Do you remember what a lot of the store shelves looked like four years ago?

[Still-alive]

Particularly the Toilet paper aisles:

Saw this on FB and wow. what a crazy time that was huh? Were YOUR stores like this during the pandemic too?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I remember mostly the pasta shelves being ransacked, right, toilet paper as well. But what I remember the most in the context of shopping is this:

Odd waiting queue leading to the supermarket entrance lol

[DrPepper12]

Yup. We have definitely cut down on beef even today due to cost. But I'm told that refrigerated morgues and 14.8% unemployment was a golden age and I'm just misremembering 2017-21...

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

... Created with the help of The Great Narrator himself, as well as a sphere of smaller narrators engaged in the holy cause of advertisement.

[razelove]

Not much really changed as far as shopping went where I'm at. Social interactions in the neighborhood I was in were like dead stop, and part of why I moved.

Luckily the shortages of goods were something I only heard about and never experienced. Even the inflation hasn't hit the reported numbers here yet. SE Louisiana is on the rail lines, shipping, and interstate.

[goaded]

I remember feeling embarrassed when I realised I'd bought everything I thought I might like to buy in the next couple of weeks and it overloaded the check out band. In retrospect, I don't think it was all that bad, it just meant I didn't have to go back for some time. (We always have stocks of essentials at home because we have space to store things.)

[Still-alive]

you aren't a doomsday prepper right? lol

[goaded]

No, I just don't want to have to visit a store every day and waste time and money. Also, things like toilet paper never go off, so we buy them by the dozen rolls, particularly when they're on offer. Same with things like pasta and tinned goods. It's yet another way well-off people can live cheaper than poor people.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Believe it or not people a week ago were panic buying toilet paper due the port workers strike in the United States & I started laughing because those dummies don’t know that there are toilet paper companies that make toilet paper in this country & it comes off a truck not a boat. The toilet paper companies love it, sales are up.

[Lynx122]

Our stores never had shortages during the pandemic. But this week one of the stores I go to has had a delayed shipment it's only one store so I don't know what's going on there but there's a lot of products they don't have atm and it wasn't just delayed for one day but a whole week. I'll see on Monday if it's still like that. This is very rare so I'm interested to hear what happened.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Never had shortages? Swiss sorcery 😆

[Lynx122]

@Maybe_Maybe_not I think it's just because the price level is higher so suppliers wanna sell to Switzerland first to make money. That's just my theory :D

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Interesting take !

[petitedollbabee]

I didn’t go into the supermarkets during the main covid times, so I never saw it get this bad except for seeing photos. I was lucky to have friends and family do my shopping for me as I was bedridden with chronic illness in 2020.

[paledreams]

Before or after the pregnant if I may ask? That would've been double hard with or without the offspring or on the way

[petitedollbabee]

Without. I didn’t get pregnant until last year, 2023.

[Simslover92]

Yep. I remember that. Getting toliet tissue was a bitch.

[paledreams]

"one per customer or two per customer limits" indeed 😔

[paledreams]

If any left ⬅️

[ohsheeT]

Not even close to that that is crazy

But I think they're trying to bring us back to that moment and a lot of different ways

[llorando]

I do, and actually had a gut feeling it was going to happen. My sister laughed at me and thought I was ridiculous for stocking up on toilet paper, welp she had the last laugh, when all the stores were suddenly out of toilet paper.

[Likes2drive]

Not really, only partially like that, it wasn’t as bad here on Long Island but if the workers at the ports stayed on strike longer it would have

[Likes2drive]

It would have been like that recently if the unions didn’t strike a deal then it would look like it did during Covid in 2020

[paledreams]

I used as hell do - some folks will never know what poverty looked like lol 😔😆 in a modern world modern time empty shelves 😞 it was a eye opener

[LiamJHayden]

Yes. I am thankful that each bathroom has a bidet and that I have a water purification system in my house.

[douride2]

The store shelves around here never looked that bare.

[OddBeMe]

Crazy how ignoring a threat leads to mass worldwide supply chain problems.

[mandyfire98]

Oh I definitely remember.

[andreasderjuengere]

I do remember. And it still makes me laugh.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes, I remember that wow

[Wiredone]

Yes my stores looked like those pictures

[electromagnetic]

Oh dear.

[MizzArtFreak89]

Yes I remember.