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originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: TrulyColorBlind
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: TrulyColorBlind
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: TrulyColorBlind
originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: TrulyColorBlind
I don't shop there enough to notice, but I have noticed what seems to be to large a % of shelf space devoted to non-essentials.
Seasonal crap, candy.
The one I shop at used to have a small section for those kinds of things, too, now it's practically a whole aisle with that junk. I guess that's why non-essentials like shortening got kicked out. More people are buying 6-foot blow-up baby pools than food. The whole dynamics of what used to be normal in the world are getting turned on end. It's going to bring about calamity, sooner or later.
I don't buy or use shortening, but if you could get it at Aldi before, surely there must be an alternative within a stone's throw. ANY Hispanic/Latino/Southern section in a store will have it.
You are missing the point. While every "Hispanic/Latino/Southern section in a store will have it," EVERY store USED to have it ALL the time. Don't you remember this? The fact that a store, any store, doesn't have it now is what I'm pointing out. It never was that way before. To me, it's like paraphrasing what a certain man said in Germany during World War II:
First they took shortening out of the store, but I didn't buy it, so it didn't matter.
Then they took out flour and sugar, but I didn't use it, so it didn't matter.
Then they took out yarns permanently and there was no products left to buy at all. I should have spoken up sooner.
I'm not trying to say anything bad about you, just pointing out that everything bad always starts small, so we need to recognize the little things like this and try to do something about it before it's too late.
it's not a conspiracy, it's evidently a legitimate shortage because stupid Americans cowered for a year instead of harvesting.
And so you know I'm NOT full of crap, here's Meijer:
www.meijer.com...
Do you have a link to back up your claims that it's not a conspiracy? And there are no Meijers or Family Fares near here. So, don't get your panties in a wad. If it was "seasonal," how come, during the same exact season I shopped there at Aldis, right across the street Kroger's had shortening? Are you telling me that Kroger's was in a different time zone or something and therefore it was a different season just across the street? We've all seen how things start. One place at a time and then it spreads. That is reality. Are you in touch with it? No, shortening is not "seasonal." Just like Don't Tread On Me said above, shortening is essential for some people, not "seasonal."
I mean, wake up, people!
If this is what you fly off the handle about, suit yourself. Even you admit it's across the street at a Kroger, yet you have to stones to fly off the handle at the mere suggestion that...GASP!...you literally go across the street to that store. You;'re not gaslighting your way out of this one, you did not explicitly state ANYTHING restricting the comments following your claim to adhere only to seasonal claims.
I don't give a crud what your fixation with Aldi is or why, but your behavior handling a backburner idea suggestion is unbecoming as hell.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: ketsuko
Yes, but it's what people voted for.
I'm pretty certain that nobody actually voted for crops to be damaged by extremely weather events and the rest of the stuff happened under Trump's presidency Biden hasn't been in office for long enough to have a substantive effect.
It won't be Biden ecomony till maybe 2023. Same as it was still Obama economy till two years in to Trump's administration.
originally posted by: TrulyColorBlind
originally posted by: surfer_soul
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: AaarghZombies
People voted for endless lockdowns and masking to stay safe, and that contributes to this.
If you vote for higher energy prices in any form, you voted for this.
If you vote for higher taxes in any form, you voted for this.
Hold on the lockdowns and mask wearing began and continued last year under Trump, are you having a go at Trump voters? They also happened around the world, do you think people across the world voted for them?
Your argument here is literally retarded and to think you got a whole bunch of stars for it. This site has gone downhill.
Can you please grow up and not call people names? Didn't your mama ever teach you not to do that? Oh, and you're saying that President Trump forced all those Democratic governors to do those mean things? Please seek counseling for your condition.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: Bluntone22
Folks voted for the politicians who killed their own local economies, too. In fact, those local and state level leaders almost certainly did actually receive the majority of votes and won their positions from a popular vote rather than through voter fraud and ballot counting manipulation, so this collapse definitely does seem to be what people voted for.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Yes, but it's what people voted for.