On: US food prices see historic jump and are likely to...

[nine_zeros]

There's so much more demand for groceries, dairy and poultry because people aren't eating out.

There is now more pressure to produce and supply goods that are meant for in-house eating.

All the packaging and supply chain optimized for eating out has become useless and needs to be reoriented towards home eating. Until this is done on a massive scale, prices will remain high.

Also, as demand is rising for home foods, producers have a newly gained pricing power and they sure are fully utilizing it.

Also, production is low in general because of massive layoffs of farm work. Farm hands are not getting visas to come and actually harvest what farmers have been cultivating.

Altogether, the prices are rising fast and nobody knows where it'll go.

[claudeganon → nine_zeros]

Ok, so it’s another example of over-optimized, inflexible supply chains. That makes sense to me relative to the other COVID-related shortages.

[bsder → claudeganon]

Ayup. Maximally efficient is minimally robust.