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by 8DonCo Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:31 pm
Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees, supply chain delays collide
Empty shelves have returned at supermarkets as grocery employees call out sick and truckloads of food arrive late.
That’s one of the latest outcomes of the omicron variant, which is straining the workforce. Investors are seeing the pressure and bracing for a longer period of high costs for labor, transportation and food.
Shares of major grocers including Albertsons, Kroger and Walmart fell Tuesday. Albertsons shares fell 9.75% to $28.79 at market close, after the company detailed the supply chain challenges and inflated costs it’s seeing on its earnings call. The dive in its stock occurred even though the grocer raised its fiscal 2021 forecast. Shares of Kroger fell about 3%, while Walmart shed less than 1%.
Covid cases and hospitalizations have hit records in the U.S., as the highly contagious variant spreads. The country reported about 1.5 million new cases on Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Hospitalizations have surpassed last winter’s peak, with 144,441 Americans hospitalized with the virus as of Sunday, according to data tracked by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Grocery store workers are feeling the effects of omicron, too. Samantha Webster helps replenish coolers with butter, gallons of milk and more as dairy manager of a Safeway store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Safeway is owned by Albertsons.
Since early December, she said more and more employees have had to take off from work because of getting Covid or having close contact with someone who is sick. She said 15 employees are currently out of the store’s nearly 60-person staff.
Fewer pallets are arriving from Safeway’s warehouses and there are not enough grocery workers to help unload them, she said.
In the dairy department, there are gaping holes where there used to be cream cheese and yogurts. Fresh bagels and loaves of bread are missing in the bakery aisle. And in the produce department, potatoes are running low.
In other aisles, she said there are signs of strain, too, such as a shelf filled with cans of clam chowder soup because other varieties, like minestrone and pea soup, did not arrive.
“The shelves are becoming more and more bare,” she said. “One person can’t keep an entire department going.”
- Shares of Albertsons, Kroger and Walmart fell on Tuesday, as investors worried that omicron-fueled worker shortages and supply chain delays would hurt major grocers.
- Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran said on an earnings call that the latest spike in Covid cases has delayed the recovery to more typical levels.
- The omicron variant has exacerbated worker shortages in nearly every industry, from airlines to restaurants.
Empty shelves have returned at supermarkets as grocery employees call out sick and truckloads of food arrive late.
That’s one of the latest outcomes of the omicron variant, which is straining the workforce. Investors are seeing the pressure and bracing for a longer period of high costs for labor, transportation and food.
Shares of major grocers including Albertsons, Kroger and Walmart fell Tuesday. Albertsons shares fell 9.75% to $28.79 at market close, after the company detailed the supply chain challenges and inflated costs it’s seeing on its earnings call. The dive in its stock occurred even though the grocer raised its fiscal 2021 forecast. Shares of Kroger fell about 3%, while Walmart shed less than 1%.
Covid cases and hospitalizations have hit records in the U.S., as the highly contagious variant spreads. The country reported about 1.5 million new cases on Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Hospitalizations have surpassed last winter’s peak, with 144,441 Americans hospitalized with the virus as of Sunday, according to data tracked by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Workers feel the strain
Grocery store workers are feeling the effects of omicron, too. Samantha Webster helps replenish coolers with butter, gallons of milk and more as dairy manager of a Safeway store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Safeway is owned by Albertsons.
Since early December, she said more and more employees have had to take off from work because of getting Covid or having close contact with someone who is sick. She said 15 employees are currently out of the store’s nearly 60-person staff.
Fewer pallets are arriving from Safeway’s warehouses and there are not enough grocery workers to help unload them, she said.
In the dairy department, there are gaping holes where there used to be cream cheese and yogurts. Fresh bagels and loaves of bread are missing in the bakery aisle. And in the produce department, potatoes are running low.
In other aisles, she said there are signs of strain, too, such as a shelf filled with cans of clam chowder soup because other varieties, like minestrone and pea soup, did not arrive.
“The shelves are becoming more and more bare,” she said. “One person can’t keep an entire department going.”
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Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by Rễ Sim Tue Jan 11, 2022 10:31 pm
Trong khi đó tui vửa nghe một bản tin của đài BBC nói hiện tại mỗi tháng Mỹ có 4 triêu người quick job ... tui hông biết họ lấy tin này từ đâu ra ???
bây giờ đâu có cho stimulus như lúc trước ??? ,,, chính phủ âm thầm ép dân trở lại hãng xưởng là chắc gồi ...
bây giờ đâu có cho stimulus như lúc trước ??? ,,, chính phủ âm thầm ép dân trở lại hãng xưởng là chắc gồi ...
