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'It's just empty shelves'
Video @ link: https://www.foxnews.com/us/shoppers-astounded-empty-shelves
What DEMOCRAT Party progressives want:
- Force the Build Back Better/Green New Deal down your throats to initiate the largest wealth transfer in world history
- Eliminate the Electoral College, because they think they’ll never lose control of the White House again - for obvious reasons
- Eliminate the filibuster, because they think they’ll never lose control of the Senate again - for obvious reasons
- Pack the Supreme Court, because they think they’ll never lose control of the Senate or the White House again - for obvious reasons
- Illegally grant statehood to DEMOCRAT enclaves like the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico
- Force through Medicare for All, so they can deny healthcare to people they don't like, and eliminate private health insurance so they can control the doctor-patient relationship, too
- Enact taxpayer-funded abortion on demand
- Formally legalize open borders, amnesty and automatic citizenship for illegal immigrants
- $2,000 monthly stimulus checks to make the poor dependent on the Party
What I want:
- Relegate the Chinese disease to its actual status; a disease that almost entirely affects only elderly people with at least four comorbidities
- Close down government funded schools and let parents take responsibility for making sure their spawn learn stuff they actually need to know, instead of leftist bullshit like critical race theory propaganda
- Stop inflation by cutting government spending and excessive taxation
- Let the free market get stuff on store shelves again by eliminating labor unions
Another set of bombshell inflation reports rattled markets this week.
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing consumer prices continue to rise at the fastest rate since 1982. The all-items index has risen 7% for the past 12 months ending in December. The energy index rose a staggering 29% over the last year.
Then on Thursday, the Producer Price Index came in with another month of increase for December to close out the year. Overall, final demand prices rose 9.7% in 2021. That represents the largest calendar-year increase since the data series came out in 2010.
PBS News Report: And the latest consumer price report shows that costs are continuing to spike for Americans across many categories. That is presenting real questions for the Federal Reserve, which is tasked with promoting stable prices.
Fox News Report: Now the consumer price index just surged by 7%, the biggest jump since the height of the Cold War. Meantime, Americans are flooding social media with photos of empty stores and the hashtag #BareShelvesBiden.
Joe Biden: "Shelves are not empty".
Inflation pains are pinching consumers’ pocketbooks. And after months of being told by the Federal Reserve and the White House that price increases are nothing to worry about, they are getting fed up with the lies and excuses.
https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/shelves-begin-to-empty-as-supply-chain-buckles-under-inflation-202201141913
"For 2022, we expect supply pressures to likely linger for longer, perhaps until the second half of next year before gradually unwinding," Deutsche Bank analysts wrote in a note on Tuesday.
Shares of Albertsons declined 8% in morning trade after the company also said it was witnessing cost inflation across its supply base, including in ingredients, packaging, transportation and labor.
Albertsons, which also owns Safeway, Vons and Jewel-Osco chains, cut its capital expenditures forecast for fiscal 2021 by $100 million at midpoint to $1.8 billion to $1.9 billion, citing "supply-related constraints."
"There are more supply challenges, and we would expect more supply challenges over the next four to six weeks," Chief Executive Officer Vivek Sankaran said on an earnings call.
Sankaran also said Albertsons had to deal with several product categories being out of stock for a few months.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/omicron-dents-albertsons-supply-chain-recovery-2022-01-11/
Biden said that he had a plan to get the coronavirus under control. He didn’t.
“220,000 Americans dead,” Biden said during an October 2020 debate. “If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this … anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America.”
The death toll under Biden is more than 430,000. His resignation doesn’t appear to be forthcoming.
In August, Biden promised not to leave Americans behind in Afghanistan. He did, and some of them are still there. Americans didn’t like see the Taliban humiliate our military either.
In July, Biden said inflation would be “temporary.” Inflation just hit 7 percent, a four-decade high.
In December, Biden said the supply chain “crisis didn’t occur.” He added, “Shelves are not empty.”
“Here’s why store shelves are empty again in parts of the U.S.,” a NBC News headline read Wednesday. Even CNN had to acknowledge reality. It had a story with a similar headline, “Here’s why grocery stores are struggling to stock their empty shelves.”
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/victor-joecks/victor-joecks-amid-broken-promises-biden-divides-americans-2513173/
Supermarket shelves in a lot of places are looking increasingly barren.
Grocery stores and food supply chains have been stretching themselves to keep products in stock.
Grocers have struggled to get their hands on certain items due to shortages up the various food supply chains they rely on, forcing them to seek out different brands or to simply leave the shelves empty.
The White House Supply Chain Task Force, which was formed over the summer, is also trying to fix the various snags that have been stymieing the transportation of food and other goods. During a press briefing on Wednesday, the task force’s port envoy John Porcari detailed efforts to unclog the country’s ports, such as imposing fees on long-dwelling empty containers and striking deals with major retailers to move cargo during off-peak hours.
However, many of the initiatives won’t begin until the spring or summer. Despite these efforts, many grocery stores do seem to be visibly short on product for the time being.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-grocery-store-shelves-are-bare-again/ar-AASDugF
Grocery stores typically have about 7 to 10 percent of their items out of stock, said Katie Denis, vice president of research and industry narrative at the Consumer Brands Association. But now, it’s running at about 12 percent for all products. And, it’s even higher for food and drinks, about 15 percent — potentially double the amount of items that are typically unavailable.
“These are higher numbers than we have seen,” Denis said.
At Stop & Shop in Jamaica Plain on Friday, there were limited choices of meats, such as pork and beef, and shortages of packaged goods including cooking oil, tortillas, and bottled water.
Tommy Tornburg, 50, a Jamaica Plain resident, said that he has recently had trouble finding packaged items, specifically frozen food. "You can’t get a lot of food items and things like that, especially packaged,” he said.
Stop & Shop said in a statement that its markets, like other grocery stores, are seeing product shortages.
Jessica Dankert, vice president of supply chain for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, said the items that are unavailable seem to run the spectrum and are “constantly evolving.”
“You may go to a store one day and not be able to find product X, you go back in a day or two and it’s fully stocked,” Dankert said. “It’s kind of a moving target in terms of where you’re seeing the impacts.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/14/metro/why-so-many-empty-shelves-your-local-supermarket-its-complicated/
BareShelvesBiden. Life in America now.
"In the end we all starve"
Heather
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
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