Dried up

When I was in the US, I started getting a lot of Google surveys again. Now that I'm back in Australia, they've stopped. The US economy is like the Australian economy on steroids. It's really hard to tell how much is smoke and mirrors. It's a weird thing going from giant empty grocery stores (after hours - open 24/7) with a zillion strange products (many of which you'd be ill-advised to consume regularly), to my neighborhood IGA in Australia, where for some reason, there's currently not even grape juice on the shelf. Did Australia make all of its grapes into wine? What the hell is with this country?!