Everyone is noticing that products are more expensive than ever and also very challenging to find lately. Shoppers are having to check different stores for particular goods, but still, most of the time they’re unable to get what they want. Those who were hoping that the new year would mark a new era of abundance on our supply chains will be disappointed to find out that the various shortages that defined 2022 are not only expected to continue this year, but analysts are also warning that they’re likely to get even worse in the coming months. Conditions at stores will remain chaotic, and food industry experts say “Americans are really going to be hurting in their wallet” in 2023.
The damages done to the system were far greater than anyone could have imagined, and while the health crisis has exacerbated those issues, it also showed holes in the industry’s infrastructure and processes that have been there all along, as explained by Brian Alster, general manager of the North America Finance & Risk. “As we look into a new year, supply chain risks continue to heighten within organizations, particularly those that are most vulnerable to shortages and labor disruptions,” he says.
With a recession expected to aggravate many of the problems companies and consumers are already coping with, in addition to environmental catastrophes and an ongoing fertilizer shortage, the food supply chain is at the highest risk of experiencing persistent disruptions this year. In a recent interview with Fox Business, Tennessee dairy farmer and agricultural activist Stephanie Nash believes that “2023 is going to be rough. Worse than 2022,” she says. When asked about the severity of the shortages retailers and consumers will have to deal with this season, Nash answered: “I definitely think we have a food security threat. We’re going to have a supply chain shortage, we’re going to have an increase in our food prices at the grocery store,” she alerted.
Moreover, increasing environmental disasters are also contributing to worsening food shortages all across the nation. Analysts expose that California’s devastating drought has led to empty rice fields and a 10 to 15% loss of viable farmland. A poll conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation found that roughly three-quarters of farmers saw a reduction in harvest yields due to drought in the past 12 months. At the same time, around two-thirds of ranchers and livestock farmers reported selling off animals, with the national herd size down by 36%. Some states like Texas saw herd declines of 50%.
Unfortunately, the doom and gloom don’t stop there. Global shortages of grains, carbon dioxide, wood pulp, and other commodities are going to affect the availability of thousands of products in 2023. Food analysts at Mashed predict that bread, flour, oatmeal, vegetable oil, corn, tomatoes, soft drinks, canned foods, champagne, frozen goods, coffee, paper towels, and toilet paper will all be harder to find from here on. “People may have to shop around or use different brands. The available brands may also hike prices to be able to meet the demand,” they noted.
Problems are actually becoming more widepread as more and more shortages emerge, while manufacturers’ and retailers’ ability to replenish inventories remains compromised. This frustating situation is going to impact the lives of millions of Americans for yet another year. We should all stay alert and prepare for the worst before things start to go downhill once again.
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Stock up little by little so when stuff is hard to come by you don’t have to rush to the store. We have 6 Costco size packages of toilet paper. From now on I only have to buy 1-3 packs a year to keep our stash fully stocked. Don’t be that person that goes into a panic and rushes to the store!
– This channel is confirming from last few years that we are going to die soon. I am facing shortage of different food / medical supplies but still everything is available.
It’s called BIDEN-FLATION which equals Total failure and Total corruption.
Umm The New World Order Is Now you will have to grow and hunt for your own food soon. Giving birth to food in a tube water in a packet and fresh air (oxygen) in a can. By 2025
i've been saving up on canned beans. They are the most nutritious food in a can. I am starting to rotate cause the collection is getting large. Its like an expanded pantry to make sure things don't spoil. If I do it right I think I should be able to expand the collection without problems as long as the oldest stuff is getting used. Now when I buy beans to use that day, I switch up the new ones with the older ones stored away. I don't have a lot of food preservation skills. Also I am trying to use washable cloths rags tea towels dish cloths to clean messes water food cat puke blood from cuts dust grease etc. Right now we have water to wash them to reuse them. I have been gradually saving up toilet paper, I have a feeling toilet paper will come in handy for when we don't have machines to rewash rags so easily. Keeping food prep areas and wound area's clean is important even when other priorities slide. Can't breath if you don't blow your nose. I think it could be easier for us to save up on paper towels and toilet paper by using rewashable rags while the getting is good. Cause rewashing rags when water is already scarce won't be possible and we really will be dependent on decomposable whipes which is what toilet paper and paper towel is. For now I will use rewashable rags to clean more and save up on paper towel for when water might be scarce. I can save up tissue paper faster if Im not using as much. Hope this advice helps. Im disabled, living at home.
