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I don't think the average small town in USA really ever suffered grocery stores with empty shelves which was extremely common throughout the former Soviet Unio
by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I don't think the average small town in USA really ever suffered grocery stores with empty shelves which was extremely common throughout the former Soviet Union. If they even had a grocery store at all. The quality of living was significantly different.
- thesz 3y agoThere was a paradox noted by many: grocery stores were empty but fridges were full. This can mean exceptional efficiency of the system to deliver and distribute.
- grugagag 3y agoYeah, I heard about it, people waiting in queues overnight to get whatever they could put their hands on, needed or not, then stuffed into their fridges/freezers.
- thesz 3y agoThat was at the end of USSR. Gorbachyov was such a successful leader. There were no such things happening in 1950-s, etc, up till late 1980-s. Yet, the situation was much like "empty shelves, full fridges" all through the USSR time I remember.
- twoodfin 3y agoIt can also mean inefficient hoarding due to unpredictable availability.
- thesz 3y agoThe premise of cult classic USSR movie Guest From Future [1] is that a boy walks for a kefir with the bottles for exchange and then gets into time travel adventure. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_from_the_Future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_from_the_Future Some products like sourcream and milk were sold into buyers' containers. Which reduced amount of thrash significantly, compared to the "predictable availability" of today's world.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]