I was in a long check out line yesterday because only one person was working. Someone behind me asked the cashier if she had any help and she said, "just my manager but she's in the back working on something else." The person behind me said, "God Bless you for working because nobody else seems to want to. We've got that idiot, Biden in office so now I have to buy my groceries here to afford to eat. We need Trump back and everyone's afraid to say it. Well, I'm not afraid, I'm saying it to you all!"
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And thus the Great Awakening spreads a little more every day. I think it's going to hit critical mass at some point, very soon, and all hell will break loose. Can't come soon enough for me.
Xiden's approval rating is already below Carter's. Nixon resigned when his approval rating got to 29%. Xiden's is close to that. Especially if they do a true random sample poll instead of sampling the indoctrinated college kids.
I am truly surprised it is not lower than 29%. He is an idiot who we (the preponderance of Americans) know did not get near 80 million votes, yet the MSM and all the Left-wing nut job pundits fall for the "sting" and hope and pray it never gets to a constitutional court for a trial.
"I am truly surprised it is not lower than 29%"
It probably is. Way lower.
I agree with you. Xiden is just above a vegetable. He approval rating is only what the MSM tells us, which is a lie.
I want to take a minute to clear something up for any readers here: Dollar Tree is not a good place to go if you are struggling to afford groceries.
Their business model is weirdly small portion sizes and lots of processed products with long shelf life.
For many prices, if you do the math, you'll find buying the smaller portion Dollar Tree sells ends up being more expensive per serving than buying the bigger portion a grocery store sells.
Instead, if you are struggling to afford groceries, you should be shopping at a regular grocery store, but avoiding the "center aisles." You should be shopping for only the raw essentials: lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, and things like flour and plain rice. You should intentionally be avoiding things like boxed rice "kits," frozen meals, and, of course, things like chips.
Dollar Tree isn't a good place to go, but a place like Save A Lot can be. They sell real food (meats and produce), but their prices are lower than a Kroger or Publix. The meat and produce is lesser quality, but that's the cost savings.
We’re getting the same size dog food bag, same brand, for $6 less per bag at Dollar General. There are some other thing’s cheaper for the same size as well. Just got to price compare.
Dollar General is not Dollar Tree. Two different stores. Two different business models.
Dollar Tree's model is weirdly small portion sizes. Often they're from major brands and they're in sizes you only see at Dollar Tree. I don't even know how they get those contracts.
Dollar General's model is to pop up in food deserts where nothing else is around and sell normal stuff. Their stuff is usually price high for what it is, too, so you really are paying for the convenience of not having to go to the next town that has a real grocery store.
Of course, in both examples, there are outliers where something is cheaper at the Dollar General or Dollar Tree than it is at a normal store. But it's not the norm. And I've also noticed many times I've found that something I buy is cheaper at one of these places, I get in the habit of buying it there, then a couple years later I realize the prices have crept and now I'm properly paying a lot more and I would have been better off just going to the normal store from the beginning, since I'm not going to actively price compare every single time I shop.
Aldi's is a better alternative. Their store brand items (most of the store) are excellent, good produce and meat. And their prices are great. I can get two full bags of groceries there - nearly all produce and meat and staples - for less than what I'd pay for one bag at Walmart or Martins. Other than a rare Food Lion, those are the only grocery stores here. Walmart has jacked their prices up so much - more than the other stores - they are noticeably losing customers here.
We have some nice direct at the farm farmstands here but they've become chi-chi tourist attractions and are often more expensive than any.
Huge Aldi fan - do MOST of my groceries at Aldi and supplement what I can't get at Publix or Kroger, but I hate most of the Kroger around me. Very rarely do I shop Walmart. I do strategically shop sales and BOGO's for the items I know I can't get at Aldi and stock up enough for the sale cycle. I also use Fetch for the receipt points - and have enough points for about $120 in gift cards that I'll redeem closer to Christmas to use for my Christmas shopping, so I always check what is giving extra points.
No Kroger here any more but there used to be one in our little city about 50 miles away. It has horribly expensive so I never shopped there. This is a rural area with a few little towns, some of those have stores. Food Lion sold off most of their stores, a Save-a-Lot moved into two but they closed quickly. Some of the towns have a Dollar General and that's all for groceries.
And much of Walmart meat is from China!
