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Fish sticks have been cordoned to one section at walmarts here in Texas. Just noticed this. In general a lot of food is just spread out to hide the scarcity.
Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays
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Usually it's everything but yellow and kiwi strawberry that's missing but I only care about red.
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What kind of monster eats canned spinach?
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I guess you could say they are....going commandoI'm surprised nobody beat me to this.
Norwegian conscripts told to return underwear as Covid hits supplies …
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The Norwegian army has run out of underwear due to supply chain issues.
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I wonder how many of these shortages are created artificially by companies jumping on the shrinkflation train?
If a 1kg product sells for £10, but the company want to shrinkflate it to 750g for £10, you couldn't have both products sat side-by-side, that would give the game away. You would have to completely sell all old stock, before you pumped the supply chain with the new shrinkflated brand. A 'firebreak' would be needed which would look like shortages and empty shelves.
Some of this you can see happening with McCoys crisps (chips for americans) the multi-packs are usually 6 bags. However, the new flavours are only 5 bags in a multipack. At the moment (in this very specific example) the new 5-pack flavours are sold at a special sale price of £1, vs £1.70 for the 6-pack. The individual bags are now 2/3rds (at best) the size of what they used to be.
If a 1kg product sells for £10, but the company want to shrinkflate it to 750g for £10, you couldn't have both products sat side-by-side, that would give the game away. You would have to completely sell all old stock, before you pumped the supply chain with the new shrinkflated brand. A 'firebreak' would be needed which would look like shortages and empty shelves.
Some of this you can see happening with McCoys crisps (chips for americans) the multi-packs are usually 6 bags. However, the new flavours are only 5 bags in a multipack. At the moment (in this very specific example) the new 5-pack flavours are sold at a special sale price of £1, vs £1.70 for the 6-pack. The individual bags are now 2/3rds (at best) the size of what they used to be.
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My local BW3s (a sports bar that specializes in wings for you filthy foreigners) are out of onion rings and cheese curds. My local Walmarts are closing 1-2 hours early now, might be a company wide thing with how many others have reported the same.
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Had someone tell me last week that there was a “potato shortage” in all the stores. Didn’t sound right to me so I looked around at all the stores when I did my weekly shopping last Saturday morning. I had no problem buying a sack of potatoes, and the price was still relatively cheap, ($3.50 for 15lb bag), so I started wondering what they were talking about and figured it out. What they meant was that there’s a shortage of potato products in the frozen foods section. Sam’s had a few bags of waffle cut fries, that’s it. One of the grocery stores I went to had a few bags of fries too, and the two stores I went to that had a decent amount and variety had prices up over $1 or more from what I remember from before all of this.
The lesson from this is the same one as I’ve mentioned in tons of other comments on this thread and others. You can pay less than $4 for 15lbs of potatoes, or you can pay $2+ per lb for frozen hash browns/fries/etc. It takes time to convert a potato into fries/hash browns. When I made breakfast on Sunday, it took about 30 minutes to dice up a couple of potatoes fine, rinse them, soak them a bit, lay them out to dry a bit before frying, and since they’re fresh it takes a little longer for them to cook all the way through and get crispy on the outside, but spending that extra time turned $0.10 worth of potatoes from the sack into $2.00 + worth of potatoes out of the frozen foods section. What you’re paying for is the convenience. If the selection isn’t there anymore, and/or you no longer want to pay the premium charged for the convenience, then all you have to do is make your own. I promise it isn’t hard. It just SEEMS that way after folks being raised for 2 or 3 generations straight to think that the only way home cooked meals were ever a thing was because great-granny down on the farm lived in the kitchen 24/7 slaving away and that’s just not true. She may have hung out in the kitchen a lot, but that’s probably because the coffee pot is in there.
