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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Additional pressure on food availability
  • Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:53:33 -0700


That's one shocker I hadn't anticipated. Grow your own and teach your
neighbors. Of course that won't work for toilet paper and the like.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/10/2007 at 10:53 PM Liz wrote:

>There has been a lot of talk about food price increases, but one
>thing I haven't seen much publicity about is the decreasing
>availability in many rural areas. I talk to small grocery store and
>convenience store owners on a daily basis, and I'm hearing frequent
>stories that their previous suppliers will no longer deliver to them.
>Their orders aren't large enough, they're being told, to justify the
>cost of running a truck out to them. Even the ones in settled areas,
>on major highways, often can't get deliveries, not because the trucks
>don't go anywhere near them, but because it costs the supplier more
>to make multiple small deliveries than to make a few large ones.
>
>As a result, some small stores are just not carrying certain things
>any more. Some store owners are shopping at Costco and Sam's Club in
>order to keep their shelves stocked, which usually results in higher
>retail prices than if they were buying from grocery vendors. In many
>places, these stores serve an elderly and/or poor population, people
>who can't just hop in their car and drive however far it takes to get
>to a big supermarket (in some mountainous areas, that can be 50 or 60
>miles). If they can't get something they need from the store down the
>road, they often have no choice but to go without.
>
>These small stores are the canary in the coal mine, I think, for
>coming similar shortages in other areas. It's not only that food will
>cost more to grow and transport, but that wholesalers and
>distributors are going to reduce deliveries to areas where they
>aren't making their desired profit. That's troubling not only for
>outlying stores in rural counties like mine, but also for small
>family-owned stores in urban neighborhoods.
>
>Liz in SW VA
>http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
>
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