In Pacific Beach, CA, my local Trader Joe's runs out of eggs really quickly, most of the time they don't have any. I've never seen a lack of eggs in my entire life, and now it's just everywhere, and the price went up, not outrageously but $2 more when they're available. My local Dollar Trees have a lot of empty shelves and aren't as abundant and fun as they were last time I was in Mission Beach just 6 months ago.
Did you read a Whole Foods store in Washington DC is going to require QR codes to enter the store. My idea about that is that it should be looted and burned down in DC , and boycotted nationwide.
A youtube cat rescue I follow got some cats from a chicken farm whose chickens were gassed because of bird flu, the farmers were decent enough to save the barn cats before they killed the chickens. I have to wonder, is this bird flu real or just based on fake tests like PCR tests to deliberately cause egg shortage.
Trader Joe’s and Shaws groceries in a couple New England states widened aisles and reduced shelving lanes, and dropped many products. It seemed sudden, in the fall perhaps.
My first thought, perhaps incorrect, is that prices had gotten too high so those products weren’t selling as well and that was a reason to downsize. Seemed weird for a Trader Joe’s to drop marshmallows, graham crackers, sweetened condensed milk, among other things.
There’s going to be less stuff in the global supply chain. We’re going to have to make our own networks, online and locally.
Produce our own stuff.
I mean, if you really think about it, this was normal for our parents growing up.
There were never any big box stores or everything in demand.
Waiting for items, ordering from the catalogue then waiting, and waiting for produce to be in season was a normal part of life.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s absolute bullshit that we would go back to that, especially because psychos in charge are manufacturing the crisis, but until very recently, the idea of getting Thai groceries anywhere local unless you actually knew somebody or lived in a big city were just out of the question.
Less stuff is just fine with me. I'm pleased to live in an agricultural country. Imported salmon and such are up, but beets, potatoes, carrots and cabbage, the stuff of borscht, is still affordable. There are dislocations on account of the war. Watermelons were expensive this year; the Russians captured those fields. Apples are cheap and plentiful. You go with what you got.
What you will see in the coming year is a breakdown in supply chains as The Power Elite of The United States seeks to break every international arrangment and material flows as it suits them to retain their now lost position of dominance. The Macroeconomic View.
How this plays out domestically - the Microeconomic View - will be erratic and uneven and would seem unpredictable.
Domestic food and energy costs will become very difficult at the US dollar, the defacto world reserve currency, loses out to the Renminbi and Rouble, along with foreign countries avoiding transactions via the US dollar.
This will be examined in greater depth in my forthcoming Substack essay and is touched on in prior Substack essays.
For many in The West, the cost of living will become impossible.
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Few would have missed the hundreds of billions of dollars directed to The War Machine, primarily for The Ukraine, but hardly that if one does not disregard the many other military adventures the US Government is committed to.
Discussed here in lengthy, abstruse and eclectic prose across several essays that will leave the reader visibly aged, yet possibly far wiser although admittedly that is entirely speculative . . . https://les7eb.substack.com
In Pacific Beach, CA, my local Trader Joe's runs out of eggs really quickly, most of the time they don't have any. I've never seen a lack of eggs in my entire life, and now it's just everywhere, and the price went up, not outrageously but $2 more when they're available. My local Dollar Trees have a lot of empty shelves and aren't as abundant and fun as they were last time I was in Mission Beach just 6 months ago.
Did you read a Whole Foods store in Washington DC is going to require QR codes to enter the store. My idea about that is that it should be looted and burned down in DC , and boycotted nationwide.
A youtube cat rescue I follow got some cats from a chicken farm whose chickens were gassed because of bird flu, the farmers were decent enough to save the barn cats before they killed the chickens. I have to wonder, is this bird flu real or just based on fake tests like PCR tests to deliberately cause egg shortage.
"Who buys bullshit on Christmas Eve?"
LITERALLY!
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Epic post, Amy. Great reporting.
My vague dread is that this will slowly become a new normal, and then a newer normal and boiling frog stuff.
the 99c stores are, from an article from memory, owned by the
wef minded 'squeeze them dry' groups. I am not sure they are much diff than the old
5 and dime stores really, but perhaps more globally minded.
Feels like the Harbor Freight stores are sort of tied into this,
i cannot stand the smell of Harbor Freight, so many plastics degrading
in the air, headache instant. Sorry for the folks that work there, to
smell like Harbor Freight. Honk if you know what i mean...
I'll honk! yes the harbor freight stores give me a headache too!
Trader Joe’s and Shaws groceries in a couple New England states widened aisles and reduced shelving lanes, and dropped many products. It seemed sudden, in the fall perhaps.
My first thought, perhaps incorrect, is that prices had gotten too high so those products weren’t selling as well and that was a reason to downsize. Seemed weird for a Trader Joe’s to drop marshmallows, graham crackers, sweetened condensed milk, among other things.
There’s going to be less stuff in the global supply chain. We’re going to have to make our own networks, online and locally.
Produce our own stuff.
I mean, if you really think about it, this was normal for our parents growing up.
There were never any big box stores or everything in demand.
Waiting for items, ordering from the catalogue then waiting, and waiting for produce to be in season was a normal part of life.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s absolute bullshit that we would go back to that, especially because psychos in charge are manufacturing the crisis, but until very recently, the idea of getting Thai groceries anywhere local unless you actually knew somebody or lived in a big city were just out of the question.
Less stuff is just fine with me. I'm pleased to live in an agricultural country. Imported salmon and such are up, but beets, potatoes, carrots and cabbage, the stuff of borscht, is still affordable. There are dislocations on account of the war. Watermelons were expensive this year; the Russians captured those fields. Apples are cheap and plentiful. You go with what you got.
I expect shortages for many things for the long term. I can also imagine in the short term, less shortages as China is opening up.
What you will see in the coming year is a breakdown in supply chains as The Power Elite of The United States seeks to break every international arrangment and material flows as it suits them to retain their now lost position of dominance. The Macroeconomic View.
How this plays out domestically - the Microeconomic View - will be erratic and uneven and would seem unpredictable.
Domestic food and energy costs will become very difficult at the US dollar, the defacto world reserve currency, loses out to the Renminbi and Rouble, along with foreign countries avoiding transactions via the US dollar.
This will be examined in greater depth in my forthcoming Substack essay and is touched on in prior Substack essays.
For many in The West, the cost of living will become impossible.
_______________
Few would have missed the hundreds of billions of dollars directed to The War Machine, primarily for The Ukraine, but hardly that if one does not disregard the many other military adventures the US Government is committed to.
Discussed here in lengthy, abstruse and eclectic prose across several essays that will leave the reader visibly aged, yet possibly far wiser although admittedly that is entirely speculative . . . https://les7eb.substack.com
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