Walmart 'Oak Leaf' wine price ~doubled overnight

Walmart | 4/27/20 | me

[ctdonath2]

Observation: the price of Walmart's 'Oak Leaf' wine nearly doubled overnight. What was long priced at 750ml @ $2.95, dropped to $2.50 for a few weeks, then just spiked to >$4.

Canary in the coal mine? Might be time to refill supplies, before supply chain disruption increases prices. Similar is being said about meat.

[TBall]

“canary in coal mine?” Absolutely if your drinking $2 bottles of wine from Walmart, the the drinking needs to stop.

[CJ Wolf]

Milk went from 2 to 4 over night. No chicken is left.

[absalom01]

Um, you would have to pay me quite a bit more than four bucks to drink that plonk.

[dayglored]

How ‘bout that, I didn’t know you could even make wine from oak leaves.

Dang! I learn something at FR every day!

[norcal joe]

Here in silicon valley milk is still $1.99 a half gallon and plenty of chicken at our local safeway.

[Osage Orange]

Really???

This is worthy of an FR post???

[Viking2002]

Oak Leaf is the wine we keep in the little wine rack on the china cabinet shelf in the dining room. Not that I'm a wine snob (mine comes out of a box), but it makes us look so cosmopolitan when guests come over. It's also a good, cheap buzz when I need one.

[Reno89519]

I think the suggestion that there will be a meat shortage, packing plants closing, etc. will cause one. Maybe becuase of closings, definitely because people will stock up. I know we've now filled our freezer to capacity with things on sale--chicken at $0.69 to $0.79 a pound, pork roasts at $1.29-1.49, beef at around $3 a pound. Bacon seems still around $3 on sale. But next week, figure we'll see prices way, way up and shelves empty.

In the neighborhood store yesterday... practically no paper products, not flour, very little pasta and rice, and no popcorn. The store has still not recovered and as they get stuff in, people snatch it up.

Meats will be same now that people have been alerted to shortages.

[cranked]

Went into my local Walmart yesterday, they had 10 whole chickens on display at about $4-5...bought everyone of them.

[MikelTackNailer]

I didn’t know you could even make wine from oak leaves.

Yeah, it's a brutal process. Those Lieutenant Colonels scream like the dickens as they're being squished.

[cherry]

so you’re one those hoarders....one of those panicky people that have to take everything off the shelf.....nice...you’re why I can’t find yeast for a month now....

[Jeff Chandler]

$4 — and worth every penny.

[Bob434]

or he has a large family to feed- and chicken is a cheap way to do so-

[EEGator]

https://www.aa.org/

[dforest]

Champipple

[McGruff]

People laugh but I was reading a wine review column one time and Walmart Wine was one of their top selections. Too bad but we can’t get it where I live.

[JohnBrowdie]

that is called “hoarding”, and it’s part of the problem.

[McGruff]

Stock up on the wine and then the next Coronapocalypse trade a bottle for a case of toilet paper. You'll find takers.

[dp0622]

You probably would not be asked to pick the best wines to go along with a good Italian dinner :-)

My friend owns eight Italian restaurants and I eat at them free sometimes. The cheapest bottle is 100. The bill has been as much as 800.

Thank God he rips up the check.

I leave $100 for the waiter

when I order a pizza and soda then I pay the bill lol