Grocery Store Reports: Location And Status- Post Here

03/14/20

[Enlightened1]

I am in Cary, North Carolina. Here is what I just saw.

Just came back from the Harris Teeter off of

270 Grande Heights Dr
Harrison Pointe Shopping Center
Cary, NC 27513

This store is normally well stocked, and you never have trouble finding anything. This morning it was about 65% full. Cleaning supplies, TP, meat, milk and bread were all very low or gone.
The body washes were low. There were lots of empty shelves.

I was listening to the the employee at the cash register. She said there were a lot of people coming into the store and buying anywhere from $600 to $800 worth of groceries. Harris Ts said they were trying to restock the shelves, but the demand was so hight they were having trouble keeping up.I could see the store was restocking the shelves, but wow I have never seen it so empty!

As long as President Trump can keep the supply chain moving, then we will be in good shape. This is evidence on why we should not be so dependent on China for everything.  If this was the 1990s and going back, then this would not even be an issue. Thanks to the stupid politicians that sold us out.  It is a modern version of the Indian Chiefs selling out their tribes for guns, booze and trinkets.

[Osage Orange]

I love ROCKET!!!

[Jane Long]

It’s a madhouse everywhere. Just a few months ago I was marveling at the bounty at supermarkets.

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That’s when many of us were replenishing our stocks.

I cannot imagine being in these horrid lines, right now.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Trump has already asked for a day of prayer it is tomorrow 🙏!!!

[CARDINALRULES]

A lot of recipe sites and Youtube videos out there that don’t use special equipment.

Some search ideas.

No Knead bread.
Quick bread.
Fry bread.
Beer bread.
Crazy crust.

I have flour tortilla recipes that use butter, lard or bacon grease. No special equipment needed. Can flatten between plastic wrap, freezer paper, wax paper, parchment or even a wax bag that had cereal or crackers. No rolling pin? Use a wine bottle or use a heavy pan, cans or even your hands. They don’t have to be perfectly round.

[Starcitizen]

Even flour, rice and other basic goods sold out. Can’t cook without basic ingredients.

Thought I’d be smart and go to a local tortillera. Picked clean. Don’t know about Boulder, but where I live, pretty much all stores picked clean today.

Got a text message from DoorDash (used to delivery for them). Offices closed, deliveries curtailed. Need special no-contact food delivery .

Had a UPS delivery. Was not allowed to sign for the item ... new protocols... it was a $5000 item that required a signature...

[Pocketdoor]

Not just to you Obadiah... But wouldn’t restricting assembly be against the 1st amendment?

[garandgal]

Thank you! Live in Iowa & I’m sure I was in one of your stores yesterday (I hit both Fareway & HyVee).

I had already prepared for this a few weeks ago, but had to get perishable items & a few extras. Went to Fareway on Friday night and the following items were wiped out:

All paper products & most cleaning supplies, potatoes, bread & cereal, frozen food, eggs, & the ENTIRE candy aisle. Went back Saturday afternoon & it was all well-stocked again (except for paper).

Hy-Vee was also very well-stocked on Saturday, except for toilet paper.

Both stores had a full supply of beer, wine & booze. People really need to get their priorities straight...lol.

Thanks for all that you do...be safe:)

[Svartalfiar]

I was listening to the the employee at the cash register. She said there were a lot of people coming into the store and buying anywhere from $600 to $800 worth of groceries. Harris Ts said they were trying to restock the shelves, but the demand was so hight they were having trouble keeping up.I could see the store was restocking the shelves, but wow I have never seen it so empty!

Yea it's getting stupid ridiculous. I was at our local Tom Thumb yesterday, and as you walk through they're fully stocked here, fully stocked on this, then bam! the bell peppers are GONE. Fully stocked, fully stocked, green cabbage GONE. Fully stocked, onions/potatoes a little low but still a bunch, then bam! bananas are GONE. Cheeses good, sour creams are good, cream cheeses good, then bam! eggs are gone. Milk's about gone, then creams are good, OJ and cold juices are fine.

Entire store like that where most stuff is well stocked but then there's just a random shelf that's empty. And of course the entire TP/paper towel aisle :p

[Sans-Culotte]

I went to two stores yesterday (Saturday) because it is my usual grocery shopping day. I started with a Kroger because I had a prescription to pick up. I don't normally get groceries there because it is a smallish store. I did a once-over and noticed the all the paper and cleaning stuff was gone and there was little in the way of meat.

