Posted on 03/13/2020 1:49:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
My Winn Dixie was calm as was the gourmet chain Fresh Market. My husband said Publix was wild. So pretty meaningless.
My wife works in a Kroger in our town. No TP, no meat, very little produce, long lines, and her department (the online shopping unit for that store) was behind 4 hours on orders at 2 pm today.
This may have been accurate Wednesday or Thursday, but Joe NASCAR got the message after all of his sports events were cancelled.
I’m gonna die but being mortal I’ve made my peace with it.
I stopped at Trader Joe’s, and the store was completely out of nail guns and axle grease.
I suspect that this weekend, ALL the grocery stores are going to look like that.
Today was tempered, I believe, by the fact that school is still in session in most places and so people are busy with jobs etc and weren’t out shopping.
Weekends are always bad anyways with people who do all their week;’s shopping then.
I think it’s going to be far worse this weekend based on what I saw today.
They are.
Liberalism is a mental illness, and neurotic panic buying is just one symptom. That’s why where libs shop, shelves are emptying, and people are waiting in block-long lines in the false hope that what they and everyone else in line want will be there when they get inside.
And these people can vote.
It’s the herd mentality of the PC crowd.
I agree because the people who have been paying attention to the news have been getting ready for this for weeks, because they've seen this coming.
The affluent millennials are caught off guard because they are so self-absorbed and self-centered, that they don't pay attention to something unless it's hitting them over the head.
My work can be done anywhere with decent internet, my mom is 87 and living alone and so I packed up and went over there for the duration. She lives in what is regarded as an affluent suburb in NC but her section is pretty rural and dominated with farmers. Shopping is done at Food Lion in that same suburb. Things were fine, nothing short but hand sanitizer right up until the ACC basketball tournament was cancelled and then all hell broke loose. The store is trying mightily to keep the shelves stocked but nonperishables get gone quickly and they’re losing the battle. Toilet paper? Forget about it.
They are buying into the hysteria totally.
I really wish this article hadn’t been written. It was nice to find toilet paper at my unfashionable little store.
Do you have a Lowe’s or a Home Depot near you.
I had luck there earlier this week.
I was at a local Wegman's today as well, in a very rural Upstate NY town and it was basically the same thing.
They were also completely out of chicken and there was one turkey and one turkey breast left.
I took the turkey. Hey, it's meat and a lot like chicken and turkey cooked over the grill for the 4th of July is a real treat. When I went back later, just to see if it was still there, the breast was gone.
The meat dept guy said they had trucks coming in but they were having trouble supplying everything and every body. They had to pack the trucks to capacity and hire extra drivers to drive them.
I can't help but wonder if those people who are panic buying TP have enough food stored in their houses to need that much.
After all, no food = no need for TP.
In my hometown the majority of the people were Mormon while I was not. My friends parents used to grow gardens and can everything - always had a lot of emergency food on hand. I used to tease my mormon friends that if the end of the world came I was going to raid the Mormon churches for food.
There’s a Lowe’s grocery store very close but tend not to shop there, can’t figure out their sales, seems sort of expensive. There’s a Lowe’s Home Improvement about ten miles west, haven’t tried it. No Home Depot near unless going into more heavily populated areas east, suspect that would be picked over at this point.
I have decided to hold off on buying any more meat right now. I always keep a stock in my freezer and t think I am good for the 2 weeks.
I think once everyone’s freezer is full, you will see the stores restocked. (That excludes the possibility that this thing becomes much worse than the experts are predicting).
The thing I really need right now is some fresh produce, but I am going to wait a few days on that as well. I think this weekend will be utter chaos at most grocery stores.
I get my water at a vending machine. 35 cents a gallon.
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