Grocery store updates, shortages, recent stories!

What about the seafood/steak case, or do you have one? Are store is pretty stocked, but find it odd they said they have discontinued due to supply issues, so now just an empty case.

Yeah I see no other reason, I have Navy federal and our loan is through the VA.

haha

South King Co. Washington State here. We just went to QFC(kroger) and Costco yesterday. Pretty much everything was there in stock, with the exception of toilet paper....again. Meat is bountiful. Vegies are bountiful.
The only thing I'm bummed out that two visits in a row they don't have tabasco sauce.

Why are we selling to China instead of feeding our own people? Nationalize the food industry already.

Missouri. The state that can't make up it's mind whether it's red or blue. The grocery workers union appealed to the governor to make masks mandantory in public so far he has not.

Our stores have everything (toilet paper and paper towels are 1 per customer though.)

Another thing someone sits at the entrance logging something on either a pad or notebook. Customer count or mask count IDK. Could be both. Cameras of course everywhere. Very uncomfortable for a free spirit.

I’m a meat cutter in Louisiana. I’ll try the explain the best I can. Stores are still running some low price sales as availability dictates. We typically run out of half the sale items midweek with no re-stock. Grocery chains are fighting for the reserves. That’s what we are functioning on, reserves.
Most of the “fresh” chicken and pork we’ve been getting in over the past month is frozen rock solid, like concrete. We have to thaw the pork for two days just to be able to break apart to cut. Beef is not as bad,still some items frozen or looks like older stock. Prices will continue Togo up across the board but stores will still run “ hook” specials. Don’t expect that to last , even for a full week that the ad gets run. Most of the higher ups run the ads without a full knowledge of even if they can cover it and let the in-store employees deal with the complaints.
My advice, get and stock up on what you can NOW as far as meat. If a sale starts on a Wednesday or Thursday, get it then, if they have it. Don’t wait till the end of the sale week. Even if you get a raincheck, there’s no telling when an excess of that product will come in. Some will still be a available in the coming months but prices will go through the roof. It’s already happening across the board. Just because your market has great sales this week, it doesn’t mean it’ll be like that forever.
Take care.

Thanks for the advise.

Same here - bought chicken leg quarters - $5 for 10 lbs.
Box of frozen hamburger patties 6lbs @ $16. Vac packed Atlantic salmon $7.75 for a 1lb filet.
Usual amount of frozen convenience foods like pizza, burritos chimis etc.

I suspect this won't last though...

Honestly, I do see the fingerprint of these climate control people ALL over this COVID, paper too, they hate us using any paper products, you know trees and all.

Notice how right after shut downs the media started putting out these touchy feely stories like, oh, the swans have come out in Copenhagen now that the humans are gone, or the manatees have come out in FL now that humans are gone, what a total crock.

I remember reading years ago that chickens slaughtered in the USA were being sent to China to be processed --

what could go wrong with that supply chain ?

Exactly !!!! No buying from CHINA No items sold to CHINA!!! PERIOD!!
Sorry for the Acreage Chinese people but we are at WAR with China!!

Last Edited by Major99 on 04/26/2020 09:55 PM

Wow, thanks for the breakdown. Do you know why you're functioning on reserves only? Is it because of plant shut downs or was it an overall shortage due to floods in Nebraska last year or something like that?

well, it did save $0.43 per whole chicken

profits come first

Thats for frozen packaged products mainly. Think microwave meals/canned goods. Not your fresh chicken and pork parts.

Last Edited by MKChicknDad on 04/26/2020 08:33 PM

Right, this has got to stop, they've been taking advantage of us for years.

Now I know someone said that the reason China can buy is they have processors, but too bad, we need to start up some processors fast.

Heck, what ever happened to farmers who did this stuff, why can't we make that happen again???

What state? And thank-you for this I will report I am in Florida. We will go soon.

Im seeing this as well. 5 stars

Yes, they're counting how many people in and out, and only allowing certain capacity, like let's say it's 50%, and the store has capacity of 200, then after 100 people, you have to stand and wait at the "corral" until one leaves, one in, one out.

Yes, it is rather creepy, I think I almost find the arrows creepier, messes with your brain, training it to go in certain directions, stressful, like if you get something in the end of that aisle, technically, you're supposed to walk through whole aisle before you can get out of it, like a maize.

Then of course you have all the clowns, who block the whole aisle forever pondering what to buy, and so then you have to pass them anyways and of course are closer than six feet, so the whole thing is quite the joke/hoax, whatever.

Thanks for the stars, what state?

Isn't it a fixed rate? Maybe they tacked on some insurance, banks will do that if they don't get copies and approve of your homeowners ins.

oops... MS

Here's the problem, many livestock were lost in the last couple years over many states. Due alot to weather, floods, diseases. Especially last year. So .. what we are functioning on is what should have been sold gradually this year and into next. We're basically behind a year instead of a ahead. Last year suppliers were devastated and are depending on this year to rebound. With all the crap with covid, umm, not gonna happen. Just made things worse. There may be some local butchers in your area still able to get from local farms. That'd be the best route for constant meat.

I will tell you. No one wants to say it out loud but it's because (around here anyway) it is nearly fully staffed with illegal immigrants. They buy ss #s to work under but it's not a secret they're not legal. Plus, listen to what these jerks were doing. They had people coming into work with fevers, and slapped a mask on them and sent them back out onto the line. I don't know whether they don't know about the social distancing stuff because of a language barrier or if they just flat won't do it, but they do not follow the rules (shocker, I know considering if they valued such things they wouldn't be here to begin with). So now, my rural barely populated county has one of the highest rates of infection because of 2 meat plants and their sketchy hiring practices.

Edit to add: The employees had no choice, they can't just go get a job anywhere so they are desperate to keep this job. These plants are very strict and will fire them immediately if they don't do as they're told.

Last Edited by Redneck hussy on 04/26/2020 08:48 PM

Gosh, that's really odd to have a cop sitting there. What state are you in. I mean I'm in a fairly big city, so the bigger Walmarts and some other stores always have cop cars out front, but they're not sitting there greeting people at the doors. That would make me feel really unsettled.

I did hear that National Guard is out in some stores in Cali in uniform, but then I heard that they are actually in stores across the nation, but in plain clothes, so who knows.

Like other day at front door there was a guy doing the "people counting" that I know doesn't work there, and he did in fact remind me of a copy type.

No shortage of anything in San Antonio, Texas. Our HEB is the best.

Yeah, I've heard about all the illegals at the plants, but then again, how do we know that someone didn't plant COVID in the plant OR, how serious are the cases, are you getting any word on that?

I mean this is like war, they're attacking our food supply. Remember all the evidence of Chinese coming through our southern borders? Remember the shipments of sick birds that came in from China????