What food costs have gone up or shortages are in your local grocery stores?

Beef, chicken, eggs, lamb, fish . . . everything is up in price except gas/diesel.

My food prices have stayed steady. But the variety of pastas and rices are way off.

The local market bought hundred pound bags of rice and flour, and made then into five lb bags , lot’s a great store.

Meat is the new toilet paper. But they haven’t raised the prices.

@Yellowdog GA! Good call. I had a limit of two family packages of chicken drumbs. While opening they smelled nasty and had to toss. My Super store was short on ground beef last month.
The toilet paper craze has passed.
I never ran out of TP. I am grateful that I was practicing doomsday preping as a hobby.

There was a shortage of raw chicken, but I just went to the store a few hours ago and the shelves were stocked.

I also couldn’t find rubbing alcohol for over a month, but just bought a bottle.

A few things are a little more expensive, and no longer do I find things on bogo like I used to. I haven’t felt gouged, but I’m just not finding any deals.

I haven’t bought beef recently, but it was on the shelf today. I don’t know if it was expensive.

A lot of people here seem to think starting to open the state back up means everything is safe and the scare is over, so maybe they will stop hoarding so much. It wasn’t until the Republicans woke up mug March that everything went to extreme bonkers in the grocery stores, and now that they are back to thinking it’s all a democratic conspiracy and hoax they might calm down a little again.

Mind you I have plenty of Republican friends who are still being cautious, but many of them are not at all and out there like everything is normal.

Two weeks ago I came back from shopping told my wife, “Poultry section was EMPTY accept for three – 1 and half pound packages of Turkey Necks.” She looked at me like you’re crazy and I said so I bought one pound Coho Salmon filet instead. It was delicious.

I haven’t noticed any price increases.

There’s less supply of some things sometimes, and for a while there was no TP, but that’s recovered. Now I think the only thing really tending to be missing is disinfectant wipes and sprays.

Prices are unchanged but there are limits on how many of some items you can buy. TP, tissues, wipes, bleach, and some meats are one or 2 per customer.
With the reduction in meat consumption we all might end up a little healthier after this.

In the regular supermarket, there are shortages of meat and you are limited to how many packages you can buy per person (2). I bought pork chops at a good price (1.49 per pound). Some meat sections are empty. Toilet paper shelves are empty. There are sales as usual but it seems like there are less than usual.

At Costco, some meat sections are empty and you are limited to 3 per person. However, at Costco, each pack of meat is about 3 lbs so limiting customers to 3 per person still means a lot of meat. I bought chop meat (hamburger meat). You’re not limited with frozen meat so you can buy all the frozen beef, chicken and fish that you want. Costco has had supplies of toilet paper, paper towels and tissues so I am grateful that I have that membership.

It’s all available as it would normally here at the moment. You can even find T.P. and hand sanitizer. I suspect the meat dept to be on the bare side next shopping trip though.

Forgot to mention hand sanitizers and cleaners. Haven’t looked for bleach but I found Lysol spray cans, 4 large cans for $16 around early April. Lately there’s no Lysol at all. I never used it because I was never a fan of spraying aerosols around the house but for this, I figure it’s good to have around. I also found 2 large bottles of rubbing alcohol at Costco, one shot deal because they have not stocked it since. That was the same day as the Lysol – early April.

Hand sanitizers I have not seen regular brands in the stores, but I have seen generic brands, not cheap. 8 oz bottle for $7 and a liter bottle, looks like a liquor bottle, for $10 at the grocery store. I would have purchased it but I shook the bottle and it looked very watery, which, I thought, the consistency is not much different from pure liquid alcohol.

I bought ingredients to make hand sanitizer, and I bought little bottles at Walmart. Am eager to try it. Only recently has Walmart had aloe vera gel. I bought some fancy aloe vera gel with lavender in it from Amazon, too.

@jca2 A friend of mine bought me Lysol last week at my local Walmart. I was there yesterday and there wasn’t any, so she got lucky.

I have to say shopping at Walmart was a little scarier than my other grocery store. They weren’t wiping down anything. My other grocery store wipes down the handles on all the carts, and I saw them at 4 in the morning cleaning racks in the parking lot, I don’t know if Walmart is cleaning things over night?

I did find 70% alcohol so I bought a bottle. I have some 90% at home from buying it a year ago. If I’m desperate could make it into sanitizer, but I have sanitizer, so I can wait and see. I don’t have any aloe at home anyway. The 70% I use to clean my phone and remote control.

Stores in Atlanta: Chicken breasts doubled in price. Beef close to doubled. Availability: so far so good, but much more expensive.

Fish available, lots of it. Baked foods, available. Greens available.

@JLeslie: Walmart and Costco here, they have a canister of sanitizing wipes near the entrance where you can wipe down the cart handles yourself. I like that because you know you are doing a thorough job. If the employee does it and they are doing many carts at a time, and they’re in a hurry, who knows how good of a job they’re doing.

Everything’s fine now.

@jca2 All of our supermarket and grocery stores used to have a canister of wipes to wipe down your own cart previous to the Covid. Now, I haven’t seen that anywhere. Walmart has spray and paper towel. Publix has someone wiping the carts for you. I haven’t been to Target in two months so I don’t know what is happening there.

When I lived in Memphis I pointed out to Kroger that they have wipes at the front to clean my cart, but then when I check out they give me the cart of the person in line before me. It always bothered me. I wonder what they are doing now?

Looks like things have gone up slightly here in Missouri. Some food service companies and others are tacking on a ‘COVID’ surcharge with no notifications, too.