Posted on 10/17/2021 1:37:33 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Mrs. Chandler received a panicky email from her conspiracy-minded friend. Her friend said that Fox News told her we are going to experience devastating supermarket shortages lasting for two years.
I suspect that this could be Fox News creating fear to attract viewers.
I am now being pressured to purchase a crapload of non-perishables.
There is this as well governments have often used food to control people a lot of the shortages and logistical problems we see now are cause by the government and face it “Lets go Brandon” and his minions have to be seeing the writing on the wall. Disparate people do disparate things!
I take it you have not been to the grocery store lately.
There are holes on the shelf. Used to be only time there were holes on the shelf was when there was a major sale.
These are items that are not on sale.
There are restrictions on how much of something you can buy.
Three to six months worth of stuff is advisable and have a extra of things that you might need unexpectedly on the shelf.
One thing about the US I noticed that was different from other counties is that stuff was always there. If you needed a pen you went out and bought a pen. No muss, no fuss.
In some countries you need a pen and you went to the store and they might have pens or they might not. And when they would have pens again was a matter of chance.
Welcome to third world supply chain problems.
You will not enjoy your stay.
Disparate means unlike.
I think you mean desperate people.
OH well two in one day time to stop posting LOL
During the Dust Bowl, tens of thousands of small farms were wiped out, from Texas to the Canadian border. At the same time, those farmers outside of the Dust Belt region produced more food than we could eat. Hit with the staggering deflation, it cost more to ship food to market than it was worth.
So a bushel of wheat was 25 cents, corn was burned for heat, and a pound of hamburger cost a nickel. But nobody had any nickels.
My point is that America has a perpetual surplus of food. Almost every state (46 or 48 I think) grows wheat, and pork is always teetering on the brink because there are so many pigs.
The government tries to run surplus dairy through a “cheese buffer”, and there is so much that when President Reagan had his cheese giveaway, it had almost ZERO impact on the cheese market.
“There are holes on the shelf. Used to be only time there were holes on the shelf was when there was a major sale.”
Bring index cards and/or duct tape with this printed in permanent marker:
DEMOCRAT VOTERS BUILT THIS!
and stick them on the empty shelves.
Eh....
No, I am not going to say it.
But in 2020 I saw a lot of faces at my little local grocery store that were not familiar.
Me either.
A long, long time ago when I was in college (accounting major) a Finance professor taught that 1/2 of the current inflation rate is a recent historic increase in prices, and the other 1/2 was the expected increase in prices coming in the near future. Sort of the same idea as media causing shortages by reporting on shortages.
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I knew it!!!
They’re here!!!
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That was training!
The most inhumane example of Mao’s contempt for human life came when he ordered the collectivization of China’s agriculture under the ironic slogan, the “Great Leap Forward.” A deadly combination of lies about grain production, disastrous farming methods (profitable tea plantations, for example, were turned into rice fields), and misdistribution of food produced the worse famine in human history.
Deaths from hunger reached more than 50 percent in some Chinese villages. The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million — the population of California.
I live in a small CO mountain tourist town. “Responsible” people wiped out the shelves in Safeway in a couple of days in March ‘20. It took nine months or more to get it back to near normal. They’re doing it again just a little slower this time.
But remember “we’re all in it together!” lol
Blast ‘em!!!
HUMBLEGUNNER’s account says the same thing, but it’s not. ;-)
After going to the grocery store last Friday I was thinking WELCOME TO THE NEW SOVIET UNION! Not only were lots of staple items gone or disappearing everyone had to wait in a long line because no one wants to fill the jobs there.
I have NOT been able find Munchos anywhere for more than a week!
[“we’re all in it together!”]
Man, was I weary of reading/hearing that from some company sending out a “Covid-19 update” spam.
I stopped listening to the radio in my work shop because of that garbage. I also mute all ads on my TV but I still reply back “No, we’re not!” when I saw that text on the screen.
Same here. Recreational area with people coming down from St Louis which was in lockdown mode. They came here and cleaned out the stores every weekend.
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