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Went to Walmart for a few things this morning. Actually got out for $26.
Dairy was where I saw shortages. Only name brand sour cream and cream cheese which made me wonder (not until after I was home) if they are pulling their product so they can sell the name brands- like if they are getting close to date. I will check next time!
 
Produce departments tend to have fewer selections and lower quality.
And I can't get spicy chicken patties - plenty of regular patties, but no spicy.
Other than that, things seem to be pretty well in stock.

The real issue now is price. Things are in stock, but the prices have gone up so much that I can't afford to buy them.
 
DW works as a contractor, putting up signs at Walmart.
She was told today the ships are being unloaded & Walmart are getting TWO trucks a day now. And they need to sale stuff cheap, because it is time for winter stuff.
This is South Carolina & I have not been in a Walmart in months, but this is what she was told today.
 
I went to WM last week and did indeed find a few good clearance sales. They were doing inventory of the store while I was there, which means they are getting rid of the old so that they can introduce the new. I don't always go down their clearance isle, b/c it's usually a joke. It's usually just junk there that I'm not interested in....but last week they had some good stuff there.

I got some 'no trespassing signs' for .25 each, some kids bubbles packs for .50 (for gifts), and some other stuff I can't remember now. In the sporting goods section I found battery testers for $2.50 that were $13. I got 3 of them so I could put one in the garage, barn, and boat. Oddly enough, they didn't really have any good clearnace deals in the outdoor patio area yet.
 
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goshengirl said:
Produce departments tend to have fewer selections and lower quality.
And I can't get spicy chicken patties - plenty of regular patties, but no spicy.
Other than that, things seem to be pretty well in stock.

The real issue now is price. Things are in stock, but the prices have gone up so much that I can't afford to buy them.
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Went Krogering looking for ANY chicken patties, nothing but wings and nuggets.
I can make ANY patties taste like KFC or Popeye's cooked it. basic Italian seasonings, red, white, and black pepper season all and garlic powder. zap
the chicken in question with butter PAM and dust it before frying or mix it right in the flour. makes funky tasting gravy though.
 
What was known as the cheaper cuts of meat are a thing no more. 😞 beef cheeks, oxtail and the like would be given away at one point, or the houndsmen would take them for dog food.
Apparently, they are now a delicacy in the posh restaurants, and for people who like to run their ovens all day in the summer. My butcher sends his to the city now; which is two hours away.
 
Magpie said:
What was known as the cheaper cuts of meat are a thing no more. 😞 beef cheeks, oxtail and the like would be given away at one point, or the houndsmen would take them for dog food.
Apparently, they are now a delicacy in the posh restaurants, and for people who like to run their ovens all day in the summer. My butcher sends his to the city now; which is two hours away.
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Oxtails have been not cheap for a while here, especially given that they are mostly bone. I haven't even seen them lately, but I haven't been looking for them either.
 
Meat is still high here. Pork seems to have come down just a little. Bacon is pretty close to pre-pandemic price at $4 to $6 depending on. If you're getting the good stuff. It was around 3.50 to 4.00 before. Ground beef is still +/- 5.00/lb for 80 and 85%.

Product outages are still localized and temporary. One thing that's been shorter than normal, but still available, is 100% whole wheat bread. Cheap white bread is everywhere, but the primo stuff can be hard to find the brand you want. Sara Lee 100% whole wheat is usually there as a backup plan. I can't get 100% whole wheat burger buns to save my life though. I'm not really a fan of white bread any more so that kinda sucks because I like my homemade burgers!

Dickies and Carhart work clothes are a little thin. I had to start replacing a lot of my work pants and bibs and I'm having trouble finding bib overalls in my size. The Carharts are terribly expensive, $80 for plain uninsulated denim bibs, and the Dickies are $50 now if i can find them. I would think the stores would be overflowing because nobody wants to work, so why would they need work clothes, right?
 
Just a reminder, the "coincidences" continue!


