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Walmart have started rationing how much rice you can buy ...will it be ASDA next?
I must remember to go out panic buying in the morning.
I must remember to go out panic buying in the morning.
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That and dried food.
Chinese supermarkets like Wing Yip have already started limiting how much Thai Jasmine rice you can buy, no limits on other rice though. Price of rice and wheat, cooking oil etc. is ridiculous nowadays =/
I would suggest people start looking after themselves a bit more cos this problem is escalating.
Two chickens will give you a dozen eggs a week ...two rabbits become hundreds in no time at all.
The time has come when your diets are going to be changing quite drasticly me thinks.
As long as they keep making cider, I'm happy.
It's doubled in five weeks.
calamitous central planning as per usual
Among the causes of the crisis are population explosions in the emerging economies like India and China, the use of crops to make biofuel, global stocks at a 25-year low and market speculation.
Record fuel prices and climate change could be added to that list.
Planning for rice in Africa and rationing in US supermarkets are signs that the cereal situation is indeed a crisis.
it's much more than a few cents... :impissed:
Price rises set to hit 1m more households
According to Mr Calland, the retailers, who sell to the curry and Chinese restaurant trade as well as to families, are rationing their customers to two to four bags during the current fear over rice shortages.
Rationing of rice hits Britain?s Chinese and curry restaurants
Rice is being rationed in Britain as shopkeepers limit supplies to their customers to prevent hoarding. Restrictions on sales in Asian neighbourhoods are reported as emergency measures are taken by governments worldwide to combat the soaring cost of rice and prevent outbreaks of food rioting.
Tilda, the biggest importer of basmati rice, said that its buyers had resorted to restricting their customers to two bags per person.
?It is happening in the cash and carries,? said Jona-than Calland, of Tilda.
?It?s to stop people from hoarding. I heard from our salesforce that one lady went into a cash and carry and tried to buy eight 20kg bags.?
Welcome to the 21st century ...who'd a thunk it? http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article3803776.ece
Tim Johnson, president of California Rice Commission, which represents the state's growers and millers, said: "This is unprecedented. Americans, particularly in states such as California, have on occasion walked into a supermarket after a natural disaster and seen the shelves less full than usual but we have never experienced this."
The price of staple foods has rocketed worldwide in the past two years because of rising demand from developing countries including China and India, high oil prices and increased demand for biofuels ? corn is used to make the fuel ethanol ? which has also had a knock-on effect on the price of livestock feed.
And the prices can only go one way now ...up up and up .
It's going to be carzy.
Talks at the oil refinery near Falkirk, aimed at resolving a dispute over pensions, broke down yesterday. A two-day strike will now go ahead on Sunday and Monday, threatening fuel supplies.
Britain's oil producers said there had already been some 'panic-buying' at the weekend causing up to 100 filling stations to run out.
Demand for unleaded fuel has risen by 68%, according to the UK Petroleum Industry Association, a trade body for the industry. Demand for diesel was up 40%, it added.
To protect supplies, some garages have introduced unofficial 'rationing', limiting customers to £10 of fuel.
At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occasionally uttered expletives as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy.
“Where’s the rice?” an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said. “You should be able to buy something like rice. This is ridiculous.”
http://nysun.com/news/food-rationing-confronts-breadbasket-world
I'll meet you in me hair net and we can moan about standing in line for a bit of brisket. Haslet anyone
And Africa and South America and Parts of China AND pARrts of Russia ...
I think it is going to get very very uncomfortable here too.
All we need now is adverse weather and this years crops could be screwed too.
africa is already screwed, and china is part of asia last time i looked
i was referring to the price of rice specifically but i agree s america will also struggle as all grains are going through the roof. fingers crossed for a good harvest this year.
Fingers crossed our machines don't get to eat it!