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Couple of weeks back at Kroger: No: vanilla extract[the real stuff], confectioners sugar.
Peanut butter balls just aren't the same without those, much like cheese pie without cream cheese!

Plenty of Philly brand (2x the price of the other). Down to the last four of the on sale store brand though. I only took two of those, as I'm said to be a nice guy.

Sorta.

Sometimes.

If I feel like it.

Plenty at Food City yesterday
House & name brand....whew crisis averted

At least a dozen packages of Philly brand cream cheese and a few more packages of store brand CC at a local Family Dollar store a few minutes ago.

Good for you. But, I'm a cut throat SOB...

Made a fortune flipping toilet paper last year...

No shortage here. picked up two boxes sat.

You mean there wasnt a 450 lb fireman on city time bribing the stock boy with jelly donuts for a head’s up when the truck rolls in??

For all those wreaking, anti-American walmart shoppers.

Don't say I never gave ya nothing.

Merry F_uckin Christmas.

Kraft is using its cream cheese shortage as a marketing opportunity.

For just a few days this holiday season, a limited number of people will be able to spend $20 on dessert and charge it to Kraft, owner of Philadelphia Cream Cheese. The premise: People who can't bake cheesecakes because they can't find cream cheese can get another baked good on Kraft's dime.

Here's how it works: People interested in the offer can visit a special website set up by Kraft. On December 17 and 18, up to 18,000 of them will be able to nab the right to get reimbursement for a holiday treat. They'll be able to submit receipts to the company a few weeks later.

For Kraft, the campaign is a way to soften the blow of empty cream cheese shelves -- and keep customers thinking about Philadelphia cream cheese, without souring on the brand.

Cream cheese is the latest hard-to-come-by grocery item in a year of shortages. A spike in cream cheese demand during the pandemic has made it difficult to keep shelves stocked, Kraft said.

Last year, with more people baking and eating at home, demand for cream cheese jumped about 18% compared to 2019. It's stayed at that high level in 2021, according to Kraft (KHC). Meanwhile, restaurants are also ordering more of the product.

Junior's Cheesecake, which sources its cream cheese from Philadelphia, said last week that it has been struggling to get enough supply of the key ingredient, and it's been forced to occasionally pause cheesecake production, according to the owner. New York City bagel shops have also reportedly struggled to get enough cream cheese.

To keep up with demand, Kraft is pumping funds into its Philadelphia brand, said Basak Oguz, Philadelphia marketing director.

"We're investing millions of dollars on Philadelphia cream cheese," he told CNN Business in an email, adding that the funds will help increase production capacity.

Oguz added that the company has temporarily stopped making "a very limited number" of Philadelphia products so it can increase production of its more popular items.

Does Kraft make the Best choice brand CC?

Or does it come straight off the boat from red China?

#askingforafriend

I get the raw unpasteurized cream cheese from the Amish

little baby Ima Skinnert used to drink their raw buttermrlk in her bottle

Neither.

#goodtoknow

Well, with all that Philly stuff sitting there, I figured I'd really have to gouge those $1.99 ones in order to keep the margin up. And buying the Philly at $3.99 a package is beyond my fixed income ability. And my thinking. That's $8 a lb for cream cheese, heck I can get real cheese at the Grocery Outlet for less than that.

Wonder if it's like milk. Code on the carton will tell you which plant bottled it. Here, we have a couple of brands, sometimes $1 a gallon difference in price. Same plant code, same milk. Odds are, just like store bread and Wonder Bread where I used to work. Just change the bags/labels. Same bread, exactly the same bread.

Bought 6 packs today. That now makes 8 in the freezer.

#bringontheholidaysweets

I’m betting his Best Choice box has either an SJ or SH (or distant third LO) embedded on the code on the end flap.

Sorta related, walked into the local HEB last week and the dry dog food shelves were almost bare. Lotta things I can do without but Purina #1 Small Bites ain’t one of ‘em.

So I laid in a 12 week supply.

Sounds like you might know the deal.

How many plants in the US make cream cheese? Has to be a good number of them?