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In reply to the discussion: Grocery produce shelves are already becoming bare. [View all]Tarzanrock
(1,250 posts)that although the canned goods may be available on the shelves -- the pricing of said canned goods has been greatly increased by 25% to 30% or more from the pricing of only last Fall when Biden was President. Chinese products like Fly by Jing Golden Peppercorn Oil is gone from the shelves because of the Turd's tariffs as is a lot of other European canned products in the international food aisles here in Los Angeles. The other thing is that the more expensive items in the bakery department have all had significant pricing increases -- for example, even ordinary items like bran muffins are now priced at $6.99 for 4 bran muffins -- when you can get them as they don't bake a lot of them (because they can't sell them at that price and so they are relegated to the "day old" half-price bakery discounts because they were unsold at that $6.99 pricing. Since the store "loses" money on this -- they bake fewer of these items so they are not usually available. The same can be said for the more exotic items which used to be made and stocked in the store's Deli Department -- those exotic Deli items are now consistently "sold out" or are listed as "out of stock." There's plenty of ordinary potato salad but there is not much in the way of the more exotic seafood salads, fruit salads and exotic vegetable salads like there used to be. Just wait until the crops rot in the fields for lack of immigrant farm labor and the tariffs take effect on the imported produce from Mexico, Central America and South America later this Summer and in the Fall and Winter. The pricing will skyrocket on what little will be commercially available on the shelves of the supermarkets here in the U.S.
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