Why there will soon be tons of toilet paper, and what food may be scarce, according to supply chain experts

CNBC ^ | March 19, 2020 | Jade Scipioni

[386wt]

>>I’m glad dogs exist.

“Dogs are angels assigned by God to man.” 386wt

[ealgeone]

And no one knows how to make bread???

[TomGuy]

By next week, many supplies will be back on the shelves.

It is/was the panic rush that cleared the shelves.

Suppliers and shippers are working overtime.

[Dr. Ursus]

2nd LOL!

[Engedi]

Buy yeast packets and make your bread. But yeast is in demand now because of no bread at stores.

[shelterguy]

Five gallon gas cans are gone, too.

[usconservative]

Here, all the prepared foods and frozen foods are all but completely gone from the shelves.

If you know how to cook using basics there's still plenty raw ingredients available.

I'm so glad I know how to cook from scratch. Not only can I do it, my GF says I'm quite good at it. She prefers I do the cooking rather than she. :-)

[Mercat]

I know some hens personally.

[Steve_Seattle]

I generally agree with Tucker Carlson, but I disagreed the other day when he seemed to be defending panic-buying because "your obligation is to protect your family first." But panic-buying is not the same as taking precautions to have emergency supplies on hand BEFORE an emergency so you DON'T have to engage in panic-buying.

Panic-buying says "Me first, and screw everybody else." Precautionary buying harms no one else, and might even give you a surplus with which to help neighbors, friends, or relatives.

[Ratman0823]

I found it interesting that there were signs in my neighborhood “farmer’s market” grocery stating that “ALL SALES ARE FINAL”.

No toilet paper or eggs, and the bread aisle was pretty well decimated, but they had plenty of produce, red meat, and wine. Got the veggies I needed, even scored some yummy cranberry-orange muffins.

[usconservative]

And no one knows how to make bread???

If I've learned anything the past two weeks its that most people don't know how to do anything from scratch, period!

[chris37]

I hope so.

I just got back from Walmart, and that sucker done got blowd up real good!

Much of the grocery area was entirely empty.

[Professional]

Anything written by CNBC or Marketwatch.... in a market like this is garbage information, financial porn. Do the opposite of anything they suggest.

[Mercat]

I just ordered $200 plus worth of locally grown meat. Check your local farms etc.

[z3n]

I’ve seen runs on pasta, rice, and bacon.

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First thing I bought several weeks ago was rice. Cheap, lasts long, and goes a fairly long way. With as cheap as it is, I figured it wasn’t a wasted investment if the whole thing blew over without problems.

I thought about flour but to bake bread you typically want to use milk (although not necessary) and a lot of other baking has eggs in the recipe. So I passed on flour for the most part.

Food, particularly cheap grains and such, are not going to disappear unless society collapses completely, and if society collapses completely, you’ll have much bigger problems than lack of food. Self defense comes to mind first and foremost. All bets are off at that point. You may have to be on the move, allying with larger groups, and adapting to fast changing conditions. You wont likely be carrying all your bacon around.

[Grampa Dave]

No problem getting Chicken here in Californicator from store cooked, to raw any part and other chicken parts.

Good luck on finding cans of Tuna, Spam, any veggie from beans to corn.

[brownsfan]

*** And every loaf of bread is gone. Suddenly, no one has any “gluten allergies”. ***

Great point!

[Fungi]

Sure, but who does?

[Jonty30]

What people should be doing is being in surplus, along the way, and rotate product on hand so they assurance of freshness of product.

[ronniesgal]

most people i know would not know what to do with flour! Nobody really bakes or cooks anymore. ( I do!)