[PA Presbyterian]

Have you been in a grocery store lately? I live in a small town in a rural area. It has four grocery stores—all of which are packed with jackasses pulling everything they can grab off the shelves and piling shopping carts to overflowing. No social distancing going on there, people practically cheek by jowl, standing in long crowded lines at checkout. In Pennsylvania the governor has ordered a shut down of all but life-sustaining businesses and told people to stay home.

So, I have to stay home from work along with everyone else but now, people who aren’t working are jamming the grocery stores. It is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. I was safer at work.

[DouglasKC]

Have you been in a grocery store lately? I live in a small town in a rural area. It has four grocery stores—all of which are packed with jackasses pulling everything they can grab off the shelves and piling shopping carts to overflowing. No social distancing going on there, people practically cheek by jowl, standing in long crowded lines at checkout. In Pennsylvania the governor has ordered a shut down of all but life-sustaining businesses and told people to stay home.

Actually went to Aldi today to pick up a few tings...I'm in western Kentucky. As far as I know there have been no confirmed cases. At the Aldi no meat, no tp no cleaning products but other than that things normal. Kept our distance, wore gloves. Plenty of stores and they're always packed no matter what time of the day.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It has four grocery stores—all of which are packed with jackasses pulling everything they can grab off the shelves and piling shopping carts to overflowing.

I'm losing my patience with that sort.

[matt04]

Same in my area. Just when the stores seem to begin to catch up another doom and gloom report comes out and everyone runs out to by another weeks worth of food. I spoke with a manager yesterday and they said it’s not the supplies are limited for the most part with the excepting of sanitizer wipes and the like, it’s the sheer volume people are panic buying.

They had a 3/4 mile long backup of trucks trying to enter one DC a coupe days ago. Some depts that normally would need 150 cases each delivery were generating orders in excess of 1000 cases but the DC was cutting items to try to triage it. Even then deliveries were running 36-48 hours late.

[familyop]

"Have you been in a grocery store lately? I live in a small town in a rural area. It has four grocery stores—all of which are packed with jackasses pulling everything they can grab off the shelves and piling shopping carts to overflowing. No social distancing going on there, people practically cheek by jowl, standing in long crowded lines at checkout. In Pennsylvania the governor has ordered a shut down of all but life-sustaining businesses and told people to stay home.

So, I have to stay home from work along with everyone else but now, people who aren’t working are jamming the grocery stores. It is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. I was safer at work."

Yep. Those are the hubs that the virus will explode from. Some of the *big stores* (see flower or "spark") have tens of thousands of people crowding into each store per week--people from several states.