FARM When Walmart runs out of food what will YOU do?

Grock

Veteran Member
When Walmart runs out of food what will YOU do?
The supply chain is broken. Farmers aren't getting paid enough to continue to produce.
There is limited stock in most major distribution centers, and nothing coming in...
Its just a matter of time.

What are your plans?
 

FaithfulSkeptic

Carrying the mantle of doubt
Start shooting pheasant, grouse, squirrels, birds. Plant some melons and other fruits. Go online and find all the things in the woods around me I can eat. Where I'm at, I'd have to be pretty lazy to starve.

I guess in a pinch I could poach a deer, but the only two times I've touched one I've broken out really bad ... some allergy, but I'd live through it.
 

Tortie

Veteran Member
Shipt is next day, I have some coming tomorrow. Groceries are more expensive through Shipt, they go to the store you request but tack on a little something for every item.
 

shane

Has No Life - Lives on TB
When Walmart runs out of food what will YOU do?
The supply chain is broken. Farmers aren't getting paid enough to continue to produce.
There is limited stock in most major distribution centers, and nothing coming in...
Its just a matter of time.

What are your plans?
Can you point me to anything that shows that the following is true now, or imminent?

The supply chain is broken. Farmers aren't getting paid enough to continue to produce.
There is limited stock in most major distribution centers, and nothing coming in...


Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane
 

Grock

Veteran Member
Can you point me to anything that shows that the following is true now, or imminent?

The supply chain is broken. Farmers aren't getting paid enough to continue to produce.
There is limited stock in most major distribution centers, and nothing coming in...

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!

- Shane
Do you know any farmers?
I know quite a few.
None can sell what they grow for what it costs them to grow it.
Including me.
 

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
The Walmart is out of food?

1. Load all remaining mags. Things are about to get spicy.
2. Pack up everything here, go back to mom and dad's. They haven't seen two AM in years and they'll need a watch-sitter.
3. See if there's anything doing online. They might have food, if only for a little while, that a lot of people don't think of.
4. Crack open a book and wait for growing season.
 

Bps1691

Veteran Member
Do you know any farmers?
I know quite a few.
None can sell what they grow for what it costs them to grow it.
Including me.

Do you grow people food

.... or commercial row crops (corn, soy beans)?

Do you own it outright

… or did you buy it at high price and have it mortgaged?

Is your machinery and buildings paid off

… or do you owe on them?

In my ao, the family farms that are free and clear and use their equipment until it just has to be replaced are still getting by.

Those that bought ground at $10,000 an acre and bought expensive equipment on time not so much.

The small farms around me that grow people food make a fairly good profit by selling at Farmers Markets around the area. There are several that sell through subscription- for x dollars you get y amount of the produce that is in season.

There is even two or three that raise beefs on commission and when ready take them to the last local butcher shop. When ready the person who owned it comes, pays the butcher fees and takes it home.

We grow garden and my SIL's brother does a few head of cattle. Every other year we go in with my SIL on a full beef and split a side each after its butchered.

Staples and treats we buy at the stores. If for some reason they dry up, we'll switch to lts and try to source flour, sugar. We can grind our own corn meal and a friend down the road raises bees and sells honey.
 
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Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Shop at another store ... which is what I have been doing. I've only gone to Walmart lately for the big PayDay bars and to support disaster tourism.

HA! Disaster tourism. I like that.

Walmart and HyVee have lost my business for the moment because they aren't "consumer friendly," to borrow your phrase.

I'm stocked fairly well at this point, but if I truly need to go out, it'll be to Fareway (grocery) or some place local and small that doesn't have tape on the floors showing me which direction to walk in the aisle.
I believe in social distancing to a certain extent, but that's just stupid.
 

straightstreet

Life is better in flip flops
Shop at another store ... which is what I have been doing. I've only gone to Walmart lately for the big PayDay bars and to support disaster tourism.
We've been to Walmart once in the past couple months which was today to buy lawn edging. We tried a local hometown store first then the co-op. Neither one had any at all. We figured we'd have to wait in line to get into Walmart. We didn't. There was only a handful of cars in the lot at 11 am. We bought what we needed, went thru self checkout and no other customers were in sight.
 

AnniePutin

Veteran Member
Wife just informed me the curbside delivery pick time for walmart is a week, at least.

I use Walmart pick-up and they will just schedule two days ahead. I've been trying for almost a week, checking every few hours, and still have not been able to get a time slot. Fortunately, I'm pretty well stocked.
 

Seeker22

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Grin and open another jar of home canned meat or veggies. Or raid the stash of dry for same.

Here's one that floated across my radar today- If the virus is China's fault, how's about Trump kick WalMart out of the US and let the Mom n Pops sell instead? Make it, grow it, here in the US.
 

lonestar09

Veteran Member
Don't know if this has been mentioned but here goes. I think walmart is having problems restocking due to the way they pay their vendors. The cheap brands are mostly gone with the higher priced products taking their place. ie cheap $1 loaf of bread has been replaced by $3 bread.
 

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Don't know if this has been mentioned but here goes. I think walmart is having problems restocking due to the way they pay their vendors. The cheap brands are mostly gone with the higher priced products taking their place. ie cheap $1 loaf of bread has been replaced by $3 bread.

Or no bread, as a neighbor reported. Since there seemed to be a bread shortage all over town, I went back to baking my own. Fortunately, I already had flour and was able to get a little more.
 

Wildwood

Veteran Member
Start shooting pheasant, grouse, squirrels, birds. Plant some melons and other fruits. Go online and find all the things in the woods around me I can eat. Where I'm at, I'd have to be pretty lazy to starve.

I guess in a pinch I could poach a deer, but the only two times I've touched one I've broken out really bad ... some allergy, but I'd live through it.
My DIL does the same thing and has the same reaction to cedar so we assume it's because the deer rub against the cedar trees. The meat doesn't bother her at all and once DS has the deer skinned, she's able to help him finish processing it.
 

FaithfulSkeptic

Carrying the mantle of doubt
My DIL does the same thing and has the same reaction to cedar so we assume it's because the deer rub against the cedar trees. The meat doesn't bother her at all and once DS has the deer skinned, she's able to help him finish processing it.
Yep. Something in their dander or the oils in the fur, I suspect. My eyes almost swelled shut on one of the occasions.
 
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