Nobody asked and nobody gives a rats dick what you buy.

Okay. Accusatory then. Certainly comes across as hostile and judgmental.

I'm generally cautious, slow to make big decisions/overthink and a tendency to rely on analysis and pattern recognition vs. feels. I get that from the outside it can look like being into doom or seeking out the negative.

My prior life has been thoroughly wrecked and it sucked. Been trying to figure out "what now?" for a long time and I've come up with a few different ideas/plans only for those plans to get wrecked too. Which leads to more overthinking because damn...enough already.

At some point your "get up and try again" gets worn out. Like how many of those do I have left? Can I get some sort of security for a while? Stop being knocked on my ass? What level of "making it" can I reliably muster here?

Nah, this isn't true with food. Obviously if the input prices stay high they won't go down, but it's not like housing where something catastrophic has to happen for pricing to drop. Food pricing is very much based on market dynamics, and has a lot of competition. So yes, they will cut prices when it can.

Food prices in my area are pretty much back to normal. If we're gonna talk about inflation, housing and vehicles are 10x worse than food right now

So some random youtube guy says there is a food shortage, and OP gets scared?

Who isn't loving Biden's America

Bidenomics jack. Just like sanctions did zero to Russia and crippled Germany manufacturing, we will do the same here

there will ALWAYS be fast food, candy and bugs.

So go eat your bugs peasant.

what have you ever contributed to the forum, whether it be interesting, dumb or provoking.

go back to fuking your dumpy-assed shyt-face wife you ugly motherfukker.

Yeah like all those food processing plants mysteriously catching fire.

Time 2 bye moar guns and bullets imoYeah food prices aren't too bad for me. Things I regularly buy go on sale just as often and the new sale price is just a bit more expensive than they were before COVID. Chicken breasts used to be 1.99/lb but now are 2.77/lb. They did just raise the price of a can of tuna for the first time in almost a decade, tho. Raised it by 20 cents/can. Not trying to downplay anything but saying for me things are a bit back to normal...ish

I promise "what's next" isn't going to be found doom scrolling CTs on Twitter.

Good luck, I'll leave you be.

My anecdotal perspective from what I can see in my area:

Drought has been really bad the last several years; however, water has been good this year. We haven't had any shortages and the reservoirs are going to end the year at levels that will set them up well for next year. Wheat harvest just really got going a week ago, which is a couple weeks slower than normal. We had a long, cold spring that sent us back timewise, but was good for the water situation. I think yields are good. Farmers in my area grow a lot of hay and potatoes, too, and I'm not hearing to much about them, so I'd assume at least normal yields. There would definitely be complaining if yields were low.

As far as beef is concerned, summer range in my area has had really good feed. I think it's been a pretty good year for farmers and ranchers in my area, at least as far as production is concerned, but I don't know about the rest of the country. Even if everyone is doing well I'd still guess it would take a while for prices to come down. Plus, production costs are still high, so even if prices pull back I don't see them getting to where they were. That's my take on things.

Nothing like some doomer crap on a monday morning

"Prices going up" is a litmus test for consumer appetite.

As a quick example: years ago in PC graphics cards, folks would say '599 was last year's fastest card! now it's 699! Nvidia is greedy! Vote with your wallets' and now it's easy to spend 1500+ on a graphics card.

The same now exists for food. Think of it: prices went up for reasons x and y, and yet consumption didn't really go down. My local bodegas were running out of eggs for a long time and had jacked up the prices on a dozen organic free range to 13 bucks citing 'low supply cuz pandemic'. And here we are now with many places still charging...12 bucks for a tub of yogurt? Etc., and folks lap it up.

Tl;dr - somewhere along the way sellers realized that consumers aren't as price sensitive as they were thought to be. And those folks normalized higher prices. GG, WP society.

Not scared about food right now personally. Shared because while inflation in most thing has slowed there are these food processing issues being reported which may causes processed food to continue to inflate at a higher rate than overall inflation. And since food is a necessity high food prices tend to have some level of effect on everyone, directly [bigger grocery bills, higher restaurant prices] or indirectly [reduced spending in other categories].
TFS. In the linked video Stacy said their weather had been bad- hot, lack of rain - but that she had recently gotten some rain and some of her garden was bouncing back.

As posted above food prices CAN and DO go back down sometimes. Maybe not all the way back, but as there is a lot of competition there can be lowered prices as supplies allow.

I mean the only way to pay off the massive interest on the US dollars we borrow from the Jewish FED is to inflate prices.