In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Seeing that here, too. Too many times lately I've come home and had to tell hubby (after he's asked for something specific) that they did't have it in the store, like sugar-free lozenges. Or had to change my menu because they didn't have picnic roast (pork) or full fat plain yogurt. I can understand not being able to find Thai red curry paste or shirataki noodles, but when you can't find reduced fat Swiss cheese or xfirm tofu or frozen peaches or frozen corn, something's fucked up.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
What's with the supply chain over the last year? I can't just get my list together for groceries and sundries, and go shopping and get it all. Somebody - and often a few somebodies - are always out of at least one thing. So I have to go to different stores, or go back to the same store later, usually a lot more than once, just to get everything. Or bail on what I wanted and either get something sort-of-like, or give up on it altogether.
And it's been getting worse the last few weeks! Today for example, I struck out at 4 of 5 places where I went shopping! ... just looking for ordinary, everyday stuff.
Walgreens - Walgreens-branded sugar and dye-free cough syrup, and hand sanitizer, not a single one on the shelf. Albertsons - lite salt (discontinued entirely, even though I'd been buying it there for 10 years), it was the only reason I'd shop there.. Chevron - not pumping gas at all, open, but not for buying gas. Vitamin City - no paper towels or ground pork, at all. Target - no shampoo or paper towels. The only place that had what I wanted was Trader Joe's.
It's so time-consuming and frustrating!
I feel like there should be some geezer sitting behind the counter, picking his nails with a camp knife, saying ... nope, we don't have none of that here, neither. Not since the gas station burned down in oh-five.
Has anybody else noticed the same thing?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
Hmmmmmmm....
Anybody think these "shortages" might be due to the fact that everybody has some local Amazon warehouses that are stockpiling things that normally would be dispersed among the local stores?
Not making any claims or anything. But I do happen to notice Amazon trucks in my area every single day when I'm working outside. We're kind of in a tucked away area of the city that doesn't have a lot of outlets and no thruways to major intersections too, so if I see that truck it is for somebody specifically within a 4 block radius. On about 6 occasions in the last year I was the guy they were delivering to.
Most stuff you can get on Amazon is priced lower than the local stores as long as you can weasel free shipping and don't let them take it back that way. I'd say my average savings on goods from Amazon, shipped to my door for free, is anywhere from 20% to 75% off of what I would pay for it in the store when it wasn't on sale.
If the shortages are somehow due to Amazon's local warehouses popping up all over the place, I expect that problem not to get any better, even if it doesn't get worse.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'll keep my eye open for that.
Or, since Signy and I both live in SoCal, maybe it's a SoCal thing.
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Quote:Me as well. Though I'm still coughing somewhat from the flu (hence the regular cough syrup purchases), it put a 6 week divot in my life that I need to make up for.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Just FYI, not going to be posting as much. Now that my energy is back (thanks to cetirizne, Advair and albuterol inhalers, mupirocin/saline nose rinse, and fluticasone, oxymetazoline, and cromolyn nose sprays, plus nose strips and the occasional lozenge, antacid, or cough syrup!) I'll be helping hubby with urgently-needed home repairs and catching up on the things that got dropped about 5 weeks ago.
Definitely will be checking in with you guys here, but don't expect to see me as much in the political threads.
As always tho, I enjoy your comments and info!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
I'll be reading here with interest! but not posting as much.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I'll keep my eye open for that.
Or, since Signy and I both live in SoCal, maybe it's a SoCal thing.
Alright.... I got to say it. Didn't you just argue with me in the virus thread a few days ago that you don't live in California?
I'm not imagining that, am I?
Not aiming to kick up any drama with ya, but I seem to recall that being a thing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Glad you're both feeling better. 
Still kind of "bleh" here, but half of that is probably just the SAD that I usually suffer from this time of year but managed to power through before the denture process and all that ensued kind of derailed that train.
Bought some stuff I'll need to begin creating my closets while I was out for food last night. I was going to buy a stud finder, but even the cheapo ones are really pricey at the local store so I'm going to do some research and see if there are old man ways of doing it without tech do-dads first, and then I'll see what they've got on Amazon and if I have any other things to buy there to get me over the hump for free shipping.
Also got some barter work coming up with my friend, so even though it's not money it will help me get back on track and get me free assistance when I'm putting my gutters up and doing some other things around here in the spring/summer.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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You originally claimed that I'm FROM SoCal and that's how I got my 'SoCal' values. I'm not FROM SoCal. I lived the first half of my life in western NY, near or in Buffalo. That's where I acquired my heritage, Catholic, socially-responsible values.
I LIVE in SoCal now.
Yanno Jack, a lot of these issues could be avoided if you would just read more carefully.
Sigh. Just read more carefully - OK?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:enjoy the weather, BRENDA!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Another bright sunny day here. Squeak one more out tomorrow according to the weather people then back to rain.
Please send rain!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
I am SIG. If I could send you what is heading my way for the weekend I would.
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BRENDA: Another bright sunny day here. Squeak one more out tomorrow according to the weather people then back to rain.
SIGNY: enjoy the weather, BRENDA!
Please send rain!
BRENDA: I am SIG. If I could send you what is heading my way for the weekend I would.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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My boss's husband took me to a local Walmart after work and I bought a bookcase to repurpose as a DVD/Video holder.
Project for the weekend.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
You originally claimed that I'm FROM SoCal and that's how I got my 'SoCal' values.
Did I? I don't know. That doesn't sound like something I'd say to you. I think you may have been making an inference that wasn't implied because we were being testy with each other.
If I made that implication, that means I was making it about Sigs too, which also doesn't sound like something I'd do.
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I'm not FROM SoCal. I lived the first half of my life in western NY, near or in Buffalo. That's where I acquired my heritage, Catholic, socially-responsible values.
I LIVE in SoCal now.
Yanno Jack, a lot of these issues could be avoided if you would just read more carefully.
Sigh. Just read more carefully - OK?
I thought I had. I "knew" you were from California (now). I'm sure you've posted the history of where you grew up, but I either forgot it or never read it in the first place.
My bad.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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