to start looking locally to buy our food and other goods until this passes. If it ever passes 😟😟😰😳

Atlantic and Alaskan, and loads of Shrimp. But none of the northern Atlantic catch probably supplied by Norwegian and other European companies. No cod, haddock, halibut, steelhead, fresh sardines, tuna. So retailers are not willing to pay up and take the risk of things not selling because they won't sell. Americans gonna pinch like it's 1933.

Just about all of the fish we eat there is locally caught. The small shops in Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet have arrangements with local fishermen to buy up their catch as soon as it comes in. Sometimes one or two of the bigger shops will get in Alaskan fish (King Crab, Sockeye, etc.) but only on a limited basis, and it's way more expensive than the local catch.

I wonder if we're in for some heavy sticker shock, or will the lack of foreign takers keep prices in line? Stay tuned, details at 11.

Everything was up. Weirdly, the bacon we like cost more per pound than shrimp.

I don't do bacon, so I wouldn't know (cholesterol issues).

The got Smithfield in 2013. China is the largest importer of pork and pork products.
They are also the biggest producer of pork.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5266321-china-cancels-us-pork-ships/]

I know my father rolled in his grave when they took over. He was a huge proponent of 'locally sourced'.

(All of our meats come from local farms. So did simple dairy and all veggies and fruits once summer hit. Hell, we made our own ice cream, made our own S'mores, our favorite drink was Kool-aid... always the base packets, never the sweetened or the ready made stuff. By the age of ten, a good percentage of us could have manned a grill in a diner. Heh.)

over at harbor freight.

it had been 39.99 forever.

yesterday?

49.99

it's happing, slow at first then it will come on like a tidal wave.

- don't know what the ramifications are regarding tariffs though. Of late, they seemed to have upped their game significantly in the quality of select items.

I suspect they'll take advantage of the chaos and raise prices on everything - not just Chinese stuff

There is a reason cheap tools are cheap

Complex logistics systems don't react well to the orange jackass changing his mind every other damn day or saying something different from his trade reps. That's causing chaos. And all that mess means higher prices for you and me on top of potential tariffs. Stability and predictability. That's what every business everywhere runs on.

But oh no! We've got grown toddlers running things! Once again, dumb Amurkins shoot themselves in the face by electing people just as ill prepared and unsophisticated as they are.

Mostly oil type cars are the norm now.

We like our brats in Wisconsin. Basically, before food prices went up a package of 5 Johnsonville Brats were $5.99. Then came Trump and they jumped to $6.99. Yesterday, they were $7.39.

Also, do you notice how boxed packages remain the same size but with less items?

Asking for the rest of the country that didn't vote for this shit!

Leopards would also suffice…..

They know if something does not smell right and will make them sick. So just shoot them out back let them sit a few days on the ground and the vultures will eat them because they are used to eating disgusting things.

Customs was totally empty. It was an eerie sight. Fuck Trump and this administration to hell.

The used market is going to explode unless the trade war is ended.

Living near Canada is about to become a BIG plus as well.

I was on SF Bay yesterday, and there isn't a whole lot of container ships at the port of Oakland either.