I left the U.S. in 2012 for a decade because Obamaconomy Great Depression Part Deux. While I was gone, grocery stores seem to have fundamentally changed for the much worse, and I don't understand why.* basic food items like turkey drumsticks are gone* frozen vegetable aisles have ridiculously limited selection* food items disappear and reappear at random so that it takes multiple trips to purchase them* certain items like soda have become wildly overpriced and are now sold in multiple sizes that increase wasteTurkey used to be by far the cheapest meat in the grocery store, and I practically lived on broiled turkey drumsticks during grad school. I could broil up a couple of three-packs while studying and eat for the rest of the week. Now they are practically unobtainable. There is exactly one grocery store in my area that still carries them sometimes, and they are frequently out of stock.Frozen vegetables used to have a wide variety of basic things like broccoli, cauliflower, corn, brussels sprouts, carrots, damn near any vegetable that is commonly grown in the U.S. Now all I can find in most stores are cauliflower (because keto) and peas. Lots and lots of peas. Then there are tiny bags of high-cost things like breaded cauliflower (ridiculously overpriced), Japanese-style stir fry vegetables with sauce (also overpriced), and chopped pre-mixed salads (usually half wilted).There's a particular type of bagels that I try to get when available. I see them maybe one trip in six. I have to buy the entire stock and throw them in the freezer because otherwise I run out. I've asked the store and they say they cannot even order them for restocking, they just get whatever they get and put them out when it happens.(continued)
And soda -- now they have three different sizes of plastic bottles, 2L, 1L, 1.5L, multiple can sizes, 8oz, 12oz, 16oz, 24oz. And the prices are 7X (600% increase) what I used to pay. Inflation hasn't run THAT fucking hot. Why do we need so many different sizes? Why is it that Wal-Mart can sell their store brand for $1 when the name-brand bottlers are charging $3.49 for the same size of bottle?I'm not even talking about the artificial food shortages caused by processing plants refusing to pay ranchers what cows cost to raise, or chicken farms being told to slaughter their entire flocks by the Biden administration, or all the ranches that had "mysterious fires" during Biden's term.The net takeaway is that there seems to be a widespread attempt to make basic food items unaffordable and unavailable. Why?
I literally have to go to that one grocery store, 18 miles away, to do my shopping, because all three of the major national chains barely stock normal food items and overprice them by insane amounts. By driving 18 miles to buy groceries, I can (usually, not always) find my chopped up turkey parts and a much wider variety of frozen vegetables. I live in a major metropolitan area, not the boonies -- I'm not in backwoods Montana, I'm in the fucking Chicongo suburbs. These stores aren't in "minority" areas where they get robbed six times a day, they're in mostly white upperclass suburbs. In fact, the grocery store where I can actually find food is out in Joliet, which is a hell of a lot worse demographically and economically.
I shop at wegmans and I don't have that problem. Maybe get the fuck out of Chiraq
>>21954518I hate to tell you this anon, but when you de-isekai'd you came back to the wrong world. The only significant change in grocery stores in the last 30 years is that they all seem to have a sushi counter now.
>>21954518>basic food items like turkey drumsticksi don't know when i've ever seen anyone eat turkey like this except on thanksgiving>frozen vegetable aisles have ridiculously limited selectionseems about the same to me>* food items disappear and reappear at random so that it takes multiple trips to purchase themfor less common items i do notice them being sold out a bit more now>* certain items like soda have become wildly overpriced and are now sold in multiple sizes that increase wastebig name brands started price gouging hard for a lot of things. store brand soda is still pretty cheap.
>basic food items like turkey drumsticks are goneFalse. I saw some the other day and, weirdly, also turkey thighs. I've only ever seen turkey thighs sold separately one other time. Honestly, if Thanksgiving turkey weren't so goshdarn cheap, I would just buy thighs and be fine with it but I can't ignore 22¢/lb meat. I bought four whole turkeys last Genocide Remembrance Day.>frozen vegetable aisles have ridiculously limited selectionFalse.>food items disappear and reappear at random so that it takes multiple trips to purchase themYou mean seasonality?>certain items like soda have become wildly overpriced and are now sold in multiple sizes that increase wasteOnly point you have.I don't believe you've ever left the US, gone to grad school or even shopped in a supermarket.
