Rollin', rollin', rollin',
keep them doggies rollin'...
Things are starting to disappear at my local Kroger. No eggs, especially.
Hannaford’s is pretty un-fancy and people are going bonkers for TP. I guess the threat of a virus makes you poop more.
This guy is a moron. Trader Joe’s is not a fancy place, nor are they [and never have been] in high rent neighborhoods.
Today, both Von’s and TJ’s were jammed.
After hearing from two separate friends reporting that lines to get in to Costco (separate locations) were wrapping around the buildings, I went to my local Albertson’s to get something for dinner. The place was mobbed. Absolutely ridiculous. The checker told me there was at least 30 people in line waiting for the store to open. People were grabbing meat as fast as they put it out, there were no potatoes left, and the water isle was a disaster. The store hasn’t had isopropyl alcohol or toilet paper for at least a week, they said they can’t get it.
How is the media conduct in this situation not criminal? They are effectively yelling fire in a crowded theater.
We’re all Capitalist now.
Just back from Kroger in Greenfield IN.
Only shortages I found were toilet paper and chicken noodle soup!
I’m in suburban Cincinnati and have been fascinated with the whole thing.
Yesterday after schools closed and Governor DeWine sent everyone home for 3 weeks the Kroger nearest to me exploded. Every cart gone, people parking across a major road. Check out lines over an hour, picked clean produce and meat departments.
This morning I went as normal for coffee, produce section rebuilt and stocked, meat shelves being filled in section by section.
I do most of our shopping at Aldi, we did Instacart for our order today because we were not willing to risk standing in line for an hour. Only about half of it arrived. No poultry, turkey or anything fresh.
That required another trip out and I hit 3 stores side by side; another Aldi, Jungle Jim’s (I can’t explain it you either know it or you don’t.) and Wal Mart.
Aldi I was able to get 4 things remaining on my list of 15 things. Jungle Jim’s maybe another 4-5. Wal Mart though? Other than bread, some OTC stuff and (I feel like I’m in a 3rd wold country saying this.) toilet paper I found everything remaining.
They had constant in store announcements about arriving inventory which blew my mind. I’m so used to going to Wal Mart in the middle of the night (I grocery shop lovernights on weekends if I can’t sleep which the woman in my life loves when she doesn’t have to do it.) and seeing an army of people filling aisles with pallets and making the store look like a catalog of capitalism. Never during the day because it was necessary. They were doing it though.
All in all over the last two days and having to go to multiple stores I got everything and no one was mad, bitter, angry, employees were laughing about things. I didn’t hear one cross word from anyone.
Meijers thrifty acres was a zoo earlier today. It’s a respiratory illness, Right? Then why the hell is all the toilet paper gone? Mental disconnect there. Also, the bread, milk and eggs were perilously low. I guess Dixie snowstorms aren’t the only thing which inspires an unquenchable desire for French toast. People are lemmings.
CC
Our Ralph’s (Kroger affiliate in So Cal) is mobbed and picked over. The meat dept guy said they sold 3x normal yesterday. Food is arriving just like always, with larger deliveries. People are just stocking up. A tip: at our store the meat is stocked at night, so go late if you want meat. The produce is stocked very early, so go first thing in the morning for that.
david marcus is full of used food.
My wife went to two unglamorous stores yesterday and night before and there were lines going out the door.
A co-worker relayed to me the scene his wife saw at a Wally World near where they live. Lines down the aisles.
She had to get an attendant to open up a self-serve line and two people were incensed he was helping her out rather than them. They were yelling at him to open up the ammunition case, “We need that ammo RIGHT NOW!!!”.
Went to a Walmart to top off some food items and it was packed. Many shelves already partially barren.
Stopped at another local grocery store and it was busy but still had reasonable stocks outside of toilet paper and cleaners.
The one thing that I noted was each store had every single register staffed and the lines were deep at all of them.
Agree I went to a local supermarket in a blue collar neighborhood and it was no issues everything in stock and no crowds. Today I went into the big higher end market in my area and it looked like bomb went off
Very interesting and large contrast
Walmart in my rural area in Virginia is jammed with people buying entire buggies full of white bread or diapers or paper towels. These are not prosperous, educated people, but almost all of them are white, interestingly.
My boy in the Salt Lake City area reports WinCo and Sam’s Clubs are being stripped of EVERYTHING. At WinCo, you had to catch someone emptying their cart in order to grab one - none at all were available.
Like many of us, he’s totally pist at the hysteria being exhibited.
Local Wally World was running over with people. Not a single roll of toilet paper in the store, nor any dry beans or rice.
Seems like a contradiction - if you eat a bunch of rice you won’t need toilet paper....