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2021-08-07 -Land of the Free

‘Preppers' Quietly Stock Up for the ‘Perfect Storm'

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-07 00:55|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Laugh at these people? No, me neither.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-07 00:58|| 2021-08-07 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Totally Set

and a bite to eat.

Posted by Vinegar Snuck7115 2021-08-07 01:05|| 2021-08-07 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought the most important part of being prepared is keeping it a secret from unprepared?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-07 04:52|| 2021-08-07 04:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ...in America its being better armed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-07 07:16|| 2021-08-07 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Wuhan in Panic Mode: China Admits Residents Hoarding Food, Hiding amid Virus Surge

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-07 07:29|| 2021-08-07 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ...in America its being better armed.

Sure you want to stand by this? If you do, say it in Pashtun.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-07 07:50|| 2021-08-07 07:50|| Front Page Top

#7 ...in America its being better armed.

And have a strategy for approaching local 'donors' of food, water and fuel.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-07 08:06|| 2021-08-07 08:06|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 & #7 Ahhhh.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-07 08:13|| 2021-08-07 08:13|| Front Page Top

#9 ^
Have a

Posted by Angavimp Gravinter4104 2021-08-07 08:43|| 2021-08-07 08:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Walmart is cutting hours(I'd bet traffic is way down). Dollar General isn't getting products from warehouse. Reason, there is dispute with drivers and many quitting. I understand that rail traffic is way down from west coast to east coast. "Perfect Storm" indeed. In my area stock outs in all industries, lumber, foods, soft drinks and water. Currently driver shortages in fuel tanker deliveries. Help shortages in all industries as well.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-07 08:43|| 2021-08-07 08:43|| Front Page Top

#11 These large box grocery barns need to be re-stocked at 3-5 day intervals (plus or minus). Mess with the restocking schedule, or miss one or more.....shi* city Ned.

Just say'n.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-07 09:49|| 2021-08-07 09:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Away for the weekend with friends who work at a food factory — she’s QA, he’s a plant engineer. Since their state was shut down, they’ve been running with decreasing personnel due to a combination of quarantined and quitting workers. They’ve hired 220 but 225 quit, so the hourly line workers are working twelve hour shifts twenty days straight before they can ask for a single day off when the production schedule allows — generally getting one no sooner than another week in the future. It’s gotten so bad that the company is bringing in a bilingual personnel manager from the Mexico organization so they can start hiring from local Spanish-speaking population — which may or may not be in the country legally — and of course that will require translating all the training and procedures manuals into Spanish in the midst of this nonsense. My friends are in their early sixties, and also not happy about the long hours...

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-07 09:55|| 2021-08-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Those in D.C. who make policy probably are not experiencing any shortages or wanting for anything.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-07 10:26|| 2021-08-07 10:26|| Front Page Top

#14 ^^
Just ONE BIG Party Here

Posted by Goober Omuper2924 2021-08-07 10:35|| 2021-08-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#15 It’s gotten so bad that the company is bringing in a bilingual personnel manager from the Mexico organization so they can start hiring from local Spanish-speaking population

Even better, fire the senior management and use the management from Mexico in order to get the job done. Watch when they become the disposables.

Never given a thought that maybe just implement a realistic schedule and let demand price their product accordingly.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-07 12:01|| 2021-08-07 12:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Those in D.C. who make policy probably are not experiencing any shortages or wanting for anything.

Photos of massive tent at Obama's mansion raise questions of 'scaled back' birthday party

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-07 21:22|| 2021-08-07 21:22|| Front Page Top

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