Easter Eggs are over $10 each this year.Lol.They hate us.
>>21954571>Easter Eggs are over $10 each this year?You mean chocolate eggs? Or do you mean a dozen fresh chicken eggs? Cuz we just bought several dozen recently, 99¢/dz
>>21954518Covid hit them hard and they haven't fully recovered since. It's not nearly as bad as it was in 2020-21, but it still feels third world-tier sometime.>turkey drumsticksThose were never really standard (I don't remember seeing them at every grocery store), but availability has gone down somewhat.>frozen vegetable aisles have ridiculously limited selectionI still see a wide variety, but stocks can be low when people panic buy (e.g. right before the snowpocalypse this last winter).>food items disappear and reappear at random so that it takes multiple trips to purchase themAgain, not nearly as bad as it was a few years ago. I mostly see this happen to dairy items at the discount grocer.
>>21954518>Obamaconomyblaming Obama when it's all that jellybean retard, Reagan's fault.
>>21954590clinton and dubya bear the blame as far as presidents go for the great recession since all the key legislation was passed under their watches
>>21954518I regularly go to shartmart in a medium-sized town and have not noticed any of those things outside of some items having increased in price over the course of a decade, which will happen anywhere for a dozen different reasons.
>>21954518Price optimization software. Every item in the store must maximize profit or stop wasting shelf space.
>>21954602I blame Lincoln. America could have had shit cheap but he had to illegally imprison elected officials in Maryland to prevent them from voting a certain way and ignore a Supreme Court ruling telling him to knock that shit off.
>>21954518not just the food and prices but the general atmosphere in grocery stores is depressing. everyone walking around is a zombie. they all look at you like they wish you were dead. the social fabric is completely destroyed. there is 0 human interaction inside grocery stores. they really just feel like government backed goyslop distribution centers.
>>21954602Is that a joke? Reagan literally destroyed the industrial powerhouse of the USA during his presidency while also creating the homeless crisis we have been dealing with for decades. That dude killed the US and everyone after him has just been pulling strings. We are currently in the end times of this country, unironically
>>21954585> COVID hit them hardMaybe procedurally, and hit the front line workers, but they made out like fucking bandits profit-wise >>21954715Are you sure dude? Maybe you're just in a shitty area, or you're projecting? That is not my experience on a Midwest suburb>>21954619This is real bullshit man, I don't understand why it's not illegal for groceries
>>21954721trust me i get reagan being one of our worst presidents but i'm talking specifically about the great recession. glass-steagall being repealed opened the door to mortgage-backed securities being a thing.
>>21954743>I don't understand why it's not illegal for groceriesWhy would it be? >>21954715Bitch, one of locals was having a sale through Saturday on a specific brand of pasta, 66¢/box and my wife and I were liking for cavatappi. This woman and I grabbed the last two boxes on the shelf and both lamented that there weren't more. Shortly after, we got into a conversation with that woman about how to make the best mac and cheese after she found an end cap with more cavatappi and called us over to stock up with her. People are still mostly fine and kind.
>>21954753Unstable food prices to explicitly benefit a corporation is retarded. With fast food, it's a service that is unnecessary. Completely different than grocery access.I'm not a communist, but I'm also not an idiot
>>21954753Also, I agree with your second thing. Some people are too myopic and miserable to even notice the kind people around.
>>21954746Ah I see. I was worried Reagan wouldn't be blamed for the destruction of our nation for a second. Carry on
I just got out of working at a grocery store for five years. My first day was before the pandemic began. I'd rather be broke than go back. NOPE>food items disappear and reappear at random so that it takes multiple trips to purchase themDuring pandemic: strained infrastructure couldn't keep up with product demand and fulfillment and companies couldn't find enough new hires to stay due to the amount of work. Now: projections of a shit economy and low sales mean low operating budgets, slower hiring, and downsizing personnel. So even if they wanted to, they won't be hiring enough people to work the product cases, stack them on pallets, load them into trailers, and drive them from warehouse to store.
