Inventory and availability discussion

[arbol]

What's not scarce is people living on the Government tit.

We should pass a balanced budget amendment.

[Alpine]

PVC is horrible. Just over a year ago 10ft of 2" Sch 40 electrical PVC was $7.50ish today it's $37.50ish.

PVC prices doubled overnight around 10/2020. And have continued a rapid and constant climb more than doubling again since then.

Yeah, tell me about it. I bought 10 sticks each of 1-1/4" and 2" and it was just over $1000 out the door.

[Alpine]

I predict vehicle tires are going to become scarce, and skyrocket in price.

Better stock up.

I have extra tires and rims for all my vehicles.

[Great-Kazoo]

Restaurant?

Him and his wife own Bob n Earls in trinidad . Nice little hometown place, a little off the main drag, but worth the trip. .

[Great-Kazoo]

Is anyone looking at commercial long term-food storage as part of the solution or should I just go out and drain my local Costco and Sam's Club?

With that thought, any recommendations on long-term food brands based on taste?

There's 2 other threads in the S&P section. To date the canned items from lds, have been worth stocking up on. I know powdered milk brings to people. However anytime i've served it, no one has a clue it's not from that container. The LDS / Mormon powdered milk is literally powdered, like a fine talcum powder consistency.

Their fruits, veggies and other items are worth (to us) the storage space. But we're also one of those families that eat locally raised lamb & goat. So to a lot of people we have weird taste buds. Instead of realizing they have been preparing and cooking it wrong

I'd wager , if you started a new discussion in this forum. You'd get a variety of replies, considering 2020 woke some people up. Realizing they were woefully unprepared, across the board.

[brutal]

Been a good run on Rotella T6 5W-40 full synthetic oil required in the 19+ Cummins 6.7L.

I had 3 gals on hand (one change) and just picked up another case of 3 online. Nothing in the store.

Some were complaining about lack of oil filters, but I don't use that cheap shit Fram stuff and had stock on Mopar and/or Fleetguard filters. Ditto on the expensive diesel fuel filters. I put on so little miles, the oil and filters get changed once/year. I could probably do oil analysis and extend it to 2 years.

A week or so ago, DEF aka pig piss was getting scarce and I may need some to get through the winter, so I grabbed 3 of the last 6 2.5gal jugs of the almost cheapest brand (Peak base). I did see they had more on a pallet not yet unloaded.

We just got a 1/4 beef and picked up my antelope sausage/jerky/snacks so freezers are full up.

Need chicken, only have a few of the IFC breasts left.

Paid $4.19/gal before discount for Premium for my Eurotrash 91 octane eating hot rod.

Got the Covid mandate letter today we are stuck meeting the Fed contractor mandate. I got jabbed before Biden puked nonsense so while it sucks for our freedoms, doesn't affect my job.

[brutal]

Local Safeway was without Starbucks coffee for several weeks. A couple days ago, the shelves were restocked, so I stocked up on a few bags of Sumatra.

Common oil filters are often out of stock at Walmart. Yes, I know I can go to NAPA or AutoZone, but I'm not paying 4X the cost.

Soft drinks with real sugar are scarce, like Pepsi, Mt Dew, and various Ice Teas.

Half & Half is often out of stock.

We stock up on Dunkin Donut coffee when it's on sale usually buy all they have on the shelf but our stock is a bit low right now.

If you're buying Fram filters, pay the extra at Napa for something that isn't garbage. I guess their new high end "synthetic" filter is OK but I still don't trust them for the garbage they have been selling for too many years now.

[encorehunter]

Yes, restaurant. We are getting a lot of subs for different products. It's making very difficult to keep serving certain foods.

[hollohas]

Checkout these attempts to keep shelves "full". Like my earlier post about Costco using empty pallets to fill dead space, others stores are getting creative too.

This looks like a Walmart or something with hundreds of folding chairs on display on shelf after shelf.

https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/st...88329245368325

A Safeway with single rows of french fried onions filling shelves.

https://twitter.com/AsheSchow/status...04344599257088

And another grocery store with Mac n cheese filling an entire section with single rows of boxes.

[hollohas]

More clever techniques to hide the symptoms of encroaching communism.