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Greek Supermarkets Begin To Resemble Those Of Venezuela
For years we have mocked Venezuela's economy (if not its long-suffering population): it got so bad, we even did a visual summary of selected Venezuela headline posts we wrote over the years.
Most of these were expected, and in line with the transformation of any normal nation to a socialist utopia. None were more poignant than the images of supermarkets and grocery stores that have been ransacked empty as a result of the collapsing currency, devastated supply chains and soaring inflation (supermarkets which have since imposed fingerprint scanners in what is no longer capital but food controls).
We are sad to announce that what was once a Venezuela trademark has now transitioned to a country that until recently was among the most developed nations in the west: Greece.
As we noted yesterday, in clear rejection of Tsipras' plea for calm, the Greek population stormed (now empty) ATMs, grocery stores and gas stations as they scrambled to obtain, or convert, paper currency into tangible products.
This morning, the NYT picked up on the realization that for Greece ATM runs were last week's story. Now, it's all about the "Supermarket Sweep"... and hoarding. To wit:
Beside the lines at A.T.M.s, people were also lining up at gas stations and in grocery stories. In the small town of Spata, outside Athens, residents had stripped grocery shelves bare by Saturday night. The local Shell station had run out of regular unleaded and had only premium gasoline to sell. “Doom,” the gas attendant responded, when asked to describe the mood.
The frenzy at gas stations across the country prompted Greece’s largest refiner to issue a statement assuring that there would be enough supply...
And this is how Athens is slowly starting to look like Caracas.
On Monday supermarket shelves in #Athens emptying as Greeks stock up for coming days #Greece #Grexit #Greferendum pic.twitter.com/q61PVM17d9
— Julia Damianova (@JuDamianova) June 29, 2015
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Yes, we have no kalamata olives today
I wish I spoke Greek and had enough time to buy a sailboat in Greece and deliver it back to the states, I'll bet I could get 90% off in a week or so.
Coming soon to a supermarket near you!
My local supermarket looks like this every Monday morning after the fucking Canadians, quite similar to a plague of locusts, have spent the weekend.......
Bargan hunting no doubt, better than the knee high sock wearing Americans that arrive in Canada in July with skis hoping to to catch some powder in Newfoundland in a couple of hours.
Do you mean the subspecies of Doucheus Americanus with the knee-high socks and the Nike shower-sandals? Typically also wearing artificial silk baggy shorts?
We really need a taxonomy-based field guide to Douches, so we can quickly identify the type in the wild. They differ greatly. Take for instance the 20-something millionaire trader type, the guy who wears bicycling shorts all the time, the guy in the huge SUV who lines up his vehicle on the stripe separating two parking spots in a crowded lot; they're all douches, but very distinct.
I thought they were called Americanus Kardashitardus, lol
No, you're right...the Kardashitardus are merely a sub-species of primitives
The 2nd from last pic .....
Is that the Greek version of canned cream corn ?
The one thing people wont even grab off the grocery store shelf in a zombie apocalypse ?
If you pick anytime around the 1st or 15th of the month to shop, most shelves in the USSA look like that due to the EBT crowd.
Ain't life grand?
I did notice lots of purple Escalades at front on those days.
Now I know why.
The Greeks are, (at least to date), pikers at this. When they get to Venzuelan-style fingerprinting of shoppers, then you know it's a party.
You all miserable amerikan fucks think you have choice. You don't.
Try watching Wimbledon Highlights on any channel and all you'll get is Moochelle's ass every fucking time.
Hope and change mutherfuckers!
Wake up wake up its the first of the month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PArF9k2SbQk
I think they're pre-stamped, breaded chicken nuggets, at least the Greeks know what's good for em.
Americanus Kardashitardus - LMFAO, that's a goog one!
"knee-high socks and the Nike shower-sandals"
I keep seeing this. What a turn off. So this means at least some of you know this is ugly as all get out? What a relief.
Yep Ms. We do recognize ugly.
Lots of ugly.
