Re: NACLA on RCTV

["michael a. lebowitz" <mlebowit@xxxxxx>]

At 21:56 06/06/2007, jim wrote:

> so why does Bieweiner see no chicken or beef?

Hard to say. I have 2 supermarkets close to me. In the one closer,
there's always been beef and pork and there's only one occasion I
didn't see chicken; what does tend to disappear from the shelves is
eggs (also occasionally milk). In the other one, I've never looked
for meat and there it's only been eggs that have been missing. It may
a problem where he is-- or it may be a timing issue or a local
hoarding one. Someone in front of me one day seemed to be buying up
all the meat in the store (well, lots of roasts) one day; I wondered
if it was hoarding, if he was doing it for a local restaurant or if
the meat would then be sold privately at uncontrolled prices. If I
saw that regularly, I would assume the worst but it was only the one time.
        m
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