In addition to everything else, people are once again worrying about their groceries. Or rather, the lack of groceries
A Miami grocery store earlier this month. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Maybe you went to the grocery store and had a hard time finding your favorite cut of chicken. Or maybe you just read an article about another round of grocery panic or stories of some empty shelves, possible product shortages, and disappearing chicken wings. Yes, in addition to everything else, people are once again worrying about their groceries. Or rather, the lack of groceries.
Worker shortages at grocery stores and producers are one contributing factor as Omicron’s contagiousness has thinned the workforce. Stew Leonard Jr., president and CEO of northeastern grocery chain Stew Leonard’s, tells KTLA that 8 percent of his employees — around 200 people — were out sick or quarantining.
It isn’t just people calling out sick because they caught COVID, either. A record 4.5 million quit their jobs in November — 4.2 million did in October — many of them in low-paying work. The American Trucking Associations estimate that there was a shortage of over 80,000 truck drivers last year.
Through all of this, though, some analysts think the current situation has a more straightforward cause: the weather. Dave Masser, president of Pennsylvania potato wholesaler Sterman Masser, Inc., tells DCist he thinks it’s more about “the physical nature of being able to move product when we have this kind of weather.” Masser tells the website that one Sterman Masser truck carrying 40,000 pounds of potatoes to a distribution warehouse in Maryland had to cancel the shipment.
All in all, the message seems to be: Don’t panic but also get used to it. Lisa de Lima, the spokesperson for MOM’s Organic Market, tells KTLA that we’re going to see “isolated incidents” of product shortages during “that window where it takes a minute for the supply chain to catch up.”
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