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Dave H 
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 9:31am |
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I just cannot figure out the bare shelves. Example, locally margarine has been non existent for days.
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fixer1958
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 10:16am |
Wife went to the store a couple of days ago and she said the same thing. Been looking for more canning jars just cuz. About tripled in price. Used to get then at Walmart for $12 a dozen quart jars w/seals and lids. Now $35 through Amazon. None in Walmart. Found some through Ace hardware for $1.68 each with shipping. Seemed reasonable to me and I don't have to go get it.
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 10:19am |
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Popular soup such as Campbell's tomato soup, is scant around here. And what you can find is spendy. Darrel
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 10:58am |
'marketing' to make millions..... create a 'shortage' then when in stock, sheeple will buy 6-12 of it...
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:02am |
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'marketing' to make millions..... create a 'shortage' then when in stock, sheeple will buy 6-12 of it...
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Really Jay you believe that?
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:11am |
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Can't find bisquick to save your life around here but jiffy is available. I'm starting to like jiffy just as much or better.
Kids seem to like the pancakes so we're all good.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:16am |
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Just my opinion but I think it's related to the number of people eating at home rather than eating out 1 to 3 meals a day. They have to get the groceries to feed themselves.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:20am |
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A big part of the problem is the sudden jolt in the purchasing habits of the consumer. The change over to ‘household packaging’ really threw a monkey wrench in the works.
Nobody is eating in restaurants, millions out of work, nobody is traveling(for pleasure).
This so much more stuff is needed to availe for home use instead of ‘commercial’ or ‘institutional’ use.
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john(MI)
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:25am |
Yes they do have to get groceries. But why are they buying all of the flour, sugar and eggs? None of them know how to cook!
I think, since it was first implemented on specific items, that stores need to put limits on everything. In the paper an 86 year old woman said she just wants to go to the store and be able to get her groceries for the week.
Lucky me, I scored a 30 roll pack of TP from Costco!!!
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Dandan111
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:26am |
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Thendrix that's true for us on the eating out part. It's been a great change for us. All 3 of my girls have lost some weight and their not big girls to start with. Eating out is a bad habit for busy families.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:27am |
jaybmiller wrote:
'marketing' to make millions..... create a 'shortage' then when in stock, sheeple will buy 6-12 of it...
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Yep! All they have to do is create a "shortage" and the sheeple will buy it up. Many more people are having to eat at home now and they are also stocking up their pantries therefore buying much more at the grocery stores. The grocery chains should be making millions now but I guarantee you none is getting passed back down to the farmers. Plants and seeds are being bought up as fast as they come in now. Many more people are planting gardens now than any time since WWII. Friday I got a call from the lady at the local feed and seed near the farm letting me know the plant farm truck had just unloaded. I dropped what I was doing and headed down there and by the time I got there the parking lot was full and they had just about sold out. Thankfully she had put some sweet potato slips aside for me as there were no more left and no tomato plants either.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:41am |
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Whole family’s are home now 24/7 for weeks on end. Flour, sugar, eggs, meat, toilet paper, etc are gonna be the first things to go bare. It’s not that people can’t cook, it was more convenient to go out. How many people actually packed a lunch to take to work in today’s society vs 40 yrs ago?
There is plenty of most staples available, but not packaged in the size homeowners use.
Why would a Walmart be out of ground beef, and Sysco announcement they are laying off drivers the same day?
Warehouses are full of foodstuffs packaged for restaurants etc, how many homeowners are going to buy a pallet of frozen burger patties?
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 11:55am |
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Read where JBS, who supplies beef world wide, ws bitching because the only thing moving is hamburger. Most steak sales are to restaurants. They have an abundance of steak but can't keep up with the cheaper stuff.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 12:02pm |
In the news that a guy was caught with the back of his vehicle stuffed full of t-paper. It seems that he had stolen it from Bed Bath and Beyond.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 12:20pm |
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Also, with kids home from school more demand at home. We haven't been to the store for 2 and a half weeks, will try to go this week sometime so I don't know the shortages here.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 1:21pm |
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Everyone is cooking at home, the typical only buy a few odds and ends meals has turned to buying three meals a day for however many days between shopping there is.
Baking goods are going to local bakers as they cannot get enough off the bulk producers to cover for the increased demand. The Quarantine goes off and the restaurants reopen for dining at tables then the stores will refill.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 4:15pm |
re: Really Jay you believe that?
Yes, it's part of the 'equation' as to WHY there are shortages. Four decades ago, before the 'Personal Computer', I cut BASIC code for a hobbyshop with 5500 items. Part of the code would look at sales and time of year, to tweak the reorder points and quantites. Obvious things were ... plane kits sold more in Winter, fuel in spring and summer. Now I have to think, no, I KNOW, today's computers are a LOT faster(3,000x+) and better at number crunching, auto barcode scanning, etc. so a store's ordering and inventory HAS to be done better now. They KNOW what they've sold, usually up to the 1/2 hour, maybe better, so reordering is dead simple. Up here the 'egg board' has huge warehouses FULL of eggs, 6-9 months supply, rotated of course....so there shouldn't be a shortage of eggs in any store...unless they don't order them. A wholesaler( restaurant food items) went online here to sell off their inventory. I checked the prices...a LOT higher than 'retail' and 'bulk' qty. He'll have to drop by 75% before I'll buy anything...
