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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

Posted on 03/19/2020 9:19:08 AM PDT by C19fan

Stuck rationing toilet paper because you didn't stockpile during the coronavirus panic over the last few days? Don't worry, according to supply chain experts.

"All the grocery stores are going to have pallets of toilet paper sitting in the aisles and nobody is going to buy it because who needs to buy toilet paper when you got a year's worth sitting in your garage," Daniel Stanton, a supply chain expert and author of "Supply Chain Management for Dummies," tells CNBC Make It. But what about food? Even if the COVID-19 pandemic stretches over months (President Donald Trump said it could last until August), there will no big food shortages, especially on staples like milk, eggs, cheese, bread and meat, according to three supply chain experts who spoke to Make It.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202008; coronavirus; covid19; fakenews; fearmongering; fud; kungflu; moogoogaipandemic; scaremongering; supplychain; virus; wuhanvirus
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To: brownsfan

>>I’m glad dogs exist.

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


21 posted on 03/19/2020 9:28:15 AM PDT by 386wt
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To: KC_Conspirator

And no one knows how to make bread???


22 posted on 03/19/2020 9:28:25 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: C19fan

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.


23 posted on 03/19/2020 9:29:10 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: KC_Conspirator

2nd LOL!


24 posted on 03/19/2020 9:29:32 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: NEMDF

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


25 posted on 03/19/2020 9:29:35 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: C19fan

Five gallon gas cans are gone, too.


26 posted on 03/19/2020 9:29:55 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: C19fan
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. :-)

27 posted on 03/19/2020 9:30:01 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: C19fan

I know some hens personally.


28 posted on 03/19/2020 9:30:26 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Jonty30
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.
29 posted on 03/19/2020 9:30:31 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: C19fan

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.


30 posted on 03/19/2020 9:30:33 AM PDT by Ratman0823 (This tagline is a Corona Virus and Lime Disease-free zone.)
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To: ealgeone
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!

31 posted on 03/19/2020 9:30:51 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: TomGuy

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.


32 posted on 03/19/2020 9:31:05 AM PDT by chris37 (Despite my growing "Coronaphobia", I still feel at least mostly sane half of the time.)
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To: C19fan

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


33 posted on 03/19/2020 9:31:55 AM PDT by Professional
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To: glock rocks

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


34 posted on 03/19/2020 9:32:30 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Steve_Seattle

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.


35 posted on 03/19/2020 9:33:33 AM PDT by z3n
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To: glock rocks

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.


36 posted on 03/19/2020 9:33:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)
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To: KC_Conspirator

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

Great point!


37 posted on 03/19/2020 9:33:45 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: ealgeone

Sure, but who does?


38 posted on 03/19/2020 9:33:48 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Steve_Seattle

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


39 posted on 03/19/2020 9:34:02 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: brownsfan

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


40 posted on 03/19/2020 9:34:19 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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