Going to Walmart hoping they have jars in stock today...
I Hope They Have Jars
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Going to Walmart hoping they have jars in stock today...
They just came back in stock here we were without for a couple of months.
Basically all we have is Walmart and they suck at restocking things.. every spring they run out of the propane tanks for your lantern... They re-order months later. I live on a huge lake, fishing us our towns main draw. I mentioned it to the manager and she acted like I was speaking chinese.. so, I blame Walmart for the jar shortage.
Basically all we have is Walmart and they suck at restocking things.. every spring they run out of the propane tanks for your lantern... They re-order months later. I live on a huge lake, fishing us our towns main draw. I mentioned it to the manager and she acted like I was speaking chinese.. so, I blame Walmart for the jar shortage.
better then if they hunted you.
Yes. I find that Mylar saves room, you don’t have worry about them breaking, less weight, etc.
I have an impulse sealer which makes quick work of sealing the bags. They run around $80-90. Some people use an iron.
I can get about 25 lbs of tobacco stored in Mylar packed into a plastic tote.
Not to mention the cost. Bags are 25% the cost of jars.
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I think the big run is due to people rediscovering canning of vegetables, etc. Lots of shortages last year for all things canning related. Flour and yeast too... I mean, normally you go to the grocery and yeast is always in stock. Weird times.
The one down side, for me anyways, is how they don’t stack nicely/neatly and going through them looking for a certain blend us a little trickier. I’ll put smaller amounts that I intend to smoke soon in jars and Mylar stuff that I know will sit for a while and that I won’t be searching for.
I use my wife's hair straightener. Works like a charm. Just make sure to keep your fingers out of the way.
I used to get very angry at my local Walmart because of outages and because I was very good at getting angry. They had problems, and still do, keeping product on the shelves. Though they continue to have yearly multi-billion dollar revenue, their distribution sucks, and despite virtually limitless resources, they can't fix it. I finally realized this after screaming in the face of the management several times and decided that my solution to an outage was to say nothing and wait until the product reappeared.
The distribution team won't take anyone's phone call.
I can't but think that keeping product on shelves is not a priority, while this most rapacious and utterly greed-besotten organization preoccupied with sucking up every cent possible from every community across the nation is more than probably focused on opening more stores in new markets. There's a lot more money in that. You're pissed because we're out of mayo? You can f*ck off, because we"re Walmart.
Employee wages are very low. I had a friend who was a cashier, and just talking to him I could sense his capability. I asked him why he hadn't moved up, and his answer was that it wasn't worth an extra dollar an hour to become the front end CSM, where he'd have 10X the responsibility.
So they net billions and they won't make working for them worthwhile. I've also heard that they hand a new employee an EBT card.
The distribution team won't take anyone's phone call.
I can't but think that keeping product on shelves is not a priority, while this most rapacious and utterly greed-besotten organization preoccupied with sucking up every cent possible from every community across the nation is more than probably focused on opening more stores in new markets. There's a lot more money in that. You're pissed because we're out of mayo? You can f*ck off, because we"re Walmart.
Employee wages are very low. I had a friend who was a cashier, and just talking to him I could sense his capability. I asked him why he hadn't moved up, and his answer was that it wasn't worth an extra dollar an hour to become the front end CSM, where he'd have 10X the responsibility.
So they net billions and they won't make working for them worthwhile. I've also heard that they hand a new employee an EBT card.
So with the mylar bags, do you just put your tin in the bag and then seal it with a heat source? Or is there a way you have to remove the air first?
I use a chamber vac with a built in heat sealer.
I just got two flats of Ball 32oz wide mouth mason jars @Target after searching with no luck for a month! ?
Not really necessary to vacuum the Mylar bag when you put a tin in there. If for long term storage and the seal on the tin would fail there is only a small airspace in side the sealed Mylar anyways. You wouldn’t have any appreciable air change as you would if the tin were out in the open.
Thanks. I may look into this. Can you place more than one tin in a bag, say, of the same blend?
I've been reading about this biggest and most powerful retail giant, I think in the world. What they do impacts the employment stats, and they have over 2 million employees in the US.
From the employee's perspective they have two major flaws:
1. their medical insurance puts a yearly deductible and an 80/20 payout against a claimant. Like most insurance concerns, they are very good collecting premiums but not so good at paying claims justly. They probably make money off the premiums paid.
2. Only full-time employees are eligible for medical insurance, and mgt. is free to cut hours to make employees ineligible. Control over employment status to pay the least benefits by manipulating employee status from part/full-time is pervasive in the service industry.
2. The average pay is ~$15.00/hour, no matter longevity and expertise. This is a pay bills only salary, ignoring costs such as paying off a mortgage or funding college.
Store Manager: $175,000.00
Pharmacist: $137,000.00
These are the only people making money. So you see most employees are only a cut above slave labor. A company with multi-billion dollar net earnings can do a lot better.
Walmart is an infestation, a pestilence.
From the employee's perspective they have two major flaws:
1. their medical insurance puts a yearly deductible and an 80/20 payout against a claimant. Like most insurance concerns, they are very good collecting premiums but not so good at paying claims justly. They probably make money off the premiums paid.
2. Only full-time employees are eligible for medical insurance, and mgt. is free to cut hours to make employees ineligible. Control over employment status to pay the least benefits by manipulating employee status from part/full-time is pervasive in the service industry.
2. The average pay is ~$15.00/hour, no matter longevity and expertise. This is a pay bills only salary, ignoring costs such as paying off a mortgage or funding college.
Store Manager: $175,000.00
Pharmacist: $137,000.00
These are the only people making money. So you see most employees are only a cut above slave labor. A company with multi-billion dollar net earnings can do a lot better.
Walmart is an infestation, a pestilence.