Updated Destroyed Food Plants List:
2022 starts @ #11

  1. 1/11/21 A fire that destroyed 75,000-square-foot processing plant in Fayetteville
  2. 4/30/21 A fire ignited inside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, IL
  3. 7/25/21 Three-alarm fire at Kellogg plant in Memphis, 170 emergency personnel responded to the call
  4. 7/30/21 Firefighters on Friday battled a large fire at Tyson’s River Valley Ingredients plant in Hanceville, Alabama
  5. 8/23/21 Fire crews were called to the Patak Meat Production company on Ewing Road in Austell
  6. 9/13/21 A fire at the JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday night forced a halt to slaughter and fabrication lines
  7. 10/13/21 A five-alarm fire ripped through the Darigold butter production plant in Caldwell, ID
  8. 11/15/21 A woman is in custody following a fire at the Garrard County Food Pantry
  9. 11/29/21 A fire broke out around 5:30 p.m. at the Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant
  10. 12/13/21 West Side food processing plant in San Antonio left with smoke damage after a fire
  11. 1/7/22 Damage to a poultry processing plant on Hamilton’s Mountain following an overnight fire
  12. 1/13/22 Firefighters worked for 12 hours to put a fire out at the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, LA
  13. 1/31/22 a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire on Cherry Street in Winston-Salem
  14. 2/3/22 A massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston
  15. 2/3/22 At least 130 cows were killed in a fire at Percy Farm in Stowe
  16. 2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas
  17. 2/15/22 Nearly a week after the fire destroyed most of the Shearer’s Foods plant in Hermiston
  18. 2/16/22 A fire had broken at US largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana
  19. 2/18/22 An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm
  20. 2/19/22 Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont
  21. 2/22/22 The Shearer’s Foods plant in Hermiston caught fire after a propane boiler exploded
  22. 2/28/22 A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire at Nutrien Ag Solutions
  23. 2/28/22 A man was hurt after a fire broke out at the Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery
  24. 3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri
  25. 3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
  26. 3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware
  27. 3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD
  28. 3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA
  29. 3/14/22 The blaze at 244 Meadow Drive was discovered shortly after 5 p.m. by farm owner Wayne Hoover
  30. 3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin
  31. 3/16/22 A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center in Plainfield, Indiana has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis.
  32. 3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas
  33. 3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa
  34. 3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware
  35. 3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
  36. 3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota
  37. 3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
  38. 3/24/22 Fire fighters from numerous towns are battling a major fire at the McCrum potato processing facility in Belfast, Maine.
  39. 3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
  40. 3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa
  41. 3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  42. 3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota
  43. 3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa
  44. 3/29/22 A massive fire burned 40,000 pounds of food meant to feed people in a food desert near Maricopa
  45. 3/31/22 A structure fire caused significant damage to a large portion of key fresh onion packing facilities in south Texas
  46. 3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa
  47. 3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa
  48. 4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
  49. 4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  50. 4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  51. 4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
  52. 4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska
  53. 4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota
  54. 4/13/22 Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire
  55. 4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant
  56. 4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  57. 4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.
  58. 4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  59. 4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota.
 
  1. 4/19/22 Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon
  2. 4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  3. 4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color
  4. 4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota
  5. 4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia
  6. 4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  7. 4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  8. 4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah
  9. 4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
  10. 4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska
  11. 4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers
  12. 4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2M chickens in Delaware
  13. 4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  14. 4/29/22 5 million honeybees are dead after a flight carrying the pollinator insects from California to Alaska got diverted to Georgia (New)
  15. 4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado
  16. 4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma
  17. 5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  18. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota
  19. 5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  20. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota
  21. 5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  22. 5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
  23. 5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  24. 5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan
  25. 5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  26. 5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  27. 5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  28. 5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  29. 5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed Jensen Beach FL
  30. 5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota
  31. 5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  32. 5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms in Howard Lake, Minnesota
  33. 5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota
  34. 6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  35. 6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin
  36. 6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola, Louisiana
  37. 6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta.
  38. 6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs
  39. 6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin
  40. 6/14/22 Over 10,000 head of cattle have reportedly died in the recent Kansas heat wave
  41. 6/23/22 George’s Inc.: Poultry and Prepared Foods announced it will close one of its food processing plants in Campbell County, Tennessee
  42. 8/10/22 A fire completely destroyed a building at Pendleton Flour Mills in Eastern Oregon
  43. 8/28/22 A poultry processing plant in Montebello, California was caught on fire
  44. 8/30/22 Emergency Declared in Four States After Oil Refinery Fire in Indiana Feared to Disrupt the Supply of Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel
Source:
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/updated-list-us-based-food-manufacturing-plants-destroyed-biden-regime-can-now-participate-add-incidents-interactive-map/
 
Magus said:
  1. 4/19/22 Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon
  2. 4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  3. 4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color
  4. 4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota
  5. 4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia
  6. 4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  7. 4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  8. 4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah
  9. 4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
  10. 4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska
  11. 4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers
  12. 4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2M chickens in Delaware
  13. 4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  14. 4/29/22 5 million honeybees are dead after a flight carrying the pollinator insects from California to Alaska got diverted to Georgia (New)
  15. 4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado
  16. 4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma
  17. 5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  18. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota
  19. 5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  20. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota
  21. 5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  22. 5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
  23. 5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  24. 5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan
  25. 5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  26. 5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  27. 5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  28. 5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  29. 5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed Jensen Beach FL
  30. 5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota
  31. 5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  32. 5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms in Howard Lake, Minnesota
  33. 5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota
  34. 6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  35. 6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin
  36. 6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola, Louisiana
  37. 6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta.
  38. 6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs
  39. 6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin
  40. 6/14/22 Over 10,000 head of cattle have reportedly died in the recent Kansas heat wave
  41. 6/23/22 George’s Inc.: Poultry and Prepared Foods announced it will close one of its food processing plants in Campbell County, Tennessee
  42. 8/10/22 A fire completely destroyed a building at Pendleton Flour Mills in Eastern Oregon
  43. 8/28/22 A poultry processing plant in Montebello, California was caught on fire
  44. 8/30/22 Emergency Declared in Four States After Oil Refinery Fire in Indiana Feared to Disrupt the Supply of Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel
Source:
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/updated-list-us-based-food-manufacturing-plants-destroyed-biden-regime-can-now-participate-add-incidents-interactive-map/
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I'm generally of the mind that there are no coincidences. But after seeing the amount of incompetence coming through our doors at work I tend to lean more toward worker burnout and ineffective training times for new employees being a major contributing factor behind many of these events. They want to hire inexperienced hands so they can shape them into the types of employees they want. But then throw them into the mix with little to no training.
 
