What’s everyone seeing out there in the way of prices and shortages? Let us know where you’re located and what you’re seeing in the comments.
What’s everyone seeing out there in the way of prices and shortages? Let us know where you’re located and what you’re seeing in the comments.
My regular gas station is usually a bit of a deal comparatively, these days about $2.15 a litre.
They’ve been running out of gas mid day about twice a week now for at least three weeks in a row. Seems to be about four to six hours to get restocked if they are lucky from a depot about 15 km away
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Never mind gas… wait until the food starts getting scarce.
Preppers us the phrase, “Nine Meals from Anarchy, “ which
translates to… after three days, your friends and neighbours
are gonna come looking for a roast haunch, of, well… you.
Good luck on that front.
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Speedy diet plan.
It isn’t the shortages exactly.I feel like I live in Argentina as when a friend described it. It wasn’t the constant shortages of certain items. It was the constant rotating shortages of items. What was in today might not be there tomorrow or the next day. So you bought it up even though you did not need it contributing to shortages because everyone else did.
Your mindset changes from what I need today to what I might need next week or next month.
It was the little things that drove him nuts. The little essentials such as toothpaste, brushes razors pens and even paper. Not the bigger things he could plan around. He mentioned many peoples homes(he was upper
Middle class)turned into mini warehouses as they would buy up and then barter between themselves. A very nice guy who was friends with my parents who met him in Venezuela at a resort. He left Argentina with his family and was able to move to the states. He said it was his best decision he made.
I do not buy that much anymore really. But gas has jumped by 20 cents a litre in Winnipeg. Food prices are rising for many items and shrinkflation is in full swing. Still a lot of sales on for many items but I wonder how long that will last. I am just seeing the drop in variety not the total devastation I saw 2 years ago on grocery shelves.
Agree about the rotating shortages thing. I’m seeing no kitty litter, then plenty, then none. Pendulum.
Here in the S. Okanagan, regular gas has been at $2.16/ltr for about a week.
What I have found stunning is how little food prices have increased here compared to other areas, I can still buy some items at near what I was paying even a yr ago. Same with supply, other than a very few items, we have had mostly full shelves throughout the past 2 years. Right now, for example, every area grocer seems awash in cheap California strawberries and tomatoes.
I suspect that our close proximity to the US border and west coast combined with truckers increasingly looking for shorter trips may keep us a little better buffered than many. But, that said, I am under no illusion about the dark times ahead for all of us.
Visiting in North Vancouver and this morning it’s $2.33 for regular.
In the East Kootenays of BC.
Was chatting with gas station / convivence store owner yesterday.
He was saying certain flavours of chips would be unavailable for a bit then a different flavour, would become unavailable.
Couple weeks ago , pretty much “all candies” were not available to him.
He’s not told in advance what will be unavailable, or for how long, however it’s typically very short (2-3 days possibly a week) He has never been told why this is happening, but from his perspective it’s happening with all brands and with greater frequency then he has ever seen.
I’m in Minnesota, USA. Have family and friends farming throughout the region (SD, IO, ND, MT). If what they tell me about their travails of finding – not just affording but finding – fertilizers plays out, we can all expect food prices to rocket upwards in three to five months.
I’m also in Minnesota. I fill up my van’s tank now when it’s halfway down. It still costs more than a full tank did when Trump was president. The kids and I just travel way less … that means vendors of fun places for kids, like the Mall of America, amusement parks, parks with beaches, etc. are not getting the $ from me and thousands and thousands of parents like me. And grocery bills have almost doubled in price. Also seeing empty spots on shelves, or sporadic “we’re out of…” for various products. My van is really old but I won’t be buying a new vehicle as I hoped to do this year … what does it mean for car dealerships and the automobile industry when hundreds of thousands of families have to make a similar decison?
This is not sustainable for the average middle class family. And the lower-income class families must really be suffering.
This might become our new normal, so that we no longer remember when it was better, and it just keeps getting worse … the elites want this, don’t they. We’re back to having a few families of the nobility on the top while the rest of us peasants have very few goodies in life at all. The powerful people want this. It’s happening faster than I expected it would after Trump “lost” the election.
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And here we thought when those items weren’t available in men’s rooms that it was because of an outbreak of logic.
LOL!
Damn Putin
Off topic, but what is going on in the automobile business? My daughter went shopping for a car in VA, last weekend, and there is hardly any inventory of new cars. The other day, in NH, I passed four dealerships and they were ghost towns. Maybe, people are buying on line; at least we can hope. I find this very unsettling.
This is a response, I received on another website, as an FYI.
@Exasperated inventory has been terrible but if she can hold on for a bit longer, the car market is crashing. We have the highest auto repo in history right now. She’ll be able to scoop up a good deal.
