Do you even prep, Bro?
I went shopping. No bread or eggs. Milk was plentiful. Canned soup except for cream of chicken and cream.of mushroom was wiped out. Produce and cereal aisles were about half empty. Cheese and processed lunch meat were available in the normal quantities.
Got my supplies 4 weeks ago....I’m good for 60 days.....After that,we shall see....
I wish I could post a photo...don’t know how anymore. but I went to Gelsons this morning...and the produce looked like a grand display....it was just stocked with wonder veggies and fruits.
The rest of the store was less impressive with varying degrees.
Trader Joes across the street [I did nit try to go in} has lines around the building like crazy. no lines at Gelsons. I bought lots of fresh pastries and breakfast stuff.
Everything but bottled OJ. You could buy frozen OJ or buy oranges and squeeze your own. I haven’t checked other stores, just the one where I normally shop.
NYC looks to be the US Hot Spot.
Coumo was right to ask for help in increasing local hospital beds.
Trump came through for him with the Hospital ship.
I hope it is enough.
Stay out of it until treatments are shown to be effective.
At this point in time I really don’t believe the out of stock condition will continue at quite such level for too long, but there are 2 things that have to be cleared out of the system first.
First are the people who are prepping. EVERYONE is putting away non-perishable food for time frames ranging from 2 weeks to 6 months.
Second are all the people who are not only cooking instead of eating out, but also stocking fresh food for 2 weeks instead of 1 week or daily or in many cases not at all if they only eat out.
It’s going to take some time for stores and supply chains to reorient how much food to stock and where for a literal overnight change in eating habits.
There’s still no evidence that our ability to grow/make/provide food is compromised. Just the eating habits and market conditions have drastically changed.
Walmart on Tuesday reminded me a bit of a ‘vacation’ I took behind the iron curtain during the cold war. Now, if someone would just give me the address of a hard currency store where the elite shop....
Meijer was low on bread and certain canned goods, but other than that it wasn’t horrible.
CC
It was like that last week down here in Florida when we had our first spike in cases. The local supermarket, Walmart, Aldis, and Whole Foods were all wiped out. Yesterday and today - I was able to pick up and stock up on everything I wanted. Hopefully you’ll see the same as your stores continue to restock.
I stocked up on 30 days of microwave popcorn today.
It was on sale.
I’m well prepped in small town Minnesota. I wanted fresh greens, tomatoes, broccoli, berries, etc. Perishables were all I needed. I found them all.
Took a look around and noticed there was no milk, no TP (of course!), no bread, no ground beef and many other items.
It was strange. I’m glad I didn’t need any of those items. We’re good for at least a couple of months.
Went today around lunchtime. Story chain here in Texas called HEB. They’ve instituted shorter store hours and have placed caps on a lot of goods like meats, dairy, rice/beans, and canned goods to limit how many items you can buy at a time. While there is a lot of aisles that look a little bare, the only aisle that was completely wiped out was the toilet paper and diaper shelves. They had a good amount of everything else.
I went by Safeway in the morning. The cleaning supply aisle was completely empty and of course there was no toilet paper to be seen. But there was plenty of fresh produce, the dairy section was well stocked, and there was plenty of food in the deli section.
Worse case scenario I have 6 months of MREs in emergency food supplies.
Finished buying food to wait it out two months ago. Should have enough to last for 4 months without buying anything else.
Went to a Harris Teeter in Wake County, NC today....for eggs and chicken.
Got the last container of eggs and no chicken to be found. But plenty of bread, plenty of OJ, plenty of water, plenty of fresh veggies. Looked for chicken at one other store in the area - sold out.
But will try a different store tomorrow morning.
Not discouraged...just slowed down. Have other foods stored.
Stores in Bucks County PA are fine.
USA can land men on the moon
but
can’t manage to get a roll of Toilet Paper onto the grocery shelf.
I haven’t been since Sunday. Saturday, the frozen cases were completely full. Sunday, they were bare. I foolishly thought it would be easier to shop during the week, but the lots have all been full and I haven’t even ventured inside.