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Another Food Shortage??
« on: November 18, 2020, 11:50:19 AM »
Recalling earlier in the year, when the epidemic was just getting started, there were shortages in some foods and goods at most grocery markets throughout the country.
 Chicken and other meats as well as toilet paper, bottled water, and sanitizing items were among the items especially in short supply in my area.
 Well, with recent reports of increased spread of Corona Virus infection in the country and winter coming prompting the fear of dual pandemic-both influenza and CoVid-19, there is a possibility of food chain disruption.
 Do you believe there is going to be another food shortage?

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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2020, 12:09:42 PM »
The media is driving some of this.

They show a store with an empty, for whatever reason, shelve and the headline reads "Shortage."

And pretty soon, the panicky low intels create that shortage.

Happening right now with toilet paper and why??

The 'Rona makes you sneeze and wheeze, not poop
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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2020, 01:04:48 PM »
Its interesting, I will be going to Costco in CO today.  We went last week too. Toilet paper was all gone again, a few people had carts loaded up with food.  A couple had literally nothing but snacks and junk food heaped to the top, but the majority of bulk buying I saw that day, was alcohol.  Carts full of wines or some other hard liquor.  I ran a mental total of one cart alone I walked by that had about 1000 bucks worth of whiskey and bourbon.  Priorities I guess, or maybe they anticipated extended home schooling or something.

Last week the lunch meat was cleaned out of Walmart, but plenty of frozen stuff.   I also noted a lot of pallets of stuff that was not shelved yet, like just about every food isle had rows of pallets to unload.  a lot of canned goods and candy etc, fresh stuff I didn't see much of.
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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2020, 04:57:42 PM »
I heard a guy on the news a couple of days ago say that there would be shortages but not for long as the companies a prepared for it where as before they got caught flat footed.
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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2020, 04:59:52 PM »
As I recall, there was plenty of tofu and vegan stuff left on the shelves.
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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2020, 05:02:37 PM »
As I recall, there was plenty of tofu and vegan stuff left on the shelves.
The fact was when the first run on the supermarkets hit they ran out of tofu and all analog products.  I had to go to 6 stores and finally found some tofu in a little market outside of town. The market has not fully caught yet.

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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2020, 06:04:50 PM »
I volunteer to forego tofu so that others may eat.

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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2020, 10:55:21 PM »
FWIW Costco was still absent TP, but well stocked on just about everything else. I imagine it's not a supply issue, but transportation issues.
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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2020, 12:50:31 AM »
no, not like it was last time........grocery stores learn from the last time  to limit the amount of meat and TP and other stuff to certain amounts.

before people came in and bought shopping carts full of meat, TP and stuff...........they won't let that happen again, at least not where I'm at, don't know about the rest of country. but if there a indication of people going full blown moronic, they'll put a  stop to those idiots in their track

https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/ohio-grocers-limit-meat-purchase-quantities-as-coronavirus-impacts-food-supply-chain/
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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2020, 06:45:38 PM »
I volunteer to forego tofu so that others may eat.
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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2020, 08:46:21 AM »
FWIW Costco was still absent TP, but well stocked on just about everything else. I imagine it's not a supply issue, but transportation issues.

I was in our Costco last night buying a 2TB back up drive for the wife, they had sh*tloads of TP in ours...crazy thing, the walmart supercenter 1/4 mile away has been out of TP for nearly a week....go figure

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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2020, 08:48:38 AM »
Order your TP from amazon. I order TP once a year, its the best.

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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2020, 08:50:32 AM »
It's FALL.
TP FALLING From the trees.

Order your TP from amazon. I order TP once a year, its the best.

How many rolls do you use per year? :)

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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2020, 09:18:17 AM »

How many rolls do you use per year? :)

I use about a roll a week and the TP I use comes in 30 packs. When i'm on my last two rolls I order another pack.

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Re: Another Food Shortage??
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2020, 09:26:29 AM »
Stopped at the store on my way into work this morning.

Two locusts from the next county over had two carts full of toilet paper.

I wanted to ask if they had a bad case of the Hershey Squirts but thought better of it.
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