The rules pertain to non-US nationals. American citizens and permanent residents may still enter the US regardless of their vaccination status, but face additional testing hurdles because officials believe they more easily contract and spread COVID-19 and in order to encourage them to get a shot.
Anyone else notice shipping things is slower than it used to be? Mailed a package down the West Coast last week. Normally that's a 2-day affair; took 4.
It didn't go through LA. But I did take a passenger train through very near there many years ago, and it was a shithole then; so I'm not too surprised it looks like that now.
Check the physical locations of the shelves at some point. Of the few things I've noticed some superstores doing to hide their dwindling stock this has included:
Filling gaps with advertisement signs
Putting confectionary on aisle ends and side stacks that would normally be completely different product types
Physically moving aisles and removing others so there are fewer spots to be empty. This particular example was related to an entire clothes aisle just dissappearing and those around it moving in slightly to take the space, most noticeable from the outer most aisle where the distance to the boundary wall now meant more than two trolleys could pass each other
Completely redesigning shelve layouts and chilled/fridge unit placement. An Aldi I visited some point last did this with one of its standalone fridge units that used to be a layout of two standing fridge units back to back near the wall mounted units. One day the units not facing the wall units just vanished and never came back
An interesting observation where I am is that the local Walmart has all sorts of food shortages: the meat section is almost completely empty, and there are a lot of empty shelves in the fresh produce and frozen fruits and vegetables sections.
However the local Costco is completely normal albeit more expensive than usual.
Given the demographics of Walmart and Costco shoppers I could almost believe that at least some shitlibs are being completely honest when they say "Shortages? What shortages?"
The stores near me have started stocking unusual goods. It isn't unknown that grocers will take on a new product or two, but I'm seeing far more new product brands than usual. Weird off-brands of Mac'n'cheese replacing store name and Kraft, in example. Not alongside, just replacing, not on the shelves. And I doubt Kraft has stopped producing one of its flagship products.
But I'm guessing the store couldn't get shipments in time, and so got large/larger shipments from less mainstream companies, or companies that they have relations with that don't normally supply the product but have something comparable, to make up the difference. But hey, I've got my 48 pack of Mac'n'Cheetos, I guess that's "close enough". And no one notices when the pancake mix is sold by Restaurant Standard, or something to that effect, instead of Aunt Jemima or store brand.
Yeah they've been doing the "unusual goods" thing as well. Selling things like corned beef and Easter hams off-season. That worked reasonably well for a time, but now even that's not enough.
One other thing I've seen is stores using shorter shelves. Forget which store it was, but I remember a particular shelf always being taller than me, then one day it wasn't.
They straight up remove the top level shelf in one aisle. Just took the whole damn thing down one notch and hoped no one noticed. And this is in a metropolitan area that's pretty thoroughly insulated against the economic turbulence the rest of the country experiences, so I can only imagine how bad shit is in normal Podunk USA.
Prepare for shelves to be even emptier and inflation to spike even higher.
Why does every marxist and communist government quickly lead to bread queues?
Such generalization!
Some marxist and communist governments don't have bread for the commoners at all!
This is the mandate they are talking about.
https://archive.is/SO9at
Brandon apparently announced a trucker mandate that takes effect Jan 22 and applies to any trucker crossing American borders back in Nov.
The already disastrous supply chain crisis will only get worse.
Yeah.
Anyone else notice shipping things is slower than it used to be? Mailed a package down the West Coast last week. Normally that's a 2-day affair; took 4.
Oh no
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/141ErqIrkl/california-a-failed-state-train-/c/
It didn't go through LA. But I did take a passenger train through very near there many years ago, and it was a shithole then; so I'm not too surprised it looks like that now.
Post Office
Are they now giving negative effort?
I didn't think the USPS could ever accomplish these three things, give worse customer service,care less and go slower.
Check the physical locations of the shelves at some point. Of the few things I've noticed some superstores doing to hide their dwindling stock this has included:
Filling gaps with advertisement signs
Putting confectionary on aisle ends and side stacks that would normally be completely different product types
Physically moving aisles and removing others so there are fewer spots to be empty. This particular example was related to an entire clothes aisle just dissappearing and those around it moving in slightly to take the space, most noticeable from the outer most aisle where the distance to the boundary wall now meant more than two trolleys could pass each other
Completely redesigning shelve layouts and chilled/fridge unit placement. An Aldi I visited some point last did this with one of its standalone fridge units that used to be a layout of two standing fridge units back to back near the wall mounted units. One day the units not facing the wall units just vanished and never came back
An interesting observation where I am is that the local Walmart has all sorts of food shortages: the meat section is almost completely empty, and there are a lot of empty shelves in the fresh produce and frozen fruits and vegetables sections.
However the local Costco is completely normal albeit more expensive than usual.
Given the demographics of Walmart and Costco shoppers I could almost believe that at least some shitlibs are being completely honest when they say "Shortages? What shortages?"
The stores near me have started stocking unusual goods. It isn't unknown that grocers will take on a new product or two, but I'm seeing far more new product brands than usual. Weird off-brands of Mac'n'cheese replacing store name and Kraft, in example. Not alongside, just replacing, not on the shelves. And I doubt Kraft has stopped producing one of its flagship products.
But I'm guessing the store couldn't get shipments in time, and so got large/larger shipments from less mainstream companies, or companies that they have relations with that don't normally supply the product but have something comparable, to make up the difference. But hey, I've got my 48 pack of Mac'n'Cheetos, I guess that's "close enough". And no one notices when the pancake mix is sold by Restaurant Standard, or something to that effect, instead of Aunt Jemima or store brand.
Yeah they've been doing the "unusual goods" thing as well. Selling things like corned beef and Easter hams off-season. That worked reasonably well for a time, but now even that's not enough.
One other thing I've seen is stores using shorter shelves. Forget which store it was, but I remember a particular shelf always being taller than me, then one day it wasn't.
They straight up remove the top level shelf in one aisle. Just took the whole damn thing down one notch and hoped no one noticed. And this is in a metropolitan area that's pretty thoroughly insulated against the economic turbulence the rest of the country experiences, so I can only imagine how bad shit is in normal Podunk USA.