Shelves still empty

This is our store shelves, how about yours?

Nothing going to get better till Biden get out of the WH.

That's a fact

Couple weeks ago the bread isle in our local Walmart looked just like that

Local family run chain closing up, been here for decades.
My kids worked there in HS, always had fresh stuff, local produce and seafood, plus lots of specialty stuff.
If you asked, they'd try to get it.

As an independent, couldn't keep shelves stocked last 2 years, been getting progressively worse.

Selling off fixtures and equipment now.

Saddens me.

Is that a Walmart? IF so, they are just resetting the aisle for halloween candy - notice there are no shelf tags for regular items.

Yes Walmart
Different sections like this at different times. New normal I guess!

Wanted to see if it’s just here since everything comes in by barge or everywhere.

Where else can a question be asked and get answers from all over the country?

I was in the store the other day and noticed the shelves were full until I got to looking then I noticed there were many rows of the same thing on the shelf and the cans were only one deep so they had spread out what little they did have to make it looked like they were well stocked. That kind of told me that they aren't expecting resupply anytime soon if they went to that much effort.

Within the last week Walmart was out of 4 basic necessities, Roundys got shorted on 3 items in their sale flyer and Subway didn't have any lettuce at noon on Tuesday. I'm trying to buy a $ 700 accessory for my pier and the dealer can't guarantee he will get it in 60 days. I'd say we have a problem.

Yep

The importance of prepping in troubled times is just common sense. You can always use it in the future. Prep enough food & supplies for a month. It is always peace of mind if nothing else

I haven't noticed it much here. Northeast US

Unless you're looking for certain kinds of ammo!

Stocking my freezers and plan on buying another soon. Deer season open sept.15th, and the restocking will comence.
Had cubestock froma roadkill buck i found a mile from house last december last night. Buck still had steam coming from it. It tasted just fine and it cost me nothing. Not going to pass up an opportunity when it presents itself.
Same with folks offering veggies from their gardens
Sarge

Had a many roadkill suppers and I'm still normal!

We have started driving to more affluent neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio to buy groceries, if we have more than a few groceries to buy. The country grocery stores by us, which have always had a much smaller variety of items for sale, are now often devoid of once common items like chicken leg quarters, ground beef, tortillas, bread, Nestlé's Quick and powdered Gator Aide. I think that the chain stores know they will sell out of what they have in town, near their warehouses, so don't bother to ship items in short supply out to the rural stores.

Keith

Spotty empty shelves. May not have something for 4 or 5 days but then it will show up.

better than its been but still empty spot in our walmart

I've even seen empty potato sections in Walmart which should never happen. Last 5# bag of taters I bought was 5.88. Onions are getting about as bad. Definitely need to step up the garden production.

Other than TSC, we’ve not been in a store in months. lol I know there are some shortages with things getting canceled off of the orders though.

They're getting ready to put out the Christmas decorations.

Looks like they're changing a display in that aisle.

Hmmmmn.... hahaha

I've noticed the same. My shopping strategy has changed to counteract this. What I do now is if A,B,C is missing but D,E,F is there I buy more than normal of D,E,F . Next time I go to the store if A,B,C is there , I buy it but more than normal. This has worked out well , I pretty much have what I need plus my larder is growing , this is kinda like prepping without thinking about it. Only thing it doesn't work for is perishables.

Other areas!

Looks like Walmart is having issues getting stuff to Alaska. Grocery stores around me might be missing something here or there but the shelves are full. This includes little country stores by my house. Most are really full of local produce right now. I’m not sure if Walmart buys local produce like other stores do.

We have a farmers market. The growing season is soon over and a lot of things don’t grow here.

Safeway and Fred Meyers / Krogers same thing. There is a small market in Healy that is rumored to be moving to North Pole, 3 Bears. Some people drive to Healy to shop there. I think that’s why they are coming here.

When our favorite sandwich meat went missing (Jennio turkey ham), I checked several area stores. Nobody had it. So, I called the company. A very nice spokesperson said due to avian flu, Covid, a lack of processing staff and truckers, they were cutting back on some of their products till later in the year. It’ll be a while till normal happens again.

Maybe they'll go the way of K mart

Compared to Oh Snap's shelves I guess we need to be thankful in our area.

OH Snap is that North Pole / Fairbanks?

Fairbanks

So if its a temporary cut back they must be expecting an improvement in conditions. Or they are expressing optimism weather they believe it or not.
I don't know if "normal" will ever happen again.

Thanks for the reply Oh Snap. The Walmart is new since I lived there. Off the top of my head I would say Healy is 100-110 miles more or less from Fairbanks. Population is about 1000 for those that have never spent any time up there. How would you like to drive 100 miles in hopes of getting groceries? Thanks for posting Oh Snap.

Fully stocked here

MJM
Yes it’s a 2 hour drive to Healy in the summer at the speed limit, lol
When did you live here. Walmart has been here for quite a while, what I remember is that it was one of the first dynamic compaction jobs in Fairbanks. We got Home Depot, Lowes, Sportsman’s Warehouse and several more in a couple year period.

Maybe the trucks have been stuck in that construction on the parks highway...for the last year

...another China Issue I bet

You have my sympathy, Oh Snap.

We are seeing more on the shelves here but the other day I went to buy eggs which I can buy from farmers but the one local farm only sells thru the stores and I try to buy from them. Any rate the big store I shop at had hardly any eggs and very low on milk .Either they are not stocking it because of lack of help or they just cannot get it delivered.

Oh Snap I was in Fairbanks 92-95. I was in Galena a year before that.

Ours are not bad, but we do see issues and shortages with seasonal items such as some gardening supplies like spices. I would imagine there will be these issues for some time yet.

Bryce