OT This is worse than a gas shortage

Keith Molden · Nov 25, 2014

I just read in the morning paper that there is going to be a world wide shortage of chocolate!! Dog gone it, there goes the price of my Milky Ways and just think of all the folks that need their chocolate fix every day. There just might be a global uprising over this LOL. Just wanted to let everyone know so they can start hoarding now. Keith

gene bender · Nov 25, 2014

Your paper is behind as thats old news.

Deere Scotty · Nov 25, 2014

Been talked about for awhile; prices are up 20% this year alone, & by 2025 experts say only the wealthiest people may be able to afford it!

ypop · Nov 25, 2014

ok I am stocking up on M&M's
Ypop

Texasmark1 · Nov 25, 2014

Nice way to boost sales; create a crisis. I'm convinced a lot of it is done deliberately......"active marketing".....you mean stealing, no! Active marketing.

Funny some time ago, coffee was the subject. Were talking about world shortages and bla bla. I buy Eight O'Clock whole bean coffee at WW and they were selling the (what used to be) 3# bag for $14 and some change. After I heard about the shortage I was amused to find that WW had dropped their price to $12 and some change for the same size bag and it's still at that price.

Now I hear that Wall St. is getting into the commodity hoarding business to go along with their other "good business practice" activities.

It's all about money, the have's who want more and the have nots trying to get by.

Mark

BIG RUH · Nov 25, 2014

I myself will not have any problems surviving with out chocolate. My problem will be surviving the wife with out her having chocolate .

js305 · Nov 25, 2014

I worked for a local but regionally large grocery chain for 22 years, leaving in the 80's. It was a common thing to have these artificial shortages. Coffee, sugar, even toilet paper, were the things on that list.

The most memorable one was toilet paper. Sometime in the 70's the rumor was started somewhere that it was going to be in short supply due to some shortage of pulp from lumber. OK, that being stated in the news, we saw consumers buying cases instead of packages. In a few weeks there was indeed a shortage, created by the news of a shortage. It didn't last long and lots of people had cases in their garages, creating overstock in the stores for a while.

The most notable change I have saw was the pricing before and after the shortages. Coffee and sugar both doubled in cost after it was all over. That part was strange to me because all of the uproar about the shortages subsided after it was back on the shelf with a higher price. I would have thought the same complaints would come about but it never really happened.

Keith Molden · Nov 25, 2014

That don't surprise me any Gene. Our local fish wrapper is always late on everything LOL Keith

GordoSD · Nov 25, 2014

I bought a package of chicken breasts the other day, went to put them in the freezer. Found an identical package I bought in Dec 2013. The only difference was the price. The new chicken was 48% more than the old one. That's insane inflation.

greywolf224 · Nov 25, 2014

For any of you folks that are into firearms, There has been a bullet shortage for the last year or so.
.22 rounds are just starting to be found again in your local store. I use to buy a brick of .22's for $18. 5 months ago I saw people pay $100 due to hoarding. Local Wally world has them now for $27.

As soon as the word spread that the government needed ammo to fight the current wars, everyone started buying everything they could which in turn created a shortage. The manufacturers slowed production down which in turn raised the prices and a further shortage.

jon f mn · Nov 25, 2014

They are selling 5lb Hersey's bars at the truckstops, guess I'll have to get one so I dont run out this week.

jimg.allentown · Nov 25, 2014

Don't you check the prices for what you buy? Of all of the groceries that I buy at a grocery store, which is precious few, I know the prices. I simply do not buy unless the price falls into what I know an item to cost plus reasonable inflation.

fixerupper · Nov 25, 2014

I can't eat chocolate and neither can my sis, my dad and my wife so that should ease the shortage by, lessee, .00000000001 percent?

Donald Lehman · Nov 25, 2014

Sorry but the goobermint "needing ammo to fight wars" had very little to do with it.

Prawn Farmer · Nov 25, 2014

Found this interesting reading the other day - the sheer power of large corporate leverage:

"Walmart grocery sales have increased [more] than those from Kroger, Safeway, and SuperValu grocery chains combined (for a total of about 145 billion in 2011), is uniquely positioned to actually cut small farmers' profits, by virtue of their sheer size and market power.2

“To maintain its low cost provider status, WMT [Walmart] uses a two pronged approach. First, it leverages its scale to exert buying power on its suppliers and obtains a lower price for its inventory than competitors.

Second, WMT is relentless on cutting costs across its supply chain and maintaining as lean a structure as possible. By doing these two things, the company is able to pass on its savings to customers while still maintaining margins that are equivalent or higher than competitors.

To note an example, even when the U.S. grocery market was feeling the impact of food price inflation in the latter half of 2012, Wal-Mart was able to lower its grocery prices and take share from competitors who had no choice but to raise prices to maintain their margins.”

Dean · Nov 25, 2014

I've been stocking up on Snickers and M & Ms for the coming chaos.

When the shortage kicks in, I'll sell em on ebay and retire.

Dean

old-9 · Nov 25, 2014

I remember the TP shortage very well, it all started when Johny Carson made a joke in his monolog. It was panic from there.

Jiles · Nov 25, 2014

That doesn't bother me as much as "hidden increases"!!
For years, my wife has stored Ritz crackers in a metal container made for Ritz Crackers.
Some time ago, she showed me how they had cut down the number of crackers in each tube.
Each tube has about 10 less crackers, very noticeable when placed inside container.
People without this metal container would probably never notice!

rrlund · Nov 25, 2014

As Paul Harvey used to say in one segment...."So you don't run out of things to worry about".

retired farmer · Nov 25, 2014

Went to WalMart a week ago to get food. Didn't notice any Low prices. Everything I eat has gone up in price. Farmland, five pound, precooked ham has been running a little over ten dollars. Looked at the price on the counter sign. Same price, looked at the package, they are now four pound packages.

rd 2N in mo · Nov 25, 2014

can't by Ritz or Cant believe its not butter in a pound anymore. keep rasing the price and cutting product size

greywolf224 · Nov 25, 2014

I agree but it has much to do with what started it.

HenryO · Nov 25, 2014

not only have they cut the size of the container but the new square containers of cant believe it's not butter has a new formula. Used to be the first ingredient (ingredients are listed in order of amount) was various oils, now in the new containers (incidentally labeled ORIGINAL) the first ingredient is WATER It also has less flavor and I will look elsewhere for my butter fix

Alan K · Nov 25, 2014

LOL....that is what happened to Twinkies.

Alan K · Nov 25, 2014

Well, forget oil and gas prices lol....a chocolate shortage, that's bad news. There may be a lot of unhappy people on Valentines day so maybe the flower industry is behind it

David G · Nov 25, 2014

That appears to be a long term trend.

hd6gtom · Nov 25, 2014

bacon at WW is higher than the local store.

Wile E · Nov 25, 2014

Good there are too many chubbys in the USA already.

RN · Nov 25, 2014

Chocolate subsidy needed- that is the Liebural approach to keep the Feminist party content once a month or so when the votes are needed. Big Ruh has the critical danger noted- Hershey's Coco deprived females associating with unaware males can cause a lot of damage. Smart men will have a reserve of both .22 ammo, latex products and Hershey's for continued social survival around females. RN

EricInSEI · Nov 25, 2014

Apparently chocolate originates in the part of Africa where Ebola is, and producers are having labor problems as a result. Now you know why US troops are being sent to fight Ebola.

old bc · Nov 26, 2014

I read an article yesterday that said part of the problem was that some countries fix the price that the growers get for the beans. The result is that they are moving to other crops such as rubber trees.

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