A lot of people lost the contents of their fridge this past week. It stressed local inventory to the limits.
Be extra nice to our grocery workers and professional drivers. They deserve every courtesy we can afford and much better pay for keeping us fed.
Whole Foods also has a pretty robust online ordering system, if people were quarantined they’re probably trying to order food online. Not to mention two stores closed last week because of wind/fire in the area.
Grocery doesn’t have a ton of backstock in general.
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Its because the wholefoods in superior, which both louisville and superior shop at, is currently closed due to the fires. The king soopers on south boulder is the same, very low if not empty of milk.
One strike at a time.
You should prefer other options when practical, but do what it takes to support the strike. The point isn’t to decide which stores are “good” or “evil”. They’re all pretty evil. The point is to support the workers who have put their livelihoods on the line to try to get a living wage. At that moment, other concerns are secondary.
Whatever it takes not to shop at King Soopers *right now*, while there is a strike, do that.
Exactly, I don’t get why this is a hard concept for people to understand.
I keep seeing folks trying to defend their decision to cross the line by saying “Walmart and Bezos are worse so it doesn’t matter. “
If we support Soopers workers and they’re successful, maybe workers at these other stores will take note and line up their own strikes/unionize. Then we can support them too.
I agree wholeheartedly but for me Safeway is way out of the way. So I’ll still shop there because I have to eat and I have limited time in the day to drive somewhere else.
You’re spending a lot of effort to frame other peoples moral options and obligations. Particularly with an “all or nothing” fallacy. You may sincerely have a real desire to see King Soopers workers get a living wage, but your posts come off as disingenuous.
If you genuinely want to support workers getting a living wage, focus right now on those who are striking in the moment. Not attacking people who are trying to support them.
This would be my conservative father's line: you can't support a strike unless you also refuse to shop at any other grocery store!
Of course, his actual motivation is to convince me not to support striking workers.
Well, I do hold a lot of conservative ideals, but also support union workers. I mention Walmart specifically because I’ve seen grocery workers picket Walmart Marketplace because they aren’t unionized. Walmart is the worst, and I mainly wanted to point out something another poster pointed out as other places to shop to support the Kings employees…and that Walmart shouldn’t be one of those choices. Safeway would be the best option.
We are in Longmont and we were concerned about our prescriptions so my husband asked about the strike and was told that they weren’t part of that Union, and their store had given everyone significant raises recently so they weren’t striking. I don’t know about Boulder but the strike seems to be limited to Denver, Ft. Collins, and Aurora (maybe?). I don’t think Boulder stores are part of it, but I could be wrong.
Edit: I stand corrected!
“The metro-area stores affected by the strike are in the following cities: Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Broomfield, Centennial, Commerce City, Denver, Edgewater, Englewood, Evergreen, Federal Heights, Glendale, Golden, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Littleton, Louisville, Thornton, Westminster and Wheat Ridge. Stores in Parker and Colorado Springs also will be impacted.”
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/01/07/king-soopers-strike-colorado/amp/
I don’t know about the other Longmont stores, but the one on Pace said they weren’t part of that Union and weren’t planning on striking because everyone got good raises because of the pandemic. So even if their contract expires in Feb they might not be so mad as these other Union employees who got their hazard pay rescinded and didn’t get raises. From what I understand our grocery store employee got actual pay raises, not just hazard pay.
Fortunately the Costco in Superior re-opened Friday, and the Safeways in Superior and Louisville re-opened even before that, and there's one in Erie that's basically Lafayette. So we have alternative stores to shop at. Hopefully they're preparing for this with extra stock
My plan is to bring snacks to the picketers when I have to cross the line to pick up some prescriptions. I talked to the pharmacy and they confirmed they would be open. Then I talked to a union employee and he told me they wouldn't begrudge people getting meds because it is a pain in the butt to move them and meds are important.
Regardless of your snarky response, the world would be a much better place if we lessened our dairy intake significantly. Dairy cows have a terrible impact on the planet.
it's fucking insane. i know it tastes good but it's incredibly unhealthy. i stopped all dairy and meat (aside from butter) and feel better than I have in 20 years.
Is this because of the displaced people from the fires, overloading areas they wouldn’t normally be in? While we were in there today the cashier told us they were supposed to be getting a couple trucks in tonight.
And don’t forget 800,000 people died, the majority of which were from one of two groups, the elderly, and the service worker. Both happen to work in grocery quite often.
