Yeap, store shelves in America are empty. Don't worry America, Biden and the democrats have a laser focus on January 6. The question is, when do people get spooked to the point that hoarding begins? https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...rtage-grocery-store-empty-shelves/9178100002/ Grocery stores still have empty shelves amid supply chain disruptions, omicron and winter storms The new year hasn't stopped ongoing food shortages. Shortages at grocery stores across the country have grown more acute in recent weeks as omicron continues to spread and winter storms have piled on to the supply chain struggles and labor shortages. The shortages being reported nationwide are widespread, impacting produce and meat as well as packaged goods such as cereal. While items are harder to find, many also cost more with rising inflation. The consumer price index jumped 7% last year, the fastest pace since 1982, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That's up from 6.8% annually in November, which was also a nearly four-decade high.
No real problems here in North Carolina - not even with a winter storm showing up tomorrow with panic buying of milk, bread and other items in gear today.
It is more a matter of what. For at least the last two weeks, there has been zero chicken available. I mean the entire section has been completely empty. Other sections were not very well stocked. Certainly well below normal. Now the thing that really pisses me off is I used to be able to USDA Prime Ribeye steaks @ 12.99lb. Now USDA Prime is going for $23 per pound, and the Dry Aged at $25 a pound. Choice is going for $15.99 per pound. Its unacceptable.
Here's a cow report just for you... ------------- "...The annual all cattle inventory will be released this month. We are certain the national herd is destined to be in decline probably by as many as 1 million beef cows. As the year ended, drought areas in the west are finding some relief in the form of rain and snow but new areas of drought in the Panhandle of Texas and Southwest Kansas are developing. The list of reasons for the beef processing industry’s inability to process the available market ready cattle is a long one. Plant closings, mechanical problems, fires, cyberattacks, weather, and most importantly labor woes, all have contributed to the problem. The result has been the lack of participation by the live sector in the oversized margins in the beef supply chain. The situation since the beginning of the New Year has differed very little from the previous bottlenecks and has dashed once again expectations for balanced trade leverage between the feedlots and the packing plants. Once again, we are seeing box prices shoot higher, while fed prices move lower. Retailers will be forced to raise prices on the beef counter making beef a focus point for the battle against inflation. There also will be some beef products that are out of stock and result in a lost sale. These conditions force consumer decisions that threaten destruction of beef demand. The easiest scapegoat is the Coronavirus and its latest mutation Omicron. Unfortunately, the problem is more troubling. The current strain appears, although highly transmissible, not particularly threatening to the health of those who have been properly vaccinated — as most plant workers have. The core of the problem is an insufficient worker pool in the beef plants. The generous handouts of the Biden administration have given many plant workers an opportunity to look around in a hot labor market and find other jobs. Wages in the beef plants have gone up but they need more to attract additional workers to the labor pool. The work is hard and the pay needs to properly reflect the contribution the workers have made to the current $500/head margins for moving beef into and out of the plant in a few days. The difficulty of the current situation is the unpredictability of attendance. Once a few plant workers make a no show or are out of the lineup for any reason, the jobs within a plant have to be reassigned to make up for the missing people. This requires cross training and last minute decisions about how to cover for the missing workers. The logistics of reassigning work on the fly requires slowing the chain and watching a shift fall short of the slaughter target. The current plants can process today’s fed cattle supplies but it requires a larger labor pool. It takes time to recruit and re-locate the new workers and more time to train them in their jobs. As some of the virus benefit programs are phased out more people in the potential labor pool will seek jobs. It is doubtful we will see slaughter numbers pop back to 670,000 but hopefully we have seen the low and will witness progress in the coming weeks. Cattle producers have missed out on the rewards of two years of unparalleled demand for beef both domestically and for export."
I miss ribeye steak : ( Going to get one of these for bday next week https://www.longhornsteakhouse.com/menu/outlaw-ribeye/prod280244
How's all those Trump tariffs working out ? Trump made some horrible moves and Biden's been too slow to remove them. For example, Trump decided to put tariffs on Canadian lumber to appeal to his base. Lumber prices eventually went through the roof.
It may be poor consolation but, our resident ET trolls like GWB, ExGoper and others who live in the US, get to experience misery with everyone else. You assclowns wet your pants each time your Usurper-in-Chief, Joe Biden issues a radical, extreme liberal freebie giveaway. Well guess what assclowns? You will get to experience your extreme liberal Nirvana but, more like the communists do in China or North Korea. You will pay higher taxes too. Like extreme liberals love to say, I don't mind paying higher taxes. That is until, they actually, have to pay higher taxes out of their pockets and they start whining and crying like the little babies they are. Karma coming if it has not hit you vile assclowns yet!