Well, I went to Walmart to stock up on groceries!

[imanamerican63]

Hey Donald Dumpster Trump! It cost my billfold approximately an extra $30 since I went a couple weeks ago. I usually get the same thing to eat, because it easier to make in my truck while on the road. I thought that you promised lower prices no matter what I bought.

It was a wreck less thing to enact a tariff war and think prices won’t go up!

A stable genius could have figured that out and you’re no stable genius! More like a fool dressed up in a clown suit!

[marble falls]

1. I started keeping a pantry during the Pandemic. I started running it down last fall when I felt confident that ...

... Kamala Harris had it. I've also been baking bread, a loaf a week since the Pandemic. I don't hoard more than a package of tp. But my pantry is being filled and I have started drying and doubled the back porch tomatoes. Tomatoes are a tough thing to grow out here. I do grow some indoors, a grape golden I've had excellent luck with. But I want Heirlooms and I may get one or two, so I plant three new likely suspects each year. I'll keep buying on special in bulk. We got a vacuum sealer.

I'm not going survival so much as I am evening out the bumps. When we get to the rallies, required party membership, internal passports, "FEMA camps" - I'll be in rural Ohio or Iowa. I'll reconnect to like minded from the 60s and 70s.

This shit ain't even started. Why aren't there millions in the streets?

[LauraInLA]

4. Could you recommend the specific grape golden or other tomatoes? I'd like to grow some. Is there a brand of seed,

etc., that you can share?

[Keepthesoulalive]

6. Try sungold

It was a monster producer for me last year, another is sun sugar.

[LauraInLA]

8. Thank you!

[MissB]

14. A consistent favorite!

I’m trying Adaptive Seed’s open pollinated variety of Sungold this year. I like the idea of not being tied to buying the F1 seeds every few years. Hoping it is equal to the Sungold that I know.

I’m also trying Barry’s crazy cherry and Ildi this year. I’m pretty sure those two are similar if not the same tomato. But they’re both yellows.

[MissB]

13. Unfi was hacked

They distribute to Whole Foods and a ton of other grocery stores. They’ve been cagey for the past few days but apparently they’ve been hacked which means they can’t get specific orders to stores.

They’re offering to send some amount of items to Whole Foods stores- like the top 100 items.

I walked into the small Whole Foods today (son’s gf is coming to visit and she eats a few oat products that I don’t usually keep on hand). I could see the dairy department from the entrance that I came through and thought it looked absolutely weirdly bare.

Now I know why.

(I also keep a deep pantry)

[marble falls]

15. "They" act casual about these odd shortages, almost makes it seem planned.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Lower prices on Day One

With a Republican President All Americans are better off all the time.

[DENVERPOPS]

3. I gotta tell you

if the Republicans could figure out a way to get Trump out of the White House, without losing Trumpism, and his voters, they would have already done it.

If somehow Trump has an MI or Aneurism, or whatever.....we will still be exposed Republicanism, masquerading as Trumpism, and will still be stuck with his 74+ Million mindless voters......

[generalbetrayus]

5. More like a fool dressed up in a clown suit!

[progressoid]

7. I shop at Aldi.

Walmart can fuck right off.

[chouchou]

10. Aldi is cool. Some people complain because everything should be the same when you walk through the aisles.

Weird me..I love surprises.

[progressoid]

11. My wife like the Aldi Aisle of Shame!

What Is Aldi's Aisle of Shame?

Many shoppers refer to Aldi’s Aldi Finds aisle as the “Aisle of Shame.” But more specifically, the Aldi Finds aisle featuring home goods and lifestyle products—not the food section.

Yes, every month, we share the best food items coming to the Aldi Finds section. However, those aren’t the items you’d find in the “Aisle of Shame” because there’s no shame in stocking up on seven bags of your favorite limited-time potato chips (we’re looking at you, Clancy’s Cheddar & Sour Cream Baked Chips).

Instead, the “Aisle of Shame” is where you find things like Dutch ovens, candles, throw blankets, shoes, patio decor, and much more.

In reality, there’s no shame in buying any of these items either—in fact, we encourage it because Aldi’s products are high quality, and most of them are dupes for expensive name-brand items. But shoppers call it the “Aisle of Shame” because customers tend to lose all self-control when they enter the aisle.
...

https://www.allrecipes.com/what-is-aldis-aisle-of-shame-7966896

I just like the no-nonsense shopping. When Ald first came to our area, a couple people I know looked down at me for shopping there. Now, they are converts! Sure, Aldi doesn't have everything, but I save a lot of money and time shopping there. Plus there are those interesting products that you won't see in the big box stores.

[chouchou]

12. I didn't know about all that. Thanks!

[marble falls]

16. I used Aldi when I was in Nebraska and Iowa, the ones out here in Texas closed more than ten years ago.

[Warpy]

9. Stores owned by the Kroger conglomerate are giving me sticker shock

but I'm in the enviable position of being able to afford to eat.

However, if this keeps up much longer, I'll be back on rice and beans along with everybody else and damned glad to get them.

[marble falls]

17. Rice and beans are good for you and delicious. I can afford to eat as I please. Fortunately, we're both are good cooks.

... We have bug out bags, and we are prepping for a TACO collapse.