>>21954743new england suburbs are a hellscape. could also just be a winter thing, but I don't think I'm projecting. maybe misattributing the mean looks but the silence in the grocery stores is very noticeable. no one speaks, it's a really uncomfortable vibe.>>21954753what type of grocery stores do you go to? I've never had a casual conversation with anyone at a grocery store.I mostly go to whole foods or shaw's (new england's publix).more examples: >people losing their patience in crowded aisles rushing past or overtaking you. like road rage>no one says excuse me when in the way.>more people sitting in their cars in the parking lot for several minutes looking defeated>cashiers are silent, no words beyond what's necessary for the transaction>increase in self checkout, even fewer interaction with cashiers>sense of being rushed and annoyance from other shoppers when you are grabbing something from a section that they want to grab something from at the same time>people leaving aisles the moment you enter the aisle>everyone assumes you will yield the right of way in the parking lots or even with the grocery carts when exiting/entering aisles.>no one smiles or makes eye contact >employees look defeated>array of cameras all over the ceiling running facial recognition / shopper credit scoresinb4 I smell like shit or look like a freak. I promise you that is not the case.
>>21954579He's obviously talking about rabbit eggs.
>>21954805Damn bro, must be a shit area. I imagine Detroit was like that as the steel plants were offshored
>>21954805We go everywhere. That particular exchange happened at ShopRite, but we've had conversations in just about every chain store in our area.As for people not saying "excuse me", that same day in that same store, an elderly lady was leaning against the meat case and apologised for being in the way. We said it was fine and I said that if she needed to sit, I could ask for some milk crates from the dairy department for her to rest on but she refused.And smiles! That sand l same trip, I noticed a woman and I made eye contact a few times so I smiled at her at one point and she smiled back. The rest of your examples are not things I've noticed any increase of except self checkout, which my wife and I don't use except for early mornings when it's the only option. I have conversations with the cashiers often. One recently was talking to my wife about her cheesemaking (my wife's, not the cashier's).
>>21954805>new england suburbs are a hellscape.as someone who moved down south almost a decade ago: i miss new england more than anything else right now. i miss seasons so much.
>>21954835>>21954753People tend to see the world how they are themselves. He's miserable so he thinks everyone else is miserable. You're happy so you think everyone else is happy.It's textbook projection.
>>21954805>whole foodsYeah, everyone at Whole Foods sucks hard. Wouldn't know about Shaw's but I've never been to a Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Sprouts or other grocery stores with a philosophy where the customers weren't all humourless pricks. I don't go to them much.
>>21954805>more examples:Your experience sounds similar to the Inland Empire region of California. And even if you do online for store pickup or delivery, there's no guarantee your order will even be fulfilled on the same day. Or if it can be fulfilled at all because a store got rid of their ecommerce pickers and didn't tell anyone due to staff shortage. Also you forgot the important one. >long lines and crowded stores during first ten days of the month due to paychecks and SNAPAnd if you're in a union store self checkout will be ten items or less to protect cashier jobs. Meanwhile someone forgot to tell the UFCW managers will just allocate less hours for cashiers.
>>21954715Sounds grim. I do all my shopping minus meat at the local SDA grocery and people there are absolutely pleasant, always start conversations. I've never had a bad experience there. I've also never seen a black person or tweaker in the store either, which might be why it doesn't seem like an anti social hell hole
>>21954721No he didn't. Clinton was the one who gave China most-favored-nation trade status and oversaw the offshoring of millions of American jobs.
>>21954567>You mean seasonality?The example I gave was bagels. Do bagels only grow seasonally? When should I plant my bagel trees if I live in zone 4?
>>21954518nothing has changed in real states.
>>21954715>there is 0 human interaction inside grocery storesthere was never supposed to be outside of you and the cashier, anon.people that go out in public to try and strike up a convo are the annoying ones.
>>21954805>the silence in the grocery stores is very noticeable. no one speaksthis is called peace and it's correct, anon.
