[hoplite]

I'm seeing the same thing in WalMArts all over the West. I just finished a whirlwind tour of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada back home to California. I flew in to Spokane, WA and then went to Kellogg, ID to pick up my new truck- a 3500 4X4 Dodge Cummins Turbodiesel!!I stopped at several WalMarts along the way and I did notice sparse shelves in some. Clothing seemedfully stocked, ammo, car stereo aisle, and interestingly enough consumer electronics was VERY sparse. I looked for Sony memory sticks in several different Walmarts but they only had the real big sizes in stock (broke down and got a 1Gb because thats ALL they had)

We are witnessing the end of JIT inventory schemes!!!

Of course I believe it has more to dod with the dollar weakening than peak oil though.

[Dukat_Reloaded]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')nd I couldn't help noticing what seemed to me to be an unusual amount of empty space on the shelves, and in a lot of different areas too.

[MfromAmsterdam]

here in Holland no more empty shelves then usual.

(price)inflation is getting noticebly higher, especially with fruit.

it is reported that pay raises for average and below get swallowed by this.

[LadyRuby]

I think it's a trick of the mind.

I remember doing this very same thing about 8 or 9 months ago when I went into my usual grocery store. I was convinced that there was less food on the shelves, and I was imagining a run for it.

Just a trick of the mind. Likely you hit the market before re-stocking.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hoplite', '.')..to pick up my new truck- a 3500 4X4 Dodge Cummins Turbodiesel!!...

[Atlantean_Relic]

I wonder if its a good thing to have a Halliburton in town with a railway to it?

[Wednesday]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('LadyRuby', 'I') think it's a trick of the mind.

I remember doing this very same thing about 8 or 9 months ago when I went into my usual grocery store. I was convinced that there was less food on the shelves, and I was imagining a run for it.

Just a trick of the mind. Likely you hit the market before re-stocking.

[Pablo2079]

The produce looks worse than normal..... and the produce prices are higher. Haven't noticed empty shelves though....

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dukat_Reloaded', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')nd I couldn't help noticing what seemed to me to be an unusual amount of empty space on the shelves, and in a lot of different areas too.

[green_achers]

I haven't been in Wallyworld for a while, but the grocery stores I patronize seem to be well-stocked. We're not quite used to having stocked stores down here, so you folks are making me nervous. It's definitely time to stock up for hurricane season if there's any chance shipments might be short.

Actually, I'm pretty well stocked on most items, just need to fill my 10 five-gallon fuel cans. I have a couple of cases of MRE's left over from last year...

[whereagles]

Hum.. maybe Wallmart is just rethinking their trucking schedules? ya know.. less trucks, with more load, so as to optimize efficiency. E.g. implementing the C-word.

Obviously that leads to the occasional stock rupture, but nothing more drastic than that.

[Bleep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gazzatrone', 'C')onsidering Africa's political maturity and the state of Nigeria.

[aflurry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wednesday', 'Y')es.

Today I was unable to locate the brand names Borax and Pears Soap in my entire town.

[Wednesday]

...and last month it was?


After speaking to the general manager of the store, I was told that they will not carry these products anymore because they have no say in what gets shipped from the main office.

It's not a trick of the mind, or a dream or a hallucination.

[threadbear]

Wal-Mart's 'just in time' delivery system, will have to rename itself something more suitable. Maybe --just in line delivery, to reflect trucker's long wait at the pumps, in the future.

[Wednesday]

Ah, screw Wal-Mart.

I'm fortunate to have a co-op here, it's time to buy into my share. It's more expensive sure, but it's my future and it's time to support it.

Right now the co-op is kind of a hippy-dippy health food store, but it will quickly turn into a redneck farmer's market as soon as "the big guys" leave.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wednesday', 'I')'m fortunate to have a co-op here, it's time to buy into my share. It's more expensive sure, but it's my future and it's time to support it.

[Wednesday]

Oh I'm sure they are as varied and different as the people who organize them.

If I understand the way mine works, you buy an annual share and then you are considered part owner. As an owner you get discounts and the right to sell your own products, after they are sampled and approved by the board for quality and safeness and if you are claiming they are organic, you have to prove it to them somehow.

Obviously, I need more details, but the way to get the discounts is to buy in as a partner, at least for this particular co-op.

[magician]

yeah it must be nothing because well............... if it were something what im seeing at work would make sense. I work at a tobacco specielty convience store and we are having a devil of a time getting djarums, forien cigars, some import beer and other things that get shipped far. really far. my customers reinforce this as they come in and are not supprised that we dont have the item they are seeking because everyone else in town is short too. the cost on everything is going way the fuck up with a pack of reices pieces at .95cts. we are hearing now from the distributers of price increases in the shit american beers we sell (bud and miller if you like goat piss green beer). im hearing of import distributers running out their stock because of point source increases related to the dollar getting flushed. im also hearing that things are just getting scarce because the just in time thing is breaking down at current prices. just in time isnt quick enough to turn a profit in the face of rising energy costs. I dont know, anyone else out there in retail? mabe im just a paranoid bastard. it is getting interesting though.

--frater coyote

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('magician', 'y')eah it must be nothing because well...if it were something what im seeing at work would make sense...I'm also hearing that things are just getting scarce because the just in time thing is breaking down at current prices. just in time isnt quick enough to turn a profit in the face of rising energy costs...it is getting interesting though...