The lesson from this is the same one as I’ve mentioned in tons of other comments on this thread and others. You can pay less than $4 for 15lbs of potatoes, or you can pay $2+ per lb for frozen hash browns/fries/etc. It takes time to convert a potato into fries/hash browns. When I made breakfast on Sunday, it took about 30 minutes to dice up a couple of potatoes fine, rinse them, soak them a bit, lay them out to dry a bit before frying, and since they’re fresh it takes a little longer for them to cook all the way through and get crispy on the outside, but spending that extra time turned $0.10 worth of potatoes from the sack into $2.00 + worth of potatoes out of the frozen foods section. What you’re paying for is the convenience. If the selection isn’t there anymore, and/or you no longer want to pay the premium charged for the convenience, then all you have to do is make your own. I promise it isn’t hard. It just SEEMS that way after folks being raised for 2 or 3 generations straight to think that the only way home cooked meals were ever a thing was because great-granny down on the farm lived in the kitchen 24/7 slaving away and that’s just not true. She may have hung out in the kitchen a lot, but that’s probably because the coffee pot is in there.
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If it takes you thirty minutes to turn ten cents into two dollars, you just made $3.80 an hour.
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You were making breakfast anyway. Drinking coffee, listening to background noise on YouTube, waiting for the spouse and kids to wake up, and reading/posting on here. You made an extra $4 easy while doing all that. A penny saved is a penny earned.
Let me just add this. It’s a lot more than $4 when you figure it this way. $0.10 for potatoes, $0.25 for eggs, $0.25 for peppers, $0.25 for tortillas, $0.75 for chorizo. So that’s breakfast burritos for 4 for a grand total of $1.60. Go out for breakfast and that’s a $20 meal easy not counting drinks. That’s $18.40 right there and you didn’t even have to drive. In fact, that’s the whole meal for less than the price of the frozen hash browns.
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No, I was asleep.
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It's cheaper to have a spouse who doesn't need to eat.
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Even cheaper to buy some chains and not need to worry about any of that shit.
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Chains are free if you wait until the guy driving the steel coil goes to shower.
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I see this argument on Reddit a lot as a mean for autists to argue why they need to eat out and they can't cook at home. It doesn't take anything like quality of food into account, the fact that your time only has monetary value if someone is willing to pay you for that time or the fact that I can do something else like watch a youtube video while I do a repetive task like cutting potatoes. It's also worth pointing out that your labour cutting the potatoes is not taxed whereas your labour working at a job would be.
Besides all that, it also does not take 30 minutes to cut a pound of potatoes into fries or hashbrowns. I don't know what the other guy is talking about, but I am a potato enthusiast who has grown hundreds of pounds of potatoes a year for several years as a hobby. Takes me no more than five minutes to cut a pound of potatoes into fries using one of these dollar store cutters:
Anyway, forgive the sperging. You're probably just joking around anyway. This argument triggers my spidy senses and sends me into full blown internet autism mode.
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Oh, it triggers me timbers, too. It's absolutely spastic because unless you would otherwise be on the clock, you're not giving up wage time. See the idiotic XKCD "are you losing money by picking up a penny" comic.
There's also the issue of equating the pleasure of creating a meal for yourself and your family with the soul-sucking nature of anything they have to offer people money to get them to do.
I was also joking about stealing chains off of steel coils on trucks. Please do not commit manslaughter.
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I didn’t mean it took me 30 minutes to chop them up. I meant it added about 30 minutes to the time it took me to cook the meal to chop them up, rinse them, soak them a bit and they lay them out to dry a bit before frying them up. I also don’t have a fancy fry cutter like in your pic but the next time I see one at the Goodwill or Thrift Store I’ll pick one up. That would save even more time.
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I want to ask what kind of person actually wears the shit they get from the army, but it's a european country so it's probably frilly panties.I'm surprised nobody beat me to this.
Norwegian conscripts told to return underwear as Covid hits supplies …
archived 8 Jan 2022 10:40:50 UTC
The Norwegian army has run out of underwear due to supply chain issues.
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I interpreted the headline as some sort of cold weather gear you wear underneath the jacket but upon reading the article it literally is fucking bras, underwear, and socks. Why would they fucking tolerate such a shortage? Just fucking give the conscripts an extra 20 bucks and have them buy some from the local stores.