by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:

In the first video we’ve embedded directly below these opening paragraphs we see what looks almost like a ravenous pack of piranha, descending upon their next meal, as if their next meal might be their last.

And while the video only shows Black Friday shoppers attempting to nab the latest HD TV’s (which will then be used to spy upon the purchasers ), imagine if what these people were attempting to get was food, and particularly, what just might be their last meal. And while the video starts out quite orderly as Wal Mart shoppers are allowed into the store after waiting outside for who knows how long, it takes less than 1 minute for things to go straight to hell. Now imagine if it were the last bits of food they were fighting over.

While this new story over at Zero Hedge reported that “the frenzy of black Friday as we once knew it is now over”, with traffic slumping at stores all across America hinting at potentially massive bankruptcies ahead in 2019, ‘preppers’ can learn a lot by watching how others behave during such times while realizing that if these fights were over food, they’d absolutely be of a life or death nature.

And we’ll also take a look below at a must-read new story from the Sacramento Bee that the Drudge Report linked to on Saturday titled “Generators, Coors and Canned Food. How These ‘Mountain Boys’ Are Surviving In Paradise” which proves that indeed, during the very worst possible conditions such as the horrific fires in California, those who prepare can make it to the other side.

As the Mirror reports within this new story, ‘Black Friday chaos‘ arrived not only in America but elsewhere across the planet with shocking scenes such as below emerging in places such as Brazil, Spain, Greece and even South Africa as shoppers scrambled for bargains. Yet their madness gives us a brief peek at what might happen in America should suddenly and without much prior warning, SHTF in America.

And for anyone who thinks that SHTF will never happen in America, simply take a look at what has happened to once ‘socialist gem’ Venezuela over the past several years, where some Venezuelans are hunting down pets and zoo animals for their next meals. And while America isn’t a socialist nation, all we need to do is look back at what traditionally happens in America every winter when one blizzard or another hits the cities and suburbs, food is cleaned out of the stores within a day.

And when the trucks are unable to get back to restock the stores when food in stores had been cleaned out within a short period of time, those stores are shuttered, sending hungry customers elsewhere. As Time Money reported back on January 21st of 2016, simply a forecast for a blizzard forecast instantly turns Americans into ‘cavemen’ at the supermarket, sending shoppers streaming into supermarkets to clear out the aisles of bread, milk, toilet paper and other necessities. From that 2016 story we get to see a patternbeing repeated in America again and again.:

Almost exactly one year ago, the threat of a blizzard in New England and the mid-Atlantic region turned shoppers into panicking hoarders, scooping up every last loaf of bread from supermarkets and causing a much-mocked shortage of kale in New York City grocery stores.

And almost exactly a year before that, supermarkets cashed in thanks to the terrifying-sounding polar vortex, which brought snow and frigid temperatures to a big chunk of the country, and which naturally coincided with epic crowds hitting grocery stores in preparation for the apocalypse.

Now, with a storm described as “potentially paralyzing” and “perhaps crippling” by the National Weather Service primed to hit the mid-Atlantic region this weekend, shoppers are staying true to form. Stores in Arlington, Va., reported long lines and high demand for bread, milk, beer, and toilet paper. In Cherry Hill, N.J., outside of Philadelphia, supermarkets struggled to replenish shelves with bread, bagels, milk, and eggs before the latest round of shoppers grabbed them.

This all took place on Wednesday, mind you, and the snow isn’t supposed to start falling in Washington, D.C., until Friday afternoon. In other words, supermarkets from the Southeast to southern New England will benefit from at least another full day of jittery shoppers stocking up on supplies in anticipation of the weather. Understandably, rock salt, shovels, and snowblowers are hot sellers alongside groceries.

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