Shortages and price variations where you are

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Frozen chicken products, tenders, breasts, etc. It is hit our miss. And it has been that way for a long time, now. McMom had trouble finding crawfish this year. The price of beef is unreal right now. We found a local beef farmer who sells of his farm but even his prices are high compared to what we're used to.
 
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allvol123 said:
Cars.

Drive by a Toyota dealership and the lot is 75% empty.
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Just about any dealership.

And you say 75%, I went to two Toyota dealerships over the past week and they may have had 10 new cars at each one on the lot... with maybe 4 of those 10 parked under the awning of the front entrance.
 
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Spray paint, virtually anything that comes in a can like wd40, solvents etc. The issue is the cans they come in are imported and we had trouble getting them in. It's gotten better the last month but this summer it was tough to source this stuff for customers.
 
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Steel products, garage doors, the electrical meter boxes and electrical panels. I know builders that can't finish out houses because of delays, custom steel doors are months out.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Just about any dealership.

And you say 75%, I went to two Toyota dealerships over the past week and they may have had 10 new cars at each one on the lot... with maybe 4 of those 10 parked under the awning of the front entrance.
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Yea, probably worse than I stated. I don’t know how these billion dollar entities are keeping cash flowing.
 
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Gatorade has had issues since early 2021. Powerade not as much, but there very rarely is a full shelf of Gatorade at the Publix.
 
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KB5252 said:
Steel products, garage doors, the electrical meter boxes and electrical panels. I know builders that can't finish out houses because of delays, custom steel doors are months out.
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Anything electrical. Plastic and the electrical parts themselves. For my company, I just finished ordering every electrical component we use in production….for 12 months out. Normally I would allow 4 weeks out.
 
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AshG said:
Petrol prices make no sense to me. On the 9 mile swing to work (Western Maryland), I pass by everything from $3.39 down to $3.19. There's no apparent rhyme or reason.

Our little corner of heaven just opened up a brand new Dunkin. Good luck getting in. Fully staffed, and you can tell the crowd has been waiting for this. A block away, a Starbucks is going on right next to a brand new Taco Bell. It's drive through heaven or hell, whichever way you want to look at it. Fully staffed all.

Heavy lifting businesses like the 84 lumber are struggling. No one wants to do physical labor for the payment offered. I'll try to snap a pic of the landscaping business on National Highway that's sign says "Pray that God will send us applicants" or something similar.

Many of the local businesses that are having trouble with staffing have hours that run concurrent to the University. That hurts their ability to hire some of my kids who are looking for jobs.

My wife does the shopping (I'm not allowed - I'm really bad at sticking to lists) but she's not had to alter things much. We do a lot of cooking from fresh. I'd say 90% of our groceries come from Aldi.
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Disclaimer...Taco Bell has never been accused of having ever been efficient to begin with. Especially, the drive thru.

We frequent Aldi as well. One of my favorite places to shop.
 
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SlipKidVol said:
Frozen breakfast items

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That looks like DG, where you rarely find canned biscuits these days. But can find them every where else. One thing I noticed yesterday, is the growing disparity between store brand prices and brand name prices. Larger gap than normal. The biggest I saw was peanut butter. Store brands usually no more than a dollar cheaper. Peanut butter was half the price for 40 oz. Great Value than the one size smaller jar of Jif or Peter Pan. ($2.75 for the 40 oz. Over $6 for the size smaller Peter Pan.
 
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allvol123 said:
Anything electrical. Plastic and the electrical parts themselves. For my company, I just finished ordering every electrical component we use in production….for 12 months out. Normally I would allow 4 weeks out.
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I wasn't aware of the electrical component issue. I was only aware of the steel issue. But it doesn't surprise me, we are in a much more precarious situation than people realize. We are a significant event away from the bottom falling out.
 
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KB5252 said:
I wasn't aware of the electrical component issue. I was only aware of the steel issue. But it doesn't surprise me, we are in a much more precarious situation than people realize. We are a significant event away from the bottom falling out.
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Indeed, all jokes aside, we are teetering.

from what I have seen, we have scraped by all of 2021.
 
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Produce will be going ballistic, if it has not already started. My neighbor uses our fields for hay and corn for his cows, which also use our fields. He keeps us on farm tax which basically gets us down to $3K total property tax for 3 houses and 120 acres combined. His costs for seed and fertilizer just to plant our fields to sustain his small herd is going out the roof. Almost to the point he can't afford to fertilize the fields before planting. The mega farmers are getting hammered.
 
