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Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by syshum »

groby_b wrote: post #35
syshum wrote: post #30

I have not been inside a grocery store for over a year... But I have not seen any major changes in my curbside pickup order, no major out of stocks, no major substitution.

Same thing here. I suspect that's due to the fact that a) curbside services charge a nifty premium, and stores revenue share with them. I'd be surprised if that doesn't lead to prioritization. b) this is demand usually known well in advance, which helps the stores deal with planning. c) In many stores, it's strictly a shelving issue. If the curbside service has in-store pickers, there's a chance they can skip shelvin…

A. The store I shop at provides their own Curb Side services, for free. i.e Kroger, Walmart, Meijer, all have these services, free right now. Kroger used to charge a $5 fee but they have suspended that for last couple of years at least

B. I think that is giving them too much credit, I normally use Kroger, and even if I place my order a few days in advance I can edit it (and normally do) up to midnight before my pickup day.

C. this is likely true.

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Post by ThePadawan »

SilasX wrote: post #54
pessimizer wrote: post #29

Aldi's distribution has been hit particularly badly. A couple of weeks ago, my local Aldi had run out of salt . I never would have imagined a grocery store could run out of salt.

Nor a post office to run out of stamps in their stamp vending machine, but it happened to the one near me.

Swiss Mail raised the prices for 1st class mail from CHF1.00 to CHF1.10 on January 1st...

...and ran out of CHF0.10 stamps in vending machines, within the week.

You really have to wonder what they expected.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by hprotagonist »

nefitty wrote: post #113
hprotagonist wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

knowing too much about GBBO meant malt loaf, recently: https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/prue-leith-...

Oooh, this looks like a nice challenge and novel enough to be a real surprise. Thank you!

go by mass, not volume; don’t use blackstrap molasses use regular molasses; it does need a day to rest before eating.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by gregw2 »

rch wrote: post #93
JPKab wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody exists in a vacuum when it comes to supply chains. It's a supply chain, not a supply pipe. There's only so much that can be done. Their logistics didn't suddenly get incompetent between 2019 and now.

The assertion is that they were always incompetent, but it wasn't broadly apparent until now.

Nah, they just optimize for lower capital tied up in inventory (and stocking space) which the CFO watches, versus lower service levels which an operations person watches which has a less concrete/direct/measurable financial impact.

(Perhaps I am equally as cynical as you but just from a different angle?)

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Post by PebblesRox »

sokoloff wrote: post #63
learc83 wrote: post #61

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Start with something easy like cookies.

Or brownies, which seem even easier.

Pan cookies are a nice compromise - I get the chocolate chip flavor without having to form individual cookie shapes :)

https://www.verybestbaking.com/toll-house/recipes/original-n...

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Post by PebblesRox »

nefitty wrote: post #115
stevenwoo wrote: post #64

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Brownies, and banana bread are pretty easy (especially if one does not have allergies to chocolate and nuts as add-ins). Bread and pizza crust might require a bit of experimentation for perfect texture with your flour/water/yeast mix, kitchen temperature, humidity affecting outcome ( if you have central a/c or heat probably not as big a concern but I do not).

Awesome. Thanks for the recommendations. Making my own pizza would feel amazing I bet.

Bread machines are easy to find at the thrift store for $10-$15 - that's what I use for pizza dough and it makes it so easy! And if you end up never using the machine, you can just redonate.

I do recommend using bread flour - it has more gluten so it will make for a chewier dough. Though all-purpose will also be yummy - it's hard to go wrong!

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Post by b112 »

cableshaft wrote: post #82
b112 wrote: post #37

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Mice carry disease, and the hantavirus is extremely deadly. I know, I've had it. >50% fatality by some counts. As mice in my area have it, I cannot in good conscience do anything but kill mice I catch. The risks are too high.

Oh man, I looked up hantavirus, scary stuff. Sorry you had to go through that. Thankfully there's only been 4 known cases in my state since at least as far back as 1996, but still. Now I'm starting to rethink the live traps. Also I'm going to be extra careful in the basement, and might throw out more stuff than I was going to before. Great. Also not going to do what I was planning to do and clean everything up slowly…

For the last 20 hours or so, during the worst, I stayed awake and coughed up golfball sized chunks of phlegm every 15 minutes or so.

Apparently, many deaths occur by people literally drowning in their own phlegm. Had I not stayed awake, had I gone to sleep, I suspect it would have built up and I'd have woken choking, without time to cough up the accumulation before death.

I had a large set of lungs, and good stamina fortunately.

One of my biggest fears is COVID (which is in mice now) mixing genes with this.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by nonford150 »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #2

I haven't seen any, myself. And my anecdote is as good as theirs. It'd be nice if they actually pointed to, you know, data, for these kinds of stories. My pizza place was closed though. Everyone out with covid. And it wasn't the usual cashiers over at the grocery; I think they may have been temps, because they didn't know how to do anything.

The only store in my area which doesn't seem to be affected by massive shortages is Whole Foods. Guess the Amazon supply chain is fairly robust.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by ja27 »

pessimizer wrote: post #29

Aldi's distribution has been hit particularly badly. A couple of weeks ago, my local Aldi had run out of salt . I never would have imagined a grocery store could run out of salt.

Weird, here Aldi and Walmart have seemed pretty unaffected but Publix has had a lot of empty shelves.
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