Grocery produce shelves are already becoming bare.

[Sogo]

When I checked out this morning at my local neighborhood market, the one that sells lots of organic produce, I went through the checkout desk that was manned by the store's owner. I set my basket down and said, "looks like your produce delivery didn't arrive yesterday." "Why would you say that?" he asked. "There's very little produce," I replied. "That's all we could get; we'll try again later this week," he said. There was a pause while I paid for my purchase. I gathered up my things to leave and said, "Well, I didn't vote for him." "Neither did I," he said. "I campaigned against him."

[MichMan]

1. Haven't noticed anything like that around here

[RubyRose]

2. Not here in SWFL either.

[Farmer-Rick]

41. I can't get products

I use to routinely get locally.

Certain breads and flours aren't getting carried by big name grocery stores. And the produce which use to just flood in during summer here is mostly all the same coming from mostly factory farms.

Maybe it's just my area in East TN.

[kimbutgar]

3. I've noticed emptier shelves shopping in the last few weeks

Especially produce !

[markodochartaigh]

4. I have gotten dried cherries and blueberries from

Costco the last few years. They aren't stocking them anymore. I asked at the desk but they didn't know why they weren't getting them.

Looks like Amazon has one bag left at twice the price Costco used to sell them.

[MayReasonRule]

47. Unless I Buy Fresh On Sale And Dry Them In Our Convection Oven I Usually Pick Up Dried Cherries And Papaya From Kroger

I pick 'em up when I catch 'em on sale!

They're my favorites of the one's I've sampled through the years.

[markodochartaigh]

55. They look good. I wish we had Kroger

n/t

[Kaleva]

5. Produce sections in nearby stores are full

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Asking questions might get you more information.

[Greg_In_SF]

7. Full shelves/displays

here in central Florida.

[3Hotdogs]

38. NJ, 2.

Costco 24 eggs, $7.00 and change.

[cadoman]

8. big organic chains were all hit by the United Natural Foods hack

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/united-natural-foods-operations-cybersecurity-incident

On the upside, eggs seem to be affordable and available now. At least in my area.

Beef, milk, and OJ are what's pricey at the moment, from what I can see.

[spinbaby]

9. I'm seeing lots of produce

What always seems picked over is dairy. I read online that cottage cheese is in short supply because of some TikTok thing, but I’m also seeing shortages of sour cream, whole milk, and plain yogurt. The only place locally that’s consistently stocked with dairy is Walmart, so I’m going in at 6:00 when it opens just to get that stuff. It’s the only time of day Walmart is tolerable.

[allegorical oracle]

17. That's what I've seen, too. We have numerous dairies in rural FL and they are a

primary source of immigrant jobs. They work 12-hour days. Read yesterday that a Vermont dairy just lost every immigrant employee due to an ICE raid and has had to shut its doors.

[mgardener]

43. That

Was several weeks ago.

[Vinca]

10. When I went shopping Monday there was 1 loose navel orange in the store and a few half rotten grapefruit.

As I shopped, I noticed them stocking the grapefruit, so I got some of those, but had to buy a bag of smaller oranges that I don't really care for because they have seeds. Plus, you can't really check them out to judge their juiciness. Overall, stuff is AWOL here and there around the store and prices have gone up considerably on many things. I'm sure it will get better once the MAGA guys go to work in the fields (long hours, low wages, no benefits). That's what they wanted apparently.

[Freddie]

51. I can't get good oranges here (PA) in the summer

If they’re from South America they’re usually sour. Love oranges but I’ll eat other fruit til the Florida ones get in the store late in the fall.

[Sogo]

53. I'm a fanatic for oranges.

The good ones are the navel oranges, and the season where I am is from November to June. Then, they get in the Valencia oranges which are not as sweet and have the large seeds.

[Vinca]

54. Pre-Trump (normal times) the market has had oranges from another country - I'm thinking South Africa, but

I'm not sure to a certainty - that were almost as good as US citrus. Local blueberry season is soon, so we'll nosh those.

[defacto7]

11. Our stores aren't empty, but

there is definitely less stock in the last couple weeks and the older produce is staying on the shelves longer.

[SheltieLover]

12. My aldi has been completely out of yellow squash & zucchini for 2 wks

[MayReasonRule]

49. You May Still Have Time For A Fall Crop Of Yellow Squash And Zuchinni Depending On Where You Are

I'm in North Louisiana.

In this part of the year I typically plant them so they get a little shade during the hottest part of the day.

Sometimes that involves putting up a shade sail.
It really only takes a few productive plants to get a nice ongoing crop in our climate and soil.

They're fun to grow!

[EarthFirst]

13. Wegman's/Aldi's

We haven’t found a significant difference in availability at either.

Our produce habits shift to local abundance through the farmer’s market and public market as the growing season reaches its apex regionally.

I’ll keep an eye on it out of curiosity; however we haven’t noticed a decline in availability.

