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Post by bbbearsmom on Jul 26, 2021 17:39:21 GMT
I go to a large chain grocery store and a small independent (IGA) grocery each week. At the large one I noticed a shortage of Quaker Oats oatmeal and Quaker Oats rice cakes. Today it was the same at the small market. When I got home it dawned on me they were both Quaker Oats products. Anyone else notice a shortage of Quaker Oats products? Or, for that matter any other shortages in the grocery store?
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Post by mac on Jul 26, 2021 18:54:01 GMT
I buy oatmeal complete packets and have noticed there are fewer boxes on the shelf the last few weeks. I wonder why oats are in short supply? I believe business is taking advantage of the public by raising prices for a bigger profit off us. Some prices have been raised 20 per cent which is rediculous!
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Post by cj59 on Jul 26, 2021 22:20:12 GMT
I noticed I couldn't find the Quaker Oats Lower Sugar Instant Oatmeal Variety box at several stores the last time I went.
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Post by Jennifer on Jul 26, 2021 23:36:21 GMT
Not food related but my boss at the Salon is having a lot of trouble keeping us stocked in products, everything from color to shampoo and conditioner at the back bar.
:-(
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Post by bbbearsmom on Jul 26, 2021 23:53:03 GMT
mac, cj59, Jennifer, My husband has been reading that there are supply chain problems with the grocery industry (other industries too). Part of the problem is they can't get truck drivers.
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Post by mac on Jul 27, 2021 0:19:21 GMT
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Post by healthyjoy on Jul 27, 2021 11:07:07 GMT
I haven’t noticed shortages of Quaker Oats products, but couldn’t find Heinz ketchup on the shelf last week. I don’t use ketchup often but always like to have one in the pantry when I open a container.
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Post by lani on Jul 27, 2021 15:24:42 GMT
Why the shortage of truck drivers? I got curious and googled. There has been a shortage of truck drivers for the last 15 years. One of the largest factors now is the high average age of the drivers.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Jul 27, 2021 16:37:25 GMT
mac, lani, My husband says that because of the shortage the trucking industry is trying to come up with a self-driving truck.
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Post by NatureLover on Jul 27, 2021 18:39:19 GMT
mac , lani , My husband says that because of the shortage the trucking industry is trying to come up with a self-driving truck. Good Lord help us. Not just the dangerous aspects of that, but it's going to get to the point the only people with jobs are the ones who fix robots.
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Post by borntexan on Jul 27, 2021 22:02:19 GMT
I went to Walmart today and in the lower sugar instant packages there were only 2 boxes of Maple and Brown Sugar and 2 boxes of Maple & Brown Sugar which is what we eat so I picked up one box.
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Post by mac on Jul 27, 2021 22:46:12 GMT
borntexanDown the road you may wish you had taken what they had on the shelf!😊 My son says the heat and humidity in Texas is brutal right now. We have it here in Michigan too but storms tomorrow night will take the temperatures down in the seventies for Friday.
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Post by borntexan on Jul 27, 2021 23:54:19 GMT
The heat and humidity is bad mac. I don’t believe in taking things to buy that other people may want including during the great TP hoarding. It was strange at WM though. They were even low on spices. I think they have lost a lot of business to HEB though because of all self checkout registers.
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Post by mac on Jul 28, 2021 0:26:15 GMT
borntexanI don't hoard either but we are a big resort town and have many visitors come here from Illinois and Indiana where supplies are short and they wipe us out of groceries, I always keep one extra on my shelf of groceries I use often because of these out of state hoarders, I learned that during the pandemic. I love the self check registers. Be really careful outside in heat and humidity!😊
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Post by DotRen on Jul 28, 2021 11:38:59 GMT
Ron drinks michelobe ultra and Kroger was out for like 3 weeks. JD said they weren't getting it at buc-ees either. It seems to be in stock now.
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