>>21954753>Why would it be?Extremely basic groceries are a necessity and not a category of luxury so they should be treated differently. Fancy upscale grocery stores sure, that's a different thing, but the line of thinking that's profits over people is just putting a throat to your own neck for the sake of giant corporations. That shit should be safe and affordable, but people with that mindset don't care about either by principle.
>>21954856>everyone at whole foods sucks>i've never been to a whole foodsanon...
>>21954721>Reagan literally destroyed the industrial powerhouseis that why we built a ton of space weapons during his presidency?you're just upset that your dad didn't have the technical prowess to get hired to make space weapons.
>>21955616>That shit should be safe and affordablesafety first.and higher prices means more safety since the hoodrats and ghetto trash can't shop there.it's why target is so much nicer than wal-mart and i approve of pricing out the riff-raff.
>>21955627>safety first.Profits first according to the other anon. Safety only when it does not interfere with profits. If Target could make their shit half as safe to you for 2% more profits they'd 100% do it. Profit above all in basic groceries is nonsensical to me for this reason. Walmart and their nondisclosure of heavy metals in their spices is a better example than target here though. I'd classify Target as "upscale" in that they are clearly targeting a different niche as you mentioned.
there are more choicesbetter quality and worse quality to choose fromthings go out of stock like alwaysthe particular boomer food you enjoy doesnt exist anymore because nobody liked it>Inflation hasn't run THAT fucking hotyou wrote a million words, but you did not bother to back that up, makes your entire rant worthless
>>21954518>left in 2012 Did you go to Israel anon?
>>21955637>Profits first according to the other anonhe doesn't know shit about shit.safety first or lawsuits cut into profits.
>>21955618You should learn how to read, you homemade coconut. >>21955603Pumpkin spice bagels, green St Patrick's bagels and chained up Kunta Kinte bagels for Juneteenth are seasonal, yes.
>>21954518>Great Depression Part Deuxyou were off by about 10 years, anon. you came back just in time for it though!
>>21954518is this that bitch that tried to blow up youtube?this AI bullshit is so fucking useless and never tells me what I want to know.
>>21955931>is this that bitch that tried to blow up youtube?yea
>>21954518>grocery stores seem to have fundamentally changednope. still the same as they have been
>>21954518>* basic food items like turkey drumsticks are goneonly rarely ever seen these in 40 years>* frozen vegetable aisles have ridiculously limited selectionnope it has expanded>* food items disappear and reappear at random so that it takes multiple trips to purchase themnope they don't.>* certain items like soda have become wildly overpriced and are now sold in multiple sizes that increase wastethis post is total bullshit.
>>21954518>Frozen vegetables used to have a wide variety of basic things like broccoli, cauliflower, corn, brussels sprouts, carrots, damn near any vegetable that is commonly grown in the U.Sthey still do, this has not changed.
>>21954524>And the prices are 7X (600% increase) what I used to pay
>>21954715>not just the food and prices but the general atmosphere in grocery stores is depressing. everyone walking around is a zombie. they all look at you like they wish you were dead. the social fabric is completely destroyed. there is 0 human interaction inside grocery stores.>they really just feel like government backed goyslop distribution centers.
>>21954518I dunno anon, the supermarket I do must of my shopping at has hardly changed at all, but it's a locally-owned 'chain' of two stores. The one big chain I will go to somewhat often is Trader Joes, and while they change their inventory regularly, if you take that into account it's still pretty consistent with what it was a decade ago.I don't really drink soda (I generally prefer shrubs) so in that area I'm openly ignorant.
>>21954753>we got into a conversation with that woman about how to make the best mac and cheeseno you did not.
>>21954805>people losing their patience in crowded aisles rushing past or overtaking you. like road ragenever seen this in 50 years>no one says excuse me when in the way.yes they do.>more people sitting in their cars in the parking lot for several minutes looking defeatednever ever seen this>cashiers are silent, no words beyond what's necessary for the transactionoh please. I wish. they are just as chatty as always>increase in self checkout, even fewer interaction with cashiersonly if you choose to>sense of being rushed and annoyance from other shoppers when you are grabbing something from a section that they want to grab something from at the same timenonsense>people leaving aisles the moment you enter the aisleno. people just walk through the store. are you some paranoid schizo?>everyone assumes you will yield the right of way in the parking lots or even with the grocery carts when exiting/entering aisles.no>no one smiles or makes eye contact this has never changed. also why do people need to smile at you? I only smile when I have a reason. only retards walk around with a smile on their face.>employees look defeatednope>array of cameras all over the ceiling running facial recognition / shopper credit scores[citation needed]
>>21954518>>21954524>>21954533this is a you thing anon. nothing you have written is based on any facts or experience of anyone. either you live in some weird shithole, or you are trolling. the latter is the most obvious.
