Almost no traffic on highways

Jben, there are problems with some of the food providers yes. Lots of time it is a problem caused by an unrelated event.

Lets use milk to talk about a theoretical problem.

The farmers are working, the feed supplies are working, the truck drivers are working, the processing plants are open.

So what is the problem?
Well the government has decided that printing and box making companies are not essential. They have to layoff or just send the employees home.

The box company makes the cartons the milk goes into and the printing company prints the label on the cartons.

No cartons, means no milk in the store.

I'm thinking people are starting to get cabin fever already. In our little town you'd hardly see any traffic when this first started. I was out yesterday and cars were coming and going every which way. I headed 8 miles out of town to sit by the river just to get out of the house and get some fresh air and again, there were cars and pickups parked at almost every little side road. I'm sure its only going to get worse especially when things start to ease up a bit.

That’s a pretty good illustration Smowwalker. :)
Might help explain why so many are still open.

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

Jben, there are problems with some of the food providers yes. Lots of time it is a problem caused by an unrelated event.

Lets use milk to talk about a theoretical problem.

The farmers are working, the feed supplies are working, the truck drivers are working, the processing plants are open.

So what is the problem?
Well the government has decided that printing and box making companies are not essential. They have to layoff or just send the employees home.

The box company makes the cartons the milk goes into and the printing company prints the label on the cartons.

No cartons, means no milk in the store.

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That makes perfect sense. I was in our local Freshco the other day and their dairy coolers were empty along with half the shelves. The manager told me they hadn't had a truck in for 5 days. If it didn't improve,he was closing the store.

Just a heads up on the produce supply.

Got a call from dispatch this evening.

Looks like food out of California is going to start moving again.

They planted a few weeks late( problems related to covid) but they are starting to harvest now. So in the next couple weeks you should all see better looking produce in stores. I don't know if prices will come down or by how much, but there will be fresher stuff on the shelf.

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Just a heads up on the produce supply.

Got a call from dispatch this evening.

Looks like food out of California is going to start moving again.

They planted a few weeks late( problems related to covid) but they are starting to harvest now. So in the next couple weeks you should all see better looking produce in stores. I don't know if prices will come down or by how much, but there will be fresher stuff on the shelf.

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Good the last 3 zucchini we got looked horrible . Wouldn't have bought them but when you order 2 weeks in advance and let them load it into our trunk. You get what ya get I guess lol. Maybe in 6 or 7weeks I will have my own fresh ones lol.

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Good the last 3 zucchini we got looked horrible . Wouldn't have bought them but when you order 2 weeks in advance and let them load it into our trunk. You get what ya get I guess lol. Maybe in 6 or 7weeks I will have my own fresh ones lol.

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If it doesn't keep snowing in South west Ontario. I don't think karen will putting in the garden this year.

Are you paying less for diesel? Regular gasoline seems to have gotten as low as it will go.

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Are you paying less for diesel? Regular gasoline seems to have gotten as low as it will go.

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Filled up for 87.9 today on diesel. That's the lowest I've seen it since this whole fustercluck started. Last month or so it's been bouncing around from 0.90 to 0.99. Hardly remember what it was before all this but i feel like it was 1.10 to 1.15 before the world went to hell.

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Filled up for 87.9 today on diesel. That's the lowest I've seen it since this whole fustercluck started. Last month or so it's been bouncing around from 0.90 to 0.99. Hardly remember what it was before all this but i feel like it was 1.10 to 1.15 before the world went to hell.

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I filled up on diesel and it was $0.94 and gas was $0.74