Many of the country’s biggest food makers are telling grocers that they will have limited quantities of a number of their products, including things like Rice Krispies Treats, Sour Patch Kids, some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors, McCormick gourmet spices, and Marie Callender’s pot pies because of labor, commodity and transportation constraints throttling supply chains, according to emails viewed by CNN and interviews with grocers. Some suppliers are also telling grocers to cancel their promotions of these items and more over the holidays so these items won’t disappear from store shelves as quickly.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html
That’s quite a number of common products that may just vanish with a poof. It’s also notable that a new saying has been coined, the “before times”. This statement and that title signifies life prior to 2019, when COVID-19 began to spread across the planet. The lock down to 2020 was one thing, but the great grocery store famine of 2021 is another.
The fearful question is what’s next? If it’s the before times what is the after times looking like?
At what point does disco from a pest and annoyance to a serious crisis with ramifications to the point of tyrannical government shut downs, military checkpoints, famines and few feasts?
Does that sound a little too tinfoil for you? Not having sour patch kids would’ve sounded pretty tinfoil two years ago.