'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

That is exactly what I thought grocery shopping this afternoon. And the prices! Wow!

..and as you may recall, the Soviet Union collapsed ten years later.

So, ...this is Biden's new reset. Bring back Pres. Trump!

A month or so I went to Walmart to find not a single package of sugar. No brown or white sugar. Last week I went to Winn Dixie.....there was maybe 6 packages of meat in the beef/pork aisle. Since covid first hit almost 2 years ago, every store that I shop has had rolling stock shortages. One week its meat, one week its eggs......etc. I haven't gone shopping in well over a year where I was able to pick up everything on my shopping list.

I was over in Russia in 1979 and went into several grocery stores while I was visiting and saw such meager produce. You got into one line to tell the clerk what you wanted ( one item at a time), then you got into a second line to pay for it, then you got into a third line to receive it. It would take hours to get the bare necessities. They didn't have grocery carts or bags, everyone had string bags to carry their food. I was able to take a picture of a man who may have worked in a coal mine, for he was covered completely in black "dirt," and was carrying 2 long loaves of bread (no wrappers) under his sweaty armpit. Another picture shows a well dressed woman in a suit holding a small piece of paper under the belly of a whole 1 or 2 pound fish which was not wrapped. Hate to think that would happen in 2022 in America, but under this pResident, it is starting to look that way after 12 months in office.

Those damn unvaxed. Like me.

#EmptyShelvesBiden Dementia Joe own it. Your fubar'g of America is succeeding. We are becoming Venezuela and it only took a year of your Presidency. Again, Joe, you own it.

#7 all the demo-commies and the fools who voted for them own it.

we got some of these things from the bulk=purchase amazon pantry---which was shuttered w/o warning-- just as the acme lockdown orders hit the coyote on the head.

Mrs C and I spent the afternoon out and about. Saw no empty store shelves and we found almost everything we went out for. Even the booze store was filled to the gills. Stopped for a nice steak dinner on the way home. Prices were high, but no higher than they had been for the last few years. I keep seeing these stories, but I'm not seeing the shortages. We avoid wal-mart nowadays, so their shelves may have been short. I dont like being pushed into the self checkout so we quit going there.

The prices are the killer to me. Good grief!! But we are not at the stage of not being able to find food here but if you are looking for a particular fruit, veg, or meat, either plan to go to multiple groceries or have an alternative in mind as many things are not available everywhere. I am an industrious and creative cook so as long as there are the basics we will not starve any time soon.

From Dayton, Ohio I got groceries today at WM, Meijer, Aldi & Kroger chains; some items have less variety, but nothing we use monthly was out of stock. Meat: plenty of choices (local Mom & Pop market for our preferences,Ground Chuck $3.99#; Produce: except for the Dole lettuce recall, most options available. Bananas .50# ; Bread: we like Aunt Millie's & Brownberry and found a few varieties empty, but plenty of fresh choices in stock from $2.49-$3,59 a loaf ; Pets: still some thin options for specific brands like Sheba wet cat food-had to go to Petsmart for the style our 17 yr old kitties like & may start ordering from Chewy if it stays sparse, price up about $2 over a yr ago for multipack; Eggs are the biggest price jump to my budget, where we were getting them as low as 50 cents a dozen at break of covid, they are now $1.79+ for large every time. Beef & Chicken up about 20% over the pre covid shortages, but quality cuts still there if you want to spend for it. Porkchops were .99 per # 2 wks ago so we got 10# for the freezer & Ham after Christmas was under a $1 a #. Feeding a family of 7, we've always bought the bargains to stock up, so beans & tuna are old standbys & still under $1 each. Now, with just Hubs & me it's lighter for both appetites & health demands. If you can mostly scratch cook, if you have a freezer & if you can be flexible in your menu/diet expectations, the pressure is only if you are on a super restrictive food budget, but then you probably already were watching your receipts like a hawk before this phase of Build Back BS took hold. I'm not as concerned as when milk went uover $4 a gal in early 2000's & we went thru 5 gals a week! We can do with less & still donate to local Fish Pantry to help those in greater need. Be Not Afraid.

Not many shortages here in North Georgia but the prices are eye-watering. The Dems see the polls going south on them and are getting desperate to cram through their socialist agenda before they lose control. Biden and Harris going to Georgia is not a well thought out event. People here know there was rampant voter fraud in 2020 and yet he comes here to hector us about our “bad” voter laws. It would be funny if it weren’t so serious because they are admitting that our law makes it harder to steal elections. You can almost smell the panic in the air.

Has anyone else noticed that the plant-based milks (soy, almond, oat) remain in plentiful supply but cow milk, whole, skim, 1/2 & 1/2, heavy cream, shelves grow sparse? I have also noticed over the past 2 years, that dairy milk products occupy a much smaller footprint in the refrigerator cases, while the plant-based milks are expanding.

I grocery shopped yesterday at Meijer. It was noticeable that some shelves were bare. Meijer is usually stocked to the brim. I cannot imagine how difficult it is for a large grocery stores to distribute food to all of their locations when they can't get the product. Last night we were talking about Soviet empty shelves and wondering if we are gradually falling into that circumstance and it will take a while, but then someday we will go into a store and experience the same damn thing. The leftists will ask when did this happen? IF people do not vote out the leftists we are in serious trouble.

Omni-Cron is the least worrisome of all the Chinese Communist Flus, but is being treated like the Black Death on steroids. That and Jan 6th is all they’ve got.

You can't replace steak with hamburger any longer, they are the same price. FJB

Going shopping today. We'll see.

Grocery shopping yesterday at WalMart on the Mississippi coast. Shelves pretty much full. Purchased everything on my shopping list, plus a few extras.