[Vigilanteman]

I noticed my local Wal-Mart was out of 5 gallon buckets and lids and had them shipped from Ace to fill my pick-up order. When I was there to pick up my order this morning, I noticed a huge "green recycling" truck collecting a dumpster full of what looked like fruit and vegetables.

Weird!

[livius]

It’s all very weird. In terms of perishables, I overheard a couple of managers of the meat dept. in a local supermarket discussing this and saying they should keep the product in the case two days instead of one day. This is not unhealthy or dangerous, btw, and once upon a time my neighborhood butcher (NYC) had steaks you would know by name...LOL. Not really, and towards the end of the second day he’d put it on markdown.

One of the managers said they had done this before with shortages. So the stores are scrambling to keep things up and also to keep up a good appearance (full shelves or cases).

This is nuts. But that’s OK, Biden won’t experience any shortages of anything nor will the entire federal government apparatus.