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.
For the most part from what I have seen, grocery stores and Costco are well stocked. Not counting when there was a rush on toilet paper. Costco didn’t have any baby formula, but everything else for the most part was well stocked. If the number of poultry and processing plants destroyed is true, I suspect we will be seeing food problems by the end os summer beginning of fall. I expect astronomical heating costs for the winter-last winter my one monthly bill was $500 fora 3 bedroom ranch with a partial basement. So God only knows what they will be. One year we lost power for 4 days d/t ice and snow. Since then we got a generator and changed our wood burning fireplace to gas. Of course none of that helps if they cut the power entirely and you have zero natural gas flow or water. Most wells have electric pumps so you automatically lose your water too.