Walmart shelves empty.

Hopefully Walmart is learning to never trust china and to move their supply chain back stateside

Mine is very well stocked. Must be my white privilege.

It isn't going to happen everywhere at the same time. Kind of the beauty of it.

How do you know that the store hasn't boycotted them and taken their products off the shelves? How does everyone know that the Conservatives are the ones buying up their products? I would love for that to be the case but if the stores are removing their products, we need to boycott those stores. Not walk out with a smile thinking the conservatives are "winning" again. lol

Not normal at all in galveston county. Was there with wife last week. Lots of empty shelves. Told her that now we're seeing how much we depend on China for goods

Walmart shelves should be empty. Screw those awful chain stores like Walmart, Big Lots, Target. They’ve ruined the aesthetic of American cities and helped empower the CCP.

Everyone in Florida and Texas and many states needs bike tires and tubes, which you could sell on ebay

My Winn-Dixie in central Florida has many bare shelves too. I suspect they are going under. Last year, they remodelled and then went with a Dollar General look. This morning, only half stocked.

I am thinking everyone should list everything they would buy in a year and get it right away.

not here.
Just finished shopping. no masks, no line up, mostly Caucasian, shelves full.
3 major grocers

Walmart just got a taxpayer bailout too.

Maybe they're not paying suppliers timely.

I live in a tourist area in northern Wisconsin that has just been overwhelmed this summer with people escaping lock-downs. All our stores are low on everything, but are restocked regularly so it is impossible to tell if it is shortages, or just supply and demand.

What is interesting is when they are restocking, some items seem to be available and some not. For example, last week I was looking for a Home Run Inn frozen sausage pizza. The freezer had just been restocked, and all they had in there was 6 slots full of pepperoni. No sausage, deluxe, cheese, nothing but a cooler full of pepperoni. Same thing in Tombstone as well.

I found this interesting so I started paying attention to this as I walked around the store, and found this in a number of different areas. For example, in multiple styles of shoes they would have 15 pairs of shoes in some odd size like 13, and none in the other sizes.

Also, I was looking for a few plastic containers and found very few in the aisle where they were supposed to be. However, plastic bins could be found throughout the store in random departments filling gaps in products on the shelves.

This leads me to believe that there are some shortages, and that they are filling the slots with whatever they can get so to make the store not look as empty.

And if you sell where are you going to go?

Yes, it is the same here in Mississippi. Home Depot and Lowe’s grill and lawn mowers outside is usually full. They are not ordering new items. Drill bits are dwindling as well as everything else... going to be a long cold winter.. They are going to lock it all down soon. No more essentials.

Hayward?

It was a tardtastic mistake to outsource manufacturing to China instead of Mexico, even out of America.

Rice Lake.

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Then all we'll have left is Publix and walmart. Winn dixie wasn't really ever great with meat or prices. They do have pretty good deli/bakery stuff. Their bbq beans with pork is excellent. Publix hasn't made fresh bakery items in store for a long time. They warm up dough, that's about it. The rest comes from their factory in Lakeland. I'm not a fan of public. Wish we had Safeway down here. They tried it in Clearwater but it left for some reason.

Omfg - it’s the end of the world! No more garden pots! Holy hell...Armageddon is heya. Give me a fkn break! Trinity needs to reevaluate the fear mongering fake bs people post. It’s cluttering up the important news.

No bicycles, fishing gear and clothes.... during summer... hmmm how odd.

So their biggest selling season for the mentioned products, given it’s summer, has shelves empty... breaking.

Our n.e. Alabama store is loaded with bikes...maybe others are not because millions out of work and bored...families spending more time together doing things

Have you looked at other stores??? They are all becoming empty

I've been saying this since the start of this COVID fiasco, buy what you can now, stock up on everything not just food. I noticed shortage at Ross, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and other stores, just entire rows just gone, stuff consoldated.

I asked one clerk, at Marshalls I think it was, they said they're having trouble getting stuff from warehouse, or just that the warehouse is empty, so sounds like trade war, not sure.

I stocked up on shirts, pots/pans, sounds trivial, but in a year from now you might not get that stuff AT ALL.

Plan to go out and get tires and other stuff for car too. If the whole hyperinflation thing is true, better to buy now.

Soon comes the pain!
Is this it? Under cover of the plandemic lockdowns, as the sheep wait in line with their social distancing and masks on as they are told to do! Everyone divided even your house! China still not producing goods, food being discarded by the thousands of ton's. Protein shuttered, Distribution shut down!

You will work all day for your daily bread! a bag of grain for a day of labor!

In some places the woman will eat their children!
As all the men will kill each other.
Joseph Smith.

Got Preps???

We have been warned!
Told to prepare as no one will help you.

I will not feed you or your babies! Hell I do not think my wife or mother in law is worth the 400,000 to 750,000 calories to feed for a year, when it comes down to it!

If you can find long term basic food, For one person is at least 1200 calories a day two times that if working, So about a half a million calories a year, So you can buy time enlarge your garden and your small animals to feed more people for security and labor!

Where I live in northern NY there are no Wal-Marts closer than an hour and a half but local groceries are ok with stock for the most part, although no wipes or Lysol, no hand sanitizer and very low stock of bleach and alcohol. Can't find pretreated wood anywhere, though. We're building a fence and bought the absolute last of what a local building supply company had in stock and it's just enough for our fence. Owner said he had no idea if they'd get any more in stock. Same for freezers. We have one, wanted a second and had to resort to buying one on Ebay. Thankfully the price wasn't bad and it's just what we needed. Can't find pools anywhere, even smaller quick set pools. Local pool supply said they have a limited order coming in and that's it. Same for garden supplies and a lot of hardware. No bikes in our area, either, and no fishing gear...which is ridiculous when you consider that's a huge draw in this area.

In the cities, bikes use for commuting and shopping has increased greatly.....why? due to the outside dining rules, 2 way streets been turned into one ways.....the closed lanes is used as dining areas....gridlock and traffic is bad....I never seen so many Bikes, E bikes, and scooters in use....I checked in at a neighborhood bike shop, they have a 3 week wait for repairs.....

Bike repairs is a growth field....

Gee, wouldn't it make good business sense to keep ordering more then?

But that's not what's happening. These items are not being restocked at all. Supply lines of imported products are shutting down and looks like many already have shut down entirely. At this point, people are scavenging what's still left from previous shipments. The "reset" is underway, which is directly related to the dollar being dropped as world reserve trade currency unit.

As for big box stores themselves, some good suggestions have been made in the thread regarding looting and even FEMA conversions, but the idea that shelves remain empty because people are buying, for example, 30 bikes a day is idiocy and is clearly just PR propaganda on your part.