2022 in Washington, DC: "It's like a Soviet store."

[BucketBack]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgR_H9qVRa0&t=24s

[SOCOM42]

It is slowly looking like that at stores around here, many items have never come back.

Others are here for a week then are gone again.

I just can't store much more of what we use.

Two years now and not a canned ham has made it to the shelves, two years.

Leaving that asshole vegetable in charge and it is going to get worse.

[Chiefster23]

Seeing lots of stories like this on TV. But I went to Walmart this morning and yes meats were thin. But not stripped bare. Some other items were low, but generally the shelves were pretty well stocked. Even 3 or 4 small canned hams! I suspect these bare-shelves pics are from large metro areas. Our stores seem to be getting shipments so I’m not sure what the problems are elsewhere. Prices are crazy!

Let me clarify. When I say well stocked, I mean there are some items on the shelf to buy. In many cases the inventory isn’t as big as before. But not down to bare bones yet.

I haven’t seen canned apricots in two years. But there were a dozen cans of bacon flavored spam today!

[BucketBack]

Bacon flavored spam ?

And my beer budget went up %29

25 oz Natty Daddy were 2 for $4, now $1.29 each.

[Prepared One]

MG and I noticed a lot of empty shelves at Wally World the other day. Ain't socialism grande?

[red442joe]

MG and I noticed a lot of empty shelves at Wally World the other day. Ain't socialism grande?

I don't get into wallyworld too often, but even the shelves thst have stuff are a mess, and the store in general looks like a shit hole.
My sister drives truck for wallyworld in central Wisconsin. She says all the stores look like crap, managers say they cant get workers, and in general everything is goung to hell.
Let's Go Brandon!
NoMeanTweets, NoMeanTweets, NoMeanTweets!

Joe

[Piratesailor]

Ah.. but the lead propagandist, the WAPO, says it because of omicron. They say it’s because truckers aren’t delivering and stockers aren’t stocking because they are out with the Chinese flu.

Bullshit.

And we all know it. Typical gaslighting

[Piratesailor]

Speaking of prices…

I bought some kielbasa the other day to make a special meal for the extended family. I hadn’t bought it in awhile.

I usually could by a pack of 10 for about $7 or so. Now it’s a pack of 5 for $5. Couldn’t find the 10 pack. So basically it’s gone from $7 to $10.

[Sarge7402]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgR_H9qVRa0&t=24s

You can bet that the commisars have all the food they want and never go hungry or wanting.

Would not surprise me to see a peasant revolt in DC from the welfare folks. Like rome it's bread and circus'.

Perhaps a mob of hungry women and children marching on the winter palace would get the cossacks to gun them down like in Russia in 1905/1917.

[Piratesailor]

And the DC may.. .bowser or barker or what ever.. is now saying you should not leave you house unless you have your vax card.

But you know.. you don't’ need one to vote. It would be racist.

[SOCOM42]

Speaking of prices…

I bought some kielbasa the other day to make a special meal for the extended family. I hadn’t bought it in awhile.

I usually could by a pack of 10 for about $7 or so. Now it’s a pack of 5 for $5. Couldn’t find the 10 pack. So basically it’s gone from $7 to $10.

It is called "downsizing", according to the bullshit handed out by the stores,

they claim the customers "prefer" the new packaging.

This is exactly what I was told by a manager!

Oh, yeah, he did not mention that the package was reduced by 30% but the price only by 10%.

[Jester-ND]

It is called "downsizing", according to the bullshit handed out by the stores,

they claim the customers "prefer" the new packaging.

This is exactly what I was told by a manager!

Oh, yeah, he did not mention that the package was reduced by 30% but the price only by 10%.

shrink-flation

[BucketBack]

Speaking of prices…

I bought some kielbasa the other day to make a special meal for the extended family. I hadn’t bought it in awhile.

I usually could by a pack of 10 for about $7 or so. Now it’s a pack of 5 for $5. Couldn’t find the 10 pack. So basically it’s gone from $7 to $10.

Like my beer went up 29 %

[Sparkyprep]

I wonder how long until the masses start eating zoo animals, like in Venezuela?

[StratBastard]

What I have noticed the last several months: the Top Raman noodle isle is stripped bare, even in the bigger markets. They get some in, it's gone overnight. I think a lot of people who are waking up to a possible problem coming, are thinking that Cup O' Soup is all the preps one needs to cover their ass without having to think too much about it.

[Sparkyprep]

What I have noticed the last several months: the Top Raman noodle isle is stripped bare, even in the bigger markets. They get some in, it's gone overnight. I think a lot of people who are waking up to a possible problem coming, are thinking that Cup O' Soup is all the preps one needs to cover their ass without having to think too much about it.

Good. A week or two in they will be so weak and hungry that they will be easy to defend against.

[red442joe]

Good. A week or two in they will be so weak and hungry that they will be easy to defend against.

Still fat...the weak are meat, the strong will eat.

Joe

[Coastie dad]

I gotta admit, I'm one of those assholes with the ramen. But I use it as filler with canned meat at work or especially if I'm in the woods for a couple days.
Hint:

Cook the ramen with as little water as necessary so as to not make soup.
Let stand until moisture is gone.
Stir fry canned shrimp in pan with peppers and onions in butter and a little garlic powder and
black pepper, coarse ground.
Add ramen and stir fry it until it becomes more tan or light brown.
Squeeze lemon on top.
(Rice may be substituted for ramen)

Significant other will be impressed, and reward you with carnal pleasure. Maybe.