May take a beating for this, but we are sick to death of tattoos. If you are young and comsidering a tat, know that you are conforming and most certainly not rebelling.
Unless you're a holy man, stranded on an island, or getting out of the shower men should completely refrain from flip flops or sandals.
At present I'm on a staycation. I admit I'm wearing oversized shorts and flip-flops (decided to put on shorts in case anyone came to the door). I'm inherently ugly as sin, but I'm not going anywhere today so I'm only offending the dogs and wife.
I tried a staycation last year. It just turned into a fixallthebrokenshitinmyhousecation. Not relaxing. I hope yours is more successful than mine was. Gocation for me this time.
No, that's not right, there is also the 25 y.o. cat. I am sure it is offended.
I dunno. These guys:
http://www.ikonet.com/en/visualdictionary/images/us/roman-legionary-1005...
pulled off wearing sandals.
Tactical flip flops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oor6-Qd8sA4
I was going to make a snide reply of being Australian, but then I reread your second criterium.
Can I wear them from the golf course back home?
I don't remember who said it. But it stuck, and I can't unlearn it.
" there is nothing more useless than a man in flip flops"
Reminds me of Kunstler observing "(paraphrasing) grown men dressed like toddlers."
Don't they slash tires anymore?
+1000 for the use of "taxonomy" in a zero hedge thread.
Signed in just to upvote this.
This isn't exactly a Venezuela, more like the JIT delivery service failing. Now, if this remails like this for months, then we can talk.
We see this every year when here in NC when the weatherman mentions "snow." The bread and milk aisles look exactly like this.
pods
Believe it or not, the weather sages have inculcated a Pavlovian response in folks up North as well.
The only difference is (I grew up in the north) is that down here the bread and milk disappear, while up there it is the booze and rock salt.
pods
Ha! Bread and milk what a joke. How can anyone survive on that? Now booze and rock salt, that is a winning survival combination.
Nothing like a milk sandwich.
You... are spot on sir! I wouldn't dare think of shoveling six inches of snowy powder without a fully stocked dorm fridge in the garage.
COD is a difficult operating environment for the merchant.
Since no one in Greece seems to honor debt obligations, this will be the new operating mode for the entire economy.
Look for a lot of fires to start as they start hoarding gasoline in 5 gal cans.
Tzipass is getting exactly what he wanted. The socialists' paradise has arrived.
I wonder what the game theory economic expert had predicted? Maybe ViralFukus got himself a prepper handbook before he left the US.
EU is fucked ! Troll away...
If a Greek were smart he'd get over here, sign up for a student loan [since aliens and illegals are now eligible even loans and also for scholarships even to taxpayers-funded State universities], get on Obamacare, head off to a section 8 apartment complex, grab a free cell phone and EBT card ... and they're all set!
Only problem with that is they'll have to get in by way of Mexico...
That should't be a problem...
Our southern border is wide open - the Feds are not enforcing it.
Greeks don't look like Mexicans. The Border Patrol would arrest and deport them.
Forward (over the cliff)!
Your supermarket will look the same when the west coast is dried out and the chines want to get paid with others than dollars for their next iphone shipment.
How dare you use the term 'fucking Canadians'? You should know that there is no space. a la fuckingCanadians.
Scarcity under a central planning regime? This cannot be. Memory hole this whole thing, Tylers. Holy crap do I have to everything around here?
Greek groceries are selling almost as fast as Confederate Flags .....
Tacky Dirk, but hey, I like it!
Theres no riots and racist black and white people. Where are Soro's agents stirring things up? Where are the armored police beating people up? There doesn't seem to be that much chaos. I think these people will be ok after the initial shock that they are on their own.
It's coming. Just give it a little time.
Greece is the Holy Land for anarchists.
Lots of Greeks speak english. The real language is money. Everyone speaks money.
The birthplace of democracy......HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!
somehow they got money to buy all that food...
No. Shortages of Shopping Carts apparently.
Not normal looting behavior that's fer sure...
Imagine, no police cars were burned in the clearing of this store
How very unAmerican of them.They need some lessons in exceptionalism.
