This seems
to have to do with Geoff Bazos and Amazon. I am presenting it as is. I have no
way to confirm any of this, still less the reasons for it.
REPORTS:
Grocery Stores Not Being Re-stocked in U.S.
20 February, 2018
Reports are coming in,
sporadically, that grocery stores in the U.S. are not being re-stocked with
foods, while other types of stores are showing a noticeable lack of dry goods stock.
From Salem, OR to
Minneapolis, MN down to the Atlanta area, consumers are reporting there are
always items out of stock now and a lot of the items they do have in stock are
in low quantities.
Stores being mentioned in
these reports from Consumers are: Walmart, Dollar General, Kroger, Publix,
Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Safeway
One listener to the Hal
Turner Radio Show from Minneapolis told me:
I went to a large grocery
store today. (suburb just west of Minneapolis).
I noticed several items that
were low or out...but I noticed something else.
It seemed they went to some
fairly extraordinary lengths to hide it.
Several items on the shelves
were only 1 or 2 items deep, but they really did a great job of hiding it!
I know that's what they're
supposed to do, but WOW, I never saw them do a job this good!
I started moving some items I
wasn't going to buy just to look behind the perfectly placed row...yup, nothing
but empty shelf space behind them.
I reached out to several
Supermarket Chains but only received a comment from a person at Whole Foods,
who asked to remain anonymous! That
person told me:
It's called JIT (just in time) inventory management.
Keep inventory levels as low as possible to improve cash flow. Why should
stores keep things stocked 5 deep when 1-2 will do fine?
Whole Foods is out of everything because that Bezos
guy bought us and the Amazon warehouse model isn't exactly suited for grocery
stores. In other words, it look like they don't know what they're doing.
One consumer in southern
California talked about his local Target store.
He said "I noticed this at Target in So Cal. Shelves all half
empty. Almost like they were going out of business."
Here in the northern New
Jersey area, I can tell you the stores appear to be stocked as usual, but the
QUALITY of fresh produce (fruits, lettuce) is noticeably changed for the
worse. I have personally bought fresh
goods that looked fine, but two days later despite being properly refrigerated,
the food is rotting. In fact, for
several months, I've noticed that food . . .
even canned tuna . . . has seemed far less fresh than in years past.
It seems to me that a lot of
things may simply not be selling. On
more than one occasion, I've detected food with EXPIRED DATES on the packaging
as I was checking out at the cash register.
Naturally, I didn't take that expired food.
Have YOU noticed food
shortages? Empty store shelves? Degraded freshness? Ask your family and talk about it in the
comments area below. Maybe something is
taking place that we ought to pay attention to.
Like over in Britain where Kentucky Fried Chicken had to close because
they have no chicken to sell.
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