The backward-looking comparative statistics they cite, "15% shortage for food and beverages" overall, are nonsense.
You will note from your own store visits the most unavailable products are the manufactured food and heavily processed products.
The raw material shortage inside the retail manufacturing supply chain path, combined with the increased demand on those manufactured sectors, is the direct cause of the manufactured food shortage.
Poke enough holes in enough small categories from manufactured condiments to manufactured drinks, to manufactured cereals, pasta, grains, soups, pet foods, and the complex food processing system overall begins to show the larger problem.
Some well intentioned people will claim the shortage of processed and manufactured food is a good thing, and people should eat more fresh foods and be healthier.
Without full-service fresh prepared food delivery operating normally there isn't enough fresh food in the U.S. retail distribution system to feed 350 million people.
You can see how the former group rely more on fresh product supply chain relationships, and the latter group are weighted heavily toward low-price highly manufactured.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Media Beginning to Notice Food Supply Chain "Perfect Storm" as It Arrives
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