>>21954533>18 fucking miles to access basic amenitiesare all americans this dumb?
because pic relatedpeople react to quick changes, but not slow changes, they are either too young to remember the good times, they attribute it to "getting old" or they are a neurotic obsessives who don't look at the bigger picture "we didn't have transrights in the 90s!"it is difficult to feel it when you have bitcoin money, but standards of living have begun their gradual decline, it will start to hit the middle class too because of AI
>>21955961genuinely kill yourself boomer
>>21955954We absolutely did. My wife calls me Mr Mayor because I talk with everyone. She says it's like I'm trying to win their votes. The woman told us her method (the one that's basically an eggy casserole) and I told her mine (with a mantecatura of grated cheese, butter and cream cheese) and that was it. Took all of thirty seconds to a single minute, thereabouts.She mentioned she needed the pasta for Easter mac and cheese and my wife said that we're buying it because I'm a hoarder.
>>21954533Just fucking move, I live 10 minutes away from two supermarkets.
>>21954805>people sitting in their cars in the parking lot for several minutesI swear parking lot sitters aren't human
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>>21956169>My wife calls me Mr Mayor because I talk with everyoneyou are the worst type of person. KYS.>blah blah blahno one cares.
>>21956257Guess what? I'm not him, but I do that shit too. I talk to everyone, even if it's just a nod and a "hey man" when I'm walking. And you know what? Every one of you little pussies responds, and I absolutely fucking LOVE it when I can tell that you don't want to! Hahahah! Think of me next time you hate yourself for giving in to social pressure, bitch!
>>21955687>You should learn how to readanon...
>>21955948trump's a decent president.we're fixing it.
>>21955600Reagan supported the Chinese industrialization and his Reaganomics destroyed most actual careers in manufacturing in the US while giving higher ups bigger tax breaks. He started the entire thing and is why manufacturing jobs have stagnating wage wise and are impossible to fill employee wise. He was a retard
>>21956372Trumps a pedo retard zogbot
>>21954524Theres a Vons near me that sells Dr Pepper 2 liters for 3.99. Thats if you can find it there, it always seems to be out of stock. Or they want me to buy 4, use their app and save a dollar. Its insane. I can drive across town to Walmart and get it for 2.49. They only carry whole chicken that are air chilled and like 18 bucks, fuck me. I have to go to Aldi's to get a decent price on that.
>>21954518who is this?AI only tells me about the make and model of the drill
>>21954518>I practically lived on broiled turkey drumsticks during grad school. I could broil up a couple of three-packs while studying and eat for the rest of the week.All you ate in a week was six boiled turkey drumsticks? You were definitely severely malnourished, which can cause serious brain damage from nutritional deficiencies. That could explain why you can't reconcile your experience with your memories at the time. You should get checked out because you might be able to reverse some of it. >>21956484Most anons know who that is but I don't blame you. She's a bit of a meme and known for something that happened a few years ago that was shocking but funny news at the time. It was also kind of tragic and prophetic if you think about it. If you just google her name you'll find out, it was big news a few years ago, before the pandemic. And the more you look into it the more melancholy the story becomes. I don't recommend deep diving into it at all. But yeah, just google that part and then just look her up to find out.
>>21956515what's her name?
>>21956484Girl who shot up a YouTube HQ. Her cat passed away and she had her profile deleted for some reason by YouTube, which was the only place she still had videos of her cat to remember her by. Went nuts and decided to go postal about it
>>21956519never fuck with a man's cat
>>21956372those are domestic products. what about the imports?
