Supemarket empty

[Anonymous No.14532206]

Anons all our local supermarkets have half empty shelves because of the virus.
People (Asians) are panic buying and some of the logistics have come unstuck.
Very frustrating shortages of specific goods- and it's totally random what will be missing, I experienced this in developing countries (and mafia states) but not ever in the west.

>no celery, it's a nonessential fresh food
No mirepoix, trying to substitute root celery or other celeriac as I can find them
>No cabbage
These last forever so IDK why they ran out
>Greens arriving already wilted
Thankfully bokchoi and the obscure Chinese mustard greens are available
>meat often unavailable, only selected cuts
Using liver, stock bones, hamburger patties for mince, tofu
>no yeast
IDK why people would panic buy yeast, it literally grows itself, we've got a sourdough culture
>no bread
I think old people are freezing it, so we've been making our own bread and i eat a lot more flatbreads

How are your local supplies going?

[Anonymous No.14532207]

>>14532206
>people
>asians
Well, which is it?

[Anonymous No.14532231]

Fine dumb doomers have been crying about food shortages since April and store still stocked except maybe some of the meat but even then I can usually find what I want.

[Anonymous No.14532298]

>>14532207
Well different people are doing it, often the elderly and people from less developed backgrounds.
If you've lived through an actual famine you are far more inclined to hoard.

>>14532231
A lot of people have very limited diets in western countries and eat the same thing literally every week- and thus hoarding hits particular items.
We had to put limits on bread, eggs, flour, rice, pasta, and pasta sauce (strangely enough the pasata was untouched because it's in the "international" isle that nobody goes down)

[Anonymous No.14532308]

the owner treated me

[Anonymous No.14532330]

>>14532206
Where are you located?

[Anonymous No.14532347]

>>14532206
>People (Asians) are panic buying

Lol, don't try and pretend it wasn't your fellow amerimorph fatty kith. White people are the worst when it came to hoarding with the items they scooped off the shelves highlighting just how pathetically unprepared and dimwitted they were

>muh toilet paper
>muh pasta

Fighting over the last of an item and trying to buy up stock to scalp to other people ate ridiculous mark-ups. Revolting behavior.

[Anonymous No.14532385]

In America we stopped giving a shit and everything is fully stocked except real specific supplements.

[Anonymous No.14532505]

>>14532206
>His shitty country still has the virus
Lmao
Should've just enjoyed 7 weeks of Netflix my dude

[Anonymous No.14532517]

>>14532347
Everything you just described there is what our local Asiatics have been doing.

[Anonymous No.14532548]

>>14532347
Yea, nah it's Chinese nationals mostly- but other Asian people will have a go.
Often the markups on our products in Asia are so exorbitant Asians who live here will undercut them by sending things by fedex.
Counterfeiting in Asia and paranoia about this also leads to this.

Many westerns are often totally ignorant of how badly mainland China suffered during the civil war and under the Japenese invasion- and even afterwards.
Poverty is rife even in developed Asian countries, which leads the wealthy (or what passes as wealthy) to take a very defensive mindset.

They call this "Kiasu" which there is no equivalent translation for in English but convey a very strong fear many east Asian people have of "missing out" or "being beaten" and the extreme, selfish and bizarre behavior which this produces.

[Anonymous No.14532573]

>>14532206
>claims that Asians are doing the panic buying
>"bokchoi and the obscure Chinese mustard greens are available"

Hmmm...

[Anonymous No.14532575]

>>14532573
Asian-Americans know better than to buy that crap from the big name store. The big store is for name brand goods only; produce you get cheaper from the smaller guys.

[Anonymous No.14532576]

>mfw still have toilet paper from before the pandemic
are people really so wasteful that they panic buy everything?

[Anonymous No.14532593]

stop living in a shithole and that won't happen

[Anonymous No.14532596]

Everything went back to normal after all these idiots bought all the TP and milk.

[Anonymous No.14532610]

>>14532576
I panic bought deenz, rice, pasta, canned cassoulet, sauerkraut...
You must be a fucking debile to panic buy TP.

