Posted on 03/14/2020 7:15:20 AM PDT by 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.
That would be interstate commerce not all commerce. And it gives the feds the jurisdiction to regulate, not to operate.
How do you spend six to $800 at a grocery store, the most I’ve ever managed is typically under $200. I did go to the store this morning early or Walmart here opened at six, and was already packed before I left. My cost about 140 to restock some items in our pantry.
Yeah....the whole bottled water thing has me baffled.
It really depends on the distribution center.
Even in remote rural places it will hit because they will start diverting the shortage supplies from those areas to the places with the shortages.
If they run out completely? We will see violence. ONLY in the remote country/rural areas will you not see violence. Why? Because as the song says, a country boy can survive.
Move on if you don’t care for the discussion.
Publix Fairview TN about 15 miles west of Nashville
No toilet paper or purell
Limits on paper towel which is what I had to buy instead
Otherwise normal
Our country is truly blessed with multiple grocery stores of all shapes and sizes. No big deal if there is a run on most supplies. The shelves will be restocked soon enough.
I don’t think stores take food back in return. This was a one-way purchase. Probably lots of donations to food pantries later this year. But seriously people should have 3 to 6 or even 12 months of stock in the pantry anyway.
“As an employee of FedEx I’d like to thank everybody for depleting store shelves.”
It does make me wonder - does FedEx, UPS, and even USPS stock spare parts for their vehicles? If not we may find home deliveries slowing down as the China shutdown tightens its grip on this country.
I was wondering the same thing? I was thinking it must be a big family and they are loading up?
Your welcome! LOL!
I said the other day that I talked to the boys up in the UP of Mi...my logging friends.
They said they cant get enough wood to the pulp mills fast enough. Pulp mills are running at 100% of capacity.
That means, at the one mill, that they are taking over 400 loads of pulpwood a day. That is a log 4 inches in dia and up 100 inches long.
Meet? Huh? Shaking my head..
“Ever since...Ponytail Guy....”
WHY do you have to post that PATHETIC GUY - and how on earth were you able to dig that up from 28 years ago!
That’s good news, and how my store was 3 days ago.
I just went in this morning to pick up a couple items I forgot and was shocked what I saw.
“I am NOT saying your grocery store shelves are going to empty...but where do you think frozen food bags are from? Or the styrofoam plates for your meat?”
...or the machinery to package them, or the controllers for that machinery?
What you said
DH was looking for basic Kleenex at Walmart (Lenoir City, TN) this morning and was joking to the stock person that the TP section was empty. He told DH people were lined up on Wednesday night when the TP truck came, and they were taking it right off the truck and into their carts. WTF?
Is 28 years too long for me to still be po’d?
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