I don't watch network news anymore and haven't watched it in years but I'm guessing that this isn't talked about at all, except maybe to drum up support for red MAGA over blue MAGA or something.
In a way this is worrisome but at the same time a lot of these shortages are of things we just never needed. Just empty treats.
Like we don't need stores on every corner filled with mass produced nonsense that'll just end up in a landfill.
We also don't need a absurd variety and amount of options for every fucking thing. Oh no there's only one brand of oyster crackers available, the humanity!
Capitalism's growth mandates require continual expansion of the treats, and any contraction of the treats must involve hollowing out the treat infrastructure so the treat masters still get their growth for the next quarter. :porky-happy:
I'm sorry to hear that. Fresh produce is vital.
Where I'm at things have been just fine in terms of produce, so I'm lucky in that regard
Celery has been terrible for a couple months where I am, at every store organic and non-organic it’s all rotting and browned
I’m sure it varies by area but my grocery stores have been short on some pretty basic stuff. Like cheese, bread, and meat , specifically beef, were all pretty scarce last time I went.
They didn't say they couldn't buy meat, they just said it was scarce. Relax.
Where the hell did they say they were eating meat. Go find something more productive to get mad over.
Imagine siding with Davos ghouls and believing in personal responsibility bullshit.
Sucks that even on a site for leftist who are presumably capable of self criticism, a tiny bit of friendly goading is accused of "getting mad" over something that isn't "productive," perpetuating "personal responsibility bullshit," trying to start a struggle session, and literally getting told to fuck off. Wow. FWIW, I'm with you, and I think a lot of hexbears, those who responded that way and those who upvoted their knee-jerk defense mechanisms against self-crit need to take a closer look at their contradictory ethics.
In 2019 pre-covid my local grocery had an entire half of an aisle just for potato chips with tortilla chips/other chips on the other side of the aisle.
Now there is one aisle of chips and the other side is crackers but mostly saltines. I think half of the aisle is saltines now.
Sounds like they're trying to hide empty shelves by filling them up with saltines lol.
That is exactly what is happening.
One of the other aisles is 40% cans of various chili.
I think the folks doing the orders for local stores are buying the limit for items and getting random large shipments for things.
Such efficiency!
That’s 100% what is happening. They can order whatever they want, but that doesn’t garuntee that the distributor has anything or even cares to keep the order correct
as someone who enjoys drinking rockstar juiced pineapple/orange/guava energy drinks im offended
I apologize Sir. You deserve your niche flavored caffeinated poison water
I mean as someone with a lot of food allergies, weird niche brands are the only reason i can eat premade food most of the time
Fresh vegetables and rice delivered straight to the houses of anyone COVID-quarantined or exposed; western media has spun it as being "forced to subsist on vegetables".
Oh the horror, healthy unprocessed food free from the government.
That could be a funny post. Show a picture of a Chinese grocery store or market full of food next to an American grocery store now, caption "capitalism no food".
They get eggs, noodles, and meat too, Western media is just running with people pointing out issues with distribution and general grumbling on social media. No different from CGTN running stories about US collapse from Facebook posts (which they are too professional to do).
So the only thing capitalists could point to being a positive was treats. But now we don't even have that
I've already seen this cope: "There would be even less treats if socialism! In fact the treat flow is slowing down because of socialism right now!" :grillman:
I sure hope nothing throws a wrench into this plan, such as all of those brands coming from the same supply chain with different labels
This will make prices go down, right? Scarcity helps with inflation? Since we put a wall street guy in charge of the pandemic, I assume they are letting it spread to drive down inflation. 🙃
Shortages drive prices up until enough people are priced out that those with money can buy as much as they want.
By the way, supply and demand curves aren't real. It's been mathematically proven for more than 40 years that the excess demand curve, which economists still believe always curves down, can curve back up and down again as price increases, which means there are possibly many price-quantity equilibria.
It’s been mathematically proven for more than 40 years that the excess demand curve, which economists still believe always curves down, can curve back up and down again as price increases, which means there are possibly many price-quantity equilibria.
Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem?
The supply and demand curves are based on how individuals act, but combining them can produce complicated curves unless everyone has identical preferences and equal amounts of money and therefore all behave identically.
Interesting, but I meant the specific thing you mentioned. Also I wonder how they factor in demand allowing for artificial scarcity and stuff like commodity fetishism reducing backlash to downsizing products in order to scrape out even more profits
Anyone notice onions have been all mushy and crappy lately? Like they can't afford to be picky and waste them anymore because it's all they have.
Will the mighty onion fall first?
Literally got groceries delivered last week and the onion I got was visibly extremely moldy.
My onions are as good as ever, buying from the worker owned woodman's. Socialism wins again
Edit: woodman's always had mushy onions
At the grocery stores near me the only stuff left is the healthy foods and they are all untouched
Things are going just as badly now as they were at the beginning of 2020. Back then, there was the real sense of us being in a pandemic, but now we're just doing this half-acknowledgement of it.
Anecdotally, it's been really hard to find any loaves of bread besides white up here in North Jersey. Certain meat products seem to be in rare supply too. Multiple grocery stores have warnings on the door that they have like no Gatorade at all lol.