[Big Ken]

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[Jester-ND]

hit the nearby wallyworld last night about 9pm. some empty shelves, but was hard to tell because the end-aisles were overflowing with boxes . either it was restock time or that's the new norm in the Baken area

[Jester-ND]

I really noticed the shrink-flation when the large powerade bottles went from 32oz to 28oz...... and went from 0.80 to 0.78.

[Slippy]

Regarding Availability in Central Alabama;

So far so good on most name brand and private label grocery store and sundry type items
Specialty items are somewhat scarce

Equipment is the most scarce; Trucks, Trailers, UTV's ATV's and Implements are hard to find, specific ones anyway.

Ammo is coming back especially 9mm, 22lr, 308,
No 30-30, 270, 45-70 to be found in most retailers

Specialty Tequila, Bourbon, Vodka are all somewhat scarce and some ABC (Alabama Beverage Control) liquor stores have a limit on certain items.

EVERYTHING costs more.

[Sparkyprep]

Last time I was at Publix (last Sunday) they were completely sold out of cream cheese. All variants, all brands, 100 percent empty.

[MountainGirl]

Last time I was at Publix (last Sunday) they were completely sold out of cream cheese. All variants, all brands, 100 percent empty.

100% empty here too. And I use it a lot.

[T-Man 1066]

I have noticed that saltine crackers have been almost nonexistent since before turkey day...

[BucketBack]

I really noticed the shrink-flation when the large powerade bottles went from 32oz to 28oz...... and went from 0.80 to 0.78.

wat?

[Sarge7402]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgR_H9qVRa0&t=24s

You must consider the area. Although there are about 600,000 residents living in the District, there is not a similar number of Grocery Stores in the city when you compare it to say Fairfax County in Virginia or Montgomery or Prince Georges County in Maryland. A google search brought up only 21.

I live in a town with a population of 17,000 and we have two (not including a Walmart Super store).

So if the city doesn't get enough stores to set up shop in the District whose fault is that. Not the Stores. City leaders

[Michael_Js]

I have noticed that saltine crackers have been almost nonexistent since before turkey day...

Amen! I was searching for SO long! I had to get a pack from Amazon - they aren't bad...
Pricey...but WHAT isn't these days!! [URL="https://www.amazon.com/Suzies-Organic-Saltines-Crackers-Children/dp/B005TY2HHG?pd_rd_w=hGtqe&pf_rd_p=ee521540-07c2-4687-9605-13c98e32ab2c&pf_rd_r=AT9DQJBKXM2AB7N1R36K&pd_rd_r=4d1fb574-e8ed-4d0d-b55b-32099f42244b&pd_rd_wg=wSoF6&pd_rd_i=B005TY2HHG&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_rp_1_t[/URL]

[Sparkyprep]

You must consider the area. Although there are about 600,000 residents living in the District, there is not a similar number of Grocery Stores in the city when you compare it to say Fairfax County in Virginia or Montgomery or Prince Georges County in Maryland. A google search brought up only 21.

I live in a town with a population of 17,000 and we have two (not including a Walmart Super store).

So if the city doesn't get enough stores to set up shop in the District whose fault is that. Not the Stores. City leaders

This is what the liberals refer to a "food deserts". They complain that grocery stores with healthy food isn't available in these "underserved communities". What they fail to realize is that it is their own fault. THEY cause the problem, not the stores. basic economics and social sciences easily display the problem. If you were a store, would you open a location where the Dindus rob you blind on a minute by minute basis, AND they don't shop there anyway because you don't sell malt liquor and cigarettes? Of course not.

[Sarge7402]

Sparky you hit the nail square on the head. What gets me is that folks have plenty of money to get their hair done, then plead the poor mouth and subsist on food stamps. That they spend at the local bodega

[SOCOM42]

We were at Wally World yesterday late afternoon.

The shelves were pretty well stripped of different goods.

Only about 20% of egg shelving had anything on them.

Milk was the same way, cheese too.

The bottled water was stripped almost naked, both gallons and smaller packings.

I would say that the assorted French fries and other similar products were also pretty much depleted.

Certain canned goods were completely out of inventory,

still no canned hams of any brand, none for 2 years now.

There were plenty of soft drinks and chips to go with them.

Certain bread products were stripped bare from the shelves

About 30%-40% of beef products were there, but not much of a selection,

mostly hamburger in large sausage style packing.

The flour and other baking goods were not full but adequate, plenty of sugar, not so much salt though.

The yeast offerings were also short on available selections.

From what I saw all the Goya products were in full supply,

none of their displays were short other than normal draws.

[TJC44]

We were at Wally World yesterday late afternoon.

The shelves were pretty well stripped of different goods.

Only about 20% of egg shelving had anything on them.

Milk was the same way, cheese too.

The bottled water was stripped almost naked, both gallons and smaller packings.

I would say that the assorted French fries and other similar products were also pretty much depleted.

Certain canned goods were completely out of inventory,

still no canned hams of any brand, none for 2 years now.

There were plenty of soft drinks and chips to go with them.

Certain bread products were stripped bare from the shelves

About 30%-40% of beef products were there, but not much of a selection,

mostly hamburger in large sausage style packing.

The flour and other baking goods were not full but adequate, plenty of sugar, not so much salt though.

The yeast offerings were also short on available selections.

From what I saw all the Goya products were in full supply,

none of their displays were short other than normal draws.

Well, we DID just have the storm come through. You know what that does to the sheep.
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