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What’s Behind Empty Shelves At Stores Across The U.S.
Phase 2 of the serpent’s insatiable need to control us.
Hello BeeGubya how are you doing?
Sometime it’s the middleman couldn’t sort their problems which trickle down to consumers. Maybe get rid of the middleman?
What kind of country do we live in where a man can’t buy a got dam Whopper?
Pestilence
They are preparing us for war
Where did the 80,000 truck drivers go? I thought they were paid pretty well, definitely not minimum wage to be a truck driver?
In the EU we also have to deal with the Omicron surge, but we don’t have any empty shelves in our supermarkets and grocery stores. So, I’m wondering about the actual reasons.
We don’t have any empty shelves here either, it’s all bs
Because we Americans have to make simple daily life a soap opera or a hollywood disaster movie. It’s what we do.
People don’t wanna work For Less and long hours that won’t promise a pay raise!
Only 11% in the transportation and wear housing have left compared to 60% in manufacturing. A study by the US DOT showed that it is a retention problem faced by the mega carriers easily cured with better pay. These mega carriers fund the ATA that pushes this falsehood snd allows the megas to keep hiring new drivers at less that minimum wage. Once we have 3 months experience most if us leave to driving positions that pay a living wage. We are not leaving the profession.
Civil war is coming
That’s weird. I keep seeing videos on YouTube of people throwing food away for stupid challenges. Also, more people are eating at home due to fast food chaos. Crappy service, price increases, decreased quality of product?
America can stop giving out of the money from the government
If we have a labor shortage why are these companies threatening to fire the workers that are left?
Keep putting the restrictions on and keep the back log going
The end of the world is coming
I keep hearing about empty shelves but I haven’t seen any other than toilet paper when coved 19 first started 2 years ago? WTF clickbait
Sounds like bs
And Biden Admin is completely clueless as to what to do except blame covid and…Trump! Weak.
You can thank corporate america for the job disruption
Boy the worlds governments created the problem and now they are capitalizing off of it.
It’s a perfect storm
Hello Mae ,How are you doing ?
Production baker in a specialty grocer store here in the PNW. We are bombarded with high numbers of production daily. We can’t hire anyone even though we’ve had interviews daily. See my response to My Art History to see why. It’s nuts. We pay well. Have great benefits but people do not want to work hard or at all. They just want a handout. So short staffed we continue. Flour deliveries are starting to become sporadic but we manage by supplementing from sister grocers. Yes, things are missed from some shelves but all in all, we’re doing good. If you don’t want to work don’t apply. We need honest people and there’s just not enough of them around any more.
Remember the days when we would ask a store worker, “can you check the back and see if you have any in stock?”
I actually did, two days ago, and they looked. The workers are doing the best they can. No broccoli? Eat cabbage. There is food. There is limited choice.
@Ten Thousand Days of Gratitude i work at Shoprite , we don’t even have lemon for 5 days this week and the supply of salad still limited since the recall before Christmas.
There’s a bigger picture at play prepare yourselves for the worst
Right there is how Autonomous Trucking Technology is going to take advantage of that opportunity 1:20
just eat carbs
It’s true…I couldn’t find eggs at a GAINTs store next to my home…WHAT!? Instead they got like…vegan eggs…wthell is that!?!?
Some of the grocery workers are on strike in colorado.
All the fat people will have to starve!
“What’s behind the empty shelves?” Very funny
US Inflation and supply chain issues are as bad as Trump’s 2020 when rubbish bags were used for PPE.
MAGATs ARE CHICKENS and too scared to treat Oil company and Supermarket executives like they do Vote officials and Fauci.
MAGATs ARE CHICKENS and too scared to protest outside executives houses or to send them and their family members threats.
Government tries to fix stuffs, but it sure makes things worse. #inflation
All part of the plot. Need to have people starve. To see how far the grass bows before it breaks.
Hello, Bill Gates wants to introduce his GMO “solution” to food shortage.
Just came from the commissary in Yokosuka, Japan for the third day. Yep the shelves are empty as well. I go out to the Japanese stores and see a major difference! Why is the U.S. supply chain so bad, and what is Japan doing that seems more successful?
How many people own land? How many people know how to grow crops? Is 4H still offered in schools? People are dependent upon a system they can’t control. Whomever controls the food and water can control your life.
Can I still find extra large condoms?
ppl in this country i are fed up with their wages or are too lazy to work in factories anymore its turned to no products are made and if their made its done wrong with a lot of errors
Its TRUMPS FAULT!!!
What are you talking about? I don’t see any empty shelves. Price gouging yes.
