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.
Exactly! Many places barely shut down so it was work as usual. Other parts of the country, shut down completely and are having a hard time finding drivers. Another theory I read that made sense, was about vax status. Someone posted about disability claims being way up. What regions are the most vaxed? Bet there’s a correlation. I personally know of three people who were in construction type jobs, they can’t physically do the jobs anymore. I’m in NE, and I see things like reorganizing stores to make them look more full, a lot of Spanish brands that other brands used to dominate, and temporary out of stock. Sent my daughter for four things, wegmans didn’t have two… a red onion and a lime.