Thread by @RobbersonJon

Many have requested that I keep doing this so if it’s helping convey a message I will

Here’s one of our grocery stores yesterday

Every time I go shopping there’s more & more empty shelf space.

Vendors compete for that real estate

American apathy and it’s results in a single pic

This is July 8, 2021

This is not March 2020. That’s 16 months ago.

I’ve used this cheapie Melatonin for a few years so it’s a regular purchase

The pills are up $1 a bottle in the last month. The dissolvables are up $2 in the past month.

Bought this exact projects table in 2019 for $24. I still have it with the price tag still on the leg

Bought this exact stock pot for my mom as part of her birthday present in January 2020. It was $16.99

Same exact pot. Same store. Same aisle.

(these are those super cheap, barely thicker than aluminum foil pots)

Our local Walmart continues to just let valuable shelf space languish

Also haven’t been able to find Lil’Cats brand of cat food for 2 weeks (which is why when I buy supplies I buy a lot)

groceries haven’t been this picked over or empty (when there isn’t a natural disaster) through my entire 40+ years

There are ZERO Mason jars or Ball canning jars. Of any size. There are no rings. And no lids. This has been an issue for so long I’m surprised they haven’t back filled the shelves with something else

it seems like nobody cares anymore.

Even this display could be improved if an employee simply re-hung the glasses up top back on some pegs but there are hundreds of feet of empty shelves everywhere and it seems like now it’s just the (sigh) “new normal”

While I self-checked at Walmart (3rd time Ive been there and there’s no cashiers) a guy walked past the self check employee and said:

🗣they don’t make you wear the muzzle anymore? Dude you’re lucky

👤they made us take the vaccine

🗣oh well. Anything’s better.

Is it?

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