Not sure about your area in TX but where I'm at I drove behind my local wally world and there are at least a dozen or more tractor trailer containers lined up, I saw some are reefers. I can't help to think but I'm suspecting that large stores are holding back on stock to keep demand high for higher prices, because why are there these large containers behind the stores? Also, I was at a local large retail grocer called Meijers in my area and decided to take a closer look and I saw these reefer trucks there too, A security gard drove up and approached my car and asked me what I was doing there.
I can not say they are holding out on supplies but it looks suspicious that these shipping containers are now in parking lots after covid than before covid
I'll have to check that out but it would make sense. Nvidia is doing it and openly admitted it on a shareholder call so why not?
Not disagreeing AT ALL. What I was talking about is general stuff from my perspective, not from a media point of view and like I said I was making a general, very broad example of what I see. It's also my perspective from where I live on the East coast. It may very well be different in another area. As for the nobody buying... That is me. Again from my perspective. but after putting the pieces of what I see and hear from shippers and talk about from drivers of other trucking companies, it (while speculation) makes sense that greed has played a significant role in our current state and not just in the Govt sector. So in essence, we both said the same thing but just in 2 different ways. I'm just not trying to blame anyone. I wish I could trust those that make policy, but a lifetime of missteps and utter lies have made the system so one sided that all I can do is look out for me and mine and do the best I can while not working myself to death in the process. But it sometimes hard to let the idiots affect me. But in the last few years, I have had to make some serious internal life priority changes to adapt to the changes in my life, even thought I didn't want to accept it.
As for the chickens... Can't talk about that. I've never worked with Tyson, Cargill, or Perdue, but I will say that the "Chicken Mafia" (the truck drivers who haul live chickens to factory) is not running near as much as they were around Oct/Nov last year. I have no idea why though.
What I was basically trying to say before an ADHD fueled rant was that the story you're being told is what they want to tell you because that's what they're being told. The truth is quite simply it's a short. They've done the same with meat and American farms which is where I was going with "the fed has been in all of US food industry".
To be honest if it was the US admin causing egg shortages it doesn't explain why there is also an egg shortage in the UK / Europe. We don't import american eggs, the supply chains are seperated. It seems like a problem that extends around the world. I don't really understand why the Democrats would want to tank the economy either, it's hardly a popular way to get re-elected.
To put it quite simply, submission and money. I can't speak on before Clinton (wasn't born), but so far it's only been the Obama and Biden admin while Clinton's admin wasn't this bad (probably because Killary wasn't as high up as she is). They cater to those that are the loudest and dumbest, they fuel race wars while claiming they are for the minorities. Then they pass through policy in 4,000+ page bills that only hamper the minorities. They think they are doing them good, so they re-elect. That's why my comment a while back was so important "even his voters are starting to see the truth". Bush wasn't innocent though, he was war chasing to be like his daddy. In any case, look at the care act. It has crippled our health care system even further but billed as a "great thing" for the average American. It does nothing to actually help us in the long run but on paper looked great and thus good for votes. The logistics of tanking an economy is quite simply in this case make Trump look bad, then raise the numbers near mid terms and reelection time to make you look better by saying "we raised this by such and such vote for me". All while big corp gets a TON more money so the admin gets their support too. Popular vote has never been a thing, it's electoral. He who has the most lobbied backing gets the big cheese. For the past century the American government has been against the people all while trying to make us think they are for us. All the declassified documents coming out proving all those "conspiracy theories" true are making a lot wake up and realize this. All the fact checking bullshit has been proven to be fed backed to spread misinformation about politically fueled topics etc. It's actually pretty crazy.
Also you are right, avian flu has been around before, and in 2014/15 when it last happened egg prices rose by 61% "Table-egg laying chickens accounted for a large majority of the lost birds, losing about 12 percent of their flock based upon inventory numbers from April 1, 2015. Egg production declined for about 9 months, with a 10-percent reduction in May-December 2015, relative to a year earlier. Egg prices rose sharply, as May-December 2015 prices soared 61 percent higher than the previous year for the USDA benchmark price in New York. "
This time it's worse as there is high inflation and the cost of pretty much all goods has risen which makes eggs more expensive to produce, on top of the avian flu issue. There are still large supply issues across industry due to Covid fallout and Ukraine war too. So it all seems to make sense, I don't see some grand egg conspiracy.
In 2014 and 2015 I was cooking myself eggs for breakfast almost every morning and had a small toddler I made scrambled eggs for a lot. We didn't suffer an egg cost issue back then. 2014 to 2015 was my transition to starting work at Lockheed and then moving on by myself from my ex so money was tight. I do remember beef product being high and I had to find alternatives but not eggs. We also had the ecoli outbreak during the Obama admin and beef prices didn't raise by 250%.
As far as supply issues go, here in the US we never had a supply issue when it came to our food industry. Hell, in March of 2021 ground beef was 1.85 a pound and in 3 months time rose sharply to over $5 a pound. There was never an incident to justify this outside of forced sharp inflation, or as they blamed it on transportation costs due to gas prices. Well who shut down our pipelines?
I will make an alternative point though, most of our inflation "justification" is blamed on fuel prices and when they rose. If that's the case, it simply proves raising our minimum wage across the board will only move the CoL bar higher because companies will raise prices to maintain profit. The problem is gas prices were ever only super high for about a 6-8 month period. Yet, costs of everything haven't gone back down. Last year fuel prices for my area dropped back down to 2.15 a gallon and then sharply rose after the middterms. When gas was that cheap beef was still over 4 bucks a pound. Yet they say the president doesn't control the gas prices lol. Even further utility costs went up because of higher costs of resources, but my natural gas bill has shown the cost of natural gas was cheaper the past 3 months. It is no coincidence and can't be refuted that specifically this country has gone to shambles because of an admin change. Going through 2 years of fakevid our CoL didn't increase at all in terms of things we don't directly import. The American industry was relatively fine, and things like groceries/fuel/etc were at a relative low. Now all of a sudden shit hits the fan? Come on.
I still find it hilarious that this country is completely ignoring the evidence against Fauci and his bullshit.
