Tonight NBC Nightly news… “Kroger announces major supply chain interruptions”.

Any economy - national or local - is very split up or fragmented.

Think of how in most metro areas, you'll find neighborhoods that are always bustling and doing well while a few miles away, you'll find areas on the so-called wrong side of the tracks.

Same thing applies to an entire country.

I have wondered that myself. I’ve seen some shelves looking bare but not a lot in my area… definitely not compared to a lot of videos I’ve watched from other states, cities and or regions.

They simply said that it will be due to supply chain interruptions.

Why will they lose the mid-terms? They own the machines.

You will always be able to get what you want. Only question is - can you afford it?

We went grocery shopping today at Kroger Marketplace. They usually have most everything as they are much larger than a regular Kroger and rake in more money so get filled first. We went in the afternoon, giving them a chance to get everything re-stocked after the weekend. There were HUGE gaps without merchandise all over the store and haven't seen it that sparsely stocked before- even after people hitting it before snow storms, etc.

That's a good point. There's a conglomerate in NJ that functions kind of like that, and all old school Italian, NYC and North Jersey distributors, too.

Walmart out of rice?

As far as domestic goods go, the Dept of Agriculture have been paying farmers to destroy their crops, or face penalties. I've heard from a cattle rancher that the USDA inspector won't cooperate to inspect cattle for mad cow prior to slaughter, due to COVID. As far as imports go, ships are backed up at the ports on the West Coast; Zerohedge posted a chart about it. I would assume the Feds here again are inserting wedges into the gears.

I work for a MAJOR supplier and I'm in all these stores...Retailers are having serious staffing issues. Many of these establishments are UNION run...they have CONTRACTS that are renewed every two to three years ...Target department stores can have a steady increase base pay but union shops like Kroger or Safeway are limited by the settled contracts. If Target has a base starting pay of $18.50 and can't attract new employees, they can simply offer more money...union retail establishments cannot because of their union contract. There's simply a shortage of drivers, warehouse and night-crew workers...

If these mandates take hold, they're looking at another 20 to 30% reduction in their workforce which will devastate the industry.

I have walked into these stores with 12 pellets of product sitting in the back because their night crew quit because no one wants to work for $12 an hour and no insurance until you work 1000 hours, lol

For the record smiths in Utah is also saying the same thing...

We got fuckall for harvests this year, Canada too, Brazil and parts of south America too and because of the 2020 lockdowns and to keep cash flow positive on the books we sold off so much that we've been a net importer for the first time EVER for a dozen plus major staples.

There's sweet precious fuckall in silos and etc to "get us through".

This is real fucking food supply doom the likes of which the united states has EVER SEEN.

And nobody else's harvests did good enough to really buy in all that much no matter the price/the shipping supply chain is turbo fucked too so it would be hard to impossible to get it here.

At that point they might just suspend Congress or suspend elections, like Trudeau did all last year.

great philosophical question,

Are all red barns red?

have you looked at all red barns?

Wrong. Kroger nationally MANDATES MASKED EMPLOYEES EVEN IN IDAHO starting September 10.

Fred Meyer Grocery is fully masked and very shorthanded.

Big trouble coming when kroger demands vax or nasal swabs.
Think they are short handed now? Big walkout coming when kroger tries to satisfy bidens 100 or more employee required Vax.





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THIS

Smiths is owned by kroger.


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People who still think there's going to be midterms or other elections where the establishment guy can lose are so cute.

But you're right, my bet is on this Cali recall being the last election for awhile in this country.

oh, the irony.

union contracts keeping wages too low.

All deliberate.

All by design and via top-down marching orders.

Engineered for your suffering by your Benevolent Overlords.

Ain't slavery fucking cool?

I bet the U.S. Government feeding all those Immigrants and now tens of thousands of Afghanistan people are draining food off the shelves.

America voted for this. Thank a liberal today.

Petco and Chewy!

Sams was a little light in places but no bare shelves. We got everything we needed, TP & PT were 1 per customer as was green beans everything else was buy as much as ya want.

HEY ME TO!!

I've been in the grocery supply business for 20 years.

HERE'S WHAT I THINK.

All of these companies are having Class A CDL driver shortages.

I'm betting at this time Kroger's supply chain IS AT LIMIT.

And guess what is coming up VERY soon.

The holidays.

Have you ever worked at a grocery store during the run up to Thanksgiving???

It's a nightmare at the best of times. Logistically, and practically speaking.

So kroger knows I'm betting they just wont be able to cover the increased volume of the holidays.

This is all the fault of governments.

INVENTORY TAX

Grocery stores used to keep all their backstock in the back, NOW to avoid inventory tax they ship basically exactly what they'll need, and try to avoid shipping more to the stores than that.

Even if they wanted to go ahead and ship a TON of extra shit, 85% of these stores are not big enough in the back areas to hold all of this.

At a local wally mart I service it's NOTHING to see, candy, produce, water, regular groceries, BEING KEPT IN THE MILK COOLERS.

Because they don't have the space in the back, AND...

they dont have enough employees to stock it anyways.

Pure speculation but my gut says they will make things tough on Montana and Rocky Mountain red states. Staunch resistance to Government bullshit in the mountain states. Mountain valley highways are easy arteries to cut off. Strategically speaking, a military power could easily stop supplies into the entire inland empire from Spokane WA east to the continental divide in Montana. Environmentalist already have helped block and gate off thousands of miles of secondary roads and forest service roads through the mountains just through tree hugger animal lover policies. If you wanted to stop anything from getting in or out of western Montana it could easily be done. We are in Krogers distribution area too, btw.

B FUCKING INGO!

Nothing will happen, just the same old shit. You watch

An analysis from what is likely their perspective:

They probably see the trajectory heading towards the jab being required to shop for groceries (whether it goes that far is beside the point, it's probably what they're expecting). While the reality is the unjabbed are among the most civil people in the country, Kroger corporate might be expecting higher crime. It is true that desperate people do desperate things.

Food shortages + restrictions against buying it.

The demons are incredibly desperate to get this jab into us. "Take the jab for your health or we'll starve you to death! See how much we care about you and your family?!"

I bet Kroger's "being more aggressive against organized crime" involves setting-up infra with that in mind.

Last Edited by everLearner on 09/14/2021 12:30 AM

Didn't see that on any NBC, NBC afillate or general news outlet.