"too much stuff to sell, isn't that when businesses usually have a sale to liquidate the value fast" stupid stupid people. No need to be shutting down the whole dam economy over nothing. Some sort of mandate that says they can't sell things at really cheap prices to lower overwhelming inventory its like the biggest corporations never been to busness school nope they are conning and scamming the masses as usual. This is stupid they always loose more money by not having liquidation sales. I'm not even a business minded person and I know this. WHAT A LOAD OF BS, "TOO MUCH SUPPPLY TO SELL" ITS CALLED STOP PRICE GOUGING AND MAKE A D** SALE. How have these people survived in sales all these years lolz. This story must make Epic Economist laugh his gut out as well its just ridiculous. And it sucks, cause people barley affording a home could afford to furnish it with those kind of liquidation sales. At this time starting a family is more expensive then ever and just as sacred to do as ever. Wish these corporations would stop wasting so much merchandise. This is why I almost can't blame people for helping themselves to stores during a blizzard when their kids have no couch to sit on in the living room no TV to watch cartoons and no food for special christmas dinner. They could make huge profit from liquidation sales, but now its complete waste if they can't sell it to rich newcommers. Native americans and Canadians can't afford brand new everything like the newcommers living in mcmansions with 12 children.
I was finally be able to but 1 pack if OB Tampons super size. Took 6 months to get one package and Amazon fail to get it. Maybe another 6 month I can buy another 🙁 fucking communist China was behind this Covid. Knee cap the world economy. It was the plan of theirs
A car dealer close, 7-11 store and a ATM machine was taken away. The 7-11 was next to a hospital and the ATM was near a court house. Very essential location. 🙁
Current times have substantially increased the number of preppers. In a world so unstable and chaotic, you can't really afford not to be one anymore.
100% true there is a huge shortage in goods
Most people don't even realize that the economy is collapsing and there is an increasing rate of unemployment worldwide, so take advantage and prepare by making investment to survive.
People, if you want to save money start fasting. do a 3 or 5 day fast or get used to eating less. Americans are fat, and need to lose on avg 50 lbs. If you fast two weeks out of the month, 3 to 5 days a week, u will be healthier and save money.
Great…
No egg shortage here. The liquidator has them at $4/dz.
Discount grocery store has them at $7/dz.
BUT,
though the supply is limited, we can get them… for now.
"There is no traffic jam along the extra mile." —Roger Staubach
This is 100% the democrats fault!!!!
look up cubic farms no supply chain again when its here no one starves bigger then tesla
Every day we have a new problem. It's the new normal. At first we thought it was a crisis, now we know it's a new normal and we have to adapt. 2023 will be a year of severe economic pain all over the nation.. what steps can we take to generate more income during quantitative adjustment?I can't afford my hard-earned $180,000 savings to turn to dust
We saw disruption in the House of Representatives. The grand ole party cannot come to vote on speaker. While market and economy are on a Collison course to disaster. I have some appliances breaking down and better learn how to repair them. If you seek commercial repair, prepare for high prices. You need the skills when country is bankrupt. Our Frigidaire microwave stopped working after floor replacement. Their tools may have rendered electric issues. i learned how to replace the fuse which requires front panel removal. Better learn.
Our stores are strip down at New Years
No canning salt at multiple local sores. I can't find my stock. My preps ate it so was just going to buy more instead of fooling around. Can't get it except for Amazon at 2.5x the normal price.
Listen up Bub. PEAK OIL will destroy America and the rest of the world. We are cracking / fracking rocks to find gas and sifting oil from the tar sands. The writing is on the proverbial wall, Bub.
Don't listen to 2 fingers Hannity. Hannity is a money whore. We don't have 200 years of oil and gas, not in the amounts that we suck them down. We have millions of years of oil and gas…if all you need is a few gallons or cubic feet.
The dem numbskulls don't get it. Without fossil fuels they won't have tires for their eBikes and eCars nor will they have asphalt to pave roads. You can't make tires out of soybeans. You can't pave the streets with algae oil. Beside burning fossil fuels, petrochemicals derived from crude oil makes up a big part of crude oil's uses for mankind. (Or should I say zir-kind?)
Without fossil fuels we will have a massive die off. Our world was artificially built on fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels we could not have built our world as we did. Pull out fossil fuels from the equation and you will have massive deaths. There is no fungible replacement for fossil fuels.
In the Rustbelt the sun does not come out for a week sometimes in the winter. The wind does not blow all the time. Solar and wind are good supplemental energy sources, but they are not dependable, non-interruptible power sources.