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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Finally was able to check out the Walmart on the way to work. Like all other stores there is no catfood. I didn't notice any other shortages but was pressed for time and didn't get to check out the produce or meat section.

My local supermarket was covid bad last night. Going on a month with no catfood. Major bread, frozen food outages.
 
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Overheard a couple of wiggers going apeshit over the lack of precooked frozen french fries among other things at my Walmart the other day. Meanwhile I just shrugged and bought my two usual potato sacks without issue. Until it gets to the point where I have to scavenge a sack’s worth of potatoes just to start a crop of them I won’t worry about my personal french fry storages disappearing anytime soon. I fucking love my homemade fries, corporate grease pits be damned.
 
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In my experience Wal-mart is effected way harder than the more local retailers, but that seems to be more because they haven't hiked their shit up like the more local retailers do. For example a regular pack of decent sized NY Strips is ~35 bucks there, about 60-70 for the same size at the local butcher. Aside from the fresh meats/eggs/milkstuff stock is fairly normal. Cat food is very spotty here, but at worst i just have to option for the $8 box instead of the $6. More concerning though is each time it's restocked the price keeps going up.
 
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InwardsStink said:
Are you telling me there aren't ANY mice in your neighborhood for your toxoplasmosis machine to eat?
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It also explains the sudden increase in fat cats, especially after the owner gets impatient and gets their sex organs chopped off.
 
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Colloid said:
Overheard a couple of wiggers going apeshit over the lack of precooked frozen french fries among other things at my Walmart the other day. Meanwhile I just shrugged and bought my two usual potato sacks without issue. Until it gets to the point where I have to scavenge a sack’s worth of potatoes just to start a crop of them I won’t worry about my personal french fry storages disappearing anytime soon. I fucking love my homemade fries, corporate grease pits be damned.
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Here too. The frozen potato section is always the most blown out. There's always lots of frozen veggies.
 
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feral cat #6385 said:
Here too. The frozen potato section is always the most blown out. There's always lots of frozen veggies.
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Saw frozen hashbrowns at Safeway for the first time since November today! Bought a bag just because it'll make the rest of the family happy as a treat- do em up with cheddar cheese and sour cream and bacon and onions.
 
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Was at a Walmart today and it looked like a war zone. Frozen food was hit the hardest.
 
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Saw frozen hashbrowns at Safeway for the first time since November today! Bought a bag just because it'll make the rest of the family happy as a treat- do em up with cheddar cheese and sour cream and bacon and onions.
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I used to get the frozen cubed potatoes. They've become very difficult to find. I mixed them with onions, peppers, sausage and cheese, poured egg over the mixture, put some cheese on top and cooked it up in the oven in a cast iron skillet. Instant breakfast meal units ready to go. Regular potatoes are fine too it just adds to the prep time.
 
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davids877 said:
This is why you upgrade to an AC heated bed for a 3d printer. And if you screw it up it also acts as a security measure to keep anyone else from touching it. (Mouser seems to have some MeanWell in stock, but the prices look higher than I remember.)
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Thanks for the heads-up, I rechecked Mouser after I read your post and they seem to have restocked (A literal single digit batch but hey! It's better than zero!) after I had initially posted but before you posted. Assuming they aren't lying to me and don't come back with a "lol jk we have none" email, you just saved me a potential 8+ month wait on that upgrade. :heart-full:

Edit -- They're not lying, it shipped this afternoon!


Content Tax -- Mouser is also practically giving away air shipping, just like Digikey. I have never before in my life seen either of those two offer 2 day air for less than $9. Hell, I don't think I've ever seen sub-$10 2 Day Air for anything, ever, from anyone.

Also, now I'm curious -- does anyone have any idea why cat food, of all things, seems to be unobtanium lately? @feral cat #6385 's post has to be at least the dozenth one in this thread reporting pet food issues, especially cat chow. Wonder if livestock feed is also affected, while I'm thinking about critter food.
 
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Ruin said:
Went grocery shopping for the first time in a while and what the fuck are these prices man? What used to cost me around $40 now costs closer to $65. Those inflation numbers they keep putting out are horseshit.
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Most companies waited until the new year to update their prices, everyone saying they hadn't noticed inflation back in december spoke a little too soon. It only gets worse from here. The british central bank raised rates and projected inflation to peak at 7% in the spring; translated that means that inflation will go to 20% by spring, and will continue indefinitely.
 
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The produce is looking terrible right now in my area of the Midwest.
The fruit is underwhelming and near overripe and the vegetables are about the same, but prices have still gone up in a way I haven’t seen before.

I can be flexible about things like frozen vegetables over fresh but the fruit issue has been frustrating.
 
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