The Greeks just don't have the Black plague the way American cities do.
Strong retail sales is good for GDP.
So is Civility...
(we'll see how they look when he Mega Inflation hits...
I guess central banks can just inflate the bakery supply?
The British added 10% sawdust to bread in WWII
North Korea still does that.
Prove it bull .
I found a 2X4 in my Cheerios. True story
This is probably close to if not the last thing they are able to artificially inflate. If this turns into hyper-inflation you just die starved of nutrients.
Kaervek - is that your real name? Or a tribute to a 'Magic the Gathering' playing card game character? Because if it is the latter, I am praying that Magic cards will soon become a real, alternative currency since I still have mine from college...
<< The British added 10% sawdust to bread in WWII >>
I had a feeling McDoanlds burger recipe was not original.
McDonalds used to say "Made with 100% pure beef"
That doesn't mean it's 100% beef. It means the beef that's in it is 100% pure. Could be 10% sawdust.
Kangaroo? Or was that Carl's Jr? Hard to know.
There are beter then Fiat. My brother just looked some us his up and yeah - plenty of $2-300 cards.
That was merely their way of adding fiber to keep the perpetually constipated British regular.
Low carb breads have cellulose-fancy name for sawdust.
Better than High Fructose Corn Syrup and GMO shit. I see Russia banned GMOs. Russia looks better every day.
Non-GMO countries are going the way of non-Central Bank countries.
Monsanto uber alles.
the ingredients for the bread were 50% rye, 20% sugar beets, 20% sawdust, and 10% straw and leaves
Mum said they added chalk to make it white.
That's Raycist!!! Put him up agaainst the WALL.
Had a meatball sandwich lately? More like 20%.
See the stuff not touched and left on shelf. After about a week those who could but didn't will wish they had bought the goods.
They might wish that they had bought the goods but with just $60 euro per day available from ATMS (if anything) they may not have had the cash to do so. Best to be 2 years too early than one minute too late.
Just imagine how many people will get shot when this comes to USSA. You don't want to be anywhere NEAR an American inner city at that time.
I WAS ONLY DEFENDING MYSELF FROM THE OTHER LOOTERS
They have aerial sprays for that. Time to move away from urban areas, or any place downwind.
This what socialism looks like!
In Socialism, you stand in line all day at the store that has no bread....because gummint killed the wheat farmers.
I dunno where these were taken, but the shelves in my supermarket were pretty full this afternoon...
Greetings from - what it seems - a parallel Greece...
That opinion does not fit the narrative and does not belong here. Consider yourself warned.
Seriously, good luck.
Tell us more... I would like to hear it directly from someone who will share without tainting the info with an agenda.
So no demonstrations, no protests, no rising crime, no hungry grandmas?
They were snapped at the Greek neighborhood in Detroit. The bodies from the drive-bys were already removed.
Get your shit in order pal! Our stock "market" went down almost 2 whole percent because of your bullshit. Our "markets" do not go down. Ever! So stop fucking around and make nice with the Germans already.
Best thing that can happen WORLDWIDE is to GET RID OF THESE SHITTY SUPERMARKET CHAINS.
Local markets would also help the farmers escape these fuckers also.
American supermarkets will look like that before too long, but with lots of blood and bodies. I have a feeling that the storm is almost here and we're seeing the outer bands hit Greece.
Bull shit the average American Home has plenty of shit food to surrvive at least a week or better... If you don't well than it sucks to be you.
Their fat asses are fat for a reason ...
3 days at most, then bands of roving hoverounds will be visiting a neighborhood near you.
True, and worse, most Americans live paycheck to paycheck:
76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheckhttp://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/index.html
They'll be pig feed if they do.
Remember the dumpster diving +24 hrs in NYC after a wind storm named Sandy? Amerikans are clueless cows.
A supermarket (or supermarket parking lot) is not the place to be right before/during the fall. Buy early, buy plenty! Can you imagine Walmart Supercenters during a real crisis?
