No. Fresh Express at Publix is a BOGO this week. I chose baby spinach, my roommate chose a lettuce blend. Miami Beach.
A week ago when my daughter was in town we bought spinach at Whole Foods in North Miami.
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possible lengthy food, supply shortages coming to the US? Latest: start hiding Sriracha (3 Viewers)
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A week ago when my daughter was in town we bought spinach at Whole Foods in North Miami.
Coke zero has been frequently missing at Costco in Miami. And also sometimes at Walgreens, CVS, and Publix.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I’ve actually had better luck with finding it during the pandemic than before. (I need it for my CPAP machine).
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Plenty of Coke Zero and Distilled water in Michigan. Manager at local Krogers said they really have not been short on much at all. Maybe a product here and there but there is always a different brand if need be.
Said the biggest problem is that so much stuff is in back room as most of their employees instead of stocking are doing the online shopping for people.
Hawks64
Footballguy
<-- Hope that's an appropriate use of the laughing emoji. 
this would have been a perfect time to have that reaction emoji.
Hawks64
Footballguy
DallasDMac
Footballguy
Why? Last year farmers were destroying crops because there was no one to buy them. Now all the sudden everything is tripling in price. Is it just because delivery folks (trucks, ports, trains, etc.) are price gouging everyone to death?
massraider
Footballguy
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
DallasDMac
Footballguy
Wasn't the government requiring these companies (it might just have been those related to shipping containers and ports) to provide data showing that essentially they weren't price gouging? It was in the news awhile back but I haven't heard anything on it in awhile.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
I’m probably the wrong guy to ask. I don’t believe much of anything that our govt tells us
culdeus
Footballguy
Shipping issues. When we can't get staples to China cheaply everything breaks down. Gonna be a lot of roosting.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Kroger?
Our local Kroger had zero lettuce - fresh, packaged, iceberg, romaine, red, bagged, whatever ...no bagged spinach or fresh. There were a few of the clear plastic boxes of the Spring Mix ...that was it.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
skol asylum
Footballguy
Could be recalls on the green stuff.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Have not seen Rice Krispie treats in a few weeks
skol asylum
Footballguy
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
Will be interesting to see if China’s “zero tolerance for covid” policy is successful in keeping outbreaks to a minimum. The strain is so contagious and the typical factories in China involve lots of people in relatively close quarters—that any sort of moderate outbreak there could really be a threat to global supply chains.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Check your local organic farmers. My family uses a farmers market basically from April to December, and we have some relationships now with some farmers with greenhouses who grow throughout the winter.
You generally can't get everything you want, but I can get lettuce, spinach, etc from our guy. We can also usually get some other stuff like cucumbers, radishes...stuff like that.
We also stock up on potatoes and sweet potatoes the last market of the season (end of November) and that usually carries us to about February.
You generally can't get everything you want, but I can get lettuce, spinach, etc from our guy. We can also usually get some other stuff like cucumbers, radishes...stuff like that.
We also stock up on potatoes and sweet potatoes the last market of the season (end of November) and that usually carries us to about February.
JaxBill
Footballguy
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
Supply chain issues to continue into 2022, get worse before they get better
an aspect I hadn't thought about recently, but tl;dr from the article:
But the larger issue lies in China, where another wave of COVID is ravaging the country.
“Their approach to coronavirus is to absolutely lock down a city, a province, a port,” Williams said. “And so, that is really challenging the supply chain for things coming out of China. And a lot of things still come out of China. We really haven’t diversified away from China very much. People are trying, but it takes quite a while.”
time to start growing your own cream cheese and Jimmy Deans, fellas
an aspect I hadn't thought about recently, but tl;dr from the article:
But the larger issue lies in China, where another wave of COVID is ravaging the country.
“Their approach to coronavirus is to absolutely lock down a city, a province, a port,” Williams said. “And so, that is really challenging the supply chain for things coming out of China. And a lot of things still come out of China. We really haven’t diversified away from China very much. People are trying, but it takes quite a while.”
time to start growing your own cream cheese and Jimmy Deans, fellas
supermike80
Footballguy
Went to 4 stores for sir fry sauce. Weird. Kinda had to. Bought all the fixins so needed the sauce
ChiefD
Footballguy
massraider
Footballguy
I'm wondering if this mess doesn't have unintended consequences that improve things in one way, or several.
If it gets harder to purchase cheap crap from China, maybe people will purchase less cheap crap from China.
90% of what we purchases arrives in a shipping container. Maybe we permanently lower that percentage.
Maybe this spurs action to update our ports, and improve their efficiency.
And probably several other positive outcomes my tiny brain cannot conceive. The goal should not be to restore this system. The system has been exposed as having a laughable number of weak links, each of which seems pretty dang weak.
It will take capitalism, not policy, to make it happen. There has to be a way to profit from improving a broken system.
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
Would love to see it, but not confident at all that it's going to happen. Without policy (which certainly has cons) it's going to come down to consumer behavior changing and demanding it happen, and I think that's extremely wishful thinking.
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Apparently there is a shortage of the little Fancy Feast sized cat food cans. Pet store has a sign that says it could extend into 2023
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
bwhaaaa! That lonely POS Arby's curly fries is rightfully one of the few things left.
LONG LIVE POTATO CAKES!!!
DallasDMac
Footballguy
Our new missing item is OJ. Our main grocery chain hasn't had it in weeks. We got some at Walmart though.
A guy I know built a shop and needed two larger overhead doors. He was told it would be at least 6 months.
nirad3
Footballguy
Yeah steel and steel-related items are tough to find right now in the construction industry. It's been problematic for a few months now.
As for grocery items, we are unable to find the ONE brand of chicken nuggets my son eats (and he eats them for just about EVERY dinner). They're usually at Target but our Target suuuuuuuucks in terms of supply.
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
I've experienced noticeably more empty shelf slots in the last few weeks with just random stuff like half gallons of chocolate milk, peanut butter crackers, some frozen stuff, some canned goods. I think they're getting stock still, just lower amounts so they can't keep it on hand very long. Powerades/Gatorades still spotty. And perhaps the most alarming, whiskey section starting to look barren
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I have not seen Marie Callender’s lemon meringue pie in a long time, nor any competitor’s lemon meringue pie. Apparently there’s a shortage of lemons.
Snoopy
Footballguy
I just got a box of it last week on sale at Woodman's (Wisconsin supermarket).
Brownsfan
Footballguy
A lot of these shortages are packaging related instead of product related. For example, Snak Pak puddings were hard to find due to a resin shortage that goes in the container. Things are getting better but manufacturers are consolidating their offerings to core products so their will be less choices. As far as the crackers Nabisco stopped making Saltines without notice, throwing the whole cracker industry into a frenzied attempt to shift production.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
Shelves are varying degrees of empty on any given day. Prices are absolutely ridiculous. And on top of raising prices dramatically, they're doing so while shrinking the size of the packaging. A box of corn chex was like $7.50 for the big size. And the $4.50 box is a new size that has never existed before. It's rail-thin. 8 oz. 8. For $4.50.
Don't tell me these guys aren't taking advantage of the situation here.
Don't tell me these guys aren't taking advantage of the situation here.
beer 30
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Weird. I've never seen Arby's sell their potato products frozen in a retail store before.
skol asylum
Footballguy
Dino nuggets? We haven't been able to find them at Target either. Tried the regular shaped nuggets and he screamed bloody murder; you'd think I murdered all of the dinos.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Perdue Farms Fully Cooked Breaded Dino Shaped Chicken Breast Nuggets, 5 Pound Bag -- 2 per case. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CHU3VS4/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_NQEE22SJ6SGJFBZ4PZEF