I then went to H-E-B, which is where I usually shop. The produce was almost all gone. I needed a couple of heads of lettuce but was unable to get any. In the meat department, while much of it was gone, I was able to get my weekend ribeye steak. I found a nice thick one well marbled. I needed some ziplock sandwich bags, but all were out. The shelves where they normally reside were so denuded I could not tell at first if I was even in the correct aisle until I read some of the shelf labels.

The dairy section was pretty empty. All milks were gone, but I was able to get the pound of butter my wife needed. There were no long lines. There were employees and managers quickly trying to restock shelves. There were some entrance/exits that had been blocked in the store so as to be entrances only. This means they must have been mobbed at one point and probably wanted to guard against theft.

[Iowa Slim]

Thanks. I’m expecting to put in long hours for the next couple of weeks, but I don’t mind that. I am a truck driver for one of the stores you mentioned. They ask us to refrain from associating their name in social media activity, so I’ll leave it at that.

I have a front seat in the grocery store supply chain. I have a large family, so I buy more at the grocery store than most people. Nothing I’ve seen from work has prompted me to buy more of anything than I normally would.

I stopped by our store in Boone after finishing work yesterday. They serve a county seat city and people in the surrounding agricultural countryside. The only item completely sold out was Lysol aerosol spray cans. The manager put up a sign stating that there’s a spiked demand for cleaning products, paper towels, and TP. His policy was to limit per-customer purchases to a total of six packages (of whatever size) from that list of items, so our neighbors could get a normal amount of what they expect to find when they come to the store. I got one trigger spray bottle of disinfectant cleaner and a single roll of paper towels. That was because I was into my last roll and bottle at home, I didn’t need any more than that, and I happen to know that more will be available when I do need it. TP and paper towel shelves were almost full. The cashier who checked me out said that they had no more in the back room, but they had confirmed generous supplies coming at 0500 on Monday morning’s truck. No worries. Meat dept, produce, dairy, and everything else was in lavish supply with no price increases. In fact, the ground beef I needed for last night’s meatloaf was on sale at a $1.00/lb discount.

The only thing that concerns me is the potential for price inflation on household supplies and provisions if the hysteria keeps up. As of right now, I’m not seeing that happening.

Hot tip for anyone who wants to pick up some side work for extra money. See if grocery warehouses in your area are wanting temp workers to help with increased demand.

[Oil Object Insp]

Clay,
I understand what your saying. Many a time I work in a suit like that or one level down (chemtek and fresh air) all day.

Cooling suits are the only way to make it the distance. Winter time or cooler climates make it more tolerable.

[William Tell]

"My mother is 87 and she says “we were all poor back then. We did without all the time so this wouldn’t have been anything to go crazy about”

My mother-in-law kept a sparse journal back in the late 30s. She and her husband celebrated the end of 1939 because they ended the year with ten dollars less than they started.

Mae and Roger (pseudonyms) had a small house in Colorado. He spent much of the year tending stock in other states. She literally kept the home fire burning. She raised chickens and pigs, took in a boarder, and did other people's laundry.

Mae sold several dozen eggs a week and recorded the price she got, often about 18 cents per dozen. She also recorded purchases she made on her trips to town, including a hair ribbon for ten cents.

The lesson I think is that if you could work you could survive. Now imagine somebody who works at McDonalds and lives in an apartment. Lose your job and you could lose your "home". Then you might have to live in your car until it gets repossessed. Then what? Our youth have had it pretty easy. So easy that they just might not survive a situation like we are facing now.

[Varsity Flight]

N.T.F. (no touch _____) 😉

[Jane Long]

God bless the truckers!!

Thanks for the update.

[urtax$@work]

Retail has done some bad things here in the midwests.

Walmart will scale back hours (Wuhan related) and

A large grocer HyVee has
also changed from 24/7 to 19/7 just recently (non-Wuhan related)…
Now, we get to cram people into fewer operating hours.

[Sir_Ed]

Two friends of mine’s lives were saved by airbags in 40 mph collisions, the cops both times said they’d’ve been killed instantly.

I would never remove airbags from a car, Red China or not, they demonstrably save lives...two of them dear friends!

[BobL]

“I would never remove airbags from a car, Red China or not, they demonstrably save lives...two of them dear friends!”

Goes both ways. My mom had her face re-arranged by an exploding version. I would be interested in how airbags compare to seat belts alone...maybe there’s something out there?

[nascarnation]

There’s no doubt a full 6-point harness plus a HANS or Simpson head/neck restraint as used in a Nascar car is the best. But not many folks want to wear a helmet (which is needed to attach the head restraints to), and take the time to buckle in.

[BobL]

Well, I’m not talking about permanently getting rid of them (here), but we may have to move back a bit from our goal of perfection...if we actually want to be able to buy new cars, at least until we figure out how to make airbags ourselves.