[blam]

Regardless of the reports of shortages and future shortages, I've not seen shortages or inflated prices anywhere. I was at Wal-Mart Tuesday morning and was able to get everything I wanted.

Posted earlier:

Costco, Walmart, Kroger 'Grossly Inflated' The Price Of Eggs During Coronavirus Pandemic, Lawsuit Claims

[Okeydoker]

Stupid article, obviously clickbait

[Jeff Chandler]

I had no idea Staples carried eggs.

[Mercat]

I have a local source of eggs and eggs and I just ordered a big box of frozen fish. I have a garden.

[DarthVader]

Just three letters to neutralize this: DPA !

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If we can get back to work, ridiculously low energy prices should fuel a decent recovery. Whether things will ever be the same remains to be seen. I fear the inevitable consequences of inflationary policy, which is a piper that’s going to be paid one way or the other.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It doesn’t matter, the stock market is up.

[qwerty1234]

>>Regardless of the reports of shortages and future shortages, I’ve not seen shortages or inflated prices anywhere.

I have seen plenty of both at all my local supermarkets - inflated prices and extreme shortages; guess it depends on where you live on how active Covid is in your area.

[BobL]

Us non-FluBros were expecting shortages like these to appear, and thus we prepared adequately.

[Joe 6-pack]

I suppose if you create a big enough panic for the product(s) you are selling, it's good for sales.

I was also thinking about the profitability of Walmart's current business restrictions, limited customer numbers, etc. In the pre-Covid world, lots of people would go into Walmart, grab one to two items and use the self-checkout. Now that access is limited to a pre-set number of people in the store at any given time, with lines of people waiting to get in, I have to assume that pretty much 100% of customers are going in to fill their shopping carts and buy as much as possible each trip. I would not be surprised if their revenues have gone up in past weeks.

[metmom]

The Wegmans in our area are completely out of chicken.

There’s about half the usual beef and pork and they still have bacon, surprisingly.

Everyone I know is talking about the meat shortages that are being predicted and they all think this is a manufactured crisis, that the dire warnings are going to cause hoarding and cause the shortages.

[PUGACHEV]

The spot price of rice as a commodity has tripled since the end of February.

[Bob434]

[[I’ve not seen shortages or inflated prices anywhere.]]

You haven’t’ been to Amazon lately? $20 for a 24 pack of pepsi that i can buy in walmart for $8- Amazon sellers are really price gouging right now- but yeah- local shops like walmart I’m not seeing increased prices either- I am however seeing shortages- 2 months now- people still are panic buying- many many empty shelves- Things like flour, noodles, sugar, canned stuff like soups, canned meats, things like pickles- all bare shelves- toilet paper- forget a bout it- lysol, hand sanitizer, isopropyl alcohol- nope- they are all more rare than big foot-

[Bob434]

and the dumb thing is, we live in an area where there are only 22 known cases of the virus (45 suspected)- none in the towns around us except for town where they have one known case-

I think the city folks, according to the cashiers I talked to, are coming up and wiping us out- still- their stores must be really bare if that’s the case- but i think even folks around us have been panic buying too once they saw the stores getting emptied-

[CodeToad]

” I’ve not seen shortages or inflated prices anywhere”

I have. There are bare shelves many times in many places.

[Alas Babylon!]

I went to my local Walmart this morning, and it was out of more food than the entire time this thing has been going on.

I don’t know why. But wiped out in the following:

Cottage cheese

Frozen Shrimp

Orange juice

Fish sticks or fillets

Grapes

Leaf or Romaine Lettuce — Only iceberg available

Tomatoes — only cherry tomatoes available

Hand soap refills

Vitamin C

Hamburg and hotdog buns

I guess I could shop around to different locations but I’ve always hated shopping and in these times, I’m not going to endanger myself.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Give it time - should the fear porn now being peddled make the full rounds and sink in, they'll have the stores stripped to the bare walls. Crossing my fingers that won't be the case since that will start a whole new round of hysteria with the accompanying fallout.