American food shoppers are encountering bare shelves across America has supply issues related to the surge of the Omicron variant of Covid have begun to take their toll.
As Fox News reports:
“It’s like a Soviet store during 1981. It’s horrible,” one man said.
“Honestly, it looks like March of 2020, when everybody was stockpiling and the shelves were bare,” another man, Dominic, told Fox News Digital.
Grocery shoppers across the country have encountered barren shelves when looking for their typical supplies due to supply chain snafus, increasing COVID-19 infections and related hurdles as well as severe winter weather.
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Larry, another D.C. shopper, told Fox News: “Whatever it is, I know they need to hurry up and get this straightened out because people will be starving. It’s going to get rough if it keeps on continuing like that.”
Users of social media took to twitter to document the shocking shortages they encountered:
Camden Town Sainsburys this morning.
Interesting trick to camouflage empty shelves: pull out every carton of mushrooms you have, and spread them out, 1 layer deep, along 4m of shelf. pic.twitter.com/5KxW6fq4es
— Jim Grace (@mac_puck) January 5, 2022
Empty shelves Joe. pic.twitter.com/jWXifbJTLB
— The Based Railfan🇺🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧🇧🇷 (@1776Railfan) January 7, 2022
the shelves at target near my apartment. this is wild pic.twitter.com/pRaU2h5v3E
— Jordan Chamberlain (@jordylancaster) January 11, 2022