Seriously. Those people eat bats and dogs. Barf.
Holy smokes, do you have sauce to back that up? That's friggin horrible to even consider.
Look at Smithfield. They are in VA, but China bought them several years ago. They actually have a ton of brands you probably recognize. I don't have my original research links, but I looked into this a few years ago. Here are the brands I found that were owned by Smithfield (now owned by the Chinese):
American Farms
Armour
Berlinki
Carando
Circle U
Cook's
Cracker Barrel
Cumberland Gap
Curly's
Eckrich
El Mino
Farmer John
Farmland
Gwaltney
Healthy Ones
John Morrell
Krakus
Kretschmar
Margherita
Morliny
Nathan's Famous
Pure Farmland
Smithfield
You can research it yourself but they do a good job of hiding all of the brands.
Tell me about it! I'm a Virginian with a mother from ham, peanut and tobacco heaven Southside Virginia. That said, I don't see anywhere that says their hogs or any other products are produced in China. Apparently some in Romania and Britain but most in the US. If you want to be sure, get a ham marked as a genuine Smithfield ham. Virginia law requires they be produced in Smithfield VA. It's a country ham, which we love but some people find too strong and salty.
You are correct. China is buying up pork plants because they go thru so much pork in their diet they can't support themselves. The hogs are still processed in VA but who knows what changed in their processes when the Chinese bought them. Remember the Chinese have a ton of people, and they can just make more if they become ill or die from their awful safety and processing habits. I'm not saying they bring the same practices to the USA but it doesn't matter to me anyway - I won't buy their products as long as I can avoid them. Nearly everything seems to be made in China, and we are financing the CCP so they can take us over one day.
They may not even change the processing methods, but they could do things like adding more water to raise the package weight and charge more per pound. Look at a package of lunch meat in the plastic packages. The number 1 or 2 ingredient is usually water, and if you look they usually say "water added".
I actually did some contract work in Smithfield, but at the nuclear plant, so I know the area. I also lived in Lovettsville in the north for a bit (not counting the 5 yrs at the Pentagon). As for the country ham - I used to eat the sandwiches (hot, on a roll) at fairs and carnivals growing up in western Maryland.
Thank you for this info. I will dig around but is yet another reason to buy local. Affording it, however, is another thing.
These darned rose-colored glasses still have me shaking my head at how any foreign country is allowed to own anything in another country.
Just from reading the labels on the meat packages.
I like Aldi’s. Been shopping there for years. I live in Appalachia now where they’ve been smacked down by globalism since Clinton signed NAFTA, so people who were poor are even poorer. I leave my cart free of the quarter chains. I used to get coffee beans there for 3.50 a bag; now the product is $5.95, still cheaper than other grocery stores. Olive oil has gone from 2.99 to 5.99. So Aldi’s is affected too, but still better. I also see lots of elderly folks there.
Aldi's generally seems OK, but be aware that (like most stores) a lot of their food contains bioengineered ingredients.
Just FYI, when I came out of Aldi's the other day, there was a punk teenager in the cart bin pocketing the quarters people had left behind. I'll tell you what I'm addicted to at Aldi's - I don't care for their ice cream, which is more air than cream, but I inhale their mango ice cream bars. Num!
I hear you on the price increases. My husband has little to no issues with cholesterol and is a cheese-a-holic. We used to pay .69 for an 8 oz block of cheese before Xiden took office and now those same blocks are now 1.89 if you're lucky. I'm not sure where the economists are getting their numbers but isn't that almost a 300% increase?
Needless to say, I'll be taking a class next week on making your own cultured cheese.
More than that here. I have an oversized live-in rat at my house too. heh
Why do people say "Aldi's"? I've seen the store and it's just called "Aldi".
Aldis is fine, too. I mentioned Save A Lot because that's what we have near me, but Aldi's is another alternative.
Anything but Dollar Tree, which is a business model that preys on poor, stupid people who can't do the math.
Love ALDIs and LiDL!
We briefly had a couple of those Save-A-Lots but if you blinked, you missed them.
I noticed the same thing with Walmart. I bought fruit to make a fresh fruit salad and it was close to $70 or $80. Granted, I made two huge fruit salads but that's still pretty darned expensive.
