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  • no shit, I was at the grocery the other day and the egg section of the cooler was wiped out. this is the primary/only grocer for I would estimate about 5-8,000 people, so the egg section is pretty sizable. like 4-5 bays or 20% of a 100' aisle cooler. just completely empty.

    this older lady walked up right at the time I was realizing what I was seeing and said aloud, "ok, no eggs I guess." we just shrugged at each other and moved on.

    knowing that perishable agricultural logistics shit is occasionally weird and it could have been some kind of hiccup or periodic inventory clearing thing, I didn't really think much of it. but it's the kind of thing that, if it is like that next time I'm there, I'm gonna be digging into it.

    I know the American supermarket is the great lie of the US food system and served it's purpose as propaganda during the Cold war, so to me it's the canary in the coal mine of wider social collapse.

    people in the US take the abundant cornucopia of perishable products in the supermarket completely for granted. maybe some know that 1/3rd of perishable food products are wasted, but few connect the dots to the extremely resource intensive supermarket system that drives this waste.

    despite its function as a critical anesthetic to a great many Americans for their political tensions, it will noticeably degrade during whatever energy reckoning is coming.

    when it does, the pain of our political economy will surge far beyond the collective threshold for it.

  • my orders are only enough to get through 3/4 of the week

    the co-op and small business eggs aren't showing up. just the big egg monopoly stuff. and not enough