I’ve noticed many items like pasta and chicken getting wiped out. I’m in the Midwest.
You guy notice any empty shelves?
You guy notice any empty shelves?
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Have you noticed a run on food in your AO?
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Obviously toilet paper - then the meat counter is pretty spare, but some meat is available, just not necessarily what you would have bought.. The real shame is the amount of food being thrown out since other states won’t accept it. A local farmer had an order of cabbage to TX that they wouldn’t allow to ship. (We are in the hotspot of Louisiana...)
No real problems here in RI. I live in a rural part so small town of 15K with a lot of land since we have farms.
Plenty of fresh meat, fish, fruit and produce in the store. Paper goods, dry food like pasta, rice, beans, flour is in short supply. I always keep plenty so no issues for me. I always buy when I can to replenish.
There are days when whole milk and eggs are hard to get at the store. My neighbor sells me eggs and I can do without milk for my java.
Plenty of fresh meat, fish, fruit and produce in the store. Paper goods, dry food like pasta, rice, beans, flour is in short supply. I always keep plenty so no issues for me. I always buy when I can to replenish.
There are days when whole milk and eggs are hard to get at the store. My neighbor sells me eggs and I can do without milk for my java.
HEB made out like bandits last month. Got cleaned out for two whole weeks. Everybody in 3 surrounding counties came in and went full retard panic mode buying up.
They appear to be caught up on supply now.
Unless the retards had vacuum sealers or other measures most of it will be freezer burnt, go bad and get chunked in many peoples opinion.
They appear to be caught up on supply now.
Unless the retards had vacuum sealers or other measures most of it will be freezer burnt, go bad and get chunked in many peoples opinion.
Wouldn't notice. I have two freezers, one with 300 lbs of salmon and halibut from AK and the other with 250 lbs of moose, elk, and deer meet. I'm good for a while...
Just went to the store for the first time in two weeks. Pasta mostly gone, but pretty much anything you might want/need EXCEPT tp and paper towels.
All the kale is in the dumpster, where it belongs.
I did venture out yesterday for the first time in a few weeks, since we started running low on a few "essentials". A few observations:
1) The only paper products available are Bounty paper towels. If I were to spill a tiny amount of liquid in an immaculate kitchen, there are plenty of 1/3rd sheets available to quickly absorb that mess.
2) Frozen veggies are non-existent, as are many fresh vegetables.
3) Lunch meat and tuna supplies are sparse.
4) Eggs and butter are gone.
5) Couldn't find the frozen fish my kids like.
6) Plain boxed pasta was cleaned out. Plenty of pasta sauce available, however.
7) Cooking oil stock was a bit thin. Not much flour or sugar on the shelves.
8) Very little whole-grain bread, but sufficient stock of white bread has returned. No hot dog or hamburger buns, which is a bit weird since it's not exactly grilling season yet.
9) What I'm going to call "shit food" of all types - Hungry Man TV dinners, Hostess cupcakes, Kraft mac-and-cheese, chips, soda, cookies, Easter candy of every variety - is well-stocked and widely available.
If what I'm seeing is indicative of what people are actually buying and consuming, we may be seeing the early stages of a turnaround in dietary habits. No way in hell that's actually happening, though I believe that the shift from dining out to eating at home is straining the supply chain of consumer-grade staples, while the pre-packaged and junk food supply chains are quite robust because that's where the money has been for the last couple of decades. Maybe someone who is a bit closer to the food manufacturing and distribution industries can weigh in with more detail.
1) The only paper products available are Bounty paper towels. If I were to spill a tiny amount of liquid in an immaculate kitchen, there are plenty of 1/3rd sheets available to quickly absorb that mess.
2) Frozen veggies are non-existent, as are many fresh vegetables.
3) Lunch meat and tuna supplies are sparse.
4) Eggs and butter are gone.
5) Couldn't find the frozen fish my kids like.
6) Plain boxed pasta was cleaned out. Plenty of pasta sauce available, however.
7) Cooking oil stock was a bit thin. Not much flour or sugar on the shelves.
8) Very little whole-grain bread, but sufficient stock of white bread has returned. No hot dog or hamburger buns, which is a bit weird since it's not exactly grilling season yet.
9) What I'm going to call "shit food" of all types - Hungry Man TV dinners, Hostess cupcakes, Kraft mac-and-cheese, chips, soda, cookies, Easter candy of every variety - is well-stocked and widely available.
If what I'm seeing is indicative of what people are actually buying and consuming, we may be seeing the early stages of a turnaround in dietary habits. No way in hell that's actually happening, though
I believe that the shift from dining out to eating at home is straining the supply chain of consumer-grade staples, while the pre-packaged and junk food supply chains are quite robust because that's where the money has been for the last couple of decades. Maybe someone who is a bit closer to the food manufacturing and distribution industries can weigh in with more detail.Unless you're looking for TP or paper towels everything in the western Detroit suburbs is in stock. People are acting normal except most wearing masks.
All the kale is in the dumpster, where it belongs.
Fuck that........Not when you are out of TP.
This TP/paper towel shortage cracks me up.
You guys are looking in the wrong stores. Think about who's not hoarding this stuff-people that can't afford to. What store do you visit with only 10 welfare dollars? Down here it's Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Dollar General etc.
I go slumming for TP, and the shelves are always stocked..