That's just awful. I do hit the farm stores for vegetables and fruits they grow themselves but they also buy things from other sources, including a local Amish produce auction, and those are sky high. I won't buy their heirloom tomatoes any more because they come from there and they're mealy. That means they've been refrigerated so were probably picked green like the red baseballs from Walmart.
I totally agree with you about that. I was just there to get garden gloves and a shovel! :)
Cheap: beans, rice, cabbage, carrots, bananas, onions and potatoes. Whatever meat is on sale. Beans and grains together will give you a pretty complete protein.
I also get that a lot at my local dollar tree where I work part time.
i've noticed a lot of shops in my area are cutting their hours due to low staff, and i've def been standing in longer lines to check out.
where is everyone getting their money? why aren't people working?
I think a lot of people are dead.
And others disabled...all because of the vax.
I'm a welfare worker and this is the slowest we have ever been. Those people who aren't working...they aren't getting welfare either.
My liberal neighbors correct me when I say 'welfare'. Their term is 'public dollars'.
My neighbor calls blackbirds "welfare birds." :)
The younger ones are still getting Biden's generous unemployment. The illegals are getting more federal money than those on Social Security - twice as much or more. You see both groups shopping during work hours everywhere. Yes, some are working at home but not in my area. You'll likely notice those who are working are elderly - retirees who can no longer live off their Social Security and retirement funds, if they have any. I've also noticed the older customers have mostly disappeared from Walmart and other grocery stores. They're at Aldi or the dollar stores trying to keep themselves fed. No news organizations are covering this, not even the so-called conservative ones.
Dollar stores have waaaay higher prices that bigger, true, grocery stores! It's kind of a running story that dollar stores are only in areas where people are poor, because they can't afford to have a car and get to a real grocery store, not that the food is cheaper at a dollar store.
I respectfully disagree with you. There are many grocery items that you can purchase at the dollar store way cheaper than you can at a grocery store such as deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and canned goods. The next less expensive place where you can also get produce, meat & seafood would be at Aldi's or Fresh Thyme if it's on sale.
This is true at least for Western PA. Anybody else care to chime in?
Spices are a good deal there.
I feel so sorry for the old people I see at the dollar store with their little baskets full of tiny portion foods, tiny one-person sized dish soap and other cleaning items. You know what I get there? Bottles of mucus relief pills (aka Mucinex) which are way cheaper even with 15 pills per bottle.
I'm working from home and have been since 2017.
I have a theory that many illegals have been sent home, drastically reducing the work force. Someone here had a post that dug into illegals being sent home.
Also, with white hats in control, bogus work visas not being issued so work force size drastically reduced from that.
Here in FL, e-verify kicked in July 1. Not sure how much it really makes a difference.
Interesting. Trump said he would send them home.
Some areas of the country were trying out giving people monthly income. https://whyy.org/articles/philly-to-pilot-a-guaranteed-income-experiment-giving-cash-to-some-needy-residents/
Didn't Boston try that along with Romney-care with miserable results? I thought that Hawaii also tried something similar and it actually discouraged people from working.
Gosh, who could ever have expected that?
It’s funny I just had a 20 minute conversation with the fedex guy about politics. Lol
My very small town has usually one out of three houses flying an American or Trump flag. I don't have to ask anyone. We all know. Being a lib is not popular here so take that shit somewhere it's tolerated. Patriotic hugs to every one of you who have to live walking on egg shells with your head on a swivel. Our turn at bat is coming and you have earned some swings. NO MERCY NO QUARTER. NCSWIC WWG1WGA
People love to talk about how expensive everything is! It’s a great segue into other taboo subjects
That’s great news and I’m happy to hear that.
I saw Biden books at Marshall's
That means Liquidation...they know what general public is feeling!
Biden fans can't read. They learn their info from the talmudvision.
May God Bless all those that are unafraid! All those that are willing to speak out against this corruption, tyranny and total insanity being forced down our throat at every turn.
While some undoubtedly experience it much more so than others, we are ALL now living in a Police State under the control of an illegally placed resident and all those illegally placed to control him and the corrupted three-letter agencies with their enforcer's.
I sure hope a lot more of us find the courage to start speaking out publicly before it is too late.
God Bless You All and Your Families
Yes 💥⚡💥🚫🤡🚫
1st Amendment is 1st because words do matter the most. Always have/always will.
