fax seeking comment. Officials at the cold-chain subcommittee of China’s Federation of Logistics & Purchasing declined to comment.
Chinese port officials have increased coronavirus tests, causing refrigerated shipments to wait as long as 20 days to clear customs at most ports across the country, according to the China Shipowners Association, adding that importers have to foot the bill for electricity and demurrage costs. Besides Dalian, the other major reefer-handling ports are Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Ningbo.
AP Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s biggest container shipping line, said it’s stopped taking new reefer bookings for Dalian. French rival CMA CGM SA said will levy surcharges on cargoes headed to Dalian, and diverting reefers where it can. Shipping giant MSC Group also said it’s unable to offload reefers in Dalian, and has told customers their cargoes may be sent to an alternative port and held there -- incurring daily costs -- until they can be forwarded.
And it’s not just within China, according to Philip Gray, a reefer analyst at maritime consultant Drewry. Russian vessels filled with seafood that were headed to Dalian and Qingdao have now been re-directed to South Korea’s Busan, raising the risk that its port will also become congested, he said.
“Dalian and Qingdao are very big seafood hubs with a thriving import, export and seafood processing industry,” said Gray.
The issue is also creating a shorter shelf life for fresh fruit imports such as bananas, which normally arrive in Dalian to supply northern China, said Gray.
Read more: Vital World Trade Route Roiled by ‘Black Swan’ Container Crunch
The impact from the situation in Dalian and other ports is stretching all the way to the U.S., where companies are waiting for empty reefer containers to ship frozen goods out of China and across the Pacific.
Steve Kranig, the director of logistics at freight-forwarding firm IM-EX Global Inc. in Wisconsin, U.S., said it took him six weeks before he was able to book a reefer to ship soup-filled dumplings known as xiaolongbao and other frozen foods from Qingdao to the U.S. The shortage of refrigerated containers has been costly -- freight has almost doubled from a few months earlier, and many items in his customers’ inventory have run out.
“China continues to be protein hungry and, at the same time the knock-on effect will come to the U.S., where ports are already bursting at the seams struggling to cope with the surge in trade,” Drewry’s Gray said. “U.S. exporters will need to plan very carefully and should expect further rise in supply chain costs.”
abby normal
insert appropriate adjective here
Went to Walmart Super Center Friday. Everywhere in town showed gas at $2.50/gal. I was only going to put a few bucks in the tank but lucked out at the Walmart gas station, still $2.15/gal so I topped off. It will probably be the last time I have a full tank for a while.
Didn't notice any shortages in the store but as usual prices were up. Had $200 to spend and my bill was 199.99. I use the calculator on my phone so I don't go over, I have to watch every penny.
Couple ladies in line ahead of me weren't wearing masks. I told them it was nice to see their faces. They said "you too". We had a pleasant chat about nothing in particular while they finished their turn.
Didn't notice any shortages in the store but as usual prices were up. Had $200 to spend and my bill was 199.99. I use the calculator on my phone so I don't go over, I have to watch every penny.
Couple ladies in line ahead of me weren't wearing masks. I told them it was nice to see their faces. They said "you too". We had a pleasant chat about nothing in particular while they finished their turn.
school marm
Veteran Member
DH had an ophthalmologist appt in the big city, so we hit Sam's and the discount grocery stores (Grocery Outlet). We were there Friday afternoon and didn't see anything unusual--no big holes or anything like that in any of the stores. We got some great deals on deli meats and cheeses to keep the freeze dryer happy. What was noteworthy was the amount of space allocated to 1-lb packages of instant yeast. The G.O. stores had never stocked yeast in my experience. My guess is that with the baking frenzy last year, yeast manufacturers ramped up production, and now no one's buying. Even my local Smith's has had yeast on one of the endcaps. Anyway, the 1-lb packages at the G.O. stores were priced at $3.69, significantly cheaper than before the COVID kerfluffle. And yeast keeps for years in the freezer. You might consider checking out discount grocers.
Oh, and at the end of last year/beginning of this year, my Smith's also beefed up their supplies of flour and sugar, in addition to other baking essentials, perhaps in anticipation of unrest. No one here panicked and those 25 lb bags of flour are still on the shelves. I think I'll start adding a bag every other week or so. $5 is pretty good for 25 lbs of flour.
