Grocery shortages. Are you

[alfredo]

experiencing your grocery store short on some items? Our local Krogers have been low on Leaf lettuce varieties, and bananas.

Have you noticed any shortages?

[Left Is Write]

1. I haven't noticed any shortages, no.

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. Not really, no.

I've not payed a lot of attention, admittedly.

[medeak]

3. today it was grapes n/t

[shesemsmom]

4. Yes, you are right

and it's nearly imposable to find milnot. My Hubby is making candy and I have to buy it 2 cans here and there

[bigwillq]

5. I haven't noticed any

But I haven't been to the grocery store in a few days.

[Goathead]

6. My grocery store runs out of bread

Bread! If you can believe that. We are convinced the managers are cluless about such concepts as supply and demand. They clearly do not know how to keep the shelves stocked.Next real grocery store is about thirty miles away.

[hyphenate]

7. Not shortages

but ridiculous prices. Tomatoes: $4 and up for a lb. Other produce is just as bad--red peppers, green peppers, etc.

[Left Is Write]

11. I have noticed the price on fresh tomatoes.

I was going to buy some cherry tomatoes for salads last week, and just about dropped my teeth at the price. We had tomato-less salads.

I have not noticed an increase in the price of canned tomato products, though.

[LeftyMom]

25. Winter- tomatoes out of season

The tomatoes at the stores right now were raised in hot houses (high energy costs) or shipped in from warmer climes (high fuel costs.)

The tomato products are canned in the summer when they are cheap and plentiful so there isn't any real seasonal variation in price.

[evil genius]

BREAD MILK TOILET PAPER!!! BREAD MILF TOILET PAPER!!!

Watch out, it's the Soviet Safeway!!!!! Aiiiyiiiiiii!!!!

[medeak]

10. MILK! thanks for reminding me

yep.. no nonfat milk

[enigami]

13. thats what I want

More MILF's at my store !!! HE HE

[Left Is Write]

14. There's a MILF shortage?

[enigami]

15. you can never have enough MILF

[Deja Q]

16. ROTFLMAO! I do hope he corrects his subject line...

I only recently heard what a MILF is as well... :wow: :puke:

[Lindsay]

8. I went to the grocery store Sunday, and there were

plenty of bananas. (Even the over-ripe ones for 19 cents a pound, which they're usually out of by afternoon.)

They might as well be out of bell peppers, though. I doubt anybody's buying them at $1.99 each.

[yardwork]

9. It's been unseasonably cold in California the past few weeks

so the lettuce crop and some others might be a little off.

As for running out of bread and other staples, that sounds like poor management on the part of the store.

[htuttle]

12. Don't worry, the Ministry of Plenty is promising a bumper wheat crop

We might even see an increase in the chocolate ration!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. Shouldn't be a banana shortage but lettuce yes...

Much of it comes from California which has had several severe frosts/freezes lately. (I order produce for a natural foods store).

[alfredo]

19. They said the warehouse was out of everything but

iceberg lettuce. I'd rather eat cardboard than that crap. Cardboard is more nutritious.

[chefgirl]

23. I saw a documentary not too long ago about bananas

If I remember correctly, they said there is some sort of virus infecting banana crops. It keeps spreading and they have no idea how to deal with it.
They speculate that bananas could become extinct within 10 years because of it. :shrug:

Our grocery stores always have plenty of bananas, but other fruits seem terribly hard to come by, up here in Maine, except for apples.

-chef-

[Nite Owl]

18. Plenty of everything

It's just expensive.

[Menshevik]

20. mcvitie's plain chocolate biscuits

I've had a hard time finding them at my local stores...DAMN YOU SAINSBURY'S!!!!!!

[Deb]

21. Yeah, I know what you mean

Sis had to send us McVitie's from across the Atlantic. :9

[Menshevik]

22. I'm addicted to them

they must put crack in them or something...I've never liked a snack food so much

[SmokingJacket]

24. A real shortage of cheap stuff.

Everything costs more. If I graphed what I spent on groceries, it would have held steady from about 1998 til 2003, and since then it's up SHARPLY.

Maybe I'll become a macrobiotic and eat nothing but brown rice.

[UdoKier]

26. There is a big shortage of tomatoes and other crops due to the hurricanes

that crisscrossed much of Flori-duh this summer and fall.

[lpbk2713]

29. There was a triple-whammy on tomatoes this season.

Produce wholesalers usually have backup sources but this time around they were hit hard on tomatoes. There were the hurricanes in Florida which wiped out the whole crop, there were heavy rains in California which not only ruined that crop but made it so that a new crop couldn't be planted right away, and then there was a bad pest infestation of the Mexican crop as well. Demand greatly exceeded supply and so prices went up accordingly.

Link: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6705186/

[LeftyMom]

27. The food coop ran out of Rapunzel bullion cubes last month

and was unable to get Health is Wealth Chicken-Free patties for a few months, but other than that I haven't noticed any shortages. Both were just supply chain issues and were still availible at other stores.

Looking at the thread it looks like the issues are primarily with imported warm weater produce, except for the lettuce crop. Lettuce prices go sky hich whenever the weather is too wierd here in CA.

I did notice last month that the celery at the store looked awful. I don't know if that was an isolated issue or weather related. :shrug:

[alfredo]

28. I have other greens like Kale, Collards, bok choy, and chard

I will just wait and see. They say that there should be some next week.

That's what they said last week.