Supply-chain crisis, hoarding products spark food shortages across US
Parts of the US are now battling food shortages as worried Americans have emptied supermarket shelves amid the supply chain crisis threatening the nation’s economy and holiday shopping.
People are stockpiling everything from canned goods to boxed items and even making a run on milk when it’s available in grocery stores, Bloomberg reported.
The surge in demand comes as two of America’s major container ports in California face a massive pandemic-related backlog.
“People are hoarding,” Adnan Durrani, CEO and founder of Saffron Road, a producer of frozen and shelf-stable meals, told Bloomberg.
Saffron Road is stocking up on more inventory than usual, keeping about four months of supply on hand instead of just one or two months, he said.
The CEO of Idaho-based grocery chain Albertsons, Vivek Sankara, told the outlet that customers should expect they are going to have “something missing in our stores” on “any given day.”
