Supermarkets likely to be next supply chain crunch as food shortages persist
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I already consistently see partially empty shelves over at least a few aisles at my supermarket that were never empty months ago. It hasn't affected what I buy so far though...
Haven't seen it that bad here in St. Louis other than sports drinks and juice. Neither of which we really buy that often. I've just noticed those spots have a sign about "sorry we're working on trying to find more supplies".
But I've pretty much in "if we open one, we buy one...or two". Like this week I opened a new can of shaving cream so I bought a two pack. We opened a 40lbs bag of dog food so we bought another one. Same with laundry detergent. This was the first week I bought detergent since Feb 2020. I remember being on a P&G investor call and them saying 17,000 household goods would be effected in Feb of 2020. I went out and bought a year's supply of all our cleaning supplies right then and there. It's only been recently that we ran out of things like scrubbing bubbles and laundry soap from that purchase.
It's been hard to judge what our "average grocery bill" is now. It used to be $68 per week +/- $3 like clockwork. The reason being I'm more apt that if I see something just buying it. It was starting to get up to $120 per week, but that was also buying stuff when we saw it to stock up on. Like seafood was on sale a few weeks ago and I bought $80 worth that will last in the rotation for 3 - 4 months.
Thing is we're pretty well stocked up at this point and I've switched to Aldi's for the weekly stuff. So the past two weeks the grocery bill has been under $50. Hell this week it was $12 as I bought a couple gallons of milk, bread, and a couple snacks.