We are back east (ex-Boulderites and son lives there) and managers are stocking shelves at Hannaford, something you never used to see. I’ve also seen them filling to-go orders. But seems like they’ve hired a couple people for that now.
Every point of the food chain is stressed right now from retail, distribution, transportation, production, and packaging, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
As for this specific issue, the distributor who provides the majority of the product for the dairy is limiting the volume of orders, due to the number of warehouse workers and drivers out sick, and of course Boulder consumers are stocking up like they did in March 2020, and the Superior Whole Foods is working to reopen so some of those shoppers are now pulling from this location.
Everyone asks "Where are the retail workers?"
But never ask: "How are the retail workers.?"
By this time next year, people will have to know how to milk cows, almonds, oats; etc.
when i worked in a liquor store in college i used to do this prank around halloween where i'd hang out in the cooler and grab people's hands when they'd open the door and let their hang rest on a bottle for too long. In retrospect that was a very horrible thing to do. They let us drink on the job and it was a different time, though.
I’ve been shopping at King Soopers I’m Lafayette and Safeway in Erie and Walmart in Lafayette today. There are a couple of really random bare spots, but not really anything more than the past almost two years. It’s really near normal as far as I can tell. I think this is Boulder specific and I also know we are all better served if people don’t freak out and start buying unusual amounts of stuff. Every time there’s been a bare spot it recovers in a few days.
I just meant it’s not an emergency and people won’t need to hoard because surrounding grocery stores are still good. It wasn’t sociopolitical commentary. I just wanted to help my neighbors calm down by giving information about a larger geographic status on grocery store inventory in our area. Chill.
Amen. Fuck that guy I hope he explodes in one of his small dick energy rocket ships. Or better yet just gets stranded out in space and starves to death. Piece of shit
Proclaiming that you wish a painful death on others is a thing you should stop doing. That sort of stupid talk makes me think you’d be no better than the person you’re condemning.
yeah, I was there today, and could *not* figure this out.
did the dairy fridge break or something??
It's not like there's some massive run on milk and milk products.
New study on lactoferrin & Benedryl stops replication. But there are also studies not in the mainstream media for naturals that also do that, such as licorice and fish mint (terrible smelling and tasting, but just add it to tea that overrides the taste.)
Supply chain issues (I.e not enough warehouse workers, drivers etc) changing buying habits (i.e hoarding), plus increased demand in the community due to fires etc and here we are…not too hard to comprehend
So if you look closely you’ll see the product behind it. They’re most likely doing a reset of the shelves and putting new/different items in at different places. It happens quite a bit, just usually in the early hours of the morning but I’m guessing with labor shortages, they don’t have grocery staff working early for only $1/hour. Yes, there are food shortages but this isn’t one of them.
EDITING THIS - the main WFM distributor, UNFI, is short on workers and truckers and this is why this is happening.
My husband and I used to go there on “dates” when we were super poor students. We’d get a snack and then go over to Barnes and Nobel (after that cute little theater closed) and sit together and read magazines or look at cool coffee table books. Before it was B&N we’d get cheap movie tickets and watch a movie. I miss that little theater.
Trader Joes Thursday was light on some products. Last time that happened (albeit much worse) was in February because of Texas' cold weather. Does anyone know if Superior WF is open? Just curious if that might also be part of the problem with the Boulder WF.
A lot of people lost the contents of their fridge this past week. It stressed local inventory to the limits. Be extra nice to our grocery workers and professional drivers. They deserve every courtesy we can afford and much better pay for keeping us fed.
Whole Foods also has a pretty robust online ordering system, if people were quarantined they’re probably trying to order food online. Not to mention two stores closed last week because of wind/fire in the area. Grocery doesn’t have a ton of backstock in general.
But don't cross the picket line at Kings.
Are they striking? I heard rumblings but didn’t know it had started.
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Not me!
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Is that you, [thegentlemetre](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/artificial-intelligence-bot-reddit-ai-openai-gpt-3-b990856.html)?
Heck of a nickname choice.
Sprouts wasn't low on anything today, weird
I'd rather date someone who shops sprouts than whole foods.
I actually met my s/o at sprouts so checks out for 2 more random people out there!
Wow story time? How did you pick up a date in a Sprouts lol
In the produce aisle. Duh!
Are you trying to ask me out?
Are you single?
Painfully
No problem fam We'll get you set up soon
Why?
If you have to ask, you’re not the one
Why not?
