On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:23:17 -0400, The Herd >
wrote:

>On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:02:20 -0500, Gregor in NYC <> wrote:
>
>>All,
>> I'll play the agent provocateur for a moment here...
>>I've read several posts tonight of people being unable to find
>>different types of food stuffs in their local groceries (major chains)
>>such as ginger and peanut oil. IMHO, this seems to be a growing trend
>
>There is no shortage of American grown long grain rice or wheat. In my
>area, we, go to the local day old bakery outlet for bread and other
>related items. There, you can by three loaves of wonder bread at a
>lower price than a regular store charges for one loaf. The price for
>delivered pizza in my area has risen because of fuel cost but come and
>get it pizza is about the same price. There are no Asian markets
>around here so I can't say about Peanut oil etc. The majority of the
>veggies in the stores are locally grown, so the prices have only seen
>a slow increase. I believe that the majority of what is reported on
>"Food Shortages", is a commodities market self driven panic to
>increase cost and therefore profit and commissions and doesn't reflect
>reality.

if activities on the futures market affect supermarket prices (and i
believe they do), it damn well does reflect 'reality.'

your pal,
blake