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Magpie said:
Ah but in their defence, maybe they weren't shown/ trained? There's a workforce issue here, so workers are stepping in to cover over people's jobs and don't have a clue because no one has the time to show them.
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But wouldn't ya think a tad of common sense would tell them that these don't go in the cat food aisle, lol.

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Curmudgeon said:
But wouldn't ya think a tad of common sense would tell them that these don't go in the cat food aisle, lol.

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They don't care, might not be able to read, might be high. . . the possibilities are endless. They should get their paycheck for showing up and breathing in and out. At least it was on a shelf. That was probably part of the correct instruction. They still get their ribbon though just like everyone else.
Sorry, now stepping off the soapbox. 📦
 
A super wally center Tuesday... Not one slice of lunch meat on the shelves, no ham, no baloney. No baloney for fried baloney sandwiches is a shock for folks in Bama.

There was no bacon or breakfast sausage. There were a couple pkgs of pre-cooked breakfast meats and there were expensive grilling sausages.

The rest of the store seem well stocked.

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Here in Australia there was a lot of incentive given to taxis, fleet owners like couriers and private vehicle owners to convert their cars from petrol to run on LPG - marketed here in Australia as Autogas.
The incentive was that it was cheaper than diesel and petrol.

I just got word that my city has completely run out of Autogas and people with cars converted to take Autogas are being stranded.
People who are here on family trips because of the school holidays have had to get their cars loaded onto car trailers or tilt-tray trucks owned by the RACQ (a 24 hour vehicle road side assist / insurance company) and get their car taken to the the next town south which is approx 2 hours away.

There's no word of when Autogas is going to be available.

So, that means that a significant number of taxis, couriers and private vehicles are now off the road and unable to be used.
Imagine if FED-EX or Amazon delivery vans ran on Autogas and they were in our situation?

This has had an impact on me already. The 10 kilos of low carb shake I ordered has been delayed with no new delivery time given.
 
Here is the delivery delay page for a national courier service here in Australia.
As you scroll down the page you can see the reasons why they have the delays.
I could scarcely credit what my own eyes were seeing.....yes there have been weather events but the majority of these delays are put down to staff shortages!
Now, the majority of Aussies I know aren't lazy and will work themselves down to a bleeding stump so this has to be connected to Coward-19 measures or some sort of BS cover-up of fuel and diesel engine addittive, and or Autogas shortages.
I don't trust the narrative AT ALL because these a-holes have lied and been caught lying too many times for me to trust a thing they say or put out.


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Our local groceries are super stocked. They even recently put in higher shelves so they can pack more stuff in. Problem is, those new shelves are so high that people can't reach them! And it's not excess inventory to replace stuff on lower shelves. The store actually expects you to somehow climb up there and get what you want. But the lower shelves are not sturdy enough to stand on. I now make it a point upon arrival at the store to first go down the cleaning aisle. I can pick up a "tool" there to knock stuff down from the high shelves. Usually a toilet cleaning brush or plunger. After I'm done with my shopping, I return my improvised "retrieval tool" to the cleaning aisle.

The only thing missing these days is the deli in the store. You used to be able to get fried chicken there and some other cooked things, but they apparently don't have the staff to run it anymore. There are lunch meats to be had, fresh cut in the meat department (I don't get the super processed pre-packaged kind), but they've gotten so dang expensive that I don't buy them anymore. But the lunch meats are there, if you're willing to pay the price to own them.
 
Haertig said:
Our local groceries are super stocked. They even recently put in higher shelves so they can pack more stuff in. Problem is, those new shelves are so high that people can't reach them! And it's not excess inventory to replace stuff on lower shelves. The store actually expects you to somehow climb up there and get what you want. But the lower shelves are not sturdy enough to stand on. I now make it a point upon arrival at the store to first go down the cleaning aisle. I can pick up a "tool" there to knock stuff down from the high shelves. Usually a toilet cleaning brush or plunger. After I'm done with my shopping, I return my improvised "retrieval tool" to the cleaning aisle.

The only thing missing these days is the deli in the store. You used to be able to get fried chicken there and some other cooked things, but they apparently don't have the staff to run it anymore. There are lunch meats to be had, fresh cut in the meat department (I don't get the super processed pre-packaged kind), but they've gotten so dang expensive that I don't buy them anymore. But the lunch meats are there, if you're willing to pay the price to own them.
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"now make it a point upon arrival at the store to first go down the cleaning aisle. I can pick up a "tool" there to knock stuff down from the high shelves. Usually a toilet cleaning brush or plunger. "

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Ben
 
Last week, I was shelf-climbing to get one of the high elevation prizes. My wife stopped me and said it looked like the whole shelf was gonna come down. So she took over the ascent. She's up there and I'm leaning my shoulder into her for stability. Still couldn't get it (a box of Great Grains cereal). I'm talking to her, "You can do it! Rrreeeaaaccchhh! Just stretch those little T-Rex arms and grab it!" We both about fell over laughing so hard. I journeyed a few aisles over and found a nifty long handled BBQ fork. That did the trick. Almost as good as a plunger, not as clumsy, and the shelf didn't look quite as ransacked afterwards. We had our cereal ! I considered harpooning with the fork, but figured that might be frowned upon. So I went with the over-the-top knock-down technique instead. Cereal boxes don't break, so this is a good technique for those.
 
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I'll tell you something that's really short in Central Iowa, that's normally plentiful this time of year -

Sweet Corn!

Conditions were horribly wet during the normal sweet corn planting season. Everything got planted late. Pops is worried that the sweet corn will pollinate at the same time as the field corn. That would be no bueno. Can't have the Serendipity getting crossed with the stuff that gets turned into ethanol. We've got around an acre of it this year and would hate to lose it all...
 
lilmissy said:
Sweet corn around here is going for $10 a dz!
one store you go in, shelves are sparse, next store, fully stocked. Nothing makes any sense
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one farm I saw .89 an ear for sweet corn, went to my local independent market and saw fresh green beans 5.49 a lb. Zuke squash for 1.50 a piece. May be due to the moderate drought. Even still, never saw produce prices like this.
 
Normally we have "farm stands" that set up shop on busy intersections in the summer, selling top notch corn, watermelon, etc. This year only about 1/2 of them set up, and the veggies are better than what's in the store, but barely. Sweet corn at any store near us looks like it's been sitting in a hot semi trailer for weeks, all brown husks and shriveled up.
 
TeeJ said:
Normally we have "farm stands" that set up shop on busy intersections in the summer, selling top notch corn, watermelon, etc. This year only about 1/2 of them set up, and the veggies are better than what's in the store, but barely. Sweet corn at any store near us looks like it's been sitting in a hot semi trailer for weeks, all brown husks and shriveled up.
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That's what happens around here too. It sounds like the harvest won't get started until the first week of August this year. I expect to see the stands then. I don't eat much sweet corn because I got sick on it when I was a kid, and after a few bites my body remembers that. But not seeing it around is kind of disturbing...
 
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