Went Grocery Shopping

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this morning. Large Food lion Store. It look like a tornado had hit the shelves. No meat, bread, a lot of can goods 90% gone. 

mogley98

I see no particular reason for it to get any better?

Hoards of people are not eating out, I would guess that while Post Mates, Uber eats, Door dash etc. are probably seeing record numbers overall dining at home is also probably peaking.

People will use much more groceries than they did two weeks ago.

Now the supply chains will have to shift from those who prepared and delivered restaurant packaged foods to providing that stream to grocery stores and such.  It will take a few weeks to figure out the new logistics

mogley98

I may not need them for anything else but somehow I feel good that I have N95 masks I use when I mow, I gave each of the kids a few even though the CDC says we don't need them.

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Didn't see any overloaded carts...most only had enough that it didn't need stacked in the cart. I did walk away from my cart about 25 feet and I turned around and a man had a couple of cans of hominy in his hand out of my cart. I ask him WTH he was doing ? He put it back in my cart and walked off.

SCOUT5

I went to the local DG this morning.  I was short on corn meal and want to fry some fish.   Low supply of canned goods.  Milk and eggs were sold out but that's not uncommon as their stock is limited and their prices or lower than the local grocery.  TP and paper towels were sold out.  I bought a large bottle of dawn dish soap, a jug of laundry detergent, and some cornbread mix.  I would rather have regular corn meal but there wasn't any.   They still had sugar but flour was sold out.  When I walk in the clerk was telling someone on the phone they were sold out of TP.   I could have went to the local grocery and probably found regular corn meal but the DG is closer and that was really all I needed.

mark christian

I'd be more upset if someone put hominy in my cart. Yuch.

Butchdog2

Put all the hominy in my cart.  Yum Yum, fry a few pieces of bacon then dump the yuck in, delicious.

mogley98

I'm with Butchdog, Yellow or white hominy fried up in a skillet with green pepper, onion and bacon MMMMM

Rocky Raab

The main advantage of "Senior Hour" is that the store has all night to restock. I saw pallets of butter, TP, bottled water, bread, canned goods, and everything else but sanitizers still waiting to be shelved - and full or nearly full shelves of dairy, meat, and more.

BUT, within the first 30 minutes, much of that was going out the door already. They had a limit of two of anything, but some people still tried to buy cart loads of TP and towels. Told no at the registers. Got mad. Still told no. Good for the manager!

Good news: Plenty of beer!

Sperry

This Sunday morning I drove to my bluegrass picking circle stomping grounds within the Arc . . . The Acme was only sparsely populated. I had the chip / snack aisle and pet food aisles to myself, although patrons seemed to be congregating about the tomato sauce shelves. Bread? None, and the employee in that aisle tidying up was sarcastic about the issue of dough. He says the bakers are right down the street, there is plenty of flour, and deliveries are like clockwork. Deli, ZERO line. I even found premium black bean hummus on sale and in stock.
BIG SIGN - NO RETURNS, NO RAIN CHECKS
On the way home I dropped in a Fresh Market grocers, like a premium premium Trader Joe's / pre-amazon Whole foods. EMPTY OF ... patrons. The deli was fully stocked, some teas were cleaned out, bread - zilch, Kerrygold butter NONE, but everything else was fully present.

Brookwood

Good news: Plenty of beer! 

That right there makes my DAY!!  

I won't start panicking until the beer is gone!  

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mark christian said:

I'd be more upset if someone put hominy in my cart. Yuch.

You are in the south now... I reckon you won't eat grits either...

Grasshopper

mark christian said:

I'd be more upset if someone put hominy in my cart. Yuch.

 That was my thought. HOMINY, oh God, it is a panic.

mogley98

Funny thing most Yanks that "learn" to eat grits say "if I put bacon, or syrup or whatever in them I can eat them" I like my grits with salt and pepper. My wife is a Yank and she eats that cardboard and water Yankee stuff, or Oatmeal. That stuff is only fit for putting in cookies!