You guys are looking in the wrong stores. Think about who's not hoarding this stuff-people that can't afford to. What store do you visit with only 10 welfare dollars? Down here it's Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Dollar General etc.
I go slumming for TP, and the shelves are always stocked..
When the craziness first started, I cruised a local Walmart just to see what was getting stripped and what was overlooked.
1. Bakery: Not a single package of sliced bread of any sort, yet the staff was carting a shopping cart FULL of unsliced baked in house loaves of french bread, bagettes, and other assorted breads. The shelves were FULL.
2. Meat: No packaged deli meats, no beef or pork, a little salmon. At the end of a completely empty tub freezer (ALL meats competely gone) there was about 30 frozen turkeys, just sitting there. Same with unfrozen turkeys, at 1.20 a pound, no interest at all.
3. Tortillas. Whele the bread was goine, the tortillas were sill stacked up, both flour and corn, and those wierd dark brown wraps, that no one really likes anyway.
4. Flour/pasta/ rice. All gone, but Masa Harina (which is corn FLOUR, ground way finer than corn meal), was still stacked.
People are simply panic buying, with no concept of actual "food storage". I don't see that that has changed. I can still buy case lots of canned beans, which is how I buy them under normal conditions anyway. I can still buy stuff the hoarders overlook.
this makes me recall a Mormon I once knew who was talking about food storage, a basic LDS concept. He said he didn't like most of what was on the list, but he was buying big-box case lots of "Snakin' Cake". that was back in the late 70's. I imagine that stuff is still "fresh"
The shelf life of Twinkies, is at least double that of the actual shelf.
1. Bakery: Not a single package of sliced bread of any sort, yet the staff was carting a shopping cart FULL of unsliced baked in house loaves of french bread, bagettes, and other assorted breads. The shelves were FULL.
2. Meat: No packaged deli meats, no beef or pork, a little salmon. At the end of a completely empty tub freezer (ALL meats competely gone) there was about 30 frozen turkeys, just sitting there. Same with unfrozen turkeys, at 1.20 a pound, no interest at all.
3. Tortillas. Whele the bread was goine, the tortillas were sill stacked up, both flour and corn, and those wierd dark brown wraps, that no one really likes anyway.
4. Flour/pasta/ rice. All gone, but Masa Harina (which is corn FLOUR, ground way finer than corn meal), was still stacked.
People are simply panic buying, with no concept of actual "food storage". I don't see that that has changed. I can still buy case lots of canned beans, which is how I buy them under normal conditions anyway. I can still buy stuff the hoarders overlook.
this makes me recall a Mormon I once knew who was talking about food storage, a basic LDS concept. He said he didn't like most of what was on the list, but he was buying big-box case lots of "Snakin' Cake". that was back in the late 70's. I imagine that stuff is still "fresh"
The shelf life of Twinkies, is at least double that of the actual shelf.
One bright note for us is that my wife has Celiac disease and has to eat gluten free, so there's plenty GF of bread and pasta. I guess all the gluten intolerant posers were instantly cured when the Kung Flu hit. There's also plenty of vegan crap left.
I just hope it doesn't get any worse, I wouldn't want to do anything illegal
My local wet market is running low on Tiger gallbladder.
I'm glad to see everyone panicking over food. Tells me who will not be around long once the shelves are bare. If you look at/watch those who always wait for trouble to make an appointment you can see what they're trying to hide. Life has out smarted them as they don't have a clue about their next move,...Laughing,... maybe mothernature will clean up mans lazyness an stupidness after all.
Maybe. But there is no food shortage...
Yet.
Farmers Dump Milk, Break Eggs as Coronavirus Restaurant Closings Destroy Demand
With restaurants, hotels and cafeterias closed by the coronavirus, American farmers stuck with vast quantities of food they cannot sell are dumping milk, throwing out chicken-hatching eggs and rendering pork bellies into lard instead of bacon.
www.wsj.com
Larger supermarkets have SENIOR hours, very early in the morning, ranging as early as 6 a.m., once you get into a couple of them, the aisles are all ONE WAY traffic, so you don't pass anyone in the aisles. Even still, last weekend when I arrived at 5:30 a.m. two people both wearing face masks and by 6 a.m. twenty people ready to go in. Most of those in masks, but there were a few without. It was a cold morn. Surprisingly there was a stock of large packs of TP. One/customer. There was even paper napkins, a commodity which was previously in short supply. At 7 a.m. a diff market was open for seniors where I shopped for misc. items that were not available at the first store. The shopping carts had all been sprayed/wiped down before given to incoming customers.
Later that day, I drove by SCHEELS only to find it closed. I had received a gift card in the mail and now couldn't use it. Thankfully, live in Sparks, NV
Many parks in the city and a nearby one is usually available to walk the puppy around without having to come close to people. To avoid cabin fever, also take hour long drives every other day to different parts of Northern Nevada. Best wishes to all of you and yours. Stay safe!
Later that day, I drove by SCHEELS only to find it closed. I had received a gift card in the mail and now couldn't use it.
Thankfully, live in Sparks, NVMany parks in the city and a nearby one is usually available to walk the puppy around without having to come close to people. To avoid cabin fever, also take hour long drives every other day to different parts of Northern Nevada. Best wishes to all of you and yours. Stay safe!
