David with his Youtube channel SouthernPrepper1 has a continuing series called “Boots on the Ground”. In this series, David passes on first-hand information that he receives from viewers regarding local economic conditions as well as other relevant tidbits dealing with this crisis we find ourselves in.
Here are the past several episodes…..
June 22nd, 2022:
June 23rd, 2022:
June 24th, 2022:
June 25th, 2022:
What are you seeing in your area?
Rourke
I am seeing prices continuing to soar in the grocery store . Some shortages continue-shelves spotty -here and there -especially if you do not get there after deliveries.
Many businesses are looking for workers.
Needed farm supplies-seed- fuel- parts= are all outrageously expensive.
Veterinary medicine is more expensive.
Some drug stores must give out only part of a prescription until they get another shipment-so stock up when and if you can.
Arlene
Rising prices at Walmart: Chunky soup was $1.98 on Friday. By yesterday it had jumped to $2.26.
From June 14 to today (most of these increases occurring this morning):
Hanover beans & potatoes (big can) $1.88 to $2.54
10 lbs. Great Value flour $3.38 to $3.64
Great Value cookies $1.38 to $1.73
Equate version of liquid Nyquil (2-pack) $10.97 to $12.12
Great Value real butter (2 pounds) $6.98 to $7.48
Ol’ Roy dry dog food (50 lbs) $23.48 to $26.48
This is getting scary.
I live on a busy shortcut. We’ve seen a significant drop in the number of cars going by, and UPS/FedEx are making up half of the traffic. I don’t know of anyone who’s going on vacation this year, and people are starting to cancel their subscription services.
Connect the dots. Diesel fuel for farm equipment is getting outrageously expensive. I have a brother in law in lower South Carolina told me fuel is too expensive to bring the tractors out of the barn. I imagine other farmers are experiencing the same. Prices they receive for their crops will have to go up for them to justify planting. Meanwhile, one report I saw stated the truckers are about ready to park their trucks. Same issue. Fuel is out of reach for some. Either they get paid more to haul, or they park their trucks. While this is going on, many employers cannot get people to work. Especially worrisome is the lack of workers in food processing plants. To me, it is a simple matter of connecting the dots. If the farmer can’t use his equipment, the trucker can’t haul the crops and processing plants can’t process the produce, then to me that means we are going to have critical shortages of food. Of course that moron in the White House and his progressive handlers think this is all good. It produces an incentive to develop the “green” alternative. Personally, it will be a cold day in hell before I convert from diesel to electric.
Oren, your right, people will be starving, freezing or sweltering depending on your location, and these brain dead idiots are telling how great this pain and probable loss of life is great for the climate. If they get their wish there won’t be anybody left to enjoy their utopia.