I don't hit the store daily, so maybe they were expecting a shipment, but yeah, local supermarket was out of lots of produce, meat, and bread. I'd say shelves were 70% full, but that's boxed, canned, frozen type stuff. Fresh foods were very limited, mostly fruit like apples and pears left.
Not here in TX
Without a doubt. Our local grocery store is routinely out of many major items, fresh vegetables (carrots and lettuce), breads, candy, chips, cerials, meats, cheeses. It's never everything all at once, but any given week it's 2-3 of those items above. Over the holiday's they were out of sugar and flower, my wife bakes a lot and those are staples in our pantry.
how did you portmanteau cereals and serials?
Snack shelves most notably depleted in my Kroger - looks like a post-Super Bowl weekend..
Tissues, chicken and other basic things are getting hard to buy. There is plenty of food, just no workers. This is what happens when you pay people to stay home.
Or won't hire them unless they take an invasive, unnecessary, and most likely harmful medical procedure that doesn't even do what it's supposed to.
Correct.
Walmart near me has had no, zero, zip, nada pasta in over 2 weeks, yet I go to other grocery stores and there is normal supply. Even the $ stores have it. Not sure about any other Walmarts. They are also short or out of other items; onions, green peppers.. other produce, paper products and meats.
Lettuce shelves were bare in one store I was in. I asked one of the workers and they said “because COVID”, implying supply chain issues.
Then I went to another store a few days later and no shortage.
I’m in TX.
There are definitely bare areas (Texas) but not huge bare areas, yet, and some products I can't get.
Huh. Thanks for this.
I live in Indiana, and the kroger and wal marts definitely have empty shelves. I went to Kroger the other day and there was zero chicken in the store. I asked, and they didn't have any in the back either.
I’ve seen lots of empty shelves of foods we don’t eat so it’s not impacting us yet. I’m more concerned of the types of food others are eating. Geesh their diets are awful.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that for the longest time, 3 out of 6 self checkouts at my local Kroger was card only. Starting a week ago, 5 out of 6 is card only. It’s obvious physical currency is being wildly discouraged.
I've seen that a lot too. And there have been multiple times the ATM machine at the bank branch itself had no cash at all. The ATM machine worked and you could make a deposit and do other functions, but the "get cash" function was disabled altogether.
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