Oh, and at the end of last year/beginning of this year, my Smith's also beefed up their supplies of flour and sugar, in addition to other baking essentials, perhaps in anticipation of unrest. No one here panicked and those 25 lb bags of flour are still on the shelves. I think I'll start adding a bag every other week or so. $5 is pretty good for 25 lbs of flour.
coloradohermit
Veteran Member
Something I like to have on hand is Bumble Bee Snack On The Run meat salad and cracker kits. It's a great light snack and good to go in the go bag. At Kroger the price has gone up to $1.89. At walmart, there's a great selection of flavors and it's $1.24. At Dollar Tree they only have the basic tuna and chicken, but they're only $1. Pays to know your prices.
Walrus Whisperer
Hope in chains...
I noticed butter at Walmart is now 5$ a lb. Dayum.
psychgirl
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Those ARE great to have around! I get them to keep at work but do wait for sales.
psychgirl
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Omg that’s what I call it too lol!
Basement shopping is the best!
Nothing feels so good as to just pick out what’s needed to make several meals
Shooter
Veteran Member
just got home from walmart .. worst ive seen this one, starting with the deli. NOTHING premade, usually coleslaw, potatos salad, that kind of stuff, was nothing. not even empty pans, then the deli, 3 usual collers that meat is in with glass windows. less than 1/3 of product, wanted provolone cheese but none,
pre chopped salad bags mabye half full. potato chips, low, just lots of holes in places shold be stuff ,
pre chopped salad bags mabye half full. potato chips, low, just lots of holes in places shold be stuff ,
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
Milk has gone up to $4.29 a gallon, and almost no pasta according to my MIL. South side of indy.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I just had these a couple of times lately, tasty. Last year I bought quite a few and vacuum sealed them in wide mouth canning jars, the little can fits in there perfectly.
God is good all the time.
Judy
I'm thinking that while stores are generally well stocked the random shortages in various locales and various stores is indicative of a general weakness in the system. That coupled with continued hoarding i.e. buying more than your share when you shop (as opposed to stocking up which is replacing what you've used since the last time you shopped.) I never grab the last item off a shelf if I still have that item at home in my pantry. If I don't have it at home, then I figure I'm as entitled to the last item as the next shopper.
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
This isn't store related, but I think it's something that needs shared. Our local food bank went to pick up a load of food earlier this week, and the warehouse was very bare. The volunteer was shocked at just how bare.
Bones
Living On A Prayer
We make our own. So very easy and economical. I had posted in in Granny's Kitchen here, but if you're so inclined, here it is. Some family of ours add caraway seeds, but we don't.
The supply line is starting to get weird again. My Wally World in me Ga the shelves right by the entrance on the general merchandise side. All soda and chips. That means we didn’t have anything to fill it. Sugar has been skimpy along with pasta. Got tomato purée that my wife likes for the first time in 6 weeks. (Contadina) getting stuff in but not what we need example 20 ounce tumblers. 5 different colors Need 2-3 cases each color. No we get 17 of one color. Stuff that should have been on clearance 2weeks ago still not marked down. Certain items we usually never run out till camping season long lighters fire starters, water purification, small tanks of propane, propane and oil lamps water containers and gas cans. One of my customers said all the same things are gone no matter where I shop. Has the whole stinking world turned into prepers? Can’t even keep pellet guns and pellets in stock and slingshots are just as hard to find.
Great Northwet
Veteran Member
Evertying is fine fine here coffee is a little low but that;s it.
psychgirl
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I’m not seeing that yet but I’m on the far north aside, Hamilton county.
And the stores are still fully stocked
TerriHaute
Hoosier Gardener
I went to Kroger, Walmart, and Sam's in Hendricks county this week, everything was fully stocked - at least for what I needed. I didn't check things like paper goods or canned soup that weren't on my shopping list. DH and I don't drink milk, so I don't buy it as often as most people, but we do use it for cereal and cooking. I get half gallons in paper cartons of the organic milk from 100% grass fed beef because it tastes so good. It usually runs about $4 a carton but worth it to us and a half gallon lasts us several days.
Dinghy
Veteran Member
Thunderdragon
Senior Member
harps. Employee owned. Nice company.
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