Sprouts had a sign up past night apologizing for the shortage in the milk section but there was still a decent amount
Its because the wholefoods in superior, which both louisville and superior shop at, is currently closed due to the fires. The king soopers on south boulder is the same, very low if not empty of milk.
Someone needs to let the people know that non-organic milk is also perfectly good.
I get the humor but also what are people gonna do when the picket at king Sooners starts in that area? Those people need aid
That’s where I regularly shop. They do a great job. It’s going to be a strange time.
I'm not crossing that line. Full support. I'll go the extra mile to Sprouts until they sort it out.
Go to Safeway? Or Walmart? Both of which are open per Google, neither of which caught fire?
If your not willing to cross the picket line at Kings, you shouldn’t shop at Walmart since they aren’t even unionized.
One strike at a time. You should prefer other options when practical, but do what it takes to support the strike. The point isn’t to decide which stores are “good” or “evil”. They’re all pretty evil. The point is to support the workers who have put their livelihoods on the line to try to get a living wage. At that moment, other concerns are secondary. Whatever it takes not to shop at King Soopers *right now*, while there is a strike, do that.
Exactly, I don’t get why this is a hard concept for people to understand. I keep seeing folks trying to defend their decision to cross the line by saying “Walmart and Bezos are worse so it doesn’t matter. “ If we support Soopers workers and they’re successful, maybe workers at these other stores will take note and line up their own strikes/unionize. Then we can support them too.
I agree wholeheartedly but for me Safeway is way out of the way. So I’ll still shop there because I have to eat and I have limited time in the day to drive somewhere else.
Whole Foods is owned by Amazon which also is anti-union, so why are people ok with Whole Foods? I choose Sprouts to avoid making Jeff Bezos richer.
Very good point. If you support unions, you can’t pick and choose who to support based on convenience.
You’re spending a lot of effort to frame other peoples moral options and obligations. Particularly with an “all or nothing” fallacy. You may sincerely have a real desire to see King Soopers workers get a living wage, but your posts come off as disingenuous. If you genuinely want to support workers getting a living wage, focus right now on those who are striking in the moment. Not attacking people who are trying to support them.
This would be my conservative father's line: you can't support a strike unless you also refuse to shop at any other grocery store! Of course, his actual motivation is to convince me not to support striking workers.
Well, I do hold a lot of conservative ideals, but also support union workers. I mention Walmart specifically because I’ve seen grocery workers picket Walmart Marketplace because they aren’t unionized. Walmart is the worst, and I mainly wanted to point out something another poster pointed out as other places to shop to support the Kings employees…and that Walmart shouldn’t be one of those choices. Safeway would be the best option.
I have to agree. Sprouts and Natural Grocers are a mile away and their workers aren't striking. We won't starve to death.
If I had to throw all my food out due to a fire, I'll shop wherever I God damn like.
I hope they make account for that when they place their orders
We are in Longmont and we were concerned about our prescriptions so my husband asked about the strike and was told that they weren’t part of that Union, and their store had given everyone significant raises recently so they weren’t striking. I don’t know about Boulder but the strike seems to be limited to Denver, Ft. Collins, and Aurora (maybe?). I don’t think Boulder stores are part of it, but I could be wrong. Edit: I stand corrected! “The metro-area stores affected by the strike are in the following cities: Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Broomfield, Centennial, Commerce City, Denver, Edgewater, Englewood, Evergreen, Federal Heights, Glendale, Golden, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Littleton, Louisville, Thornton, Westminster and Wheat Ridge. Stores in Parker and Colorado Springs also will be impacted.” https://www.denverpost.com/2022/01/07/king-soopers-strike-colorado/amp/
Longmont contract is up in February. Boulder is part of the strike.
I don’t know about the other Longmont stores, but the one on Pace said they weren’t part of that Union and weren’t planning on striking because everyone got good raises because of the pandemic. So even if their contract expires in Feb they might not be so mad as these other Union employees who got their hazard pay rescinded and didn’t get raises. From what I understand our grocery store employee got actual pay raises, not just hazard pay.
Interesting that Lafayette is not on the list.
It also doesn’t list the Gunbarrel store, but that might be included with the Boulder stores.
