Overblown? Yup, just like the recent raft of articles about empty shelves at the grocery store.

  

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Screenshot from a NYT subscriber-only email

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which isn’t given to exaggeration, has fed the coverage with headlines like this one, which it published on Jan. 6: “Number of Quits at All-Time High in November 2021.” 

Well, guess what? The record numbers that everyone’s talking about cover only the period since December 2000.

 

Original 1/12/2022 post, "This just in from Laura 'Hello Fresh' Reiley", starts here.

When was the last time she walked the aisles of the grocery store?

Take a gander at the "shaky" toilet paper aisle at Woodman's West in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Washingotn Post, 1/11/2022 (highlight added)

Reiley provides no followup on the toilet paper snafu.

Madison has TP piled high and deep!  Whatsamatta with the rest of the country?