Food Shortage & Price Explosion Thread
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There is a very sound reason why there are "food deserts" in bad neighborhoods.
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I worked retail security at a grocery store chain for a few years. Buy the tales I could tell. First off it was the 1980's and we wouldn't allow anyone to steal a stick of gum. I worked some big time crews too. I remember one bunch who hit at about 9 pm one evening. There was 5 of them and I just happened to be standing in front like a shopper. We used to keep huge racks of cartons of cigarettes right in front of the customer service desk thinking that would be a deterrent. Well it wasn't.
First they went to the drug store part of the store, kind of like Wally World, each pushing shopping carts. They loaded up the carts with these big , round plastic garbage cans. Then they went to the front where the cigarette carton display was and one after another they filled up the plastic garbage cans with every single cigarette carton right in front of 5 girls "employees" counting receipts from the day and never even noticed these guys they were so slick.
They took them all and I was the only one in the store who even noticed them. And its not like they were hiding anything ; They were 5 male/black/20's but they were so smooth and watched each others backs so well I couldn't help but admire the balls on them. I stopped them from getting the product out but they got away and one couldn't help but think how many times they did get away with it. And I'm not talking a few cartons here but dozens upon dozens. Had a gypsy ham crew that would do the same thing, steal every single ham on display and just push the carts right out the store.
But even I never thought I'd see times like today and what these softball liberals are costing us. Because one thing I can promise you and that its not the store who is going to lose. Its us the customers whom are paying the dime. And of all the thief's Ive caught I never, ever caught one who is stealing to feed their kids, or even themselves. They steal to get high. Every one of them.
First they went to the drug store part of the store, kind of like Wally World, each pushing shopping carts. They loaded up the carts with these big , round plastic garbage cans. Then they went to the front where the cigarette carton display was and one after another they filled up the plastic garbage cans with every single cigarette carton right in front of 5 girls "employees" counting receipts from the day and never even noticed these guys they were so slick.
They took them all and I was the only one in the store who even noticed them. And its not like they were hiding anything ; They were 5 male/black/20's but they were so smooth and watched each others backs so well I couldn't help but admire the balls on them. I stopped them from getting the product out but they got away and one couldn't help but think how many times they did get away with it. And I'm not talking a few cartons here but dozens upon dozens. Had a gypsy ham crew that would do the same thing, steal every single ham on display and just push the carts right out the store.
But even I never thought I'd see times like today and what these softball liberals are costing us. Because one thing I can promise you and that its not the store who is going to lose. Its us the customers whom are paying the dime. And of all the thief's Ive caught I never, ever caught one who is stealing to feed their kids, or even themselves. They steal to get high. Every one of them.
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Yup.
Also a reason why quick-stop markets like Wawa or Sheets or Holiday, aren't in the 'hood. Because EVERYTHING has to be kept under lock and key or it evaporates.
Back when I lived in Cleveland...at West Blvd. and Lorain Ave. there was a BP mini-mart. It was built when BP was, in that area, Sohio (Standard of Ohio) and West Blvd. was SOMEBODY. It was nice, aging neighborhood of middle-class grannies.
Well, 'groidification presses on. Grandma dies; the kids, in Miami, or Denver, or Phoenix, don't want the house. They sell quick - to someone who gets a Fanny-Freddy zero-percent Liar Loan. Just as neighborhoods on the East Side of Cleveland changed in a decade, so did the former German West-Blvd.
So. BP, being Woke, wasn't going to close the store just becuz black peeps caint stop grabbin and runnin. What they did was put an airlock in the front door, and after sunset, three/quarters of the store was off-limits. You wanted a six-pack of Coke, you had to ASK the sullen negress to waddle back and get it for you. You had to pay for your gas in advance - after 9, only credit on gas, to limit amount of cash there.
Store was still there when I left, 2008; but it was not a satisfactory shopping experience. Going down to the Rocky River Drive neighborhood was a five minute trip - it was still Irish, and still mostly law-abiding.
Probably not now.
Point I'm making is: Self-service markets DO NOT WORK with these people. And Kroger, Giant Eagle, Albertsons...pick your Globalist-owned chain...they're not set up to operate in a way where someone has to get every purchase out for you and extract payment first.
It's nasty barrio markets for these areas.
You should not be eating ribeye, peasant.
Or drinking coffee.
We have some nice tasty Beyond Meat for you...but soon, we'll move you up to bug meal. Goes good with unpurified water.
Or drinking coffee.
We have some nice tasty Beyond Meat for you...but soon, we'll move you up to bug meal. Goes good with unpurified water.
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Major retailers promise a cheaper Thanksgiving, but there's a twist
Nov 8 (Reuters) - Grocery giants Walmart, Target and Aldi are trumpeting their Thanksgiving meal deals as more affordable than ever. But those retailers are doing exactly what shoppers are doing, trading down to cheaper private-label alternatives or offering fewer items.Walmart's (WMT.N), opens new tab meal this year features nine Great Value private-label brand items out of 15, compared with nine out of 21 brands last year — a higher percentage of in-house brands.
The company accomplished this by subbing in a stuffing mix and sidelining onions, celery and broth. Those switches allowed for a revamp with the turkey - changing to the well-known Butterball brand (96 cents a pound) from last year's Honeysuckle White (then 88 cents a pound).
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If you let Wally World do your holiday cooking...you deserve what you get.
Wally World has been Woked up - has been for twenty years and more. Sam Walton is long gone; and the mindset of their leadership is....they had Hitlery Klintoon as a director for a time. That's what it's about - deceit, cronyism, contempt for the people who were Sam's target customers.
Wally World has been Woked up - has been for twenty years and more. Sam Walton is long gone; and the mindset of their leadership is....they had Hitlery Klintoon as a director for a time. That's what it's about - deceit, cronyism, contempt for the people who were Sam's target customers.