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There Are Nationwide Shortages Of Aluminum Cans, Soda, Flour, I had no idea that things had gotten so bad. Earlier today, my wife spoke with the manager of a local grocery store because she wanted to place a large order for some canned goods. What she was told surprised her, and it certainly surprised me. The manager of this local grocery store told her that there are numerous nationwide shortages going on at this moment, and he indicated that there are lots of products that he simply cannot get right now. When my wife told me what he had said, I decided that I had to look into this, because I hadn’t heard that canned goods were in short supply. Well, it turns out that the manager that my wife spoke with was right on target, and that should deeply alarm all of us. One thing that my wife was specifically told was that there is a nationwide shortage of aluminum cans, and this is having a tremendous impact on the soda industry. In fact, things have gotten so bad that Coca-Cola has been forced to publicly address the situation…
Apparently the big reason why there is a shortage is because people are consuming far more beverages at home than usual, and this has created a huge demand for canned drinks. Right now, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are primarily focusing on using their limited supplies of aluminum cans to produce their core products, and this has made less popular flavors very difficult to find…
Unfortunately, we aren’t just facing a shortage of aluminum cans. According to the Wall Street Journal, some of the biggest food manufacturers in America are admitting that there are nationwide shortages of “flour, canned soup, pasta and rice”…
Of course those are precisely some of the key items that preppers tend to stock up on. I think that millions of Americans can sense what is coming, and they are gathering supplies while they still can. Meanwhile, the nationwide coin shortage continues to get even worse. This week, I was stunned to learn that Kroger has announced that it will “no longer return coin change to customers”…
That is serious. This coin shortage is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is likely to last for as long as this pandemic persists. If we have already gotten to the point where the federal government is unable to produce enough coins for all of our businesses, how long will it be before we start witnessing a shortage of dollar bills? At this point, even Walmart is acknowledging the stress that the nationwide coin shortage is putting on their operations…
The COVID-19 pandemic has also deeply affected the meat processing industry. Numerous meat processing facilities all over the nation have been shut down in recent weeks, and this has limited supplies and pushed up prices. In fact, we saw some pretty dramatic price increases during the month of June…
I have repeatedly warned my readers that meat prices were going to go up substantially, and so hopefully a lot of you out there stocked up before the price increases hit. What we have been witnessing over the first half of 2020 should be a major league wake up call for all of us, because it has become clear that our system is far more vulnerable to shocks than most people ever imagined. If COVID-19 can cause this much chaos, what is going to happen when a crisis that is far more severe comes along? Even though I write about this stuff on a constant basis, I was stunned when my wife told me that we couldn’t get the canned goods that we wanted because a nationwide shortage was happening. It has become very difficult to keep up with how fast things are changing, and I expect events to accelerate even more as we head toward the end of 2020 and beyond. If you still need to get stocked up for all the chaos that is coming, I would do so quickly, because supplies are only going to get tighter the worse things get.
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