Writer Danny Katch published a Substack essay comparing US retail shortages to observing empty shelves, using Boris Yeltsin's famous 1989 US supermarket visit as reference. The piece describes the era of product unavailability humorously as 'mascara incarceration.'
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https:// dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-u sed-to-be-able-to-buy-things since leaving the US we've been walking through chemist warehouse like boris yeltsin what's going on in the US is extremely strange and not ok along many axes. shops that don't let you buy things are screamingly wrong to everybody, but SO many other parts of daily life are met with people doing the opposite of their jobs, perform
[Substack 🤢] We used to be able to buy things in this country https:// dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-u sed-to-be-able-to-buy-things
“We had entered the era of mascara incarceration” https:// dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-u sed-to-be-able-to-buy-things