Thread: So. Cal. - Grocery Stores Closing, Empty Food Shelves

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Threatened With Arrest For Filming Empty Grocery Store Shelves



I've been covering the story of closing grocery stores in California for a few months. This Albertsons was due for a 24th closure and I thought nothing of whipping out the camera and shooting the footage for my audience. Isn't important to share this information? Apparently management at this store are on edge about negative information getting out to the general public. Security escorted me out and then continued to follow me as I ordered a bottle water from a local donut shop. They continued to follow me for the next hour as I walked from shop to shop.

SoCal food prices hit 2-year high

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/year ... rices.html

Southern California consumers had to dig deeper into their pockets in January mostly due to food prices which hit a two-year high, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Overall, the Consumer Price Index in the Orange County-Los Angeles-Riverside area rose 0.9% in January and was up 1.8% over the last 12 months.

Nationwide, consumer prices increased 0.4% for the month and 1.6% over the last year.

SoCal food and beverage costs jumped 0.8% in January following a hefty 0.7% monthly increase in December. Year-over-year food and beverages prices were up 2.1% in January, the highest annualized increase since April 2009.
The rise in energy prices is also hitting consumers. Local transportation costs were up 4.1% in the last year with unleaded gasoline alone rocketing 10% over January 2009.

And motorists already know things have gotten worse since January. A gallon of unleaded gasoline costs $3.495 a gallon on average today, up from $2.937 a year ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.

Albertsons said this week it would close its Pomona store, along with its Riverside and Sun City locations, adding to the list of recent closures by major grocery chains in the Inland Empire.
Ralphs at Fourth Street and Vineyard Avenue in Ontario is ceasing operations by late spring. A decade-old Vons in La Verne shuttered last month.

http://www.sbsun.com/business/ci_1704...

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkFMMgfAmXo

Grocery stores are shutting down because people do not have enough money to buy food. This is not a good social indicator. The government is lying about food costs, unemployment and the recovery. If the real inflation is 5 or 6%, then the GDP is contracting in real terms ans the recession is not over.

Nothing on the shelves but they still have security. Priceless.

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Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

Grocery stores are shutting down because people do not have enough money to buy food. This is not a good social indicator. The government is lying about food costs, unemployment and the recovery. If the real inflation is 5 or 6%, then the GDP is contracting in real terms ans the recession is not over.

Nothing on the shelves but they still have security. Priceless.

They have been lying to us about the cost of living period and that is why people on ss have not received a cola for the past two years, but they make sure they take care of illegal aliens. our government is just corrupt and we all know it.

Originally Posted by LadyStClaire

Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

Grocery stores are shutting down because people do not have enough money to buy food. This is not a good social indicator. The government is lying about food costs, unemployment and the recovery. If the real inflation is 5 or 6%, then the GDP is contracting in real terms ans the recession is not over.

Nothing on the shelves but they still have security. Priceless.

They have been lying to us about the cost of living period and that is why people on ss have not received a cola for the past two years, but they make sure they take care of illegal aliens. our government is just corrupt and we all know it.

no worries , if enough supermarkets in the region shut down , the "Community " will simply protest the fact that their needs are not being served and make the government open up a government run food site ... paid for of course by either the federal government or the state of cali .... while cali maybe 21 billion in the hole , we all know that they ALWAYS have money for illegal immgrants ..

Originally Posted by marquis

no worries , if enough supermarkets in the region shut down , the "Community " will simply protest the fact that their needs are not being served and make the government open up a government run food site ... paid for of course by either the federal government or the state of cali .... while cali maybe 21 billion in the hole , we all know that they ALWAYS have money for illegal immgrants ..

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Tough, tough times in 2011.

off topic: I enjoy watching your videos and the research you do on them is quite good, IMHO.

And the big cheeses in the government say we are to fat.

Maybe the question are we fat enough to ride this out.

Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

Originally Posted by marquis

no worries , if enough supermarkets in the region shut down , the "Community " will simply protest the fact that their needs are not being served and make the government open up a government run food site ... paid for of course by either the federal government or the state of cali .... while cali maybe 21 billion in the hole , we all know that they ALWAYS have money for illegal immgrants ..

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Tough, tough times in 2011.

off topic: I enjoy watching your videos and the research you do on them is quite good, IMHO.

thanks , i'm gearing up to really take things to the next level with a new professional look soon ..sadly i suffer from a deep lazy streak which stops me from fufilling alot of my potential ... ( case in point i was planning on starting a video project toninght , but instead i'm surfing the web and watching TV lol )

Supermarkets close for many reasons , Usually they are in unprofitable areas , Many will close old stores to build new ones , Years ago So Cal way over built on supermarkets.

There are still plenty of them down there ,

Whats hurting the big chain markets in those areas are the huge amount of small hispanic markets that are going up

The wholesale beef market on pricing is slightly higher but some items have been dropping
Pork and chicken is dirt cheap right now

I would not jump to that conclusion too quickly.

HEB, a local Texas Supermarket, ran Safeway out of here many years ago.
It ran Albertsons out a few years ago.
Now, they are working on Randalls and doing a good job of putting them out of business here.