>>21954518be glad you don't live in canada where 3 chains who collude with each other to control our entire grocery supply, and a dairy cartel controls the country's entire dairy supply. though i was surprised to learn that US beef prices are basically equivalent to canada's
>>21956547We also have this embarrassing wikipedia articlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_price-fixing_in_Canada>In June 2023, Canada Bread pleaded guilty to four counts of price fixing and was fined $50 million. According to the Competition Bureau, the fine was the highest ever price fixing fine in Canadian history
>>21956578i hope you filed your claim back in december. the payouts are this april
Fuck you mean HIGH PRICES? I shop at Mr. Dookie's Wonder Emporium >$75 - all the shit you can fit into the basket>$100 - a bad bitch to push the cart>theft encouraged>dookieoupons accepted (except for when Brenda is working)
>>21956547>i was surprised to learn that US beef prices are basically equivalent to canada'sOur meatpacking industry has "consolidated" down to a cartel of four major "processors" who collude to pay almost nothing to farmers/ranchers while jacking up the prices to consumers. That's on top of the Obama administration trying to destroy the ranchers by sabotaging their grazing leases in the name of "environmentalism" -- cattle herds have been on a steady decline since 2009 just because of that.The Trump administration initiated an antitrust investigation against the meatpackers last year. Kinda hoping it results in the companies being forced to disassemble themselves, sorta like Bell Telephone. He partially unfucked the grazing leases during his first term but the Biden administration reversed all of the changes, of course, just like they did on the drug pricing agreements that lowered the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens back in 2019-2020.BTW, why four meatpackers? Because antitrust law in the U.S. pretty much lets businesses consolidate until there are that many. Going below four is when the antitrust regulators get serious about stopping buyouts.
>>21956517LOLNasim Najafi Aghdam.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shootingShe was hot and crazy (which are nice!), but also a vegan activist.
>>21954518>2012 for a decade because Obamaconomy Great DepressionNot a good lie poltard.
>>21955627>and higher prices means more safety since the hoodrats and ghetto trash can't shop there.>it's why target is so much nicer than wal-mart and i approve of pricing out the riff-raff.Every time you ask a muttoid why he's content with suffering the bleak torture his life has become, he'll gladly tell you that at least the darkies have it much worse.
>>21956292saying hi is not stopping people and chatting them up. also I ignore you.
>>21956372no he isn't he's narcissistic pedo.>>21956515>Most anons know who that isnope
Digital nomad life is great, I can't imagine doing anything else. I've learned so much about cooking that I wouldn't have learned otherwise in the usa. (Plus literally everything else is better, but that's pretty obvious)
>>21954518kill yourself
started turkeymaxxing last year because of those problems with availabilityits my cats favorite food so i like to be able to give them it all year around (in addition to other food they eat)i save parts of the turkey, like thighs and breast meat, for myself. my theory is that "Turkey" is sold as stuff like "nuggets" that dont need to clearly specify what kind of poultry it is, for fast food or frozen and stuff like that, when its not near the holidays where people typically eat turkey.Obviously turkey exists year round in farms or things like sliced turkey breast for lunch meat wouldn't be so popularOP these days I shop at like 3 different stores minimum, a "healthy" more expensive store for stuff like milk and meat, an asian store for certain vegetables and meat products (like bones/"exotic" cuts) and a mainstream chain store for the normie basics (hamburger buns etc)
>>21955973> it will start to hit the middle class too because of AIYou don’t know what the midde class is lol
>>21956169You sound like fag
>>21955973What also amuses me is the complete and utter incompetence the average citizen has toward self-intellectualization. Most people are too stupid to read a book on an issue, think critically, and inform themselves. They act like animals on emotion. Everything Yuri Bezmenov said would happen with the demoralization of America has begun or has happened and frankly it's kind of depressing to watch. Both sides are honestly guilty of succumbing to it, the liberals and "progressives" most of all. There's a non-zero percent of people who honestly say that homosexual/trans rights are the biggest issue in America, or that we should be concerned if gays can marry, or that a bunch of rich people did stupid shit (Hint, they always have and always will. It is to be expected that people in positions of power will use it for their own desires.)You know what we do not see on the news or in social media posts? People talking about the cost of living, about how healthcare companies fuck innocent people in the ass for something that they didn't want. Or the destruction of the mental health system to the point that the only way to get marginally decent care is to pay out of pocket to private practice? Or the costs of groceries? Or how about the lack of social, educational, and occupational opportunities for young people to thrive? Or the fact that socialized housing and affordable housing are being anally raped by private equity?
