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?
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.
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...
Thar’s easy. Walmart created the most sophisticated pull-type distribution network on the planet and its large competitors copied it. When you buy the last item on the shelf the supplier has already gotten the order to replenish it.
Foo-foo stores can’t come close.
All of them use similar systems. Everything is based on statistics. Depending on the product a store may have only a few days of supply for one reason or another. Their supplier will have slightly higher inventories but not enough to cover this swing. Nobody is sitting on 4 weeks of toilet paper because there might be a run on it. Except the people that went to Costco last week.
Last night, I stopped at a Hy-Vee in a southwest suburb of Minneapolis.
Of course, toilet paper was completely gone. Jugs of water were picked over but available.
Canned goods like vegetables, soup, etc had been hit - but not hard. You could find what you wanted.
I didn’t see the meds section but I assume there had been action there too.
There were not long lines at the registers or self-checkout. I didn’t see anyone who had a grocery cart piled high with food.
I had to threaten to kill a guy over two boxes of Hostess Ho-Ho’s. OK, I lied about that part.
It really looked like a typical Thursday night. Of course, it’s hard to predict what this weekend will look like though.
I see that here, too. WalMart grocery aisles are shoulder to shoulder due to the crowds. The Dollar General is normal traffic as is the IGA. The DGs and Family Dollars have been stocking up on things that WM is running out of. They expect to get jammed, too, but so far it hasn’t happened. The nearest DG stocked up on pallets of water at raised prices expecting to be swamped. Today the prices of water at DG have come down to below what they had been before the WuHan disturbance. We do not have anything like Whole Foods. We had a similar Lucky’s but it went out of business.