Words also say we have a 2A when words will not work.
You must live in a bad area if people are afraid to say it. Where I live it's Trump flags and stickers everywhere.
People proudly flew their Trump flags in 2016. In 2020, it became more of a silent support due to liberal madness, antifa goons, etc.
You never want to put yourself in a position where you are forced to use your firearms and there are just to many crazy people out there who are easily triggered along with crazy ass judges who will let them walk free and we'd be the bad guys for simply protecting ourselves.
Are you suggesting we stay silent, or put away our flags and stickers? The answer is no.
You don't have to stay silent but you also don't want to yell fire in a movie theater, either.
My 2016 Trump signs were stolen so I made new ones that said "Trump 2016 - because nobody's stealing Biden signs".
I recently went to Dollar Tree (dollar twenty five bush now) to pick up tissues, etc. We also had one check out line open that snaked up and down the isles. Time to stock up on anything you have been putting off to do later. I am feeling later is now. Odd things here in my part of AZ (west side of Maricopa County) are out of stock, very low in stock or not being carried any longer even though there is a big demand for items.
Or the items are there but the stores don't have staff to shelve them. It's not just checkout people not working.
So true, there aren't enough workers.
At least partly and I think largely because Biden is paying them more to not work than if they worked. What are these babies going to do when things get tough?
That is a good question. I don't know what they will do when things get tough. I think some will turn to robbing/stealing.
Every week my husband and I check online the local grocery stores to see who has the fresh meats on special; chicken breasts, wings, hamburger meat, pork loin, pork butt, large peel/eat shrimp and deli meats. We had Food Lion chicken breasts special 2 weeks ago at $1.88lb, we went and bought 6 packs at 5-6 breast per pack.
When we got home I put the breasts in individual zip lock bags and they all went in the freezer. That's roughly 3 weeks of chicken for a family of four. (I usually thaw & filet the breasts, so two/three breasts per meal)
I admit, I shop at Dollar Tree for pantry items; cake mixes, brownie/cookie mixes, pickles, coffee, tea bags, drink mixes, canned veggies, ketchup/mustard, jams and sometimes bread. It's hit or miss, but most items are much less than the grocery store prices.
It's all about paying attention to the ads. It's also about doing the math on price per unit. I did the math on buying from a club store versus buying from local grocery stores and discovered that I save nearly my entire membership in just one monthly purchase at the club store, meaning that I get 11 additional months of savings.
I'm always baffled by people who don't pay attention to grocery ads or don't do the math on prices. I once stopped a woman from paying 12¢/egg when she could get the same eggs for 8¢ each! She asked me if I was math genius. I told her you don't have to be to get a good deal!
Right! We have free membership at one of the club stores through my husband's employer. Plus Delaware has no sales tax! We go every couple of months and stock up. We even shop online then p/u in the designated parking spaces. That way we're not overspending. But you must have a secondary freezer to stock up on the bulk meats, etc.
Talked to neighbor washing his prius, said the economy was strong, was rebounding from trump
That’s hilarious! Everytime my husband or I see a Prius on the road, we avoid them at all available diversions. Their owners drive as bad as they vote. Lol!
Prius drivers look as though they just re-homed a squirrel to the nature preserve and are proudly driving home to share on Facebook.
I drive a Prius. I remember the gas lines in the '70s and when I bought it - before Trump or Biden - I knew someday gas prices would go nuts again if Hillary or some other Dem took the White House. I bought a new woodstove at the same time, even though everyone told me natural gas was cheap. That didn't last either. I know a lot of older people like me - old enough to remember the last time gas prices went through the roof and driving a Prius or other cars that don't guzzle. Gopgirl - how nice that you think you know how I vote by what I drive. Editing to add - somebody doesn't like getting called out on their bigotry. LOL
Please see my note to you below.
I shouldn’t have spoken in generalities. My apologies to you, fren.
Eat organic fresh food. Try to know where your meat comes from. I talk to my amish butcher and ask questions. Hes on our page. We don't need snacks and treats. I fast from 6pm until 12pm the next day. Every single day. I'm 42 and look 35. We dont need garbage they sell. Its cheap to eat like i do. Family of 4.
Soon It will be time to break out the Winchesters
seeds - soil - air - sunlight.......grow your own.....learn now