[Anonymous No.14532616]

>>14532610
>I panic bought
Opinion discarded. Imagine being such a retard that you don't treat food as an investment. God forbid you ended up in a car accident and out of a job last year.

[Anonymous No.14532625]

>>14532206
Did I travel back in time 6 months? The only things that have shortages are DIY stuff, all food has been back in stock for weeks and all limits have been lifted.

[Anonymous No.14532631]

>>14532347
normally id agree with you that the use of shitty pol tier racial stereotypes is reductive. that being said, my asian landlord literally bought 30kg of rolled oats and 20kg of baby formula(he doesnt have a baby, its for resale), so imo they are more niggerish in this sense. i guess it comes from a closer history of food shortages, people in china were unironically dying of famine just a generation or two ago so the culture is much more hawkish when it comes to possible food shortages.

[Anonymous No.14532641]

>>14532206
What country?

[Anonymous No.14532657]

>>14532573
People who are good at panic guying don't hoard bok choi.
>>14532576
Oh yea were still totally out, we're using tissues- not that we care.
>>14532625
(((second wave)))
There have been outbreaks in the supermarket packing centers and rather than just get volunteers to sleep in the warehouses and keep shit running they are trucking food from interstate.
>>14532631
>resale baby formula
Fuck every single goddamn time

[Anonymous No.14532788]

>>14532206
This image is old as hell, you stupid motherfuckers.

[Anonymous No.14532801]

>>14532788
Yea well I took one at the supermarket, but then some fool would have taken a photo of me taking it- so I just pulled one off google.
But points for checking

[Anonymous No.14533939]

what virus

[Anonymous No.14533946]

>>14532206
This is how shelves looked in the USA around March, right when toilet paper was the big thing to panic buy.
Right now things are pretty much normal.

[Anonymous No.14534747]

>>14532206
>No mirepoix

[Anonymous No.14534789]

>>14532206
my area has calmed down luckily, even meat prices are going back to pre-covid levels

god it was awful in the beginning though, only meat was breakfast sausage and frozen chicken, no pasta, rice, or bread

what pissed me off the most was the milk, FUCK WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH 5 GALLONS OF MILK THAT WILL GO BAD?

[Anonymous No.14534813]

All our local stores are completely stocked and by now everyone has plenty of emergency supplies. I get everything I need and I bulk buy stuff online, especially toilet paper which I have too much of right now.

Your area must be full of very dumb people who don't know how our supply chain works, or how little of an impact the "pandemic" actually is having on our health system.

[Anonymous No.14534977]

>>14532206
>no celery
just sub some kind of pepper like bell, or jalapeno
"holy trinity" works just as good in any recipe that calls for mirepoix
actually now that i think about it, trinity subs pepper for carrots
whatever same difference

[Anonymous No.14535944]

>>14532548
The kaisu thing makes sense, always wondered why they acted like that, but coming from that background I can see the weird pushy greediness coming from fear

[Anonymous No.14536080]

>>14533939
Indeed.

[Anonymous No.14536799]

>>14532206
Where the fuck is this currently happening? Fire roasted tomatoes and tomato paste are scarce in my area and literally nothing else. Even other tomato products are fine, it's apparently one specific cannery that's still fubar.

[Anonymous No.14536992]

>>14536799
the only thing hard for me to find are lysol wipes (or other brand). plenty of sanitizer in gel or liquid form, gloves, masks, etc all plentiful now. the only spot that i can ever get wipes from isn't duane reede, walgreens, cvs, shoprite, acme, target, home depot or key foods, but my local bodega.

don't even mind paying my dominican friends 7 bucks per container at this point - it beats not having them and they are good at doing me a solid like signing for packages so no one steals em.

[Anonymous No.14537010]

>>14532231
Just wait for the real fuckening to begin

[Anonymous No.14537027]

>>14532631
>people in china were unironically dying of famine just a generation or two ago
How does one die from famine ironically?

[Anonymous No.14537152]

>>14537027
vegans

[Anonymous No.14537170]

The only serious shortage around here was Keystone Light. I couldn't find it anywhere for a few weeks.