Homesteading Forum banner

Why Grocery Store Shelves Are Empty

6K views 163 replies 40 participants last post by  RJ2019 
#1 · (Edited)
After being chastised for not including adequate information in the OP by several in the comments section, I decided to flesh out the OP.

The following is a link to a video.

I am incapable of typing 60 WPM with a more than 98% accuracy rate in order to completely transcribe a transcript from audio, nor am I capable of putting up a succinct synopsis that would please even those who would gripe if they were hung with a new rope.

If you are curious, move your cursor to the link below, left click, adjust the volume and watch the video like I did.

If you feel inclined to comment, please feel free to do so in the comments section below.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Regards


Link
 
#60 ·
I was at my grocery store yesterday and really noticed some gaps. Almost all frozen and canned fish products were gone, and there were signs up saying it was the result of shipping delays. I'd noticed less canned fish for awhile, now there's almost none. Fresh beef selections were sparse and so were pork. Lots of chicken. Fresh produce bins were full as usual and the quality was good. Lots of dairy - milk, yogurts cheeses. Loots of bread options. Cooking oil shelves were less than 1/3 full and the prices have jumped, nearly 30% from what I bought nearly a year ago. There were other spots that seemed full until you saw that all the packages were pulled to the very front of the shelves and there was little behind them.
 
#61 ·
I saw my first $18 package of bacon at Walmart today. Most were $12 (and of course they were the sneaky 12 oz packages instead of a pound). Only one brand was under $8/package.

Phew. Glad I have a bunch in the freezer, but it's going to stink if it's still that price come tomato season.
 
#65 ·
From walmart.com


Add

$4.24
current price $4.24
26.5 ¢/oz
Great Value Thick Sliced Bacon Hickory Smoked, 16 oz
Pickup
Bar S Sliced Bacon, 12 oz


Add

$4.84
current price $4.84
40.3 ¢/oz
Bar S Sliced Bacon, 12 oz
Pickup
Great Value Sliced Hickory Smoked Original Bacon, 16 oz
Popular pick

Add

$4.24
current price $4.24
26.5 ¢/oz
Great Value Sliced Hickory Smoked Original Bacon, 16 oz
Pickup
Great Value Hickory Smoked Bacon, 12 oz


Add

$3.58
current price $3.58
29.8 ¢/oz
Great Value Hickory Smoked Bacon, 12 oz
Pickup
Wright Brand Thick Cut Hickory Smoked Bacon, 1.5 lb.


Add

$9.98
current price $9.98
41.6 ¢/oz
Wright Brand Thick Cut Hickory Smoked Bacon, 1.5 lb.
Pickup
Great Value Hickory Smoked Bacon, Mega Pack, 24 oz


Add

$6.84
current price $6.84
28.5 ¢/oz
Great Value Hickory Smoked Bacon, Mega Pack, 24 oz
Pickup
Wright Brand Thick Sliced Applewood Real Wood Smoked Bacon, 24 oz


Add

$9.98
current price $9.98
41.6 ¢/oz
Wright Brand Thick Sliced Applewood Real Wood Smoked Bacon, 24 oz
Pickup
Farmland Naturally Hickory Smoked Classic Cut Bacon, 16 oz


Add

$6.78
current price $6.78
42.4 ¢/oz
Farmland Naturally Hickory Smoked Classic Cut Bacon, 16 oz
Pickup
Great Value Thick Cut Naturally Hickory Smoked Fully Cooked Bacon, 2.1 oz


Add

$3.78
current price $3.78
$1.80/oz
Great Value Thick Cut Naturally Hickory Smoked Fully Cooked Bacon, 2.1 oz
Pickup
Wright Brand Thick Sliced Hickory Smoked Bacon, 3 lb.


