Remember folks: that big nothing currently docked in US ports will be distributed to a supermarket near you.
That's Trump's way of lowering the cost of groceries: when there's no groceries, there's no costs.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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No ships also means no exports. The US produces more food than it consumes. The US has an entire continent full of farmland, with foods that will be sold domestically because the biggest international customers have stopped buying.
Foods that can't be grown at scale in the US, like coffee will become unavailable. You'll no longer be able to get produce when out of season. But grains, meats and most other staples of the american diet are produced domestically and will still be produced despite the tarifs.
Obviously these tarifs are bad, and will harm all americans. But the idea that these tarifs will cause grocery stores to be empty is completely implausible.
That would require much more than the tarifs alone.
I can't wait to eat all of the soybeans and yellow corn #2 that they can't export out.
Too bad we can't eat feed corn or alfalfa.
I don't think Americans like soy beans either.
And that's the vast majority of what we grow and export.