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Cream Cheese Shortage, What’s Next

Jordan2 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:35:11 GMT

I live in Nassau County, NY, part of the tri-state area. On my local news ( ABC Eyewitness News Bill Ritter) they did a story on Monday with a bagel store. He gets cream cheese in huge blocks, they make their own delicious flavors. He said they only have enough cream cheese for Tuesday, Wednesday at the most. He said you'll just have to use butter ( any true New Yorker will tell you this won't do). I know this isn't tragic, certain parts of the country don't eat bagels, but for New Yorkers this is a big deal, no Sunday bagels and newspaper I guess.

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stellabystarlight — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:39:25 GMT

I live in Westchester County in New York and I cannot get Nabisco Saltine crackers, and the supply of Fancy Feast cat food is extremely limited. I went to 3 supermarkets over the weekend and there was almost nothing left.

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Pearlee — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:40:28 GMT

There are many other toppings to put on bagels (or eat them plain)

and many other desserts besides cheesecake. If lack of cream cheese is the worst thing that happens to a deli owner in a potentially deadly pandemic that person is doing just fine.

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Bri369 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:44:25 GMT

I've noticed at the grocery store, the cream cheese section is very sparse. It's been that way for a while now.

There's plenty of the cream cheese bricks. Stock is almost non-existent on the tubs of cream cheese. I heard there is a serious shortage of the material used to make the tub containers.

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Winkk — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:44:47 GMT

I know. I live in the Philadelphia area and I haven't seen cream cheese for several weeks. Especially, the Philadelphia brand.

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PinkyPetunia — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:55:06 GMT

I live in north NJ and have been seeing cream cheese in stores. Was in Walmart this morning and they had lots of Philly cream cheese 8 Oz. bricks.

I prefer the whipped cream cheese and will buy any brand I can find. Store brands are OK with me and while the shelves are not full, they aren't empty either.

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millieshops — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:03:18 GMT

I've looked for the small bricks for many months. Nowhere near me in any brand.

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nekodaisy — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:37:45 GMT

Last time I bought cream cheese here in Georgia they had plenty. What I haven't seen in a long time is Ore-Ida onion rings and now no Ore-Ida products at all. The freezers are still hit and miss with things and the cookie and cracker aisle is going the same way.

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dancingwoman — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:41:36 GMT

I just bought a double package here in Colorado...the Walmart had a case full on Philadelphia brand....DW

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Shelbelle — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:41:53 GMT

In MD, my daughter commented to me over the weekend she could not find her usual Veggie Cream Cheese.

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RespectLife — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:46:44 GMT

In Western New York here....tons of Philly Cr. Ch at Wegman's, Tops and Walmart!

I use it a lot and have had no problems.

Weird how things missing are regional. My friend near St. Louis was Pickle-less this summer, and we had walls of it!

LOL

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ECBG — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:54:14 GMT

Western NC.

I rarely use cream cheese but I'll check for you.

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grandma r — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:01:25 GMT

It's been like a revolving door with products in our area. Yesterday our market didn't even have eggs!!!

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spiderw — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:22:47 GMT

As a young girl in the fifties I used to put everything on bagels, cold cuts, tuna and chicken salad, butter, eggs and bacon, cream cheese was not my top choice. I love bagels, all kinds and live in the metropolitan area, bagels are part of me. Little did I know that in the future there would be bagel stores all over! I remember Lox being the favorite of bagel lovers, delicious!

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Jordan2 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:24:07 GMT

@RespectLife wrote:
In Western New York here....tons of Philly Cr. Ch at Wegman's, Tops and Walmart!

I use it a lot and have had no problems.

Weird how things missing are regional. My friend near St. Louis was Pickle-less this summer, and we had walls of it!

LOL

@RespectLife It's funny you mention Wegmans, my neice LOVES the place, she keeps promising she will take me there.

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gidgetgh — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:26:50 GMT

@stellabystarlight wrote:
I live in Westchester County in New York and I cannot get Nabisco Saltine crackers, and the supply of Fancy Feast cat food is extremely limited. I went to 3 supermarkets over the weekend and there was almost nothing left.

@stellabystarlight - my friend in Florida can't find Fancy Feast cat food either.

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gidgetgh — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:28:51 GMT

In my little area of Metro Atlanta, I can't find Coke Zero Cherry Vanilla anymore. It's disappeared.

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bikerbabe — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:10:09 GMT

I haven’t seen diet cherry coke in over a year.

The cat food section here is 75% empty shelves.

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Icegoddess — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:23:05 GMT

I rarely use cream cheese, but needed 1 small block at Thanksgiving. At that time the stores were limiting several items, cream cheese being one of them. I actually had to ask someone where it was since Publix likes to keep theirs in an odd spot. I was looking over in the area of butter and cotttage cheese and they had it in the area of the shredded cheeses. No blocks were available, but he went in the back and got me one. I only needed 3 oz, but went home with the much larger, I thnk 8 oz? block.

A lady they were interviewing on the news said she had been to several stores looking for hash browns. I coulda give her mine. I have 2 full pkgs in my freezer because I forgot I had one already. I noticed right after Thanksgiving that my store had them. There's been a shortage of bacon and I've also had trouble finding the Mare Callender's Pub Style Chicken Pot Pies lately. It seems to be a random thing. When one thing comes back in stock, some other item disappears. We did go through the Claussen pickle shortage last year.

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lovescats — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:35:12 GMT

you need it to make pretzel jello