[purple_haze]

14. No issues in my area

Filled six coolers full of food for camp a week ago, just got back from the store to re-stock the refrigerator, no issues at all.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. our produce sections at our regional safemart was looking good . who knows later on though.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. i didnt vote for ,,, either both terms . bah humbug

[calimary]

20. Proud to say I didn't, either.

Neither time! If he’d been the only choice, I would have written my own name in.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. ""

[paleotn]

25. Yes!!!

[Warpy]

18. I remember this time iof year in Mass. was a little tough

The first week of July was spotty, though, too much had needed to be harvested and too much was at least 2 weeks from ripening. Lettuce was starting to bolt and had to be harvested and packed to last into August while tomatoes were getting huge but staying resolutely green.

You'll probably have better luck in a couple of weeks if your guy buys locally.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. i never assume how the other person voted unless they bring it up

[Brenda]

21. My grocery stores don't look depleted but the prices are UP

And I was in line at Ace Hardware today and saw $50 water bottles! Fifty fuckin bucks for a water bottle.

[druidity33]

23. UNFI got hacked recently and it has affected

every co-op on the East coast as it's their main distributor. The co-op i used to work at only JUST started getting regular shipments again. Thankfully they have a robust relationship with local farmers. Still, the fruits from far away have been real sparse.

[senseandsensibility]

24. I had kind of noticed that for the past few weeks

but I just went to the store and everything was stocked. Don't know, but we buy almost the same thing every week so it seems to vary.

[Maninacan]

26. Shelves Wisconsin

OK here. changed oatmeal brands because of price. Quaker is way up. store brand is where Quaker was before pandemic. New brand is fine ,Made in Minnesota. I better keep an eye on canned tomatoes.

[senseandsensibility]

27. Yes, my store brand of oatmeal

is half the price of Quaker, and it's made in Canada!

[tanyev]

29. Welcome to DU.

[Emile]

30. Pizza is almost ready!

[marble falls]

39. Fudge wad didn't last too long. He wasn't organic.

[Hassler]

31. Plenty of produce in my stores. Prices higher

And the Cuties are suddenly lousy.

[elleng]

32. 'My' grocery store, the one I usually use, has been fully stocked lately.

(Southern MD)

[doc03]

33. Was at Walmart yesterday, they have plenty. nt

[dutch777]

34. Luckily I like vegetable gardening. Will be tougher in winter though.

[ventuckian]

35. Ventura County

Work for Albertsons, our produce is in ok condition but hours are tight and if a load arrives late not everything will get out by end of the day. Premade, which are the fruit bowls and such is usually the weakest part. I work dairy, eggs are cheaper but starting to get more shortages in certain sizes and brands. Regular milk has never been a problem even during covid. Lactose milk has been something of a problem lately. My loads can be late too and we have our own version of AI ordering which sucks. I add to it but if I am off alot gets missed.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. What I would like to know,

is what prices people are experiencing vs a year ago.......

[tazcat]

37. NE WI here - no watermelon, zucs, blue/raspberries spotty

all season. Just the stuff I eat.

[Tarzanrock]

40. What I have noticed is ...

that although the canned goods may be available on the shelves -- the pricing of said canned goods has been greatly increased by 25% to 30% or more from the pricing of only last Fall when Biden was President. Chinese products like Fly by Jing Golden Peppercorn Oil is gone from the shelves because of the Turd's tariffs as is a lot of other European canned products in the international food aisles here in Los Angeles. The other thing is that the more expensive items in the bakery department have all had significant pricing increases -- for example, even ordinary items like bran muffins are now priced at $6.99 for 4 bran muffins -- when you can get them as they don't bake a lot of them (because they can't sell them at that price and so they are relegated to the "day old" half-price bakery discounts because they were unsold at that $6.99 pricing. Since the store "loses" money on this -- they bake fewer of these items so they are not usually available. The same can be said for the more exotic items which used to be made and stocked in the store's Deli Department -- those exotic Deli items are now consistently "sold out" or are listed as "out of stock." There's plenty of ordinary potato salad but there is not much in the way of the more exotic seafood salads, fruit salads and exotic vegetable salads like there used to be. Just wait until the crops rot in the fields for lack of immigrant farm labor and the tariffs take effect on the imported produce from Mexico, Central America and South America later this Summer and in the Fall and Winter. The pricing will skyrocket on what little will be commercially available on the shelves of the supermarkets here in the U.S.

[mgardener]

42. My Aldi's has had bare spots for several months now

Same with Sam's club yesterday.

[bdamomma]

44. Not to be

rude with my response, but that's what happens when you detain and deport essential migrant and immigrant workers who pick produce. I hate that felon, I almost wish he would eat something rancid and get sick.

[ChazII]

45. Produce is not low in my area but

water shelves are often empty but I live in Phoenix.

[Demovictory9]

46. "I campaigned against him."

[berksdem]

48. I have not seen

any issues in PA.

[obamanut2012]

50. All fine in Norcal

[Melon]

52. I would extrapolate a missed delivery to a nationwide

Shortage of something. Maybe their supplier didn’t ship, truck canceled , or store was behind in billing.