Insider Look: Possible Food Shortages And Price Hikes for Holidays 2024

I think it's safe to say grocery shopping is still a miserable experience. It looks like the 'fun' isn't stopping anytime soon.

Various food shortages and price hikes are expected to continue through the end of 2024 and into 2025 thanks to bad weather, world events, and supply chain issues.

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Beer and Chocolate Shortages This Christmas?

Two of the oddest products on the list of possible shortages are beer and chocolate.

Chocolate makers are dealing with a particularly bad coco bean harvest in west Africa. The hit the world supply is taking is expected to raiser prices and maybe cut available supply.

But a beer shortage? With luck any disruption to the flow of beer could be isolated to cans. An aluminum shortage has been affecting can manufactures this year.

Why Are There Food Shortages?

War and weather are the main culprits. Too much rain in one part of the world and too little in another have been ruining crops and reducing yields.

The war in Ukraine, a major wheat exporter among other products, continues to disrupt the flow of cereal grains to large parts of the world.