Also, very few people are looking to purchase anything on credit. Including a vehicle
Put an order in for a Toyota RAV4 last Tuesday through the dealership I’ve used for 25 years. No cars on display, none in the lot. Salesmen twiddling their thumbs. It’ll take 3-5 months for my car to come off the assembly line in Woodbridge Ontario, a few hundred kilometers from here. Lack of parts. If I could nurse the old 2006 through another winter I would.
Creativity needed. Found where I can buy case lots of dried beans, lentils, barley and such. At least half the price of the sobeys across the street. Been selling beef, most people cannot afford the better cuts. LOTS of people gardening. Use the internet to find the suppliers to businesses and industries to purchase household dry goods and the like. Maybe you will have to purchase the large toilet paper dispenser, better than corn husks. A general ‘mist of angst ‘ in the air.
Hi-test at the Petrocan here on centre Vancouver Island works out to $10.76 per imperial gallon. Everywhere is the same price for regular at $2.29 per litre (except about a dime less at Costco).
It’s $2.08, for regular, in my neck of the woods (Bruce County).
The one common shortage I’m seeing locally is distribution of specific types of dog food. I was using Boréal for the dogs but have had to switch out to different brands based on what’s available.
Was in Michigan recently for business and noted that many stores have begun lining their grocery aisles, typically reserved for a specific category of grocery, with overstocked items. It was strange seeing basketballs in an aisle marked ‘Breakfast’.
The brand of canned cat food that we use is very often mostly or completely missing from shelves here in Cleveland, Ohio. Not surprisingly, it’s one of the lower priced cat foods.
Parkland Manitoba – Overheard a Canadian Tire store manager complaining vociferously about how diesel is so high all the truckers are quitting and he can’t get stuff in. He used to get a truck twice a week now he’s lucky if he gets one every other week and the last one arrived half empty.
Heard a call out in Walmart for staff to come help unload a truck in the garden centre. Went to check it out and arrived to find a Walmart employee wailing to the truck driver about how this was ten days late and every plant was dead.
We’re not on the beaten track so I think we’ll be first to get all trucks cut off as this gets worse.
Gas ranges from $2.13 to 2.80 a liter, excluding tax.
Food is getting more expensive and with less volume in the packages. A few weeks ago, I saw a family-sized bag of shredded cheese (from Quebec, of course) that was only a third full. A rip-off!
About a week ago I wrote a Letter to the Editor to a rather large newspaper (yeah, they still exist) in my region. I am a Pennsylvania resident (which has one of the highest gasoline taxes in the country). I pointed out that a good portion of the revenue brought in from this tax is not essential…and pointed out what revenue was distributed where. I made the suggestion that the State of Pennsylvania immediately call a moratorium on gasoline taxes until which time the inflated costs would be negated.
I then went into the benefits of how suppliers (truckers and distribution) would see deliveries to Pennsylvania to be both a benefit for land and air…being that they would be able to tank up before their return trip on significantly lower fuel costs (we’re talking over 60 cents a gallon for gasoline and higher on jet fuel).
I finished the letter by quoting various democrat politicians in the state about how they are doing everything in their power to keep costs lower for their constituents. My last two words were “Are they?”
My letter was printed 4 days ago…and since that time there have been four other letters to the editor referencing mine favorably.
Good ideas. So the answer is no.
Lower mainland BC, our local Save-on foods, Safeway, Freshco are stocking their shelves maybe two deep with many items instead of the customary eight or ten deep. There are obvious shortages. The newspaper flyers rarely have worthwhile sales, latest scam is buy-one-get-one-free at hugely inflated prices ie no deal at all. Olive oil noticably in short supply. My educated guess of food inflation is 15-20% over last year. My pet peeve Bananas (surely the deal of all time) at 79¢/lb have to be air freighted from thousands of miles away, potatoes which are grown within ten miles now $1.99/lb were always 49¢/lb a couple of years ago, an outrageous rip-off.
Buy one for the price of two and get the second one absolutely free.
Shortages: I see an incredible shortage of intelligence & common sense amongst most politicians & journalists. Of course, its been that way before, but it is non stop now. They are wrong about everything and they double down, triple down, quadruple down on their lies time and again. Yet 1/2 the population believe the popular narratives time & again.
The shortages are a direct result of global governments shutting everything down over the past 2 1/2 years…spending even more money…killing jobs…stopping travel…increasing taxes…establishing more & more rules and regulations to take more control of people’s lives…
And the sheep just nod in agreement.
So you don’t think it’s Putin?
Did 1200 kms on the moto this week. Gas started at $1.799 on Sunday, went to $1.919 Friday. Deal @Wainwright Food Warehouse, Friday gas @ $1.799, woo-yah? Lloydminster Cdn Tire had only reg gas two weeks ago.
Sporadic grocery empty shelf items.
Eating lots of cabbage salad, sauerkraut, rice. Seed potatoes 50% off. Got two plots going.
Lots of delayed cereal crop growth due to no rain across eastern Alberta.