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Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by 8DonCo Tue Jan 11, 2022 10:38 pm
Họ có tiền nên retire non vì đời là phù du, Cô Vi dạy họ chết có đem theo được đâu
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Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by ga10 Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:56 am
Hồi sáng này nói chuyện với Boss ổng nói đi chợ Giant 2 nơi để mua sửa và trứng thì đều empty hết. Ổng hỏi employees thì họ nói have been out for the whole week and cannot estimat when they can restock!
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Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by Cuom Wed Jan 12, 2022 3:02 pm
8DonCo wrote:Họ có tiền nên retire non vì đời là phù du, Cô Vi dạy họ chết có đem theo được đâu
Đời là phù du, nhưng nếu không có đủ tiền để sống với đời thì đời sẽ là phủ phàng.
Cuom
Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by Rice Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:17 pm
Cươm: muốn bấm LIKE mà không biết sao bấm 
yup, thực tế là vậy
yup, thực tế là vậy
Rice
Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by 8DonCo Wed Jan 12, 2022 5:02 pm
Cuom wrote:8DonCo wrote:Họ có tiền nên retire non vì đời là phù du, Cô Vi dạy họ chết có đem theo được đâu
Đời là phù du, nhưng nếu không có đủ tiền để sống với đời thì đời sẽ là phủ phàng.
ý tui nói là mấy nguòi họ hưu non vì ho đã có tiền sống rồi, đi làm chi nữa, họ cũng biết tính mà họ đâu có ngu
bây giờ việc làm có mà thiêu người làm, số 60+ thì họ lãnh hưu non , số 55+ có tiền thì chưa lãnh hưu non nhưng họ có tiền thì no problem
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Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by TuTu Wed Jan 12, 2022 8:55 pm
nhung nguoi` nhu+ anh 8 noi' tren thì either là dân có job khá , hay some business owners -maybe- và lứa tuôi 50 mấy tro? lên ...
phần đông em thấy là thiếu nguòi làm may chỗ fast food á , và là giới trẻ , như nhân viên làm cho cà phê Dunkin donut ( đã gặp qua nó thiếu quá nen drive through only , khong mở cửa walk in ) , may tiệm bánh mì sandwich ...có tiệm nó đề bảng temporary close vì thiếu staffs ...may nguòi này làm lương đau có cao....
còn sửa chua /remodel nhà này nọ , như sis Đep có than đó ...vì thieu thơ. nên trì hoãn hoài ...máy serivces này thì chủ giàu chu thầy thợ lương hong bao nhieu đâu ....
nhung nguòi này đâu có hưu non đuoc ?
em nghi có 1 số nguòi bị lingering effects from Covid loại nặng bị ìu ìu xển xển , hong đi làm đuoc luôn ...mà maybe họ có long term disability nên đuoc trả ròi ở nhà luôn .hay đuoc some help from gov ?..
phần đông em thấy là thiếu nguòi làm may chỗ fast food á , và là giới trẻ , như nhân viên làm cho cà phê Dunkin donut ( đã gặp qua nó thiếu quá nen drive through only , khong mở cửa walk in ) , may tiệm bánh mì sandwich ...có tiệm nó đề bảng temporary close vì thiếu staffs ...may nguòi này làm lương đau có cao....
còn sửa chua /remodel nhà này nọ , như sis Đep có than đó ...vì thieu thơ. nên trì hoãn hoài ...máy serivces này thì chủ giàu chu thầy thợ lương hong bao nhieu đâu ....
nhung nguòi này đâu có hưu non đuoc ?
em nghi có 1 số nguòi bị lingering effects from Covid loại nặng bị ìu ìu xển xển , hong đi làm đuoc luôn ...mà maybe họ có long term disability nên đuoc trả ròi ở nhà luôn .hay đuoc some help from gov ?..
TuTu
Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by Tu* Khoai Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:10 pm
Các bạn thành khẩn khai báo nghen .. Ai đã đi hốt hết giấy đi cầu về vựa để làm khủng hoảng giấy đi cầu ....Again !
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Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by nhatrangdep Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:22 pm
hôm bữa tui đi chợ hết gà ..tui kiếm mua gà hem có ..nhất là mây ngày trời tuyết, tui đi làm ga tui kiêm' lòi con mắt tui luôn hem có
nhatrangdep
Re: Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees
by Tu* Khoai Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:12 pm
nhatrangdep wrote:hôm bữa tui đi chợ hết gà ..tui kiếm mua gà hem có ..nhất là mây ngày trời tuyết, tui đi làm ga tui kiêm' lòi con mắt tui luôn hem có
heheh, tại em không chịu vô Popeyes hay KFC thì làm sao mà kiếm có gà chớ nè ..
HAHAHAHAAH
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