Because of media and democratic government closes close that happens again
It’s the Collapse of global Capitalism Dummies!
Biden’s America
Fair capitalism
It’s fearful conservatives hoarding everything.
So the thousands and thousands of migrants mouths that are now here had nothing to do w that either huh 🤔
Not seeing any empty shelves in Colorado.
Starving timed period for the USA, get ready guys, this is getting even worse
How about we stop treating truck drivers like pure trash. Never drive a Semi truck if you want a respected job
US and European countries rely on trucks to transport goods. Asian countries not only use trucks but also motorcycles, bicycles, peducabs, cars, vans, boats, carts, etc.
Totally a manufactured problem.
Consumers….think about…..
This administration is a total failure. Sad but true.
Too many new illegal immigrant to feed.
Bidens 🌎
Thanks Biden
Biden
Joe Biden stop deflecting & own it remember willing to “pay” for calm tone well this is it enjoy sheep learn a lesson for once
Wal mart is the only store I see shortages at At there nasty dirty store near me is terrible public well stocked piggly wiggly well stocked and winn-dixie well stocked walmart must be going out of business
The color orange 🍊 did it !
everyone who has a garden behind the house can be happy about the opportunity to grow their own vegetables and fruit. when you look at the prices in the store, you almost faint.
Stop going to the big groceries stores. Go to the smaller ones. They have your local food available from food factories near you and food industry chefs/bakers alike
BIDEN
Thank you Biden!
GREED is the evil that is behind all human suffering. The question is, how do we make that illegal ?
Stop the mandate so people can work.
I am going to shut down the virus, not the economy
—Joe Biden 2020
I am going to work for all Americans, not just the ones who voted for me
–Joe Biden 2020
It’s always food at the groceries stores I go to just prices increased tho.
But yet Grandpa Joe Biden says there’s no problems….
what’s behind empty shelves you ask why Democratic socialist control is what’s behind our empty shelves wake up America please
they have taken over the world they have the money… extermination by starvation is coming
No surprise… This was said to come since 2020.
Make sure you thank the DemoRats.
You don’t have President Donald J Trump to blame this wouldn’t happen if Trump is in office FAKE NEWS
The same thing is happening here in Australia right now. No toilet paper, chicken, & meat available .
This generation is simply not tough enough to be truckers. As a truck driver, you need to rest when you are actually tired & work when you are awake, the rules & regulations require the opposite. People sitting at desks who have never driven a truck have no business making the rules. i retired at age 49, 10 years ago. Current driver pay would have to increase tenfold before I would ever consider returning to the job & the rules would have to change.
Stop scaring people
yesterday was the worst I have ever seen my state as far as lack of stores and lack of goods in the few stores left.
I remember seeing pictures like this in the 70’s but it was the former Soviet Union going through the shortages.
I’m glad I have a larger pickup truck, we will be going this weekend on a long loop road trip to fill the truck. Reports indicate it is not going to get better.
It is bad, never thought I’d go through this. I have to spend time helping my grown kids because with them working they have no time to drive across the state for their food. We make runs for them. And let me tell ya’ there is no short supply of trucks or truckers. Get on an interstate and its wall to wall trucks.
Prices are up too
It’s because the commercial- war against China but clearly we have lost big time against the big dragon !
As if there wasn’t enough bad economic news — The War Room opened their first hour on Friday warning viewers of the coming “mother of all supply chain shocks.” Biden Effect
nobody to blame but the democrats…and espcially biden…him and jill are not lacking for food.
socialism. sorry, ‘democratic’ socialism.
So many lies in such a short segment. Trucker shortage? Lie. Employee shortage? Lie. All lies. And if people are “eating at home”, that means restaurants aren’t competing for that supply. Yeah, it takes some retrofitting, but we’re years into this. Spare us the bullshyt
People apply and never called back this is why I stopped applying for the grocery stores
Cows milk ain’t even healthy ma’am, your kids will be aight
That’s good America needs to lose weight. Buttigeg better do his job, starving is not something America is ready for.
I thought our Moron in chief promised, to get the sheeple vote, that he was shutting down covid.
Biden administration is failing hard
Its called the Biden effect. Dem voted for this.
15% out of stock? Your pictures suggest more like 90% to 100% so which one is it? Misleading numbers or misleading images?
This is common scene in poor countries sanctioned by most powerful country on earth, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela, so… something very common happening 😊
It costs 6 dollars for a gallon of water in a convenient store.
I want to remember people dog food is still for dogs
commies
Maybe you should outsource food too so Americans have less jobs
Bad president. Bad policies. It’s simple.
How that Biden thing working out for you all ? Lol 81 million … ha ha