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Post by bowie on Mar 24, 2020 19:00:23 GMT -6
The wife and I mostly cook at home so the food hoarding issue is affecting us greatly in that, the grocery shelves in our area (Phoenix) are bare. There was a woman at Trader Joe's trying to buy 15 gallons of milk but thankfully TJ's is limiting people to 2 of each item, per-customer. For the last week, my meals have been mostly either cereal or beans and rice, but now those are hard to find so we're going to have to order meals.
Are you seeing this kind of thing where you're at?
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Post by EmRR on Mar 24, 2020 20:04:47 GMT -6
Starting to suspect delivery services may prove more reliable in the short term. Lots of things were missing from shelves here 2 weeks ago, and it only got worse. I haven’t tried a store in a week now, hopefully improving.
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Post by drbill on Mar 25, 2020 1:15:01 GMT -6
Not great, but not too bad here.
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Post by geoff738 on Mar 25, 2020 16:49:31 GMT -6
Wasn’t too bad a couple days ago. Although there was a line up of about 20 minutes to get in. It’s a pretty busy store at the best of times, but they were limiting the number of people in it and you could kinda sorta practice social distancing. Fairly well stocked. Unless you wanted white bread or beef. Managed to pick up some chicken and peppers, onions etc. So I think a stir fry is in order. What I was unable to find was liquid hand soap. I literally got the last one on the shelves at the drug store yesterday. Grocery store had toilet paper, on sale even, so I picked up some. I don’t get the hoarding of that at all. But now I’ve got lots. Anyhow, much better than a week, week and a half or so.
Toronto is home.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by johneppstein on Mar 25, 2020 17:35:16 GMT -6
Things are fairly reassonable here, depending on where you go. Trader Joe's was pretty decent today and Safeway has been pretty good except for TP. OTOH the Foodmax (discount food store) is pretty bad - lots of blank spots on the shelves and prices on some things have skyrocketed. Their meat department is pretty bad.
I suspect that at least part of it depends on whether as store chain has their own trucking.
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Post by Blackdawg on Mar 25, 2020 17:59:59 GMT -6
Ours got a small rush but they were quick to shut down hoarding and putting limits on things. So so far things have been totally fine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 18:44:27 GMT -6
A grocer near us (Smith's is a subsidiary of Kroger) has limited hours and reasonable stock (except for those coveted paper products). There are spot shortages of various items, but they're hanging in. They'll pull an order and bring it to your car if you order online, but there's about a 3-day waiting list for a spot. And if you've got a Whole Foods nearby, they can do a delivery in a 2-hour window (again by reserving ahead of time). I'm an old fart myself and there are immunocompromised people in my immediate family, both young and old. So none of us are exactly keen to actually walk into a store.
Of course booze supplies are dwindling. The state stores here have less and less inventory and are cutting hours to make sure it stays crowded when they are open. Gotta make what I've got last.
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Post by EmRR on Mar 25, 2020 22:35:27 GMT -6
Of course booze supplies are dwindling. The state stores here have less and less inventory and are cutting hours to make sure it stays crowded when they are open. Gotta make what I've got last. It's a good time to either start or stop drinking. I'm not sure which. |
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Post by ragan on Mar 25, 2020 23:24:37 GMT -6
Of course booze supplies are dwindling. The state stores here have less and less inventory and are cutting hours to make sure it stays crowded when they are open. Gotta make what I've got last. It's a good time to either start or stop drinking. I'm not sure which. Don't forget "keep". That's a solid option too. |
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Post by ragan on Mar 25, 2020 23:28:23 GMT -6
The stores definitely aren't as stocked as usual here (Seattle) but they're not really out of staples. The TP thing continues to baffle me. What do people think is going to happen to their asses?
We've been using delivery to avoid having to go touch a bunch of surfaces everywhere. It's not much more money (sometimes not more at all) and we'd actually been doing that some before all this stuff happened. With two little kids and both of us with heavy schedules sometimes it's kinda the greatest thing in the world to have the groceries just show up on your porch.
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Post by johneppstein on Mar 26, 2020 3:33:41 GMT -6
A grocer near us (Smith's is a subsidiary of Kroger) has limited hours and reasonable stock (except for those coveted paper products). There are spot shortages of various items, but they're hanging in. They'll pull an order and bring it to your car if you order online, but there's about a 3-day waiting list for a spot. And if you've got a Whole Foods nearby, they can do a delivery in a 2-hour window (again by reserving ahead of time). I'm an old fart myself and there are immunocompromised people in my immediate family, both young and old. So none of us are exactly keen to actually walk into a store. Of course booze supplies are dwindling. The state stores here have less and less inventory and are cutting hours to make sure it stays crowded when they are open. Gotta make what I've got last. I'm glad I live in a state where they sell booze in grocery stores! |
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Post by christopher on Mar 26, 2020 9:31:11 GMT -6
I’ve been going to the pricier local store. Can’t buy as much but the prices keep the important stuff in stock. Also if things get really desperate, I guess people in other countries found smaller ethnic stores to be well stocked with beans and rice.
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Post by ericn on Mar 26, 2020 13:35:15 GMT -6
It varies day to day, most of the time the best bet is the ALDI over by the projects that happens to be their closest store, yuppie ALDI’s seam to get hit hard. The downtown Market seams to run hot and cold.
Toilet paper and paper towels are almost impossible to find.
