Wednesday? Right

banana468 · September 2020

There must be some serious repercussions due to Covid. No customer wants to admit it but it's had a huge effect on manufacturing and then restocking. People may be shopping less but buying more when they do and manufacturers can't keep up with supply. It's been hugely stressful this year both contending with it and dealing with accounts who reuse to understand that they're all competing for available time and it's not there.

Add to that the issues of perishable suppliers (meat and dairy) that did not have supply issues but did have issues of staffing and you get price increases.

And if you are in American manufacturing and use any kind of equipment that's foreign made good luck if it stops working and you need a tech to come service it. European manufacturers are not allowed to send people to the US because their governments don't allow it.

This is just another way that Trump has fucked over the US due to his gross ineptitude in managing Covid.

kerbohl · September 2020

MyNameIsNot said:

@kerbohl, Our grocery bill has gone up, but I mostly chalked it up to eating at home more. When it's not covid times, we typically eat out or grab take-out 2-3 times/week, plus we get convenience stuff for breakfast/lunch sometimes when we're in the office. Now we pretty much eat everything at home, with one big weekly trip. So although the groceries are higher, we're spending less overall.

I have noticed, though, that the cost of meat and dairy have gone up, but there also aren't sales and specials like there used to be. Oh, and the cost of alcohol is going up. I did a wine shop at costco the other day and spent more than I would have a year ago.

I've noticed that too! I used to adjust my list a lot of account for the sales, but they are few and far between. I actually stopped buying milk for a while, but we still buy a lot of cheese ... maybe we should wean off the cheese. Except the second I say that, I hear a voice in my head screaming "no, you crazy person, you can't give up cheese", so that probably won't happen.

charlotte989875 · September 2020

kerbohl said:

MyNameIsNot said:

@kerbohl, Our grocery bill has gone up, but I mostly chalked it up to eating at home more. When it's not covid times, we typically eat out or grab take-out 2-3 times/week, plus we get convenience stuff for breakfast/lunch sometimes when we're in the office. Now we pretty much eat everything at home, with one big weekly trip. So although the groceries are higher, we're spending less overall.

I have noticed, though, that the cost of meat and dairy have gone up, but there also aren't sales and specials like there used to be. Oh, and the cost of alcohol is going up. I did a wine shop at costco the other day and spent more than I would have a year ago.

I've noticed that too! I used to adjust my list a lot of account for the sales, but they are few and far between. I actually stopped buying milk for a while, but we still buy a lot of cheese ... maybe we should wean off the cheese. Except the second I say that, I hear a voice in my head screaming "no, you crazy person, you can't give up cheese", so that probably won't happen.

Before I read your last sentence I thought “that’s crazy talk who would voluntarily give up cheese?!”

VarunaTT · September 2020

I have noticed my grocery bill going up. We used to be around $60-80 and it's pretty hard for me to stay under $100 now. Even with going back to vegan for awhile, it's still saying up there. It's annoying.

knottied89f581443740e2c · September 2020

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