Well, I'm off to the grocery store. Can never have enough corn bread muffin mix and honey. MMMMMMM. And yes I can bake without an 'outside' fuel source. Apple sauce is a good substitue for an egg in a baking recipe. A few more bottles of Kessler's Whiskey (for barter) wouldn't hurt either.
You know the end is near when it goes from can kicking to can hoarding
Time for a good ole canabalistic bankster BBQ.
Those fuckers might taste a little gamey
The dogs won't care.
Hey Toolshed, I would'nt feed that shit to my enemy's dog.
Rancid parasites, the whole fucking lot of them!
Just let the carcasses hang an extra week. They'll tender up. Then cook it long and low.
Not if you let them hang by the neck until their heads drop off.
Works for pheasant anyway.
Do you know how hard it is to clean one of those?
Why waste the fuel? Not at all bad eaten raw:
http://twoicefloes.com/your-turn/cougar_w-articles/the-corner-office/
Little known tiger facts #18; she doesn't have to kill them to eat them. Sorta puts a different spin on what you call lucky.
Oh and while we're on the topic of insanity, some of you recall this entire series. Oldies but goodies. Set aside the afternoon:
http://fedtoatiger.blogspot.com/2014/04/hello-now-prepare-to-die.html
If handled correctly you can remove a limb off of a live banker every week or so when fresh meat is needed. You couldn't eat a good fat banker all at once anyways.
Noting that the Greeks calmly queue at ATM's, and calmly stock up on food. Some idiot reporter on Bloomberg TV arrogantly and ignorantly commented that the reason why Greeks are not looting is that they are not as well informed as Americans, because they don't watch the news and don't know what is going on. Wish I had clip...
Totally escapes these morons that maybe Greece being a civilized country, with an educated people. Don't have the same underclass of idiots, (or general population), who run out to loot a new TV and toilet paper everytime they feel disgruntled and abused about something.
Greece just gave a fat finger to the global banking kabal. So. For those of us who are about to die, we salute you, and recommend travel by bus, not air.
The civilized behavior I suggest is owed to having a mostly a homogeneous culture in Greece. You'd see the same behavior in Japan. But not in Sweden anymore.
We can't have this in the USA because WHITE PRIVILEGE.
When SHTF in USSA, best not to be near an Apple Store.
The thought of a whiny liberal with a handgun robbing an iStore makes me want to cringe
I'm picturing the same thing happening here in the U.S. except all EBT cards won't be working.
12 gauge will still work though.......
... only enough to reach something with a 'little moar distance'.
If EBT cards ever stop working you'll have civil war in about 4 hours.
One can only hope so...
Do you need to be a citizen to get an EBT card?
You don't need to be a citizen to vote according to SCOTUS.
Leningrad survived a 900+ day seige during WWii - it was brutal and cannabalism occurred. Now, Americans panic if a store runs out of their cheesy puffs...
God forbid Popeyes runs out of chicken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw
This last January (here in Canada) I went to the supermarket to buy some bananas. Imagine my surprise, there were none to be found!
That completely ruined my week!
/sarc
I buy Cheesy poofs for my goats. They'll fight over a cheesy poof. My wether will also drink beer straight from a bottle. It's damned weird looking.
Frank Zappa - It Can't Happen Here
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in washington, d.c.
D.c. d.c. d.c. d.c. d.c.
It can't happen here
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
It can't happen here
It can't happen here
<snip>
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But...
Pictures do not even began to compare to the US pre hurricane warning.
How long before an attempted hostile overthrow of the government also starts to resemble those of Venezuela?
Why do people wait so long to stack up? I could smell 2008 from a mile away before it happened. I spent a month's salary buying bags of rice, macaroni and other non-perishables just in case. It did feel like the world was about to end. It didn't. But guess what - I'm still eating what I bought back then. Money wasn't wasted. Better be safe than sorry. I'm used to living in cheap neighborhoods with unreliable plumbing and electricity. I always have plenty of batteries and candles, water containers. Even an extra tank of gas, just in case.