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KB5252 said:
Steel products, garage doors, the electrical meter boxes and electrical panels. I know builders that can't finish out houses because of delays, custom steel doors are months out.
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I had to pay extra to get garage doors and close. Those who have the doors know it and they're charging a premium. The control panel for the pool controls may get installed this week if it finally comes in

House down the street is missing appliances as well and may not close on time
 
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GVF said:
Produce will be going ballistic, if it has not already started. My neighbor uses our fields for hay and corn for his cows, which also use our fields. He keeps us on farm tax which basically gets us down to $3K total property tax for 3 houses and 120 acres combined. His costs for seed and fertilizer just to plant our fields to sustain his small herd is going out the roof. Almost to the point he can't afford to fertilize the fields before planting. The mega farmers are getting hammered.
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Was talking to my dad and brother about this yesterday. With what seed, fertilizer and pesticide/herbicide costs are projected to be this spring I don't see how they can get the corn in the ground.
 
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utvolpj said:
I had to pay extra to get garage doors and close. Those who have the doors know it and they're charging a premium. The control panel for the pool controls may get installed this week if it finally comes in

House down the street is missing appliances as well and may not close on time
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I forgot about appliances, you're correct they are very low right now too, HVAC units as well.
 
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hog88 said:
Was talking to my dad and brother about this yesterday. With what seed, fertilizer and pesticide/herbicide costs are projected to be this spring I don't see how they can get the corn in the ground.
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I'm planning on a small garden this year, 1/4 acre because of this, produce is going to get expensive and hard to find.
 
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hog88 said:
Was talking to my dad and brother about this yesterday. With what seed, fertilizer and pesticide/herbicide costs are projected to be this spring I don't see how they can get the corn in the ground.
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This guy said the other day that if fertilizer goes up anymore, he would be planting without it this spring. He barely could afford it this fall. He let's the corn dry out good. Cuts it for my son two weeks before rifle season during which time he turns it, fertilizes, and sows winter wheat. Fermented in the white wrap is like crack for the cows. He could barely afford to fertilize before sewing that. All on top of the payments he has to make on that new enclosed tractor he bought. Outrageous. I'd be behind an ox and plow.
 
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GVF said:
This guy said the other day that if fertilizer goes up anymore, he would be planting without it this spring. He barely could afford it this fall. He let's the corn dry out good. Cuts it for my son two weeks before rifle season during which time he turns it, fertilizes, and sows winter wheat. Fermented in the white wrap is like crack for the cows. He could barely afford to fertilize before sewing that. All on top of the payments he has to make on that new enclosed tractor he bought. Outrageous. I'd be behind an ox and plow.
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We've got a pretty sizable manure pit so that helps defray some costs but it's still going to be expensive silage this fall.
 
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KB5252 said:
I'm planning on a small garden this year, 1/4 acre because of this, produce is going to get expensive and hard to find.
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You think a 1/4 acre is a small home garden? Wait till you start weeding and get back to me. lol.

great idea though. We've been doing one for some time. I grew up on gardens. My dad was an ag man. Back in the day he couldn't afford all store bought groceries with 3 kids. 48K wasn't much in the inflation of the 70's and 80's. Plus with my moms kitchen and canning skills, it was just plain good stuff. I've got corn, the world's best green beans, butter peas, and squash all put up. Plus homemade pasta sauce. Diced tomatoes. Bread and Butter pickles. Summer squash relish. Frozen Okra. No additives. The only thing that goes in is distilled water, and canning salt. And if doing tomatoes, a splash of lemon juice to make sure the acidity is right for canning.

Till I grew up and left home, I'd say 70% of my diet came from the garden. Summer evenings were family time on the patio shucking corn and snapping green beans and stuff getting everything ready for mom to put up. Pickle crocks all around the kitchen. Homemade yeast rolls baked up and frozen by the batches. Plus, we were forced to learn to do things. She did not cook on Sunday evenings after church. I started out on a foot stool at the stove making scramble egg sandwiches and burgers until I learned to experiment and got to be a pretty darn good cook. I was not satisfied with cornflakes every sunday evening, so I learned to cook.
 
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