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 4:28pm |
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Lars is right... Supplier are use to packaging things on Pallets for the restaurants.. 50# bags of flour, 5 gal cans of milk, 25 # of beans...... Now what is needed is TWICE as much packaging for HOME and very little for restaurants.. It will take a few weeks to balance out... hopefully some of the restaurants will come back over next 1-2 months.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 10:20pm |
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My friend sent me a cartoon today it showed a skeleton by a dumpster with the caption :I should have bought more food than 3000 rolls of toilet paper" I was at Aldi's the other day and I got there 10 minutes early and there were at least 60 people lined up by the door waiting with their carts to get in. Got in there and they had a uniformed officer inside by the toilet paper and there were more people than toilet paper. Just crazy
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 7:26am |
Trawler II wrote:
jaybmiller wrote:
'marketing' to make millions..... create a 'shortage' then when in stock, sheeple will buy 6-12 of it...
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Yes, he does. 'They' are out to get jay. Have been for some time.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 7:28am |
thendrix wrote:
Just my opinion but I think it's related to the number of people eating at home rather than eating out 1 to 3 meals a day. They have to get the groceries to feed themselves. |
Sonny Perdue was commenting about this. Basically, there is plenty of food, but it's packed wrong for consumers. There was a balance of how food was packed: a certain amount for homes, a certain amount for schools, restaurants, etc. Now that ratio is all screwed up and so is the packing. So it's a distribution problem, not so much a stock problem. At least all according to him, your results may vary.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 7:35am |
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Seems to me......there's going to be a HUGE credit crunch coming out the tail end of this. All you heard about for years, is how most people live paycheck to paycheck, scraping and scrimping by. Now they're buying buying buying, where is all this money coming from? Sure, unemployment benefits are good right now with the $600 per weak addition, but still, I think a lot of this hoarding buying has to be put on credit cards, and it's going to snowball.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 9:33am |
Tbone95 wrote:
Seems to me......there's going to be a HUGE credit crunch coming out the tail end of this. All you heard about for years, is how most people live paycheck to paycheck, scraping and scrimping by. Now they're buying buying buying, where is all this money coming from? Sure, unemployment benefits are good right now with the $600 per weak addition, but still, I think a lot of this hoarding buying has to be put on credit cards, and it's going to snowball. |
I’d bet some serious coin that you’re correct. That has me a bit nervous. That said, after the recession(I’m a construction worker) I live completely different than before. I do nothing on credit and we keep months or more worth of groceries on hand at all times. If we had more storage we’d have even more. Back to your point, all the young’en I work with live day to day pay check to pay check never thinking or planning the future. New fancy diesel trucks with big payments and big insurance payments and a crappy apartment. One or two weeks with no pay and all is lost.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 11:34am |
Just for jollys I wrote down when I put a new roll of TP on the dispenser, replaced it yesterday, 24 days. Of course it's just me using it and I guess I don't waste it (or have a dog that likes to chew on it). I figure one of those 30 roll bags from Costco will last me almost two years. I think I still have a dozen rolls left, I'm rich! My renter opened her farm store a few weeks ago, early by a month. The first day she sold 60 dozen eggs (at $7 per dozen). Can't grow greens fast enough in the greenhouse. I supply her with flour, she's selling 3 to 5 five pound bags a day (for $6), used to sell maybe two or three a week. People would rather stand in line (6 feet apart) outside then go in a store, can't blame them.
BTW, looks like we lost about half of our fruit crop to frost last week. Don't know if Hutch will happen, but if it does, I still hope to bring some peaches.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 2:58pm |
Yeah should be some GREAT deals on low mileage pickups come September..... The farm store where grand daughter works only sells eggs in 'flats'- 2 1/2 dzn. Can't keep them in stock !! 1,000s every week.......
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 5:32pm |
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ya'll should use your TP to it's fullist use! you can save by using both sides!
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Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 5:59pm |
Tbone95 wrote:
Trawler II wrote:
jaybmiller wrote:
'marketing' to make millions..... create a 'shortage' then when in stock, sheeple will buy 6-12 of it...
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Yes, he does. 'They' are out to get jay. Have been for some time. |
They are out to get ALL soup buying customers  . Just tonight the wife said that there is NO soup on the shelves  , how can that possibly be with the millions of gallons of condensed soup produced per year  ?? And I don't buy into the "we're stuck at home" theory of the shortage of soup either .
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Posted: 21 Apr 2020 at 2:26am |
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I get double mileage out of my TP. I buy two ply rolls and split them. LMAO
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Posted: 23 Apr 2020 at 9:31am |
I work in a groceries store and we restock every morning
Best I can tell at the end of this mess we are gonna have a lot of over weight people with clean a$$es because ice cream is always empty and toilet paper shelf's
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Posted: 23 Apr 2020 at 11:09am |
I was in the Restaurant Depot this morning. Everything is Picked over that is standard living meals ingredients. No 50lb or 25lb or any size potatoes or onions, Beef is only the highend steaks, some pork butts, and boneless cushions $1.63lb got 19lbs of the cushions. Some ground lamb (sheep I'll bet) and no fresh chicken. Still seems to be plenty of frozen meats ect. in 10lb-20lb boxes. Very little cured and deli meats and mostly the highend expensive stuff. I did find in the back of a bottom rack (literally had get down and crawl in) 2-9.5lb Carolina Golden Delight Turkey Chubs at $1.28lb, Yeah!!! Anyhow bought some other stuff and dropped $155. I'm good for 6 months again. I won't buy any fresh salad fixings as pretty hard to wash and make sure it's WhoFlungPooh free. Stay Safe and Healthy Guys.
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