Add

$19.28
current price $19.28
40.2 ¢/oz
Wright Brand Thick Sliced Hickory Smoked Bacon, 3 lb.
Pickup
HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon, Original, 16 oz


Add

$5.98
current price $5.98
37.4 ¢/oz
HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon, Original, 16 oz
Pickup

Farmland Naturally Hickory Smoked Thick Cut Bacon, 24 oz


Add

$9.98
current price $9.98
41.6 ¢/oz
Farmland Naturally Hickory Smoked Thick Cut Bacon, 24 oz
Pickup




Great Value Thick Sliced Bacon, Mega Pack, 24 oz


Add

$6.84
current price $6.84
28.5 ¢/oz
Great Value Thick Sliced Bacon, Mega Pack, 24 oz
Pickup


Farmland Naturally Hickory Smoked Thick Cut Bacon, 16 oz


Add

$6.78
current price $6.78
42.4 ¢/oz
Farmland Naturally Hickory Smoked Thick Cut Bacon, 16 oz
Pickup

HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon, Premium Applewood, 12 oz


Add

$5.98
current price $5.98
49.8 ¢/oz
HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon, Premium Applewood, 12 oz
Pickup

Hormel Natural Choice Original Uncured Bacon, 12 Oz.


Add

$5.98
current price $5.98
49.8 ¢/oz
Hormel Natural Choice Original Uncured Bacon, 12 Oz.
Pickup
Oscar Mayer Naturally Hardwood Smoked Bacon Mega Pack, 22 oz Pack, 23-25 slices


Add

$10.54
current price $10.54
47.9 ¢/oz
Oscar Mayer Naturally Hardwood Smoked Bacon Mega Pack, 22 oz Pack, 23-25 slices
Pickup
HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon, Center Cut, 25% Less Fat, 12 oz


Add

$5.98
current price $5.98
49.8 ¢/oz
HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon, Center Cut, 25% Less Fat, 12 oz
Pickup
Great Value Original Bacon Hickory Smoked, 48 oz


Add

$16.40
current price $16.40
34.2 ¢/oz
Great Value Original Bacon Hickory Smoked, 48 oz
Pickup
 
#118 ·
I think it is when 1) there is no need because the existing soil is good and the gardener is able-bodied and 2) because they want to do it just because it's "pretty". In my case raised beds would severely limit the square footage available to me for gardening

But yes, in many cases raised beds are the way to go. It sometimes irks me though, when folks don't even give their existing soil a try.
 
#93 ·
(Bloomberg) -- An unprecedented real-estate frenzy has left Canada with the fewest houses for sale in at least a quarter century. The country had about 86,000 houses left for sale at the end of December on a seasonally-adjusted basis, according to data from the Canadian Real Estate Association. That’s all that was left after buyers purchased a record 667,000 homes over the course of 2021, about 2

Read more at: Buying Frenzy Leaves Canada With Fewest Homes for Sale on Record
Copyright © BloombergQuint
 
#97 ·
People have to live somewhere. Some people should never own a home because they don't want to maintain their property. Others just do not want the responsibility of doing the maintenance or needed repairs.

Couple thousand $$ for a new roof? We paid over $6000 for our roof only a few years ago. House is only 24x42' with a standard 2 sided roof. Only one section of sheathing needed to be replaced. I'm sure it would be a lot more expensive to replace the shingles and underlayment now.
 
#102 ·
Maintain it to whose standards? The real problem is people seeing housing as a money making asset instead of what it is, SHELTER FROM THE ELEMENTS. Sane people make timely repairs, thosse that dont, suffer, simple as that.

But we are in the end game of capitalism with concentration of wealth and ever more monopolies and oligopolies, big disconnect between pay and cost to live, it will fail just like Soviet socialism. Greed, corruption, and special privileges for an aristocratic wealthy elite spells decline of any system. And we have that in spades anymore. The goal of capitalism is the concentration of wealth. Anybody familiar with the Monopoly board game is aware you win by bankrupting all other players through ever higher rents and concentration of ownership. Capitalists are not concerned with a well run society, only on dying with most toys and power over others. When it becomes cheaper to spend a few turns in jail than to land on some rental with multiple hotels, well you get the idea. That $15 for winning second place in beauty contest no longer matters.
 
