Daily Episode 208 - Is there actually going to be a food shock? (Poor Audio Warning)
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What is the purpose of this episode and why is the audio quality warning included?
Hey, Corey here. We've had an influx of new listeners, and so I just want to make sure that if you are new to the podcast, you don't just jump in and start listening to these daily episodes which we've been doing. Please go back and listen to the first at least eight episodes so you have an idea of what collapse is, what it is that Corey is talking about. Also, if you've been with us for a while and you're enjoying the content, please join us on Patreon. We would love to see you there. There's a link, as always, in the description. Man, I am so sorry. I don't know what happened. Sometimes look, I recorded two episodes today. The first episode recorded great. The second episode for some reason shifted to instead of being from my nice microphone that I purchased and and use here, it shifted to my computer microphone.
But guess what? I don't have time to go back and re-record the whole episode today, so in order to have this out, I'm gonna have to post. Post it as is. I put it through all the audio programs I could to try and balance things out, but it's still not great audio quality. So if you want an episode today, listen on and uh just know that I warned you. If it's not worth listening through, I completely understand you don't have to. We're talking about food systems, we're talking about some numbers that we found out about what's going on in grocery stores. in the US today and trends and what that means. Anyway, it's up to you. You've been warned. Listen on or not. If not, well then I'll see ya tomorrow. But here we go.
Most things in collapse take decades and decades to play out. People knew that the topic often like to view things as black and white and over dramatize or use hyperbole to imagine some sort of future in which things go from normal one day to the next day being completely collapsed, right? One of the areas in which we see that sort of talked about or shown in movies and things like that is in the grocery store. We saw something similar to what you see in those movies around COVID when suddenly people had shopped out all the cans, the toilet paper was gone. That was less a problem of supply and more a problem of demand, right? People panicking, thinking grocery stores would be empty, and so they shopped everything out.
How does the host explain the recent US grocery slowdown and its impact on shoppers?
The supply chain couldn't keep up with that increase in demand, and so the shelves sat empty. Well, I think the dramatized version that maybe we that we often think of is a supplied problem that instead one day the grocery stores will not be able to supply food to people even at normal demand. This is the type of thing that will likely happen much more slowly and gradually over time. I've talked on this podcast in the past about how there's going to be signs, right? There will be decreases, for example, in the variety of options. Certain brands will go away, especially luxury brands. What we'll see on the shelves will be more generic, less quality, cheaper options. Meanwhile, the prices of those goods will increase.
It's not an overnight shock, though that may happen here and there along the way because of the way that our supply chains are built out, but rather it will be a decline, steady change over years and potentially decades. And I imagine it will look very similar over the years. Over time to what we're starting to see shape up right now in the US, at least according to data, from Bain and Company, which is analyzing Nielsen IQ grocery data. Now, this site I'm about to reference, talking about this Bain and Company analysis, is a prepper website. It is getRetty.tv. I don't know much about the site, and I am not going to claim, you know, whether the site itself is reputable, but they are reporting on reputable.
Data. Again, from Nelson IQ grocery data. Nelson IQ does a lot of this type of analysis, not for the sake of hypertole or scaring people, let's simply just show trends and inflation and all those types of things, right? So here's what they reported. US grocery unit volumes have declined sharply enough since February 2026 to pull overall sales.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this episode and why is the audio quality warning included?
0:00–2:13
2
How does the host explain the recent US grocery slowdown and its impact on shoppers?
2:13–5:34
3
What data from Bain & Company and Nielsen IQ shows a decline in grocery unit volumes and rising prices?
5:34–9:34
4
Why are consumers trading down to cheaper brands and relying more on coupons?
9:34–13:04
5
How could a ‘Super El Niño’ and the Iran‑Strait of Hormuz conflict trigger a global food‑price shock through 2028?
13:04–18:19
6
What are the projected effects of extreme weather on major crop regions and global food prices?
18:19–21:42
7
Why are insect pollinators disappearing worldwide and how does that affect the food chain?
21:42–22:33