Post here if you are, and your country and approximate location if you can.
Edit: I didn’t want to make the post subject pedantic and need a [serious] tag, lol.
E2: ok, looks like a local hiccup for that station. Kinda on edge, there are going to be shortages. Just don’t know when. Gas here is hitting $4/gal at some stations. Mostly close to $3.90 at the rest. We were paying $2.65 when this started.
yes, Australia, critical thinking and a lack of non stupid people ate lacking
alas, it’s ever been thus as opined by Donald Horne in his iconic 1964 book
I used to be 5’5, now I’m 5’4. Shrinkflation is real people!
I"m not sure of the context here, but literally since March 2020, there’s hardly a week or month that goes by where there’s not been some kind of shortage. Seems like it’s always something. Bird flu. Bad weather wiped out tomato crop. Fire at the mustard factory. Toilet paper shortage. Coffee fungus. And on and on and on.
Most recent in my area is spring onions. They have them in the stores, they look pitiful and have doubled or tripled in price.
Regional Australia (New South Wales).
Petrol prices are the highest I’ve ever seen. I guess that’s true everywhere.
But also, on Weds when we went to Canberra we drove past two petrol stations with their signs turned off (suggesting they were completely out) — one in the city and one in the country. I’ve never seen that before. The country station was back on when we passed again a couple of hours later.
UK, petrol over $4/gal is very normal here. Converting units/currencies it looks like it’s over 9USD/gal here and the price hasn’t moved much yet due to the war.
I didn’t buy petrol anyway so it really hasn’t effected me in any way. By far the worst is SSD and RAM prices and that generally seems to follow global trends. If this kills AI bullshit and components become reasonable then it seems like a good trade off.
tech jobs
Intelligence
Not a shortage, per se, but apparently cocoa products are getting more expensive due to a poor growing season or disease or some other thing heralding the end of days.
Wife sent me this the other day. It is about double what it usually is.
Check out the Amazon price rising (not an Amazon link):
Does a reduction to quality of chocolate count as a shortage? Cadburys turned to shit with a new recipe recently. Recently had white chocolate that contained no cocoa butter at all, how the fuck can they even call it white chocolate? All palm oil and it was so bad I threw it in the bin.
It was so bad I now check the ingredients list on chocolate bars before buying them.
I was looking at Easter candy at the grocery store. A small, hollow chocolate bunny is almost $10. The bargain-bin ones that used to be $0.99 are $3. I feel like coffee and chocolate have both skyrocketed in the last year.
We happened to be a drug store yesterday in the Easter candy aisle. We saw the bargain basement horrible candy maker “Palmer” with two different hollow candy rabbits.
Palmer’s Parsnip Pete:
Palmer’s Peter Rabbit:
Both of these were side by side and marked at $8.99 each. It took me a bit to figure out why there would be two different candy rabbits from the same company, sold at the same price.
Peter Rabbit is 5oz and is chocolate
Parsnip Pete is 7oz and isn’t chocolate! - looking at the ingredients is all sugar and hydrogenated oils. Only a tiny bit of chocolate in it.
Palmer is the worst chocolate I’ve ever run across. Even if I’m offered it for free I won’t eat it. I don’t consider it chocolate, and with their other lines of products (like Pete) that isn’t just a preference on my part but a provable fact.
Notice how one says milk chocolate and the other says milk chocolate flavored. For something to be called “milk chocolate” in the USA, it must have at least 10% by weight of chocolate liquor. Chocolate liquor is the result of grinding cacao, and must be 50-60% cacao fat.
What you see, especially around Easter, is a lot of cheaper candies labeled chocolate flavored or chocolatey or similar, instead of chocolate, because they don’t meet the minimum cacao requirement. You can see this with other processed foods, as well. The companies aren’t trying to be trendy or cute, they’re complying with regulations.
Yup
I feel like coffee and chocolate have both skyrocketed in the last year.
Hmm. WalMart’s online store also shows the price for Hershey’s chocolate syrup up.
On the other hand, looking at Hershey’s chocolate bars on Amazon, the price isn’t up:
https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B086LHQHLT
And looking at a bag of sugar doesn’t show any dramatic change:
https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B01BWM57CK
EDIT: Hershey’s cocoa powder is up over about the same timeframe as the syrup, though:
https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B00AZNG8O4
Wow.
I’ll go first. One of our local gas stations is out of premium gas. It may not seem like a big deal but one of our cars is a plug-in electric that also has a gas motor that requires premium. While it’s only one station now, It’s likely a direct result of US action in Iran. I think it’s just the leading edge of problems to come.
Northeast US.
What car is it? I doubt it really requires premium fuel. It’ll probably run better on premium. But I doubt any non enthusiast naturally aspirated car would 100% require premium.
It’s a turbocharged engine on a PHEV Mini. This car is finicky AF.
If it’s a first-gen Chevy Volt I ran mine for 10 years on regular gas no problem.
No, it’s a turbocharged PHEV Mini. They’re very finicky, unfortunately.
Water, ram and hard drives.
Yeah. For sure. Bought some stuff off marketplace, even used is expensive.
Friends and RAM. Found some good RAM on a second hand website though. Made me happy.
Not outing my geolocation though. 😅
You have friends on the internet.
The friends on the internet:
Adderall (NYC, USA) still
That one I know all too well. Been that way for years.
France: nothing here. Gas prices have increased by 30 cents, but it’s kind of expected and I try not to use the car whenever I can so it’s still fine.
Not in Canada. Prices have gone up though.
Cheapest toilet paper.
It’s already begun.
I wish I could delete this comment lol.
The moment people start making this comment on the internet it will be over.