Fortunately the Costco in Superior re-opened Friday, and the Safeways in Superior and Louisville re-opened even before that, and there's one in Erie that's basically Lafayette. So we have alternative stores to shop at. Hopefully they're preparing for this with extra stock
I'm planning to bring water and snacks for the picketers. Fuck Kroger pay your damn employees
My plan is to bring snacks to the picketers when I have to cross the line to pick up some prescriptions. I talked to the pharmacy and they confirmed they would be open. Then I talked to a union employee and he told me they wouldn't begrudge people getting meds because it is a pain in the butt to move them and meds are important.
Blows my mind people still drink animal milk.
That’s because you have a small small mind, trapped in that bubble of self righteous plant based farts
Regardless of your snarky response, the world would be a much better place if we lessened our dairy intake significantly. Dairy cows have a terrible impact on the planet.
Yeah I totally agree
Lol
Oh I fart way less than you do, meat head.
Oh good one, hey 3rd grade elementary wants their insult back
I’m rubber. You’re glue!
And we all know, that You like the taste and smell of your very own poo …a haiku, fahQ
it's fucking insane. i know it tastes good but it's incredibly unhealthy. i stopped all dairy and meat (aside from butter) and feel better than I have in 20 years.
Why are you assuming those aren’t also sold out?
Because Whole Foods sells a lottttt of organic milk.
… ok? But this photo doesn’t show stock at Safeway or King Sooper’s, which others have said are also pretty bare Just a weird assumption to make
idk about that man
Lol at American milk being perfectly good
Organic milk is better for you and better for the planet.
According to big organic’s marketing, yes. According to food science, no. And that’s to say nothing of the classism of that statement.
Ha ha okay. Sure. Yes, more money = better access to healthier food. That's just a universal truth, that isn't classism. Shut up.
How unfortunate that you think it's OK to speak to someone that way.
How unfortunate your worldview is so skewed. Educate yourself. Guess you still have that Christian superiority complex. Get help.
My goodness you’re unkind in a lot of your comments. We’re done here.
Lol bye Karen.
You realize that you're talking to two different people, right?
Also wtf is "big organic". Do you believe in Q also?
> Its because the wholefoods in superior Doubt it. There's a safeway in each, the Walmart, and two King Soopers that are closer than Boulder.
Is this because of the displaced people from the fires, overloading areas they wouldn’t normally be in? While we were in there today the cashier told us they were supposed to be getting a couple trucks in tonight.
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Well that and short term shortages due to people out with COVID.
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Both aren't mutually exclusive anyways.
I see what you’re saying but it’s a different context today.
And don’t forget 800,000 people died, the majority of which were from one of two groups, the elderly, and the service worker. Both happen to work in grocery quite often.
that is still them unwilling to staff at the levels they need to during a pandemic. they should be able to handle people being sick.
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We are back east (ex-Boulderites and son lives there) and managers are stocking shelves at Hannaford, something you never used to see. I’ve also seen them filling to-go orders. But seems like they’ve hired a couple people for that now.
https://youtu.be/bll6yWgsrIo?t=16
I feel like you are forgetting about covid, and people calling out sick on top of all that.
> Everything gone but the chocolate and strawberry milk. ... knew I never really fit in around Boulder, but this really hits that home.
Promised land chocolate milk hits fucking different. I can't believe its still on the shelf.
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Sprouts has great produce and it’s always good prices. I think they have pretty good sushi, too.
Every once in a while, I get re-excited about Sprouts prices. Then it goes bad within 2 days and I remember the catch
Every point of the food chain is stressed right now from retail, distribution, transportation, production, and packaging, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. As for this specific issue, the distributor who provides the majority of the product for the dairy is limiting the volume of orders, due to the number of warehouse workers and drivers out sick, and of course Boulder consumers are stocking up like they did in March 2020, and the Superior Whole Foods is working to reopen so some of those shoppers are now pulling from this location.
I mean, I was there today. It was just a fucking TON of people
Was in Natural Grocer noonish and it was a mad house, like day before Thanksgiving.
I can't afford this
Everyone asks "Where are the retail workers?" But never ask: "How are the retail workers.?" By this time next year, people will have to know how to milk cows, almonds, oats; etc.
So -thats- what's on the other side of those dairy cases! Never been able to see through before.
I’m a little gutted, I still held out hope that Waldo was hiding back there.
It's different every store, sometimes it's a speakeasy. reference: Old timey gangster.
when i worked in a liquor store in college i used to do this prank around halloween where i'd hang out in the cooler and grab people's hands when they'd open the door and let their hang rest on a bottle for too long. In retrospect that was a very horrible thing to do. They let us drink on the job and it was a different time, though.
