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Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by HideousKojima »

bluedino wrote: post #89

According to Chase my grocery spending is up 40% since two years ago. I buy so little beef these days. Chicken and pork (except for bacon which has doubled) haven't went up as much. The weirdest things are out of stock these days. Those canned cinnamon rolls are nowhere to be seen. They were out of carrots the other day. Certain breads... I really feel for lower or fixed income shoppers. Everything else has went up i…

Pepperoni pizza rolls were out at all 3 of the grocery stores in my town (pop. ~20,000) as well as the cheapo Totino's frozen pizzas, and the pasta section was heavily picked over. Ramen noodles were also picked clean, it's super bizarre what does and doesn't get snapped up.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by throwawayboise »

nate_meurer wrote: post #48
cdjk wrote: post #39

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I think this is one of the best mouse traps: https://www.automatictrap.com/ Electric traps work too, but are a pain to clean. Snap tracks are effective, but when I had both mice and rats I found that a mouse trap could break a rats leg but let it walk away, and a mouse could eat from a rat trap without triggering it. Neither of those were good outcomes.

On those snap traps, you can bend the wire that holds back the spring downward in slight increments until the trap is so sensitive you can almost set off by blowing on it. This is the only way I was able to clear an infestation of juvenile mice years ago. Before this modification, the small mice were eating the bait without triggering the traps.

Did you bait them with peanut butter? That has always worked for me.

I've also heard of people gluing an almond to the trap. The mouse will tug on it and snap!goodbye.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by rch »

JPKab wrote: post #66
paxys wrote: post #45

> "We're really seeing the perfect storm," If these "perfect storms" happen six times a year maybe it's not the storm but their own logistics to blame?

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.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by jdmichal »

throwawayboise wrote: post #92
nate_meurer wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On those snap traps, you can bend the wire that holds back the spring downward in slight increments until the trap is so sensitive you can almost set off by blowing on it. This is the only way I was able to clear an infestation of juvenile mice years ago. Before this modification, the small mice were eating the bait without triggering the traps.

Did you bait them with peanut butter? That has always worked for me. I've also heard of people gluing an almond to the trap. The mouse will tug on it and snap!goodbye.

I set mine with grapes, cut in half, with the grape skin in the trigger. The grape skin seems to be strong enough to prevent removal without triggering.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by hprotagonist »

nefitty wrote: post #42
hprotagonist wrote: post #3

"There are some issues with out-of-stocks, but it tends to be a situation where if you go to a store on a Tuesday night, maybe something's out of stock, but by Wednesday sometime it's back in store," Rose told NPR. This describes about the “worst” i’ve seen, in new england. I had no trouble getting some fairly fussy ingredients for holiday cooking or my annual winter anti-depression baking spasms. Still, march 2020 d…

What do you like to bake? I have never attempted. I would like to surprise my wife one of these cold winter evenings.

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

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by bagels »

WalterBright wrote: post #33
cableshaft wrote: post #7

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Yeah I did the pantry thing after March 2020 (in the basement, the kitchen doesn't have a proper pantry) and wasn't careful enough about protecting it. It was fine for a year, but this winter we got mice in the house and now we have to toss what wasn't in cans or plastic containers already. We set some live traps and I've caught and released (several miles away) four mice already. Still a good idea, we just can't hav…

Amazon sells galvanized steel garbage cans of various sizes. They have a lid that naturally seals tightly. They're varmint proof for anything up to a bear. Perfect for mouse-proofing your food. My experience with mice is that they travel in 6 packs. If you catch one, there are probably 5 more.

Not sourced from Amazon, but I keep animal feed in one, only way to keep mice out of it.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by SilasX »

ericbarrett wrote: post #78
SilasX wrote: post #54

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

My experience with the USPS stamp vending machines since long before the pandemic is that they are out of stock about half the time.

I had never seen it happen myself.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by mariojv »

rossdavidh wrote: post #67

In line with what a few other people here have said, I should mention that where I am (Austin, TX, USA), I literally just came from the grocery store before reading this, and everything seemed to be in stock. I'm not saying there were zero issues, but nothing we were looking for, and certainly no bare shelves. Maybe it's more weather-related? We certainly have no shortage of Omicron in Texas, but the grocery stores (…

San Antonio here. Things seem to be fine. I went to the store on a Sunday morning and it wasn't very busy, nothing was sold out. I had been worried because I saw lines outside of a store closer to me, presumably due to capacity restrictions.

The other day, my husband went, and they were out of frozen potatoes. That can happen either from shortages or a freezer malfunction, though, so it was relatively normal. I am actually pleasantly surprised at how well the supply chain is holding up during this wave.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by mariojv »

bluedino wrote: post #89

According to Chase my grocery spending is up 40% since two years ago. I buy so little beef these days. Chicken and pork (except for bacon which has doubled) haven't went up as much. The weirdest things are out of stock these days. Those canned cinnamon rolls are nowhere to be seen. They were out of carrots the other day. Certain breads... I really feel for lower or fixed income shoppers. Everything else has went up i…

Chicken thighs can be a great replacement for chicken breast. You may have to cook it a little differently, but if it's in a soup or other dish where it's mixed in, you can hardly tell any difference. I haven't done this myself but have seen great deals on whole chickens if you consume or freeze enough during the week for it to be worth it.
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