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2022-01-12 Economy

'It's like a Soviet store during 1981': Grocery stores across the US have empty shelves as supply chain crisis and COVID combine to make basics like milk, bread, meat, canned soups and cleaning products hard to find

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-12 00:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ...Did my grocery shopping Sunday, as always. The only thing in short supply was cat food.

And, quite frankly, anybody saying 'Soviet store during 1981' should be smacked upside the head with the nearest wooden implement.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-01-12 06:32|| 2022-01-12 06:32|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Cat food is where it all starts Mike.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-12 06:35|| 2022-01-12 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 It's Daily Mail. If they aren't hysterical, they're not alive

Posted by Frank G 2022-01-12 07:33|| 2022-01-12 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 ..I suspect food deserts are going to happen in certain urban localities where its dangerous to tread with narrow streets and back alleys. The demand for drivers will leave the 'boss' with a choice of losing drivers, "I can go elsewhere", or no deliveries to iffy addresses.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-12 07:37|| 2022-01-12 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Bangahs don't need food. Dat's what ko-kane is for, fools...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-12 07:41|| 2022-01-12 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 The only thing in short supply was cat food.

Well, and cash to pay for it.
My grocery bill has almost doubled.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-12 09:48|| 2022-01-12 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Cat food seems to be ok, now that I don't have a cat....

I did have problems finding fritos corn chips this weekend.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-01-12 11:36|| 2022-01-12 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 I did have trouble getting the kind of Tostitos that I want. I mean, how you 'sposed to make nachos...

Posted by ed in texas 2022-01-12 11:44|| 2022-01-12 11:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I think P2K's food desert comment is spot on, and the subsequent feral excursions into the urban/civilizational suburbs interface will have increasingly kinetic outcomes. Sadly, the MSM and the overlords will then involve rank-and-file federal LEOs under the guise of fighting racism and white supremacy, shading the issue in the perception of the clueless sheep in farcebook and the twitterverse...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-01-12 11:47|| 2022-01-12 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Our stores are also short on cat food. And milk. I can't recall anything else I have looked for and not found much selection. Oh, and tv sound bars.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-01-12 13:16|| 2022-01-12 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Reminds me of the old USSR joke.
Commrade what are you in line for?
Don't know.... Commrade a line means it could something. If I can get one , i'll swap it for something eles. How long you been in line?

Only 28 hrs.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-01-12 13:18|| 2022-01-12 13:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Or the film highlighting the decadence of The West, and the viewers were like, "you mean, they have so much food they have food specifically for cats?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-12 13:33|| 2022-01-12 13:33|| Front Page Top

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