Posted on 03/17/2020 1:34:44 PM PDT by LibWhacker
I noticed that Rouses has more things on the shelves than Walmart - still had to hit 3 stores yesterday evening to find spaghetti sauce and meatballs (looked for Italian sausage but everyone was/is out). And most pasta products are also gone.
Every day this week, the empty areas get bigger and other items become sparser.
Stay well - we might all end up losing a few excess pounds of “ugly fat”...
If you’re going to do something daft like add the value of time, you need to add the commute/order/wait time.
And if you’re unemployed, the cost of your time is zero.
I could easily eat out both lunch and diner every day for $20.00 a day. That is $600.00/month. I spend at least $100/week on food just for myself. Sometimes more. When you add in the hassle of cooking and cleaning it is a push.
Exactly, cause eating out still takes the going out, the gas, and the wait time that homecooking does.
Recently, we went out to dinner with my son, his wife, my daughter, and mr. mm. The bill for the dinner with a couple drinks was well over $100.
I could have fed the family well for a week on that >$100.
AND we'd know what was in it and know that someone had not spat in the food or whatever else goes on in the back room of restaurants that people don't see.
I've been in the back of some restaurants and my kitchen would NEVER come to that level of filth.
Plus I used to work at McD's way back in the day, and if they don't like the customer, there's plenty of ways of getting back at them.
So there are more considerations than just cost of food.
But on a strictly dollar spend for quantity of food received, eating out is not cheaper. If it was, I'd really wonder about what I was getting.
You need to learn to shop better.
Let's see that dinner was $20/per person.
I could have fed the family well for a week on that >$100.
Family of four cannot be fed on $25/week/person unless you eat cheap hi carb food and not much protein with it. You will also spend many hours in the kitchen preparing food from more base ingredients..
When was the last time you went to t grocery store and spent less then $100.00?
If you didn’t sell, you didn’t lose
I can easily feed myself for under $100 a week.
Three dozen eggs, a pound of bacon, a couple of pounds of hamburger, and some bell peppers, broccoli and brussels sprouts, a pound of coffee and a quart of heavy cream.
Add all that up for me. And the number of your cardiologist.
If we had a like button. I’d be pressing it for your comments, and an AMEN.
About $25 - $30.
And I had a cholesterol check done a couple of weeks ago; my cardiologist will be lonelier than a Maytag repairman.
To try and get a handle on this level of volume we will likely see changes in operating hours. Expect to see stores closing early or limiting the amount of time they are open every day…. the reason is simple: (1) they don’t have the products to sell over their normal business hours; and (2) they need to move more labor into a more compact time-frame to deal with the increases in volume.
Gas stations closed on weekends. could only buy if your license plate was odd and even. etc.
we lived !
They don’t have hands? Well I suppose primates and raccoons do but they don’t seem to need TP either.
yeah, I think that is accurate.
exhibit A.....the frozen pizza section at your local grocery store. empty
Is this incorrect? I interpret that as meaning the driving/off duty requirements are suspended. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trucking-truck-driver-hours-of-service-suspended-2020-3
Hours of service regulation are not suspended.
The is so relief to them in certain specified circumstances.
Here is an industry article that spells in out.
https://landline.media/fmcsa-emergency-declaration-outlined-for-drivers/
Thanks.
BTW I wish they were. I would run like a scalded dog.
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