How long before the Puppetmasters’ Administration are blaming “wreckers” and “kulaks” for empty shelves? But no mean tweets.
If the Shelves are Empty You Are to Blame
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My cousin just posted a picture of an empty freezer section in California. Seeing more of such lately.
By all means, trust those who respond to rampant inflation and supply chain breaks with attempts to federalize elections.
No, instead do what wise Soviet shoppers did: if it’s there, get as much of it as you can see yourself needing over the next few months.
This advertisement only confirms that the empty shelves are not transitory and thus further encourages people to stock up while they can.
There is some truth to the fact that supply issues are made greater by people reacting to them by taking “more than they need.” But this is an entirely rational thing to do, even if you know that the issues are artificial and being made worse by you buying for a long term supply.
Take the toilet paper shortages of the early COVID days. Those were almost 100% dread by fake news stories and public panic; if everyone had bought at a normal rate we wouldn’t have run out. But even if you know that and thus only buy toilet paper for a couple weeks, the stores were still out of toilet paper for a few months in places. So if you do that the only real effect is that now you don’t have toilet paper for a couple month. The shortage might be artificial, but that doesn’t change the trouble you’ll be having when your last roll runs out.
I never dreamed of becoming a toilet-paper fact checker, but the times make the man. The run on toilet paper in 2020 was in part due to a change in market demand. Most public or corporate bathrooms are stocked with one-ply bought by the owners in bulk. Most home demand is for two-ply bought in packs of 4, 6, whatever. Families don’t buy pallets of toilet paper.
The current supply problems are different. Companies are reopened, or they’re trying to be, but they can’t get enough labor and goods to meet demand for products. I had expected things to snap back, but too many workers are either at home double-masked and terrified to step outdoors, or unwilling to meet the vax and mask requirements of a potential employer.
Childcare is another aspect.
A lot of parents either don’t have access to reliable daycare (school– what, it’s not like they do education well) or they are not willing to send their children into them with the information they now have.
So all those ladies, or sometimes mostly-retired grandparents, that use to fill slots?
They’re gone. And the folks who are available have much more choice.
Here in Iowa, our pizza place is a good example– they kept people on all through the COVID main fiasco, but when things opened up, the owner’s entire workforce was able to get MUCH better jobs. So she’s handling the stuff that is when her kids are at at school, and has hired a whole pack of high school kids to do the after-school-hours work. Until they ironed out how to make that work, she was handling all the open hours by herself, since she’s got family to watch the kids.
I can’t believe how many people are still buying the bare minimum they need until the next trip– that’s setting yourself up for failure. Always buy at least one extra of anything you expect to use up by the time you get to the store again!
Interesting that a myriad of reporters exerted every effort to find any dirt they could, real or imagined, on Nixon and Trump but seem totally uninterested in finding out who pulls the strings on our obviously demented current occupant of the White House.
Empty shelves have hit us particular in the meat section. We have the highest rate of Omicron infection per capita at the moment, in the world. The reason being is that the abattoirs are lagging behind in the supply chain because infected people cannot go to work. Hence the delay at all stages in the supply chain.
So, last week, I asked my husband to pick up some sausages from the supermarket on the way home from work. At the self-serve check-out, the supervisor told him he wasn’t allowed to purchase 3 packets of 6 (to feed our large family of 6- wink wink). He was allowed 1 packet. That’s how the register was programmed (to prevent the over buyers). Whatever. My husband told her he will put them through 3 separate transactions. She shrugged and said go for it.
What a strange time we are living in. Particular for large families (wink wink) who would have to ration their food if they stuck to the supermarket rules.
This is all part of the Great Reset. The “progressive” powers-that-be and their corporatist overlords want to squeeze the common man to force him to accept socialism.