19 years, 5 months, 21 days, 16 hours, and 23 minutes.
If the material world survived, living in a large city, I could probably scavenge for non-perishable foods for quite some time.
If it’s a nuclear wasteland and I’m fending off mutants, I guess it depends on how many caps and nuka-cola I can find.
Maybe if a stick of celery didn’t cost 11$, no one would need to steal it.
I don’t believe for a second that organized crime is to blame, but again, if food was normal price, then there would be no resale black market for stolen groceries.