Anyone else notice the grocery store shelves are getting emptied out again and not being restocked?

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[Bearshouse]

Please check this Twitter thread. There are a great many comments about the shortages and pictures of empty shelves in various parts of the country.

Very interesting that so many see this as "on purpose" and a way to control us.

[fwdude]

This may or may not be related, but I have noticed disruptions in the restaurant business. Yesterday, a common and popular Asian fast food was closed without notice. The Deli-style cafe next door was closed for non-payment of rent.

[cgbg]

Even health food stores have healthy canned foods—it just takes a little effort—and you could be the next prepper!

(Local farmers often can their products as well—some very healthy canned goods come from Mennonite/Amish stores if you are in that part of the country.)

[Sacajaweau]

I’m in Upstate NY. Starting to stock up on canned goods for winter.....soups, tuna, sauce, macaroni, gravy, mac & cheese...

[ponygirl]

This is what always happens when communism comes to a country. The TP shortage always seems to start it rolling.

[ro_dreaming]

Try buying Gatorade, toilet paper, paper towels, some meat (beef shoulder, pork butt, for example - and don’t get me started on the price of brisket).

Have to accept what they have, otherwise get nothing.

[married21]

I don’t know. Haven’t heard of any labor shortage at the Port. There is typically really high interest in those jobs. I wonder if COVID related procedures are slowing the off-loading?

I don’t know.

[Blurb2350]

I have noticed this happening at stores I shop at. Are we having supply chain issues? Are we seeing hoarding? A combination of factors causing this?
Probably a little of everything. Preppers and hoarders are probably only a small part of the problem -- where it's an actual problem. Here in small town southern Arizona things seem very nearly normal. Where there seem to to be shortages, it's likely because of overly generous unemployment money and kinks in the supply chain. Once the bennies are cut back, many lazybones will get up off their parents' couches and go back to their clerking and stocking jobs. Ditto for the rent moratoriums. Then the container ships stacked up in coastal port cities can be unloaded, and we'll start getting our usual crapola -- including the countless chemicals and artificial ingredients used in our processed foods and supplements -- things should slowly return to normal. Or not . . . If TPTB insist on keeping this WuFlu hysteria cranked up to eleven or we go to war, anything can happen!

[Bearshouse]

I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could.

[SaxxonWoods]

Employee shortage, truck driver shortage.

Not enough people want to work.

[bigbob]

What little I’ve seen has been pretty clearly related to restocking delays, either from trucks that don’t arrive on time or workers that aren’t avaialble. Several times I’ve noticed sections that are depleted one day will be overflowing the next. That says it’s not due to a supply shortage. And it’s different stuff, lunch meat one day, the candy aisle the next.

[17th Miss Regt]

Supply chain issues. Not enough truck drivers to deliver goods. Not enough workers at the warehouses to load trucks (extended benefits and so on). Also, Port of Long Beach has some 60 ships laden with goods waiting outside the port for berths to unload. No truckers ==> Goods stack up at terminal ==> Ships full of goods stack up outside ports.

Biden's plan is working.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Great, so I suppose next under the Biden illegal occupation starvation is next. Yep this is certainly better than a POTUS who Tweets a lot

[SaxxonWoods]

Yep, you got it right. Farmers are doing their part, suppliers aren’t.

[Bearshouse]

and don’t get me started on the price of brisket).

Tell me. We decided to smoke a brisket for the 4th of July and it took the better part of $100. If I'd been the one making the grocery run that day, we would have had hot dogs.

[LastDayz]

“Also of note certain stuff (in my case a variety of Monster) is notably absent or hard to get.”

You wouldn’t be referring to Mango Loco by chance.

[MNJohnnie]

Suppliers cannot force people to work

[blueunicorn6]

Somebody supported these stupid Democrat sons of bitches.

[ponygirl]

As Confucius said, “A dumb ass with a pen and a phone is much more dangerous than a smart ass with a tweet.”

[qaz123]

Was a local gun store yesterday and was talking to the owner about it seems that his store started stocking up again. Display cases for the handguns were pretty much full, long gun racks full. Ammunition starting to fill the store again.

He does a very, very brisk business, talks to folks from every walk of life and he has some loyal customers from across the spectrum. His customers that are reliant on the supply chain all say the same thing.

Parts/Material-not having enough folks to get/make/mine the material or parts......Manufacturing-as in not having enough folks in the plants to make the stuff.....shipping-not enough drivers to deliver it all. And that ripple effect is across every industry.

Even throughout last year’s panic buying he never raised his prices, although he did limit how much one person could but at a time. And he always had very competitive prices. Now, his prices are starting to creep up because he’s paying more, due to a variety of issues, and the price gouging shills are having to reduce theirs as supply is starting to catch up with demand.

And right now, with kids being indoctrinated in schools they way they are, the fact they’ve been conditioned to thinking they’ll develop the next Facebook-Instagram-Snapchat, the talent pool is shrinking rapidly with those that want to go into the trades, fix sh*t or drive trucks. Lots of reasons for that, as well.

[fruser1]

Sorry folks, I took all of it.