#104 ·
So you prefer some get wealthy and the rest are miserable. Hey sounds like nice system. Just like Mexico, 5% own everything, everybody else struggles. Yep tell me again how that benefits anybody but those 5%???

oh I get that people want to define things that puts them and their pet system in best light. But if you are runninig a government seriously, its not about making laws so some individuals getting rich, its about keeping things runniing smoothly. We have already undone much of protections and anti-monopoly laws put in place post 1929, thinking we are ever so much smarter now. Apparently everybody had blinders on 2008-2010. So still going downhill. Want to guarantee an actual revival of real socialism (not Republican imaginary socialism), thats the way to accomplish it, just like the first half of 20th century was a reaction to the late 19th century Gilded Age. We are in the second Gilded Age. And the foolish roaring 20s, part deux when people deluded themselves into thinking massive debt was answer to everything and everybody could get rich buying on margin and speculating.
 
#107 ·
Oh I forget, we no longer mining, manufacturing, or agriculture as main part of our economy. Now its all financing and speculation, money games, squeeze more rent out of the poor or sell Chinese crap on easy payment plan.
 
#110 ·
Oh I forget, we no longer mining, manufacturing, or agriculture as main part of our economy. Now its all financing and speculation, money games, squeeze more rent out of the poor or sell Chinese crap on easy payment plan.
Mining, manufacturing, agriculture are all about financing and / or speculation. Always has been. The chinese crap is just what’s currently available.
 
#122 ·
i took off for the supermarket at 7am. i was worried a bit. not a bit of flour yesterday in wmart and the news about grocery stores closing was getting to me and i wanted to see for myself. i bake every day so if i have flour and yeast etc i'm all set . i was down to 3 cups. first time in 40 years that i didn't have at least 30 lb on hand.

i didn't know what i was in for when i went through the door. no shortage of anything in my regular store. plenty flour,yeast etc. i'm well prepped otherwise. enough canned food for a couple years. granted it's there but the prices are through the roof for everything. but i knew that. (i have to stop listening to the news though) soon as i got home i called my son and told him not to bother looking for flour. he said "too late mother i was just out and bought 100 lbs". happiness is lots of flour to me. i already have a pineapple cake in the oven. ~Georgia
 
#127 ·
At my last trip to the store the top Ramen was pretty wiped out. Come to think of it, another supermarket that I don't frequent as often was cleared out of the Ramen, too. Ramen isn't something that I buy but the empty shelves are hard to ignore. I was in kind of a hurry but don't recall any other huge shortages.
 
#128 ·
Haven't been in a well stocked store in more than a year. Unless you are only going to the store for beer and cigarettes, they are out of something. We try to go no more than weekly, and used to be able to manage monthly shopping trips. Now it's weekly, sometimes biweekly trips to get the thing that has been in short supply. It will be crackers one time, barbecue sauce another, who knows what, but it's always something. Might be a particular brand, sometimes it starts extending to an entire product type. Maybe we are too far from a port.
 
#134 ·
We keep one vacant if family or friends house burns down. Three bedroom , two bath fully furnished. Power and water is active and no one has spent a night in it for 16 years... We call it the hunting shack even though its brick with a full basement. We just shoot deer out of the windows...
 
#136 ·
IF hubby ever gets time off work, I have a house I want to fix up. I would use it for family and friends that need a place to stay and for my use when I want a little vacation.

The county thinks wooded ravines are worth more than flat, tillable land. The land taxes on that one are more than the other 2 lots combined.
 
#139 ·
We shop mostly at Kroger about 10 miles away. We are not seeing to many shortages except the wife's "Powerade Zero Sugar Power Water Lemon". She will only drink the lemon flavor which seems to sell out first, all other flavors are in stock all the time. Now the freshness of their produce has taken a major hit over the last year.
 
#163 ·
I get about 10 eggs per day from the ducks, bantams and the 3 leghorns.
They do not look like they are molting. Only the leghorns are missing neck feathers
around their heads. Once the weather gets better and they all kick back in
then I can start the hatching. My friend gets 13 eggs per day out of 13
standard size hens. I know where to get eggs if I need them :)
 
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top