Price increases and shortages

[Artichoke Lover]

The same 4 oz vanilla that I bought last Fall at ALDI for $1.50 is being sold TODAY for $3.50
ALSO, tt somebody who said that NOBODY is selling canning lids, while I was outside of Rural King. I found boxes of wide mouth lids with screw tops, 12 ct, so I picked up 2 boxes.
Now I have 24 More wide mouth lids, and replacement screw tops for the ones that I am recycling bc they rusted.

While I might have stated that canning lids are in very short supply, and I won't buy the Big A off brand ones cus of a higher percentage of failures, one can still find them sporadically. I found and bought two cases of Ball pints with lids/rings on them at Wally's the other day. I was lucky.

Canned Cat food is at an all time shortage for 2021. Wally's barely gets any brand in, much less the large cans of Special Kitty I use for my cat (he also gets a touch of dry as a treat). I ordered some from Chewys.

Yesterday, Costco had zero cans of any brand of cat food. I'm stocking up and hitting every WM when I'm in the area of one. I'll also check Petsmart (owns Chewy) and Petco. Even Safeway shelves were kinda bare of canned cat food.

Costco also had Dawn Ultra dish soap on sale. I usually buy Palmolive, but Dawn is stronger. I now have enough for more than a year, since we do alot of dishes by hand (we are very water wise when doing dishes by hand).

I’ve found canning supplies 2 places. Target and Dollar general. Target had ball and DG had another reliable brand that I can’t remember the name of.

 

[Rammy]

While I might have stated that canning lids are in very short supply, and I won't buy the Big A off brand ones cus of a higher percentage of failures, one can still find them sporadically. I found and bought two cases of Ball pints with lids/rings on them at Wally's the other day. I was lucky.

Canned Cat food is at an all time shortage for 2021. Wally's barely gets any brand in, much less the large cans of Special Kitty I use for my cat (he also gets a touch of dry as a treat). I ordered some from Chewys.

Yesterday, Costco had zero cans of any brand of cat food. I'm stocking up and hitting every WM when I'm in the area of one. I'll also check Petsmart (owns Chewy) and Petco. Even Safeway shelves were kinda bare of canned cat food.

Costco also had Dawn Ultra dish soap on sale. I usually buy Palmolive, but Dawn is stronger. I now have enough for more than a year, since we do alot of dishes by hand (we are very water wise when doing dishes by hand).

When I was at Rural King yesterday, thier canned cat food shelf was pretty bare. WM, too. Went to Sams and grabbed 2 more 60 count boxes of cat food. I now have a years supply in that. Couple 30lb bags of dry that I rotate out for the outdoor cats.
Krogers has been low or sparce with the canned foods, too.
Im stocked for myself, but my animals have to eat, too.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I've never heard of Rural King. And we don't have Sam's out here. SOB!!

I'm going to WINCO grocery store today (west coast employee owned doesn't take CC) so I'll check there.

My DG hasn't gotten in any yet, per the manager last week. I need to check again this week.

 

[Zeedman]

Yesterday DW & I drove an hour to the nearest big city, to visit a large nursery there (nearer nurseries were closed over the weekend). The place was packed, and many things were sold out - including the pink magnolia DW had been searching for.

The staff said they had never seen so many people this early in the season. Apparently the run on all things garden has extended to nursery stock, so if anyone is contemplating a new fruit tree, vine, or perennial, it might be wise to shop early.

 

[baymule]

@Rhodie Ranch just when I think I got it covered, you mention something else. Dishwashing liquid! I use Palmolive original, I have chemical reactions to everything else. Dawn is the worst, but I use it down the sink to help keep the pipes clean, along with boiling hot water. Also need extra dishwasher powder.

Don’t need cat food, wish I could load up on dry dog food.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

For any one on the West coast, WINCO has lots of different sizes of canning jars. No boxes of lids tho. And NO LARGE CANS of cat food - only the tiny expensive ones.

I went to Ace cus I needed some more hardware cloth for two more beds that SO is building for me. I bought the last three rolls. The asst manager said that was all they had and couldn't get anymore. There is a shortage on wire, he said.

I read in the paper that there are over 20 container ships stuck out in the ocean off of Los Angeles. They can't get in cus of so many backlogs of ships delivering. The problem has been going on for several months now and doesn’t appear likely to improve until summer.

Currently, about 20 ships sit anchored off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California, a service that monitors port traffic and operations. Another six ships are scheduled to arrive later Friday and join the waiting game.

At times there have been as many as 40 ships waiting; normally, there’s no more than a handful, according to the Marine Exchange.

Officials have blamed shortages of equipment and labor needed to unload the ships.

It can take 8,000 trucks to haul the cargo away from a ship, Marine Exchange executive director Kip Louttit said in March. When all those trucks hit the road, there aren’t enough available when dockworkers are trying to unload the next ships in port.

Lately, it has been taking five to seven days to unload a ship instead of two to three, said Shruti Gupta, an industrial analyst with the consulting firm RSM.

 

[flowerbug]

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I read in the paper that there are over 20 container ships stuck out in the ocean off of Los Angeles. They can't get in cus of so many backlogs of ships delivering. The problem has been going on for several months now and doesn’t appear likely to improve until summer.

Currently, about 20 ships sit anchored off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California, a service that monitors port traffic and operations. Another six ships are scheduled to arrive later Friday and join the waiting game.

At times there have been as many as 40 ships waiting; normally, there’s no more than a handful, according to the Marine Exchange.

Officials have blamed shortages of equipment and labor needed to unload the ships.

It can take 8,000 trucks to haul the cargo away from a ship, Marine Exchange executive director Kip Louttit said in March. When all those trucks hit the road, there aren’t enough available when dockworkers are trying to unload the next ships in port.

Lately, it has been taking five to seven days to unload a ship instead of two to three, said Shruti Gupta, an industrial analyst with the consulting firm RSM.

sounds like they need some prunes.

Mom said last time she was at Wallysworld they had cases of jars but no boxes of lids only.

 

[baymule]

Wow, I wonder if the same thing is going on at other major ports.

 

[CDitzel]

One of the biggest things you need to have is a stock of whatever prescription medications you have to have like heart medication or insulin. Most people only get a 1 month supply of meds but for a lot of medications you can ask your doctor and get a 3 month prescription. People don’t realize a lot of our medications are manufactured in other countries. A family member who is a transplant patient had a lot of trouble finding meds when COVID happened because they were manufactured in an Asian country. Obviously you can’t just stock up on these but you can give yourself a buffer if supplies are out for a few weeks.

We always get Rx for 3 months of medications we regularly take with 3 refills so we have Rx for a year. Medicare allows for this so we rarely run out of medications.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Yes, there are backups at the Port of Portland. They modernized and expanded and still cannot get anything off loaded in a timely matter.

Port of Seattle and Tacoma are fine, per last week's news.

Lowes has no hardware cloth (wire) and doesn't know when more will be in.