Producers Reassure: Plenty Of Food In US Supply Chain

The New York Times reports:

The aisles and aisles of empty store shelves give the appearance that the United States, improbably and alarmingly, is running out of food. But the nation’s biggest retailers, dairy farmers and meat producers say that isn’t so. The food supply chain, they say, remains intact and has been ramping up to meet the unprecedented stockpiling brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Even so, shoppers can most likely expect to see empty shelves intermittently, as the nation’s network of food producers, distributors and retailers are stretched as never before. Industries that are calibrated to supply consumers with just enough of what they need on a given day cannot keep up with a nationwide surge of relentless shopping fueled in large part by fear.

Read the full article.

Pasta, rice, bread aisle at Food Emporium in the basement of Trump Palace, Third Avenue, UES. Good grief, people. pic.twitter.com/gCuBruTsbR

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 15, 2020