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The Great Omicron Sickout: Millions Of Unwell Americans Causing “Hellacious” Worker Shortages

Omicron Forces CVS, Walgreens To Temporarily Shutter Stores

My pharmacy could only partially fill my prescription yesterday.
They couldn't say when more would arrive.

1 posted on 01/15/2022 2:27:25 PM PST by blam
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I spoke to the assistant manager at one of our local Kroeger stores this morning and he said “We ain’t seen nothin’ yet”.


2 posted on 01/15/2022 2:33:13 PM PST by laplata
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“My pharmacy could only partially fill my prescription yesterday.”

We belong to Kaiser, and last month supposedly due to possible strikes from Union members, they suggested filling our Rxes early and having the filled Rxes mailed to us.

We did and now we have critical drugs for 90+ days. Most of those mailed to us, many Rx bottles are still unopened and will be available when we need them in the next few months.

What happened to you is happening to some of our friends across country: “My pharmacy could only partially fill my prescription yesterday.”


3 posted on 01/15/2022 2:44:44 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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Not surprising. Told they were essential and worked through 18 months of The Days of the Rona. Meanwhile, their self-appointed betters made up crazy rules, shut down the economy, and installed a dotard who doubled down on the mandate madness. Sick of it, they sick out.


4 posted on 01/15/2022 2:46:52 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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The seven-store supermarket chain Stew Leonard’s in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey had 200 employees in quarantine or isolation as of last Thursday despite a 90% employee-vaccination rate.

Vaxx is probably just as effective against Omicron as a voodoo doctor's chicken. Actually, the chicken is probably more effective. Once could make a nice broth.

5 posted on 01/15/2022 2:49:02 PM PST by Flick Lives
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Here in SoCal, since Jan 3, there has been NO Traffic anywhere, it was back to about 80% of terrible and after the holidays, gone,nada maybe 50%.


6 posted on 01/15/2022 2:49:32 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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I go to the Stew Leonards and Caraluzzis in CT.

Nice supermarkets and neither of them mask nazis. Even during the height of so-called "pandemic", they never gave me a hard time going in without a mask.

7 posted on 01/15/2022 2:50:11 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 40 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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And then there’s the minimum wage hikes...


10 posted on 01/15/2022 2:54:19 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Before Piggly Wiggly was founded in 1916,
grocery stores did not allow customers to gather their own goods.
Before that time, stores operated on the “General Store” model,
where a customer would give a list of items to a clerk,
who would then gather them together.
Piggly Wiggly’s innovation allowed customers to gather their own goods,
which increased impulse buying, cut costs, and lowered prices.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly


12 posted on 01/15/2022 2:56:01 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Cutting hours is important.

Cross training our military to keep grocery stores open is an option too. Nothing gives power to commies more than a population starving...


13 posted on 01/15/2022 2:59:29 PM PST by GOPJ
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The Kroger I frequent says they have plenty of employees. It’s just that the trucks are not arriving with product for the shelves.


15 posted on 01/15/2022 3:03:34 PM PST by CFW
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Tough luck. The companies create fear and panic and demand employees adhere to stupid rules then complain when employees take advantage of such stupidity.


25 posted on 01/15/2022 3:12:56 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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The seven-store supermarket chain Stew Leonard’s in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey had 200 employees in quarantine or isolation as of last Thursday despite a 90% employee-vaccination rate.

It's the ridiculous CDC guidelines that say people need to stay at home for 5-10 days because they got the sniffles or someone in their house has the sniffles.

I'm dealing with this where I work right now.

28 posted on 01/15/2022 3:20:45 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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Americans don’t call “out” for sick leave.

Thought there were no goods to stock so why allot more time to stock? Maybe if people weren’t panic buying 10 times more food than they’ve bought in the past, factories could keep up with the demand and there wouldn’t be shortages.

I heard this morning someone complaining there was no pasta while in the same breath saying there was a huge stock of macaroni. Uh, ooook. Not the first time hearing sobs over pasta shapes.


31 posted on 01/15/2022 3:44:31 PM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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Boo Hoo, people are catching a cold.

Why are idiots still getting tested


35 posted on 01/15/2022 3:58:31 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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Omicron probably had an African predecessor that the vaccine makers and the federal government apparently didn’t make a serious effort to deal with.


39 posted on 01/15/2022 4:24:52 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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This is a ridiculous response to omicron.

It’s a very mild viral infection and does not warrant the over reaction to it.

What a nation of wusses we’ve turned into.


40 posted on 01/15/2022 4:27:27 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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Noticing here in PA there is a shortage of cat food?????


47 posted on 01/15/2022 5:10:52 PM PST by 1217Chic
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Grocery Stores in Queen Creek suburb of Phoenix have had sporadic issues, but today was as bad as I’ve seen it.


49 posted on 01/15/2022 5:48:12 PM PST by mykroar (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu)
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Leave the crapin the box, put a sticker on how much it is and Ill get it myself…..if I can afford food anymore


53 posted on 01/15/2022 7:19:38 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!)
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59 posted on 01/16/2022 12:38:15 AM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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