Posted on 03/13/2020 1:49:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
My Safeway is a madhouse, and it’s not one bit fancy.
That picture is of a regular store. And from what I’m hearing the regular stores are getting mobbed too. At least in some neighborhoods. It’s really about who’s crazy and who isn’t.
Liberals shop at the fancy places, Whole Foods, Everman’s, Trader Joe’s, etc..................
Because the stuff is organic.
Affluent or effluent?
Why? Stupidity. Are not the folks standing in line at crowded Costco, Whole Foods & Trader Joe’s more likely be putting themselves at risk of virus exposure than if they were shopping at emptier, less chichi stores?
Aldi’s stock plenty of organic foods.
I’ve never heard Trader Joe’s referred to as a “fancy grocery” before. I would call it the “Ross Dress for Less” of food stores.
Trader Joe’s is not fancy. They have some of the best prices outside of Costco/ Sams. I would shop there more if there was one convenient to me. They do carry a great many organic products so a lot of libs probably shop there, hence the panic buying.
“fancy chain grocery stores like Trader Joe”
Ah, now the word is “fancy”! I guess because they’re so damn expensive. Because they’re “organic” which is at best what they should be called.
That’s because of the kind of people who tend to get suckered into that kind of store. They’re paranoid that so much food is bad for you, of course they’re paranoid more bad stuff is going to happen - and they’re ensuring to stock up on “healthy” food rather than the evil capitalist “processed” food.
I have been in our local Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods within the last five days. I have also been in Lowe’s, CVS, and Harris Teeter.
This has not happened here yet, and I am about 2 hours south of DC.
There are some items that are gone, but there are no empty shelves.
My wife visited a local Kroger in normally sane north GA, and it was packed with people, with most meats, produce and paper goods gone.
This was BEFORE the declaration of a national emergency.
Rule #1 of prepping applies: you don’t talk about your preps. <— this just went live.
No sign of panic here and there’s one guy in the county diagnosed with it. Yet, Dollar General still has alcohol, bleach and TP.
First, the writer is a snob. Affluent people pay more attention to the news? I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure blue collars understand quite well what’s going on. They’re just not stupid enough to spend their hard-earned money at a high-end grocery store! And second, I really hope but the blue collar bosses pay attention shut down their factories for a while and let people go home. This is completely insane I think I really don’t think it’s the worldwide pandemic that we think it is. These things are almost always overblown. However I could be wrong. Is just I panicked over Y2K SARS Ebola and I’m fed up with these media manufactured crises. Now all the schools are closed up here. I sure hope it doesn’t get a foothold into the place where I live which is a long story I’m only 57 and I don’t have Alzheimer’s but I live with these people. And if it gets in here it would be decimated; weak elderly people they have no chance
Because your average suburbanite is too dumb to recognize anything that sells food if it doesnt say something like Costco on a big sign.
Chocolate. Trader Joe’s brings in that 70% stuff by the boxcar load.
Food 4 Less (Kroger’s discount supermarket) in San Diego had plenty of TP at regular prices while Walmart and Costco were sold out. Walmart not upscale so...
In my best Southern Belle voice: why Sir, I do believe that I am quite fancy. LOL
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