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shit that dissappeared during the great rona supply chain clusterfuck

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46 minutes ago, orange dream said:

$30 per 12 pack on Amazon.

Holy smokes 

Dr Pepper Zero and Gatorade/Powerade Zero both have been missing for me.

Dr Pepper Zero is available for like one day a week at my H‑E‑B.
2 hours ago, Brew said:

$30 per 12 pack? Is that a typo?

 

2 hours ago, Incredulity said:

Holy smokes 

I wish it was a typo.  It's actually probably closer to $35 for a 12 pack now.  I only have a can once a week or so but it is ridiculous.

On 9/6/2021 at 5:11 PM, CycleTex87 said:

I will second the plastic straw deal.  I occasionally get a small frozen drink at Starbucks and sometimes they give me a paper straw which sucks ass.  It falls apart before you finish the drink. 


They switched to paper straws for environmental reasons but I’ve seen plastic start to pop back up and figured there was a paper straw shortage.

 

On 9/6/2021 at 10:40 AM, Mac8111 said:


The Gatorade shortage is for real

Haven’t seen it but wife said this today as well.

On 9/6/2021 at 12:40 PM, Skipper said:

Topo Chico has been somewhat hard to find in Dallas lately.

Got mine cut from my Drizly order today, first time that’s happened. They usually have one size or another of the original at the liquor store.

 

 

As someone who works in supply chain most of these issues are due to raw material shortages and subsequent prioritizations of said raw materials in making finished goods. They’re going to make the top sellers/movers first so anyone looking for less often purchased alternatives from someone like Coke or Kraft foods or whatever is going to be waiting. Shit even the CHEP pallets to ship it on are in short supply. 

Gatorade, single size fruit drinks in the cold section, prepackaged peanut butter and crackers

12 hours ago, Brew said:

Farmer’ markets usually always have pickling cucumbers. We make batches of the refrigerator pickles. I think the cucumbers hold their texture better that way than true pickling.

Non-pickling cucumbers are terrible.  I realize the keep longer, but that wax....eeew.

Fucking Costco food court eliminated the Chicken Caesar salads.  I don't waste calories on hotdogs and pizza...those are better spent on booze.  Salad was the only thing I could grab there. 

2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Various Taco Bell sauces at grocery stores. 

Don’t think it’s just the store bottles. Ordered fire and Diablo with my order on Sunday and got mild and hot only. 

All the olive bars are closed. Now they just have prepackaged olives in quantities too large for my needs. I used to have a hangup about olives and I got over it by sampling an olive from the olive bar whenever I went to the store. My regular grocer even had toothpicks set out and a sign saying you could go ahead and sample. But they also had smaller containers so when I bought olives for, say, going with Bloody Marys, that worked for me. Now they only come in large containers and I can’t sample anything anymore. So I’ve only purchased one package of olives since the start of the pandemic, I wound up throwing half of it away, and have stopped making Bloody Marys.

5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

All the olive bars are closed. Now they just have prepackaged olives in quantities too large for my needs. I used to have a hangup about olives and I got over it by sampling an olive from the olive bar whenever I went to the store. My regular grocer even had toothpicks set out and a sign saying you could go ahead and sample. But they also had smaller containers so when I bought olives for, say, going with Bloody Marys, that worked for me. Now they only come in large containers and I can’t sample anything anymore. So I’ve only purchased one package of olives since the start of the pandemic, I wound up throwing half of it away, and have stopped making Bloody Marys.

I'm sure this thread is shocked that the guy from Ohio is pissed that Corona has removed his ability to get free samples. 

That's not a supply chain issue, it's a healthcare issue. While I guess in answer to the original question, someone could have technically answered "ICU Beds" I'm not sure that is really the spirit of the post in the Food and Travel forum. Sorry for freebie struggles. 

52 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Yeah, thread drift never occurs on surly. You all or so disciplined.

Scope creep is insidious in all its manifestations and we must be diligent in recognition and forceful in response. 

One thing we know for sure is that the bitchassedness supply chain has remained unaffected.

I think we can pretty much condense this thread down to damn near anything at damn near any time. I’m floored by the random shit that comes and goes these days. Including any and all products and services. Fuck covid

7 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I wound up throwing half of it away, and have stopped making Bloody Marys.

You didn’t really want one that bad if you stopped making Bloody Mary’s simply because you couldn’t get any olives. 

On 9/3/2021 at 10:42 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

Polyethylene 

And here I am tossing out several hundred pounds of it every day at work...

Apparently Oscar Mayer is hopelessly behind on keeping lunchables in stock. 

Wife does the weekly grocery shopping.  She's pretty efficient; out the door and back in around an hour.  But every trip there she will report that something is missing that was on her list, or she has to substitute brands, quantities, sizes, whatever.  For example, Nutella.  We have a 10 and 8 year old, and they like sandwiches made of it.  But lately, it's either completely missing, or wife will come home with what I refer to as the sampler size (honestly, 2 oz or so) because it's all the store has and they limit how many you purchase, or a different brand completely, which the kids will mildly bitch about because it's not Nutella, but they eat it anyway (and it does taste inferior).

Another item is Wheaties.  That's frequently out as well.

 

 

Oh, another.  Flinstones vitamins.  Sometime last summer, they were no where to be found.  Wife ended up getting a 12 or 24 pack off of Amazon, so maybe that's something back in stock, but until we run out of our supply, yada.

Then again, the kids probably have been taking fradulent Flinstones vitamins made of asbestos and imported from China for a year now, so maybe we oughta investigate this.

