Food industry braces for new coronavirus wave

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One critical difference between this holiday crunch and the spring crisis is that Congress does not appear anywhere close to sweeping in to bail out American businesses

In this Friday, March 13, 2020 file photo, shoppers browse empty shelves at a supermarket in Larchmont, N.Y, amid panic-buying due to the coronavirus outbreak. Photos of empty store shelves have again started cropping up online. | AP Photo/John MinchilloTurkey farmers raised smaller birds for reduced Thanksgiving gatherings. Restaurants are begging Congress for a lifeline as state and local officials clamp down on indoor dining.

“We are hearing of retailers putting limits [on] certain goods, but this is a temporary tactic to curb demand,” said Heather Garlich, senior vice president at FMI, the food industry association formerly known as the Food Marketing Institute. Stores themselves were long ago upgraded for the pandemic, with plexiglass barriers for cashiers and pharmacists, physical spacing guidelines in aisles and expanded sanitation measures.

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*lucks-out with another...

Total deaths are the same this year as past years. But deaths to other causes are down because they are being called covid deaths.

Why would anyone buy more milk than they need? Do they not realize milk goes bad in a fairly short amount of time? It's not really something you can stockpile.

Lol again? It’s not even that serious....

And yet... we still hunger... and yet we still are in threat of losing our utilities, cars, homes... because of the covid lockdowns which are the true cause of the supply chain stress...

Not sure about that..no TP in Costco when I checked yesterday

Just wait until Biden admin prints more stimulus money. Shelves will be bare.

This looks like a picture for a hurricane situation years ago cause nobody is wearing masks

Why is nobody in that picture wearing a mask?

Thanks President Trump 😷Rally Time🆘

Democrats have a plan. They promised.

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