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possible lengthy food, supply shortages coming to the US? Latest: start hiding Sriracha (1 Viewer)

On a scale of 1-10 how concerned are you about a food/supply shortage?

  • 1-Not concerned at all. Business as usual.

    Votes: 48 23.1%

  • 2

    Votes: 35 16.8%

  • 3

    Votes: 30 14.4%

  • 4

    Votes: 25 12.0%

  • 5-Mildly concerned, but not panicking. Stocking up on some non-perishable essentials.

    Votes: 45 21.6%

  • 6

    Votes: 8 3.8%

  • 7

    Votes: 9 4.3%

  • 8

    Votes: 4 1.9%

  • 9

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10-Stocking up on everything.

    Votes: 4 1.9%
  • Total voters
    208
There will be many more outages as companies will focus on best sellers for the holidays.  It’s very hard for me as I am getting 35-50% out of stocks.  Not the optimal way to make money.

 
BeTheMatch said:
No Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches today. The end is nigh.
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this product has been very hard to find for a bit now. 

I am a big fan of the little sausage biscuit sandwiches. the breakfast bowls, and the "unicorn" of Jimmy Dean products the morning combos link Those are nearly impossible to find--pandemic or not. 

Ooohhh---I see on their website they have stuffed sausage bites---mmmmmm,, must try. 

 
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Courtjester said:
this product has been very hard to find for a bit now. 

I am a big fan of the little sausage biscuit sandwiches. the breakfast bowls, and the "unicorn" of Jimmy Dean products the morning combos link Those are nearly impossible to find--pandemic or not. 

Ooohhh---I see on their website they have stuffed sausage bites---mmmmmm,, must try. 
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On a related note, they don't seem to sell Steak-umms in Oregon that I can find. Moving back to Minnesota ASAP.

 
BeTheMatch said:
On a related note, they don't seem to sell Steak-umms in Oregon that I can find. Moving back to Minnesota ASAP.
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I do like a steakum but I swear it’s $10 for like 1 sandwich worth.  Our Kroger actually sells fresh shaved beef (I think it’s ribeye) really good for Philly steaks and stir fry

 
Courtjester said:
this product has been very hard to find for a bit now. 

I am a big fan of the little sausage biscuit sandwiches. the breakfast bowls, and the "unicorn" of Jimmy Dean products the morning combos link Those are nearly impossible to find--pandemic or not. 

Ooohhh---I see on their website they have stuffed sausage bites---mmmmmm,, must try. 
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the sausage biscuits are solid, not a huge fan of the frozen egg though.  Sometimes I will toss is but also feel like it needs some moisture 

breakfast corn dogs are good too 

croissants ok

everyThing else kinda meh

 
We bought the local HEB brand turkey Wednesday evening. I prefer Butterball but there were none and I didn't want to risk getting shut out since  I have family coming. Glad I got it when I did. Today, zero Butterball and down to two of the local brand. That, no Charmin TP and none of our normal ketchup brand. So I am definitely seeing the shortages pan out. Will be interesting to see the ham situation come Christmas.

Side note, I went by the Base Exchange to look at upright freezers (my garage one is dying) and found a treasure trove of Charmin. So maybe our local grocery store only stocks from their own warehouses and they are the issue?

 
DallasDMac said:
We bought the local HEB brand turkey Wednesday evening. I prefer Butterball but there were none and I didn't want to risk getting shut out since  I have family coming. Glad I got it when I did. Today, zero Butterball and down to two of the local brand. That, no Charmin TP and none of our normal ketchup brand. So I am definitely seeing the shortages pan out. Will be interesting to see the ham situation come Christmas.

Side note, I went by the Base Exchange to look at upright freezers (my garage one is dying) and found a treasure trove of Charmin. So maybe our local grocery store only stocks from their own warehouses and they are the issue?
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Got our Butterball today at Aldi. Already there are "one per customer" signs up for them.

 
DallasDMac said:
Side note, I went by the Base Exchange to look at upright freezers (my garage one is dying) and found a treasure trove of Charmin. So maybe our local grocery store only stocks from their own warehouses and they are the issue?
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If you are actually in Dallas, try your closest Office Depot and see if they carry bulk toilet paper. Many usually carry non refrigerated type snack foods, bottled water and toilet paper. No one looks there for that type of stuff.