Don't consider myself a prepper by any means. Simply taking care of myself and protecting my family.
Would you marry me?
I think I'm in love.
Been married for 9 years, but there's plenty of fish in the sea. Look for someone with no debt. Make sure they read. Henry Rollins has a good standup piece on the subject (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFds_Db4OQc). He knows how to pick a woman, which is probably the reason he's still single in his 50's.
Tis a unique woman that reads ZH.
Few and far between.
Reads ZH and cites Rollins.....
I feel a TV Party coming on......
No Freddie not that....
JuliaS,
Restack. You and the family are going to need a full pantry when the grind comes to a halt. Stack high!
(Nice to see another gal on ZH here.)
This is what it happens when a comunist rules a country ¡!
Huh? What? Bank problem?
Look at those shelves.
Go long Baby Formula for when the system goes down. One gold coin per can, plus a little sumpin sumpin.
You lol will always be my nigga pook
I would not want to be on holiday there.
The tourists may be in for a treat! I've eaten souvlaki made with cat meat. Quite tasty. Too bad the Athens authorities closed down the street vender. (Found out it was cat meat after they closed him down.)
I was living in Greece when it was under martial law in 1974. We all suvived just fine!
Putang is probably getting cheaper by the hour there.
It's 'putana' you want in Greece.
There was a place in downtown Athens that looked just like a furniture store. Nice big windows you could look into as you walked by on the sidewalk. Lots of high-end chairs and sofas and a VERY good looking sales staff. They were NOT selling furniture!
OT
New Vice Ukraine bodycount videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTFj55u9Sgw&list=PLw613M86o5o5zqF6WJR8zu...
Looking at those pictures, they've still got noodles and millk, even if it's IMF fresh 9day old...
Look guys, the mainstream media in Greece are all pro-european and anti-Tripras, because they are owned by the oligarchs that also owned the previous greek goverments.
If you watch the Greek news it is like a horror show that tries to scare people into voting yes, there are times that I wouldn't find surprising the threat of godzilla himself.
In my area the supermarkets were open saturday, Sunday and Monday and the picture was far from the photos above.
I see meat selves almost empty, Greeks in general don't buy meat from the supermarket, instead they prefer local butchershops with much higher quality products.
The atm line although were real.
Keep it coming, Nap.
We need real info.
As a Scot who voted for independence, I can imagine what the media fearmongering must be like in Greece just now. It was scandalous what our 'impartial' BBC was allowed to get away with.
I sincerely hope you folks aren't so easily scared!
By the way, that referendum was RIGGED. Enough U-tube films corroborate this.
"It was scandalous what our 'impartial' BBC was allowed to get away with."
Your BBC?
Well, at least you've learned the truth of that. It AIN'T yours, someone else is driving that bus.
Squid
Dude. Why are you surprised? The Brits rigged the first vote, way back when. So of course they rigged the second vote. It's tradition.
Why would you want to vote for independence from the UK?
I can understand you finding us sassenachs a wee bit irritating, and I'll confess my ex father in law was a sweaty sock frae glasgee and we both didnae get along, but, independence, really?
Madness, it's all madness!
Well the media intimidation goes on 24/7 for 6 years in a row now and the problem is that there isn't not even one tv channel to ballance the shaping of public opinion. Unfortunately they are doing a fine job at scaring people and managed to change citizen's vote the night before former elections in favour of the previous corrupted goverments. The previous goverments have passed laws that allowed media barons not to pay debts to the banks and taxes. We have also a case that one major tv channel were stealing electrical power but they got away with this.
The unfortunate outcome of this is that greek citizens are once more devided - which is something we do best- between YES and NO.
Some are scared, some are tired from 5 years austerity, some fled to other countries, and others that are working for the oligarchs don't want something to change.
So today is Tuesday and the supermarkets selves are full and busy as any other ordinary day.
One main concern though is fuels and we can see lines to gas station but on the other hand we as Greeks tend to overreact from time to time.
This is what the American bankers will do to the whole world to be wear of this group of shit!