Griz78 said:
I'm generally of the mind that there are no coincidences. But after seeing the amount of incompetence coming through our doors at work I tend to lean more toward worker burnout and ineffective training times for new employees being a major contributing factor behind many of these events. They want to hire inexperienced hands so they can shape them into the types of employees they want. But then throw them into the mix with little to no training.
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Not sure what you do, but around here your qualifications start with your race, gender, sex preference,THEN what you might or might not know. my life got wrecked by an illiterate illegal they threw on a fork lift.
No wonder the quality of American workmanship is tanking!🤬
 
We have our share of "Blow not Know" guys here, but since the mid 90's some places have had to hire certain percentages of "minorities" Not limited to Mexicans who can barely weld or use heavy equipment and really militant... whatever the hell they are with the purple hair and whole colonies of piercings and chains in their face that ALWAYS screw up your order, no matter how simple it was and the goofball non discernible race/nationality guys who sling boxes for UPS.
Poorly I might add.
The country has gone to hell and all we can do is watch.
 
Spikedriver said:
Dickies and Carhart work clothes are a little thin. I had to start replacing a lot of my work pants and bibs and I'm having trouble finding bib overalls in my size. The Carharts are terribly expensive, $80 for plain uninsulated denim bibs, and the Dickies are $50 now if i can find them. I would think the stores would be overflowing because nobody wants to work, so why would they need work clothes, right?
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I've started buying these work clothes for my lads & OH on a site called Vinted in the UK. Not sure if it's in the States. Like eBay, but for clothes. Just tap in new with/without labels- bought several pairs lately, with shipping, for under 10. People have bought the wrong size and don't send them back, so offload them cheap.
 
To be honest I quiet looking for shortages, I am just keeping my in-home grocery store fully stocked and praying I have enough to get through to next 2 years. I have noticed that my (non-English speaking) neighbors are creating grow shelves in their front rooms (south facing) and adding growing pots to their decks. Everyone is quietly gearing up for a long lean winter......

Hey, @Magus don't worry about new coveralls, just keep your old ones and they will fit by spring ;)
 
UrbanHunter said:
To be honest I quiet looking for shortages, I am just keeping my in-home grocery store fully stocked and praying I have enough to get through to next 2 years. I have noticed that my (non-English speaking) neighbors are creating grow shelves in their front rooms (south facing) and adding growing pots to their decks. Everyone is quietly gearing up for a long lean winter......

Hey, @Magus don't worry about new coveralls, just keep your old ones and they will fit by spring ;)
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Yeah, everybody fatten up now so you are ready for the famine!!
 
Griz78 said:
I'm generally of the mind that there are no coincidences. But after seeing the amount of incompetence coming through our doors at work I tend to lean more toward worker burnout and ineffective training times for new employees being a major contributing factor behind many of these events. They want to hire inexperienced hands so they can shape them into the types of employees they want. But then throw them into the mix with little to no training.
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I agree, but wonder why the mess has hit the fan in less than five years, over the last forty years. The real question is, are they rebuilding or investing the insurance money in bitcoin??
 
The Wife told me last night after grocery shopping in town that we will not be buying anymore mayonnaise.
The only brand she will buy, Dukes, (we’re Southern to the core) has doubled in price since Biden started improving the economy.
I asked about the other brands and she said they have increased in price too.
I think she said the 48 ounce jar of Dukes was now $7.
That might not sound like a big deal to some, but on a fixed income it is.
And even with me working part time, we are still under the federal poverty level.
 
rice paddy daddy said:
The Wife told me last night after grocery shopping in town that we will not be buying anymore mayonnaise.
The only brand she will buy, Dukes, (we’re Southern to the core) has doubled in price since Biden started improving the economy.
I asked about the other brands and she said they have increased in price too.
I think she said the 48 ounce jar of Dukes was now $7.
That might not sound like a big deal to some, but on a fixed income it is.
And even with me working part time, we are still under the federal poverty level.
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If enough people stop buying the price will have to come down or the product will not sale.
 
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