I'm in an upper-middleclass burb outside Detroit.
The shelves are at ~75%... if that... as is the staffing.
There are help wanted signs everywhere.
Prices are skyrocketing.
It may be early but turkeys are in very short supply.
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Why so many kids in the grocery store during school hours? And I see just enough advertised sale items to last the first day, so you better get there quick like. And I see that the stores never have my flavor of ice tea on the shelf. And I see eggs, meat, and milk have gone up. Thanks Joe. I also notice tons of used discarded masks thrown about the parking lots. Slobs. And I notice 20 people in line with one person working the deli counter and the customer currently being served taste testing 10 different lunchmeats. Come on lady, you know what bologna taste like. We're all dying here. And I notice the self serve check out machine malfunctions after my first swipe attempt and the cashier gal is nowhere to be found. And, I notice that after checking out all my groceries, I realize in horror that I left all my store coupons on the kitchen table back home.
Always plentiful with food, fish, meat, produce (often local) and high end specialty items from around the globe.
Fabulous take out counter. Well staffed. Overflowing with help.
Have never taken notice re prices. Not the kind of store where shoppers even bother to ask how much it costs to fill their environment friendly shopping bag.
Like Europeans, grocery shopping is a daily trip/treat, .. not a once per week "full up the SUV" with a bunch of bulk items.
Janssen's.
What do I win?
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If there are items with issues it's likely nothing I regularly purchase.
Walgreens and CVS however look pretty bleak when I am there...
Staffing seems a problem everywhere...
Pricing is bad and I feel for those who lack the means to just shrug it off. I admit I have little idea which products I am buying are really driving up the cost, but I am a creature of habit/ but the same items regularly and my average bill has to be up 20%
Seeing some "Shrinkflation" as well. Packages containing less at same prices...
I buy meat from a local butcher shop each week instead of a grocery store, so it is highly noticeable.
My wife (who does not go to the butcher shop) was shocked that a pound of ground sirloin was $8.99 when she glanced at the price on the wrapper a couple days ago— it was always $4.99 pre-pandemic.
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parts as sad as that makes you. Prices have been high and are going higher. Unlike you shrinkflation also doesn’t plague my performance.
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Live western suburbs of St. Louis.
Deli has limited hours-closes at 6pm, so shopping after work means no deli meat. Sign says limited hours due to staffing.
There has been no Club Soda at either of the two chains I shop at for about a month. I did find some recently at Target.
The two main grocery store chains here are union, so the benefits are better than other retailers, so I think that helps attract/retain employees compared to the big box stores.
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