I recently moved to Texas from Washington state. While i still lived in WA during the Great TP Shortage of 2020, I noticed several products were out but i never saw the empty shelves that people were filming and posting online. Most often i saw certain name brands disappear then reappear a few days later. I now live in a small town near Dallas and while I saw the baby formula shortage, it now seems restocked everywhere I go.
I don't doubt that we are having supply chain issues and people are witnessing the bare shelves. Then there are the reports of all of the food processing plants and farms being attacked.
Why do stores, at least all of the ones that i have been to, seem to be well stocked? I'm not complaining, but shouldn't we be experiencing food riots by now? This make no sense to me, unless...
Are patriots really in control? Are THEY systematically attacking food facilities that have been putting bad stuff in our food? Then resuming business as usual? It occurs to me that the areas most hardest hit by the food shortages and gas price inflation are deep blue cities in deep blue states.
Has anyone else seen this? Or have i just been fortunate enough to go after stores have been restocked? Tell me im not the only one. What is going on?
Update: I want to thank everyone for their input. This has been eye opening to say the least.
In Texas we are fortunate enough to have HEB grocery stores. HEB is not a public company and they go out of their way to shop as local as they can. I truly believe we are very fortunate in this regard because I believe it is the big box stores that are ultimately owned by big corporations where the shortages are showing up.
This is true.
I've also been stocking up on staples when they go on closeout.
As an example, I snagged some extra virgin olive oil in tiny 16.9 fl. oz. bottles for only $2.24 each. They don't expire until June 2023.
When Passover ended, I grabbed several boxes of Kosher salt marked down for less than $1.00 each. Salt is a good thing to stock up on, especially at that price.
One thing I do want to figure out is how to harvest water if the grid goes down. After we empty and filter our hot water tanks in an emergency, only way I know of to get water is to put some cotton cloths in my pockets and walking through fields of overgrown weeds to collect dew.
What about a rain catchment system off of your gutters. I'm looking into this now.
I've looked into dew catchers and they seem cheap enough to be feasible.
Here's a rudimentary prototype I found on YouTube-
https://files.catbox.moe/q54ko1.mp4
Original link in case you can't load catbox.moe for some reason-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV5Z1kBbkn4
HEB also is a sponsor for Rainbow on the Creek pride event.
https://worldtimetodays.com/drag-queen-storytime-at-a-google-sponsored-pride-event-in-austin/
listed 3/4 of the way down as notable sponsors, if you care to look.