Trudeau made it rain in Lloydminster yesterday, so quit your bellyaching.
Central Saskatchewan- A few weeks ago one of my kids had the sniffles so when I was in the city of saskatoon I decided I’d pick up cold and flu tablets from Walmart. The cold med aisle was all but empty. We checked another Walmart in the city and it was also almost empty, especially larger quantity containers Had to buy mismatched daytime/nighttime cold tablet brands. Our small town grocery store is also pretty empty of cold tablets. When I’m shopping I have been grabbing a bottle of our favorite brand each trip.
Wide mouth mason jar lids are finally restocked in our town but some stores have a limit of three boxes so I’m stocking up on them too. If you’re planning to can your harvest, you might want to buy early. Perhaps think about buying vinegar, salt, sugar and pectin as well before canning season starts. No shortages of them yet but I’d rather buy them while there’s lots of stock and relatively reasonable prices.
“Thortageth? What thortageth?” says Prinz Dummkopf between bites of filet mignon.
2020 GMC 2500HD diesel. Def fluid recall. Haven’t seen the truck since March.
That doesn’t affect me.
I had the emission control system taken out of my truck last year as I kept getting error messages due to wonky sensors. Rather than have it become a garage queen, and cost me accordingly, the dealership offered to delete it.
I’ve heard that a lot of diesel pickup owners do the same thing once the warranties on their vehicles expire.
I’d recommend a def delete. Unfortunately, not much choice in where to get the ECM reprogrammed.
It’s not cheap to get it done. It cost me over $2500 at the Dodge dealership I took my truck to last year. They also reprogrammed the computer to ignore the now-missing emission control system.
After that was done, I noticed right away that I used less fuel.
Victoria, BC. My last fill up was $2.34/litre. Overall I’d say food prices are up about 10%, more for dairy products and some meat. Fresh vegetables and fruits are not too bad. Sporadic shortages everywhere – you never know what will be out of stock. That often means going to two or three stores to find what you want.
On the bright side, Trudeau has a new climate plan and the greedy oil industry is being suppressed. And while he hasn’t yet apologized to every grievance group, most of them have been covered off and given money. One day they might actually find a grave in an old cemetery and we can all join in the remorse and self flaggilation. So yeah, things are looking up.
Grain farmer. Fertilizer was in short supply. Now it’s herbicides. An example is glufosinate for HTC (herbicide tolerant canola). Customers are allocated an amount according to the quantity of seed purchased. If you need to spray twice (rain after spraying) or have high weed pressure, you’re in trouble.
Who made that decision? Amazing how quickly we’re getting used to being rationed.
Kalispell Montana. The gas price for the cheap stuff (87) was $4.29 when I filled up a couple of weeks ago. The price a couple of days ago for the same was $4.79. Prices are per American gallon.
Grocery prices are up significantly in NE Florida. Orders averaging around $150 are now over $200. Items I had delivered with no issues in 2020 and most of 2021 are sporadic now. Not live or die items, but Breyers sugar free ice cream bars for example. Haven’t been able to obtain those since late last year. Bottled craft IPAs are really becoming hit and miss. Lagunitas 12 packs are well stocked but other faves have gone missing for months. I could drive and check Winn Dixie or Target, but I don’t want to. Some of the shortages at my Publix have been laid at the feet of Publix management according to national dailies. On the other hand, in SW Iowa, Hy-Vee shelves are fully stocked and prices have risen only slightly according to the Minister of Finance. I haven’t been back since June of 2020. Iowa gas is in the $4.70’s a gallon and about ten cents more around here.
What are these liters of which you speak?
There’s roughly 4 litres to a gallon, so when someone says they’re paying $2/liter that’s about $8/gal.
it’s actually closer to $9.. $CAD per CAD gallon
Anyone else getting a lot of ads for fasting?
Halifax NS, gas is $2.15, food up about 20% year over year, major shrinkflation, about 10% package size reduction on many items. no visible shortages, but store shelves are full at the front, empty at the back. Beef has much smaller supply and variety, it seems like a price issue, they are just not selling as much. Roasts are ending up on the reduced eat it quick display, food poisoning will be on the rise.
I live in Edmonton and when i left for work a couple weeks ago i filled at 179.9 iirc. Haven’t noticed any shortages on anything at all in Edmonton. But, what $300 would get me at superstore a year ago, i’m now spending $375-$400. I work at a drilling rig in NW Alberta, gas at Spirit River AB was 180.0 last week and in Dawson Creek BC about 199.9. However, I get payed a buck a km to travel to work and $75/day for my truck at work, so i’m pretty much immune to fuel prices, for the most part. Groceries are expensive in Dawson Creek, but it has always been an expensive town. Have not seen or heard of any shortages in anything locally up here either.
When push comes to shove I guess meat will be back on the menu. ‘Beyond beef’, eh ?