ECON Report food and grocery price increases/shortages here - UPDATE, new runs on the stores
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Went to Wally’s at about 9:45. They’d already closed. Talked to the door guy for a moment. He said that “There’s really nothing left anyway.” Not a good sign. We next spoke of the rapidly emptying supply chain, and how ugly it was going to get when it was empty. He agreed and then said, “Have your ammo ready.”
This was from a 20-something.
Tick tock....
This was from a 20-something.
Tick tock....
lonestar09
Veteran Member
Urinary Tract Infection
lonestar09
Veteran Member
Walmart today had the frozen meat coolers that are on the floor filled with frozen turkeys and spiral sliced hams. Looked like getting ready for the holidays. I guess that is reminder of meat for now. Will be interesting what will happen during the holidays.
Esto Perpetua
Veteran Member
Oh, Lord have mercy, I've been thinking about that too!
If you were not prepped for a year or two then you were just playing at it.
Sounds like you did a pretty good job of replacing them.Wise decision.
A lot of people are taking his advice.Just saw this at sgammo.com.
Due to overwhelming order volume that came in March 13th to 16th we are not currently accepting new orders and all product listings are offline. We should have all existing orders filled by Wednesday the 25th. We will begin to restore limited inventory options once we have shipped all orders that have been placed so far. Our warehouse crew is working as hard as possible to ship these orders ASAP. In order to aid us in providing faster service, please do not email to ask when your order will ship unless you need to cancel or change the address. UPS will email tracking info the day the order ships and we are working as fast as we possibly can to fill your orders. We have inventory allocated to fill all existing orders, if you have an order in it will be filled.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
I started a thread here on the topic.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Must be nice to be perfect!
It's real hard though.LOL
Profit of Doom
Dismember
I’ve been waiting for shit to hit the news before I buy big. I had six of those yellow/black totes from Costco. Around NK time a year or two back, I got a big bag of rice and some beans, about thirty bags of bear creek soups, a box of oatmeal, and such. When they locked down Wuhan, I took that as a trigger. As my wife almost never goes shopping with me, I just started picking up a big of this or that. Local store had Progresso soup 99c; no limit. I raided the change jar and bought 44 cans, with quarters. With those I already had, it’s about 90 cans of soup. The dry soup makes 1/2 gallon, about 4 cans, so there’s another 120 cans worth. Picked up 36 cans of Hunts pasta sauce at 98c, and have about 25 pounds of pasta. Twenty pounds of bread flour, 100 pounds of dry beans, 140 pounds of rice. All our meds have a full 100 days set aside, most have another two months or more.
Five of those totes are full, working on the sixth.
Mary Contrary
Inactive
I'm making lentils and rice in crock pot. half cup rice, cup lentils, can corn, can tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, olive oil and a half stick butter. Comes out good. When i put in a whole cup of rice too thick. Came out good and soupy. Now if i can only find some darn crackers! We had it easy 2 months ago!
Mary Contrary
Inactive
That's great! You stocked up good.
questionable1
Contributing Member
Real estate has been hot lately. People paying more than listed price. SIL is an agent, has been selling like crazy since feb. Suburban area. Who buys a house during a pandemic? I would think the layoffs and closures would discourage people. She did deliver tp to a recent customer. Maybe that's the trick.
Appraiser friend backlogged. She did 18 last week, has to write them up this week.
Went to Walmart for “senior hour” (6-7 am). There was literally nothing left.
meat section, empty. Dairy, empty. Bread, empty. Flour and sugar, empty. Canned goods, empty. Soup, empty. TP (of course), empty. Canned meats, empty. Frozen cases (all), maybe 3% filled. Cheeses, empty. Produce, nearly empty. Paper towels, empty. Paper plates (!) almost empty. I took pics. I had to make a personal record.
meat section, empty. Dairy, empty. Bread, empty. Flour and sugar, empty. Canned goods, empty. Soup, empty. TP (of course), empty. Canned meats, empty. Frozen cases (all), maybe 3% filled. Cheeses, empty. Produce, nearly empty. Paper towels, empty. Paper plates (!) almost empty. I took pics. I had to make a personal record.
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mzkitty
I give up.
Jeez. Why bother with "senior hour"? But I looked out my br window and since this started, nobody's moved in my section of parking lot. This morning (just now) about a half dozen cars gone. I bet they went too, and are sorely disappointed.
If I see any come back with food bags, I'll let you know. They had to be food-short by now.
I have been out shopping for older neighbors. I need nothing but cant watch others suffer!
Dennis that is exactly what grocery stores looked like in Midland TX last Saturday. The pictures showed aisle after aisle empty. I heard the restaurants there are selling bread and eggs to customers.
When they had senior shopping there were over 100. Line stretched from home side of center to another.
When they had senior shopping there were over 100. Line stretched from home side of center to another.
1-) Y'all live way too close to other people.
2-) Springtime on the farm takes care of the problem. The smell of sour melting manure trumps all else. Then we spread it.
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patriotgal
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1-) Y'all live way to close to other people.
2-) Springtime on the farm takes care of the problem. The smell of sour melting manure trumps all else. Then we spread it.
A little turkey litter goes a loooong way.
Jubilee on Earth
Veteran Member
Dennis, those pics are insane! And they clearly show that grocery supply chains are not going back to normal, despite what some are saying.