I love hearing about the suffering of americans
>>21958037What makes you say that?
>>21955973Only 40% of Americans are employed. The 'middle class' has 0 income already. Ponzi scheme is coming to the end.
>>21954774i did it for 4 yrs or so. got myself fired when i got asthma attacks from the bread they sold. not going back. they never paid me for my last 2 weeks of work or any severance for being fired.
>>21955973>slow changes,how slow? my grandparents had 7 kids, my parents had 2. me? i'm probably gonna die childless and broke. even in my parent's boomer gen(actually born in 1950s), me and my bro might have starved to death if our grandma didn't help feed us with her /ck/ing.inb5 banned for offtopical grandma food ponderings.
>>21954518lol please dont leave and dont come backthank god voting by mail is illeghal now
>>21956372fascist rapist pedoist grifterist warmonger fucking fuck off
>>21958060Even when trump made a tweet implying he would address private equity in the real estate market, ALL the major outlets put out stories about how the stock market “plummeted” 5%…And now we’re at war with Iran instead of him or congress doing anything except bicker.I’m fully cynical about the efficacy of our government. None of them serve us anymore. The ones that might have no backing or power.>>21958135I also worked at a grocery store, pre-pandemic. I was a solo closer for the bakery, only given 4 hours a night, and the morning shift did less and less over the course of 6 months. Then the department head tried to reprimand me for not finishing closes properly. I explained what had been happening and that i couldn’t stay late enough to finish everything so i prioritized appropriately. He accepted the explanation and told me he’d talk to morning shift.I walked out one night after the place was wrecked by morning/midshift again and the team lead had left me a laundry list of their shit that ended with “+ ALL closing duties” with all underlined as well.I knew it was their shit too because the things they wanted me to make should have already been out on the floor according to the stupid corporate schedule available to everyone.I still go there to shop and the bakery employees change every 6 months or so still.
>>21958041You talk like slav. Slav very worse than fag. Fag human. Slav not human. Slav white monkey.
>>21957993Sup turkeybro. People will never understand us. We've got three each, corned beef brisket and Thanksgiving turkeys, in the freezer right now along with a metric fucktonne of seafood.
>>21958138>>21958135You should be permabanned for evasion.Fuck your ugly grandma.
>>21958065Middle class is POOR. They are already affected negatively.
>>21958065The bottom 70% run on debt. Middle class is struggling class. Top 70-90% are treading water. Only top 10% doing well.
>>21958135>they never paid me for my last 2 weeks of work or any severance for being firedWas it a union store? If so, the contract should've required that they pay you unless you never clocked out and never returned to correct it. When I left I put in two months notice and still got terminated for job abandonment when they wouldn't call and confirm leave of absence. Fuck them.>>21958262Everyone hated the service deli bakery where I worked. A lot of noobs, mostly women, think it's the easy way out of the front end while not noticing that it has its own front end for cake orders and fielding complaints. It's why the majority of these departments are mostly staffed by women. It was also not uncommon for them to be closed throughout the day when someone called off and nobody wanted the hours.
>>21954805>maybe misattributing the mean looks but the silence in the grocery stores is very noticeable. no one speaks, it's a really uncomfortable vibe.Dude I'm not grocery shopping to meet new friends, I'm there for presumably the same reason you are: nothing more, and nothing less, than to buy fucking food.
>>21954518>basic food items like turkey drumsticks
>>21956372This is a disingenuous post, eggs never got expensive at HEB. We're insulated from a lot of the nonsense that's ravaging the rest of the country. You can stop pretending that he's anything but a stale meme that normies can't get over.