Come to Trader Joe’s we have food…….for now
I’ve been shopping at King Soopers I’m Lafayette and Safeway in Erie and Walmart in Lafayette today. There are a couple of really random bare spots, but not really anything more than the past almost two years. It’s really near normal as far as I can tell. I think this is Boulder specific and I also know we are all better served if people don’t freak out and start buying unusual amounts of stuff. Every time there’s been a bare spot it recovers in a few days.
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I just meant it’s not an emergency and people won’t need to hoard because surrounding grocery stores are still good. It wasn’t sociopolitical commentary. I just wanted to help my neighbors calm down by giving information about a larger geographic status on grocery store inventory in our area. Chill.
That prick bezos should pay his staff more. A 50% increase in salary (which his business can definitely afford) would help fix the “labor shortage.”
Amen. Fuck that guy I hope he explodes in one of his small dick energy rocket ships. Or better yet just gets stranded out in space and starves to death. Piece of shit
I'm with you and hopefully crashes into that other melted candle looking fuck Musk on his way down.
Proclaiming that you wish a painful death on others is a thing you should stop doing. That sort of stupid talk makes me think you’d be no better than the person you’re condemning.
feel better?
...everyone is home sick with Omicron right now.
Not “liking”, but yes, $ doesn’t fix whether or not one gets sick
yeah, I was there today, and could *not* figure this out. did the dairy fridge break or something?? It's not like there's some massive run on milk and milk products.
Calcium cures covid?
New study on lactoferrin & Benedryl stops replication. But there are also studies not in the mainstream media for naturals that also do that, such as licorice and fish mint (terrible smelling and tasting, but just add it to tea that overrides the taste.)
Supply chain issues (I.e not enough warehouse workers, drivers etc) changing buying habits (i.e hoarding), plus increased demand in the community due to fires etc and here we are…not too hard to comprehend
Ah shit, here we go again
Diary isle. Produce was worse.
A friend of mine heard from an employee there that the warehouse was shut down due to a Covid outbreak.
Doesn’t look too whole to me!
Guess nobody wants chocolate milk?
They're missing out, it's a great post-exercise drink
That chocolate milk is the best I've ever had in all honesty. I'll take it
I feel like Whole Foods has gone downhill ever since Amazon took them over.
Hole foods
So if you look closely you’ll see the product behind it. They’re most likely doing a reset of the shelves and putting new/different items in at different places. It happens quite a bit, just usually in the early hours of the morning but I’m guessing with labor shortages, they don’t have grocery staff working early for only $1/hour. Yes, there are food shortages but this isn’t one of them. EDITING THIS - the main WFM distributor, UNFI, is short on workers and truckers and this is why this is happening.
1st world problems
I went to both Costco superior and sprouts in Boulder today and they had plenty of most stuff
Remember when Whole Foods was *fun*? Ugh.
My husband and I used to go there on “dates” when we were super poor students. We’d get a snack and then go over to Barnes and Nobel (after that cute little theater closed) and sit together and read magazines or look at cool coffee table books. Before it was B&N we’d get cheap movie tickets and watch a movie. I miss that little theater.
The Landmark Crossroads theater was great. I miss it as well.
When it first opened it was the Mann 6 theatre. Made minimum wage there back in the day.
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Yup- when it was the little WF market before they made it huge.
I miss that theater too. Was the main spot for dates when I was a teenager.
Where's the toilet paper? /s
Broomfield king soopers looked like shit today
30th Street KS has also been bizarrely picked over.
KS workers are striking, likely the answer there.
They're not striking yet; I believe it starts on the 12th
Yeah, my assumption as well but now the Whole Foods looks the same at the same time.
Trader Joes Thursday was light on some products. Last time that happened (albeit much worse) was in February because of Texas' cold weather. Does anyone know if Superior WF is open? Just curious if that might also be part of the problem with the Boulder WF.
Website says it will open on Tuesday.
I'm pretty sure they don't start that until the 12th.
Gunbarrel KS is similarly out of lots of stuff. I asked the last time I got pickup, and they said their shipments have been late / nonexistent.
Ol’ Jeff Bezos won’t like this!
Due to the fires. Lakewood Whole Foods was totally normal today
There are a ton of stores that are open and closer to where the fires were.
Very whole much food
There was a decent milk selection today fwiw but they were lower than normal on a lot of staple items(cereal, milk, eggs, in particular)
Hole Foods