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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby TheAntiDoomer » Mon 02 Mar 2009, 16:52:06

I can't seem to find those Mesquite Guacamole Doritos' Kunstler is always ranting about. :? :(
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby Aaron » Mon 02 Mar 2009, 17:45:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheAntiDoomer', 'I') can't seem to find those Mesquite Guacamole Doritos' Kunstler is always ranting about. :? :(
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt, but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise... economics is a form of brain damage.

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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby Aaron » Mon 02 Mar 2009, 17:46:57

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The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt, but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise... economics is a form of brain damage.

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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby wisconsin_cur » Mon 02 Mar 2009, 17:49:54

I only shop at night... Either during re-stocking or just before the night stocking crew gets there, so I wouldn't know until it hits drudge. [smilie=dontknow.gif]
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby shortonsense » Mon 02 Mar 2009, 23:52:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', '
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Seriously, I have noticed no shortages so far. In fact the market referenced above is starting to carry more, and better quality, items.


Same here. The price of motor oil is the only product I buy which has gone up, and stayed up over the past year.

Considering what peak oil did to the price of gasoline, I still don't understand how motor oil hasn't come down the same way.
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 01:46:38

Not in the Philippines
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby oddone » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 02:05:58

Shelves are well stocked here in Campeche state, Mexico.
Although it "seems" to be fewer people shopping in the possibly more expensive supermarket i usually shop...
I have been told the staple diet for the "labouring classes", rice, beans & maize have increased some 50% in price the last year. Hard times for the poor, at the same time as unemloyment is exploding. Not good...
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 03:05:26

300% rice price in provincial Philippines in 14 months 8O
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby JJ » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 08:16:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', '3')00% rice price in provincial Philippines in 14 months 8O


Seagypsy, my house is a balikbayan box center for the county; a lot of boxes of food going home.....(she gets one free box for each three she sends)

funniest box: since weight is not a consideration, a box of gallons of housepaint

largest box: bumper and taillight assembly for a Jeep
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 09:36:48

The things you can't get here are surprising. People think everythings cheap; but you can make a mint selling balloons here if you get them from China via USA or Australia. Same with fancy (fake) jewelery from China.
But if you try to get it direct from China it's much harder to arrange. Weird but true.
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Re: Anyone notice food shortages on the grocery shelves?

Unread postby Fiddlerdave » Fri 03 Apr 2009, 06:43:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'T')he things you can't get here are surprising. People think everythings cheap; but you can make a mint selling balloons here if you get them from China via USA or Australia. Same with fancy (fake) jewelery from China.
But if you try to get it direct from China it's much harder to arrange. Weird but true.
That issue of local availability of toys and food has always fascinated me after some friends who traveled in England some decades ago happened to be carrying popcorn, and cooked some in a pub. Few people had seen it, and they reported that watchng staid middle-aged English gentlemen with a cane and a hat hopping around in the bar, arms tight against their sides, both feet together, imitating the popcorn by saying "pop" "pop" "pop" as they hopped, was priceless.

They made huge numbers of friends..

Stockpile a little odd stuff for your area, just for fun.
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