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Post by teejay on Apr 3, 2020 7:59:22 GMT -6
Of course booze supplies are dwindling. The state stores here have less and less inventory and are cutting hours to make sure it stays crowded when they are open. Gotta make what I've got last. It's a good time to either start or stop drinking. I'm not sure which. From Newsweek 4/1: "In the week ending March 21, sales on alcoholic beverages have spiked by 55 percent according to market research firm Nielsen. Hard liquors, including tequila and gin, as well as cocktails are the favorites among consumers. Spirits sales increased by 75 percent compared to the same dates in 2019. Beer is the next most popular drink, with purchases up by 66 percent, then wine, up 42 percent year-on-year." Also saw where online sales of alcohol are up over 200%. I think for a majority of people "start", "keep", or perhaps "increase" is the approach. I don't drink, and won't be starting.  |
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Post by johneppstein on Apr 3, 2020 17:01:06 GMT -6
It's a good time to either start or stop drinking. I'm not sure which. From Newsweek 4/1: "In the week ending March 21, sales on alcoholic beverages have spiked by 55 percent according to market research firm Nielsen. Hard liquors, including tequila and gin, as well as cocktails are the favorites among consumers. Spirits sales increased by 75 percent compared to the same dates in 2019. Beer is the next most popular drink, with purchases up by 66 percent, then wine, up 42 percent year-on-year." Also saw where online sales of alcohol are up over 200%. I think for a majority of people "start", "keep", or perhaps "increase" is the approach. I don't drink, and won't be starting. Please don't. More for me!
My local winery (where my band occasionally plays in better times) has an overstock sale on a very good 2007 Syrah for 60% off in case lots, delivered to my door since I'm only 2.2 miles away. I'm getting my second this weekend.
In my case I find myself with a lot of extra cash in my alcohol budget since all the bars are closed.
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Post by svart on Apr 3, 2020 17:57:21 GMT -6
No paper goods at all. Most of the pre-packed sandwich meats and cheeses gone, but the counter-sliced stuff has been fully stocked.
Fresh meat is a little more sparse but not completely gone.
Canned goods about half gone. Frozen foods about half gone.
No detergents for dishes or clothes.
No milk, except for soy.
Plenty of beer though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 23:00:52 GMT -6
cant find no toilet tissue or paper towel, pain in the rear. and i am a single father with 4 small children.. but we manage.. whole foods and sprouts has been pretty decent with the groceries we needed. milk and eggs a bit harder to find but we get it.
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Post by teejay on Apr 4, 2020 16:33:33 GMT -6
From Newsweek 4/1: "In the week ending March 21, sales on alcoholic beverages have spiked by 55 percent according to market research firm Nielsen. Hard liquors, including tequila and gin, as well as cocktails are the favorites among consumers. Spirits sales increased by 75 percent compared to the same dates in 2019. Beer is the next most popular drink, with purchases up by 66 percent, then wine, up 42 percent year-on-year." Also saw where online sales of alcohol are up over 200%. I think for a majority of people "start", "keep", or perhaps "increase" is the approach. I don't drink, and won't be starting. Please don't. More for me!
My local winery (where my band occasionally plays in better times) has an overstock sale on a very good 2007 Syrah for 60% off in case lots, delivered to my door since I'm only 2.2 miles away. I'm getting my second this weekend.
In my case I find myself with a lot of extra cash in my alcohol budget since all the bars are closed.
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Post by ericn on Apr 29, 2020 11:31:27 GMT -6
So with one of my dogs not able to consume gluten and after seeing how much we were spending on Gluten free dog food we started making our own. I go to the produce market down the street and buy what ever clearance stuff is dog safe and buy what ever cheap meat I can find. Well I keep hearing meet is getting hard to find but yesterday Price Chopper had 10lbs bags of chicken thigh 1/4s for $3.99 limit 2.
Made 5 trips back and forth to the car but 100lbs of chicken is in my freezer!
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Post by EmRR on Apr 29, 2020 17:15:09 GMT -6
Still haven't seen a paper good of any kind on a shelf, out of 3 trips in the last 5 weeks.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Apr 29, 2020 19:35:16 GMT -6
We actually got a delivery in around three hours from Publix today. It's lots better than a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2020 22:44:43 GMT -6
Pork is impossible to find. Chicken is rare. Peanut butter is difficult. I finally found pork roll, which is what I grew up with. Toilet paper is impossible. Tabasco is impossible. Milk is plentiful. Yogurt is hard to find except for kefir. WASPs won't touch that. The same with the unsweetened Scandinavian sour milk yogurts but they're all gone. All stinky cheeses are still available. I can get all the goat, sheep, and French cheese I want. WASPs don't eat them. Good coffee and tea is easy to find. Latin espresso along with Irish and Chinese tea are plentiful. Folgers, Maxwell House, and Lipton are not. WASPs don't drink tea that doesn't taste good sweetened or will burn a hole in your stomach. Craft beer for people who don't like beer is all gone. I can still find Budweiser and Bordeaux.
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Post by johneppstein on Apr 30, 2020 0:27:58 GMT -6
Well, we've been getting TP and paper towels again in small quantities.No real serious shortages in food so far, in between Safeway and Foodmaxx, but man, have prices gone up. Selection of meats is down a bit*, but not as bad as what I hear from elsewhere. I have a suspicion, though, that a lot of CA's food supplies come from within the state, making us less influenced by what's going on elsewhere. I think. I'll find out more on next Friday's Safeway run. However, their weekly flier just went back up to 4 pages - it had been down to 2 the 2 previous weeks. Normal is 8. What that translates to is few, if any, specials.
* - We can still get beef, pork, and chichen easily, but the variety of cuts is way down. Various packaged sausages are fairly plentiful.
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Post by svart on Apr 30, 2020 8:06:38 GMT -6
Most food is back on the shelf in Georgia. Paper goods are still scarce mostly because I see lines of people waiting to hoard them when they're stocked on the shelves.
Per-person limits haven't stopped them, I see multiple people purchasing the stuff separately then marching it to the same car and piling it in.
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