>>21958464We had a couple of old ladies in the bakery, the deli had only guys my age at the time. It would have been a fun chill job before they started offloading their work onto my 4hrs. I started out being able to at least chat with deli bros sometimes, and they started giving me some of the food they were about to throw out because they felt bad lolProbably would’ve stuck it out if the manager hadn’t tried to reprimand me and then start Mike off on petty shit. Fuck you old Mike. I wouldn’t say that really, I’m doing much better than he is lmao
>>21954524>And the prices are 7X (600% increase) what I used to payno idea where the fuck you live but I don't believe you.
>>21959645He's not wrong. Obama administration: 12pk of soodie poop was $1.99 on saleNow? $12.99 on sale. It's not quite 7× but it's damn close.
>>21958464>unionlol. they're all gov controlled here and the unions don't care. by old labour laws they should pay me 3 months basic salary for being fired, but it never happens. not in retail jebs.they scrapped that law long ago though.
>>21959978In the US it's the UFCW that controls retail labor contracts and they're spineless boot lickers for the most part. All they give a shit about is contract violations and PR. When they vote and receive authorization for strikes, they're all bark.
>>21954546Worth pointing out that the sushi counter mostly doesn't even serve raw fish. It serves mostly bullshit imitation crab, or very thinly stretched spicy tuna--mixed, I assume, with imitation crab.
>>21954805Bro that’s just the Shaws experienceThat place is like a prison
>>21954518Who is the man in the picture, from what video is this taken?
>>21960326It's not a man but an ugly persian woman.
>>21960560You did not aswer the question, nor do I care to enter into asn argument as to why this is a man. If i wanted to argue 'sissy porn aha ooooahhhh uwu' I'd just go over to /pol/So whats the source.
>>21960560same diff
>>21958285>frozen seafoodi basically never do this, is it good? do you buy it prefrozen and keep it frozen without portioning it.
>>21960856nta but i have no issue buying these from costco. salmon, steelhead, haddock, and even tilapiaoil, herbs & seasoning, breadcrumbs, grated parmesean, lemonbakes fine from frozenfries up better from thawed
>>21960856I'm that Anon.We usually buy seafood fresh or live. Fresh stuff might get frozen for future eats (like the 2lbs of $2.99/lb monkfish tails we got last week) but live is eaten day of purchase (like the $1.49/lb PEI mussels we're getting tomorrow to cook with green curry). We did recently get some frozen tuna because it was so cheap, $5.69 for a 24oz bag of 3oz portions and cephalopods are much more common frozen where I live. There's currently 5lbs of shrimp, idk how much haddock, 2lbs of cod, 5lbs of trout and so on. The only things we won't freeze are strong-flavoured oily fish or fish parts like mackerel, bluefish, anchovies, tuna bellies etc because freezing ruins them but white fishes, light tuna and things related-or-similar-to salmonidae are perfectly fine frozen.>>21960859How much're ya paying for that? We get fresh cod for $3.99ish/lb so if that's cheaper, we might make the switch.
>>21954590If we're talking about presidents fucking with the food supply,.most of that goes back to FDR.
>>21954518probably the most disingenuous bullshit post I have seen here in a long time.complete nonsense and obviously a troll.
>>21961868Butthurt much, gaylord?
>>21954518>I left the U.S. in 2012 for a decade because Obamaconomy Great Depression Part DeuxThe economy was way better in 2012 compared to 2008 and ESPECIALLY compared to now. You're high, man. I'd kill for 2012 food and gas prices. Jobs were also everywhere in 2012 especially manufacturing jobs where I live.
>>21962192no argument.
>>21962203You’ll get no argument from me—that you’re gay
>>21962198Same guy you replied to. No jobs for me. I looked for 16 months and literally the only reply I got from an American firm was "do you require a visa to remain in the U.S.?" I responded "no" and heard nothing back. A few months later I looked at their website and saw that they had just hired three smiling Hindu pajeets on H-1Bs, fresh off the boat.A few years later I went back to look at their website and found that they'd dissolved. I hope the Indians tanked their business so badly that they ended up bankrupt.
>>21962198>Jobs...Sir this is 4chan where the majority of anons want a job where they sit around all day. Anon doesn't want to stand around at a factory or do manual labor in retail.