I didn't think about it myself until one of my IT guys mentioned it to me when there was a massive shortage of hand sanitizer last year.

I don't venture to Dallas much, when I'm down there I'm in Houston. I'm guessing the closest to you from memory would be on Greenville.

At my various work sites, since starting last year, I've established a small reserve of non perishable food, water and other essentials. In a true widespread crisis, it won't carry them for months, but maybe it will give them a head start if things get bad enough. For those still going in to work and can't do it remotely, you spend most of your time at work during the day, so have some kind of emergency 3 day or 5 day kit in your car's trunk. If you have a small amount of storage, stash some basics relative to your space, under your cubicle or in your office.

If there's a crisis, people just automatically assume they can find a way home, and that might not be true. The average American household has about three weeks of food reserves nominally. And what if you can't get back? Either short term or even worse, it could be never.

People need to think about emergency resources in a "three layer system"  Your home, your personal vehicle, and then a pack on yourself. Four layers if they think about a basic belt kit too. Which they should.

 
Orange&Blue said:
Seeing reports that supply chain disruptions will continue till 2023
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I mean 2223 is more realistic.  Our whole economy is built on the premise that you take raw materials, send it somewhere the labor is cheap, process it, maybe in several locations, then send it back often not that far to from where it started.  

There is and continues to be simply too many people to feed jimmy dean sausage biscuits.  Get off your ### people, grind up some meat, get some bread and put it together.  There's zero reason we need some $5/month person in middle of nowhere china playing a role here so we can have a single serving of preservative laced garbage. 

 
For those of you finding turkey shortages, you may check your local butcher shops for a fresh turkey. We order ours through a local meat market. They are never frozen and taste awesome. They are a little more expensive but well worth it. Pick it up the day before Thanksgiving. 

 
Payne said:
I found this odd. Still have bricks as noted above. But haven't had tubs in weeks. 
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I really did not care.  Tasted the same or better as Philly for half the price. Cream cheese is not exactly bursting with flavor anyway.

 
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Lots of cream cheese mentions in here. Today Aldi had no regular cream cheese. Apparently they had flavored but...ew!

 
This weeks order from the supplier - 586 cases out of 1500 .  Also received a letter that price increases after the first of the year.

 
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Terminalxylem said:
Just got back from Costco. From the vantage point of someone not reliant upon cream cheese or Jimmy Dean products for survival, there seemed to be plenty of stuff available.
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I did see Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches in my local Harris Teeter. Not sure why but there weren’t a lot of them in there. Maybe they are more popular than I realized. 

 
Listened to an economist on a radio interview say there was a butterfly flapping wing effect from the pandemic of people not going out to eat, therefore not tipping, as well as shifting eating/spending patterns that has more or less resonated through the entire food supply chain and those are now roosting.  

Tipping is more or less income redistribution and there are few avenues to earn like that without a degree, and the way that restaurants buy and source food is like a industry (just in time), that both of those got disrupted will take ages to work out.  So instead of tipping waiters people are buying (well I suppose jimmy deans).  The waiters now demand higher wages to do something other than wait tables.  And here we are.

Also there are signs that people simply aren't/won't come back to eating out or travel like they did.  The rebound is especially slow overseas.  You need the US restaurants running more or less to grease the skids of the entire food chain.

 
Alex P Keaton said:
Yeah.  Prices are going up as labor suddenly cares about being paid a living wage.  How horrific.
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I do think prices are going up more than just labor costs. I assume if there’s less supply available and/or transportation that prices are getting jacked up. As posted above, restaurants are just trying to get anything they can. 

 
stbugs said:
I do think prices are going up more than just labor costs. I assume if there’s less supply available and/or transportation that prices are getting jacked up. As posted above, restaurants are just trying to get anything they can. 
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Zero doubt that we have supply chain issues also.

 
I heard a good analogy yesterday regarding all this, have no idea the voracity of it but it sounded good.

From Roosevelt to Eisenhower, the US GDP doubled and so did the living wage. From Reagan to Obama the GDP doubled again and the wage stayed flat. What we're seeing now is the wage catching up and causing some pain points. Something like that.

 
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