Dafodil
Veteran Member
Amazon has really pissed me off. I use the subscribe/save with my PRIME subscription. I normally buy a case of TP a month. Now Amazon has sold my TP to someone willing to pay a higher rate! I would think they would take their regular orders off the market, put them away and sell whats leftover!
Loretta Van Riet
Trying to hang out with the cool kids.
thank you for the documentation
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
"Possible" heads-up---
As some of you have heard me mention, my youngest is a "rail-fan"---meaning his hobby, along with a goodly number of other Americans, is watching/ filming / posting videos of / keeping up w manifests for / and generally ALL THINGS TRAINS.
When Norfolk-Southern moved its headquarters to Atlanta last year, my son sadly reported to me that they were going to "streamline" the trains. He was sad about this because it meant he and his fellow hobbyists would see a lot FEWER locomotives (the engines) -- because the plan was to COMBINE INTO ONE TRAIN long (LONG) series of freight cars into one train (sometimes with a booster engine or two in the middle to help w the load) rather than the PREVIOUS practice of running more frequent but SHORTER trains. Since the main draw for these hobbyists is to keep a running catalogue of what engines are running when and where, they were all sad to see many engines going off-line for these longer freight trains.
And such was the case--MUCH longer freight trains---up to 100 cars or more---up until recently.
My son was tracking (on several sites / apps he has for the hobby) freight trains running from Atlanta to Chattanooga and points north on the NS line.
He commented to me that the trains were now VERY SHORT--"only 28 cars" as he reported one recent one.
I stopped what I was doing and asked him, is it because they have less freight to carry?
And he confirmed that what the hobbyists are conveying to one another is that FAR FEWER intermodal containers are available for the trains to carry (the large things you see end up on 18-wheelers being hauled all over the country after they arrive at the port of Savannah and other ports---as I'm sure you know, the containers are uploaded onto the ships, shipped to the US, downloaded at ports onto trains, then taken to various distribution points by train until they end up on the back of 18-wheelers to your local Wal-Mart or Kroger's....)
He also reports much fewer "auto-rack" cars on trains, due to auto parts being shut down.
Take it FWIW....
ETA to above:
My son showed me some personal chatter he's privvy to, on his phone, between NS employees.
Without giving enough detail to jeopardize anyone's job, it was clear to me they were saying their container traffic is WAY down, and they were even talking about SIDELINING TRAINS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HAUL.
DENNIS--this could explain the EMPTY Wal-Mart shelves....
As some of you have heard me mention, my youngest is a "rail-fan"---meaning his hobby, along with a goodly number of other Americans, is watching/ filming / posting videos of / keeping up w manifests for / and generally ALL THINGS TRAINS.
When Norfolk-Southern moved its headquarters to Atlanta last year, my son sadly reported to me that they were going to "streamline" the trains. He was sad about this because it meant he and his fellow hobbyists would see a lot FEWER locomotives (the engines) -- because the plan was to COMBINE INTO ONE TRAIN long (LONG) series of freight cars into one train (sometimes with a booster engine or two in the middle to help w the load) rather than the PREVIOUS practice of running more frequent but SHORTER trains. Since the main draw for these hobbyists is to keep a running catalogue of what engines are running when and where, they were all sad to see many engines going off-line for these longer freight trains.
And such was the case--MUCH longer freight trains---up to 100 cars or more---up until recently.
My son was tracking (on several sites / apps he has for the hobby) freight trains running from Atlanta to Chattanooga and points north on the NS line.
He commented to me that the trains were now VERY SHORT--"only 28 cars" as he reported one recent one.
I stopped what I was doing and asked him, is it because they have less freight to carry?
And he confirmed that what the hobbyists are conveying to one another is that FAR FEWER intermodal containers are available for the trains to carry (the large things you see end up on 18-wheelers being hauled all over the country after they arrive at the port of Savannah and other ports---as I'm sure you know, the containers are uploaded onto the ships, shipped to the US, downloaded at ports onto trains, then taken to various distribution points by train until they end up on the back of 18-wheelers to your local Wal-Mart or Kroger's....)
He also reports much fewer "auto-rack" cars on trains, due to auto parts being shut down.
Take it FWIW....
ETA to above:
My son showed me some personal chatter he's privvy to, on his phone, between NS employees.
Without giving enough detail to jeopardize anyone's job, it was clear to me they were saying their container traffic is WAY down, and they were even talking about SIDELINING TRAINS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HAUL.
DENNIS--this could explain the EMPTY Wal-Mart shelves....
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questionable1
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I have a tp subscription too. We were a little backed up, i was going to cancel. Now I'm waiting to see what's going to get delivered. This months came on the 13th as expected.
I'm guessing it's someone who thinks they won't have to pay on the note, esp. if people are willing to accept more than the listed price.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Looks like you did good!
Like I said, I meant no offense to anyone. I should have thought my comments through more before posting them. People have their own reasons to do what they do, and really, no one has to justify it to anyone, at least, not to me.
Have not been in a grocery store in weeks so not sure what ours looks like, enjoying? Y'all's pics though.
My dad gets out of the hospital today so I ordered him some food and was got to deliver it to his house.
I ordered him 62 items. Got 8
Original amount charged $160.
Final bill $14.48
Would rather have had the food, but..
At least they gave me a $5 credit
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