 

 

On 9/3/2021 at 11:42 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

Polyethylene 

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Wife does the weekly grocery shopping.  She's pretty efficient; out the door and back in around an hour.  But every trip there she will report that something is missing that was on her list, or she has to substitute brands, quantities, sizes, whatever.  For example, Nutella.  We have a 10 and 8 year old, and they like sandwiches made of it.  But lately, it's either completely missing, or wife will come home with what I refer to as the sampler size (honestly, 2 oz or so) because it's all the store has and they limit how many you purchase, or a different brand completely, which the kids will mildly bitch about because it's not Nutella, but they eat it anyway (and it does taste inferior).

Another item is Wheaties.  That's frequently out as well.

 

 

Here you go.

 

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/nutella-hazelnut-spread-52-oz-portion-control-pack-case/125PCNUTELLA.html

7 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Wife does the weekly grocery shopping.  She's pretty efficient; out the door and back in around an hour.  But every trip there she will report that something is missing that was on her list, or she has to substitute brands, quantities, sizes, whatever.  For example, Nutella.  We have a 10 and 8 year old, and they like sandwiches made of it.  But lately, it's either completely missing, or wife will come home with what I refer to as the sampler size (honestly, 2 oz or so) because it's all the store has and they limit how many you purchase, or a different brand completely, which the kids will mildly bitch about because it's not Nutella, but they eat it anyway (and it does taste inferior).

Another item is Wheaties.  That's frequently out as well.

 

 

 

4 hours ago, Patron said:

go big, or go home

https://www.amazon.com/Nutella-Handle-Convenient-Wide-Mouth-Container/dp/B07PN73CFK/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=nutella&qid=1631158588&sr=8-13

6.6 lb tub of nutella

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18 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

All the olive bars are closed. Now they just have prepackaged olives in quantities too large for my needs. I used to have a hangup about olives and I got over it by sampling an olive from the olive bar whenever I went to the store. My regular grocer even had toothpicks set out and a sign saying you could go ahead and sample. But they also had smaller containers so when I bought olives for, say, going with Bloody Marys, that worked for me. Now they only come in large containers and I can’t sample anything anymore. So I’ve only purchased one package of olives since the start of the pandemic, I wound up throwing half of it away, and have stopped making Bloody Marys.

regular HEB still has the prepack olives but central market has their olive bar operating as in the old world.  not sure why the difference. 

Those Nutella kids sound fat. 

On 9/6/2021 at 8:27 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

Just got an email from the guys I hired to install rain gutters that there's no install date yet because they can’t get sheets of aluminum. 

Coup in Guinea - largest reserve of bauxite (raw source of aluminum) in the world. 

I've been wanting a specific trim on a Hyundai Palisade and you might as well show up with cash the moment the truck pulls in or you ain't finding one. 

  • 2 weeks later...

i am unable to buy a dishwasher because of the chip shortage....

1 hour ago, LABEVO said:

i am unable to buy a dishwasher because of the chip shortage....

Since when did a wife require a computer chip?

Since when did a wife require a computer chip?

Wait, those sammich making devices require chips too?

Canned, water or own juice packed, sour cherries that I use for making cherry pies have been hard to come by. We don't like the ones in heavy syrup--too sweet. It's been hit or miss lately so when I see them, I buy more than I need.

  • 4 months later...

The Whataburger near me apparently can't get the orange and white striped bags.  One visit they were using plain brown bags.  Now they have the orange stripes and text but still printed on a brown bag instead of white.  I'm really shook to my core.

4 minutes ago, WBT said:

The Whataburger near me apparently can't get the orange and white striped bags.  One visit they were using plain brown bags.  Now they have the orange stripes and text but still printed on a brown bag instead of white.  I'm really shook to my core.

Take heart.  We will rebuild.

56 minutes ago, WBT said:

The Whataburger near me apparently can't get the orange and white striped bags.  One visit they were using plain brown bags.  Now they have the orange stripes and text but still printed on a brown bag instead of white.  I'm really shook to my core.

That reminds me, I picked up pizza at a local place in Richardson a couple days ago.  They brought the pizzas out in red and green themed Christmas boxes.  I know we've ordered pizza from them over the past couple months and they never used holiday boxes.  Pretty sure they had ordered them but didn't get them in until ~Jan 15th.

Fritos Scoops

Blueberry Waffles

 

I see a lot of Frito wailing and gnashing in Houston... but it sounds like off-brand like Trader Joe's is available. Bunch of brandists out there.

Frito's hits close to home.  I have not eaten Frito's in awhile but the wife (no pics) sent me to store last night on the frozen streets of hell here in DFW to get Frito's for Chili.  Well WTF? they had every brand and type of chips except fritos.....What gives??

2 minutes ago, JCHIL said:

Frito's hits close to home.  I have not eaten Frito's in awhile but the wife (no pics) sent me to store last night on the frozen streets of hell here in DFW to get Frito's for Chili.  Well WTF? they had every brand and type of chips except fritos.....What gives??

People making pies

On 9/7/2021 at 5:18 PM, Gil Bang said:

Fucking Costco food court eliminated the Chicken Caesar salads.  I don't waste calories on hotdogs and pizza...those are better spent on booze.  Salad was the only thing I could grab there. 

I appreciate and subscribe to the saving calories for booze theory, however all 3 are about equal in calories with the chicken Cesar having a substantially higher fat content.  The more you know.

Pillsbury Flaky Cinnamon Rolls have been gone for a few months. Most of the Pillsbury refrigerated stuff is usually empty (crescent rolls, pizza dough, cinnamon rolls, biscuits,etc.). 

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