Here’s a simple explanation for rising grocery costs, from the perspective of a baker:
…and make no mistake, this is happening all over the place.
Can we hold both the mid-term and presidential elections tomorrow?
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Here’s a simple explanation for rising grocery costs, from the perspective of a baker:
…and make no mistake, this is happening all over the place.
Can we hold both the mid-term and presidential elections tomorrow?
Comments are closed.
Sounds about right from seeing the prices of those items in my local supermarkets, and that’s a continent away.
Biden’s just a tool of the globalist elite though, as are the likes of Macron, Truss, Johnson, Rutte, Merkel, and Trudeau.
Biden’s just a tool. Full stop.
Kim, you know how long the grocery supply chain is, stretching all the way back past distribution, processing, storage, farm and farm inputs, plus all of the logistics in between.
It’s too late: even if there was a good electoral outcome tomorrow, the damage has been done, and it will take at least two more years for that long, slow flash-to-bang of seasonal crop growth to play out.
That’s the issue with food supply problems: they’re slow burn, and anyone with eyes open can see them coming, and really can’t do much about it. The only thing we can do as individuals is to insulate ourselves by reducing use, producing our own, increasing inventory, and re-allocate what resources we have to deal with increased costs.
*Always act so as to preserve maximum degrees of independent action.*
But gun control, but abortion, but electric cars! Way more important than people being able to eat. Besides, they’re all too fat anyway.
I’ve seen this picture passed on and I do not doubt its accuracy at all. I’ve seen prices at the market rise regularly. People are hurting in the wallet and at the kitchen table very much and the Democrats do not recognize the problem at all.
JQ
They just do not care about the problems of you and I.
They don’t see it as a problem because to them it’s exactly what they intent to do: destroy the “capitalist system”.
Won’t be long now before “the masses rise up and demand nationalisation of the food industry” and “fair redistribution of resources” in their ideology driven minds.
Remember that the USSR suppressed the kulaks (so “the rich”) in Ukraine by making food impossible to get (causing famine that killed millions) which was their excuse to arrest, deport, and kill all land owners, confiscate all farm land, and establish collective farms (aka government run industrial farms using slave labour).
Which is exactly the end result the left wants in the west now.
J
No doubt at all. Is there a book on 20the centrury Russian history that you’d recommend?
JQ
The verbose baker could have explained it all in a mere eight words:
“Why our prices have gone up: Joe Biden.”
geek with a 45 is right.
Figure it out, do what you have to.
Streamline, modify, eliminate, procure that which you need in great quantities NOW.
There are lots of ways to cut corners but you have to look at it with a serious eye. The first of Nov we are cutting back almost to nothing on sugar. 2 months ago I stopped buying chocolate. 10 years ago I stopped buying soft drinks. 10 years ago I got rid of the $1000/yr cellphone contract and ever since then my Tracfone costs me about $100 per year and I almost never use it.
You’ve been conditioned to live as you do now but you’re slowly finding out that way is not sustainable. Better figure it out.
Baker? I’ll take Josephine, please.
As I have mentioned before in these pages, I own a commercial bakery and kitchen. The bakery struggles to break even because my costs are going up faster than I can adjust my prices. I do have a few contracts with the federal and state government that are cost-plus and they keep the bakers employed, but I need 3 shift a day to make money and I barely can afford 2. The real money is in the commercial kitchen, which thankfully is still renting 24/7, 365. Most of the kitchen customers used to own restaurants and now do catering or pop-ups. This gives them maximum flexibility on pricing and keeps waste to a minimum.
I actually sold the business in March of this year, but the new owners defaulted after the first payment and to avoid an expensive lawsuit and business disruption, I elected to take it back. No one wants a supply-dependent, high labor risk business anymore. And I can’t blame them. I’m at the point now I’d rather hire an ex-con on parole or work release before I’d hire anyone under 35. Every one under 35 expects $75K a year for unloading ovens and packing pizza dough, showing up late, leaving early and smoking weed on the loading dock while they check their Reddit r/antiwork posts.
If things improve after the mid-terms, I’ll put it up for sale again. If they don’t, I’ll shut down the bakery and lease the kitchen. We are all attendants at the wake of the American Small Business and it’s just a matter of time before the Democrats start shoveling dirt on the coffins.