{"id":9166,"date":"2012-02-27T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T01:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2012-02-27T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T01:32:32","slug":"is-it-a-good-sign-or-a-bad-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/is-it-a-good-sign-or-a-bad-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a good sign or a bad sign …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… that I just bought these at Wal-Mart?<\/p>\n

\"#10<\/a><\/p>\n

The nearest Wal-Mart, in what passes for the local Big City, is one of the older, smaller ones. When I was there two weeks ago, they didn’t have any such thing as this. Then yesterday I got an excited email from a friend, saying she’d spotted a large — but diminishing — array of storage foods on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Had to see for myself. Sure enough. They had everything from bulk buckets of oatmeal and wheat berries to #10 cans of fruits, vegetables, soup mixes, TVP, and more. “Had” is the operative word — as in “used to have.” The shelves were about half empty, with probably a quarter of the items (including, surprisingly, all the hard red winter wheat berries) completely sold out.<\/p>\n

A clerk told me they’d been carrying these products for less than a week.<\/p>\n

Prices were good, too — nearly $5 under Augason Farms’<\/a> own price on the apricots, nearly $3 under their price on the chili. And no shipping. This could be a great, painless way to build mid-term food storage. Just budget for a can or two every month.<\/p>\n

Is your<\/i> local Wal-Mart selling this stuff?<\/p>\n

And back to the original question: Is it a good sign that prep-consciousness has now made it down to Wal-Mart level? Or is it a bad sign, that Mr. and Mrs. Average are scared enough — of who knows what? — to be stashing #10 cans and bulk-food buckets in their pantries?<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

ADDED: I should mention that there’s no large Mormon population in this area, nor is there any notable contingent of New Age earth-change\/Maya apocalypse\/Planet X\/waiting-for-disaster believers that would prompt a middle-of-the-road store to lay in such a variety of storage foods. This particular store serves as stolid a working-class population as you could imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… that I just bought these at Wal-Mart? The nearest Wal-Mart, in what passes for the local Big City, is one of the older, smaller ones. When I was there two weeks ago, they didn’t have any such thing as this. Then yesterday I got an excited email from a friend, saying she’d spotted a large — but diminishing — array of storage foods on Saturday. Had to see for myself. Sure enough. They had everything from bulk buckets of oatmeal and wheat berries to #10 cans of fruits, vegetables, soup mixes, TVP, and more. “Had” is the operative word…<\/p>\n

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