re: Today (4-13-20) was the first sign of big disruption I’ve seen in food chain

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ETA: JUST GOOGLE IT, TARDS

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man, you really have lost it haven't you?
talk about step away from the keyboard...

If a Super Wal Mart is out of products then it's because they are too lazy to stock the shelves. We havent had a single issue finding any food or items.....except my wife went to Whole Foods for steaks the other day and they were out so she went to Rouses instead

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Check out what happened to the Smithfield plant in SD. Next hoarding will be for pork. 293 employees in the plant have test + so far.

ETA: JUST GOOGLE IT, TARDS

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Good thing I'm Muslim

No disruption here

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A country that doesn't make enough of its own shite will eventually become the bitch of the country that makes things for them

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I'll remind you of this when you are bitching about paying $2000.00 for a TV or complaining about the expense of your cell phone.

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Without all the restaurants and cruise industry demand has plummeted.

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It's an interesting study. We don't really hurt for manufacturing and production in these items that we've seen empty shelves for. We don't buy toilet paper, eggs, milk, or meat from other countries. What we're hurting for is packaging and supply chain agility.

For instance, think about all that toilet paper that's produced for commercial customers that comes just packed in a giant cardboard box for bulk buyers. That's not packaged for resale, nor are the retail supply lines equipped to handle that kind of bulk. It's not that we can't make enough toilet paper, because we were able to meet all of our shite ticket needs before. When you try to funnel it through one type of outlet, though, you get where we are today.

Same thing with foodstuffs. Meat's not as big a deal as stores can buy whole sides of beef or whole pigs and hire butchers to break that down and package. As long as they can get the carcass from the slaughterhouse to the store, they're good. Reefer truck availability may be the bottleneck there. But think about milk, eggs, butter, etc. We made more than enough of all of that for all of our needs, but restaurants buy eggs by the flat and butter by like 50 pound bricks and that just doesn't work if someone only needs a dozen eggs and a pound of butter. Again, the packaging and distribution for retail vs. commercial is a huge hurdle to overcome.

One thing this has taught it's that companies who are seeing their products bottlenecking at the packaging lines and distribution networks should probably be trying to find economic ways they can be more agile and pivot to push their products through whatever supply channels remain available in a crisis.

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Nunu's

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Fresh Market was fully stocked in BR yesterday

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Posts like the OP worry me

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This was what the NOlA area was like a month ago. Now you can get basically everything you need all at the same store regardless of time of day outside of a couple random things.

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The real question is whether there's a real shortage anywhere.

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There isn't. People are panic buying. It will subside for OP in a week or two most likely.

ETA: And as others have said, go somewhere other than Walmart. You'll pay more, but even in the early stages of the panic buying, other stores will still have most everything besides TP and hand sanitizer. I was amazed how stocked Rouses was compared to Walmart when this all started here.

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Just left super Walmart suburbs of Nashville.

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As a Nashvillian, I have yet to have issue getting any groceries and the several places we go outside of toilet paper and disinfectant supplies.

Belle Meade Kroger, Target and Trader Joe's on White Bridge, Turnip Truck on Charlotte, even Dollar General, have all been just fine and had everything on our lists this entire time.