Sperry

mogley98 said:

 I like my grits with salt and pepper.

While it is true that grits only salt and pepper, adding butter ain't bad ...
I make my grits thick, like porridge. Recently I was served soupy grits (Sunny Side Up, Shawnee OK).

mark christian

I don't like cooked cereal. When I was a kid and it would be a rainy morning (when I was a kid, California actually had a rainy season), my mother wanted to send my sister and I off to school with a hot breakfast. My idea of a hot breakfast was eggs and toast, mom's idea was a bowl of cream of wheat or Malt-O Meal (which I think is called farina in some parts of the country). I don't like creamy or gooey foods, which includes popular dessert items like flan or custard, or entrees like macaroni and cheese. Luckily, my sister loves that stuff so I'd give my cereal to her. No grits, no way. 

Locust Fork

On Wednesday my son's girlfriend had her wisdom teeth taken out.    I was shocked that they kept her appointment and did the procedures, but they did.....so she is off work and recovering during all of this mess.    

I went to the store that evening to get her some soft foods to try and do SOMETHING to help her out.    It was shocking to see that they wouldn't let me buy more than 2 cans of soup at Publix.    I told them I needed the 10 cans I was trying to buy because of an oral surgery ordeal and I wasn't certain what she might be able to eat.    The old hag cashier that was working wasn't hearing any of it......she gave me the stink eye and pulled her paper listing the limited items and pointed to it.    I just bought what I could and left.     Its amazing how crazy this is getting.  

Locust Fork

KenK/84Bravo said:

Our store has had to impose limits on purchases due to inconsiderate people who try and load up cartloads of difficult to find items (bread, milk, eggs, pasta, beans, TP, etc.) It is what it is. Allow the few to buy it all, or impose limits so all can get some.

What is right?

I understand limits....but TWO cans of soup???    Something like ten or a dozen or so would be a good limit.   Who can do anything with just two cans of soup?

mogley98

Who can do anything with just two cans of soup?

Eat twice.

It was very nice of you to try to help out, that said who doesn't have more than two cans of soup in their pantry??!!

In all seriousness my dentist always sends me home with a bag full of soft food goodies when I have had a procedure that warrants it. Unless the wisdom teeth procedure was an emergency which I doubt fore thought would have accounted for some soft foods in hand prior to having the surgery done.

I know if I had ANY elective stuff coming up it is canceled for sure, who needs a colonoscopy right now!I'm conserving calories not intent on pooping them out!!

mac10

limit 3 bread  hardly any meat most things picked good  

yoshmyster

I stopped by the larger Korean joint last Friday. It was interesting what the "Asians" snap up in crisis. Pretty much all those Cup-O-Noodles were gone. Well at least what they like. Dried noodles were also a big seller and rice. Dude put one bag (15 pounder) limit. Didn't check the price to see if dude jacked it. And that's about it. Maybe some seaweed sheets (nori) to make Kimbap (Korean sushi)?

I then walked to the Filipino/Pan-Pacific (read Fijian owned) joint. Pretty much all the Pho' noodles were gone at least the brand they like. Coconut milk/cream in the cans were the good seller here. So were the whole and ground spices like gram-masala (curry?). And that was about it for this one. Everything else was there.

I went to the other Pan-Pacific joint (owned by different Fijians maybe the McCoys?) This place was like it was before the silliness. They didn't have fresh fish this week so maybe the masses didn't do their shopping there?

Now Grocery Outlet (mostly canned goods, who made this stuff and kind a organic store) was like typical large chain grocery situation.  The canned isle was emptied not a can of Spam or those tear drop one pound ham cans from Denmark were to be had. Their stock of Top Ramen gone. I just picked up couple of Wicked Lightning Moonshine for $5 a bottle. I went in there looking for green apple hard cider from Scandinavia but no dice. If the "moonshine" wasn't $5 and had a "Club-Kid" girl dressed in a bikini and goggles riding a lightning I may have passed on it. Yeah I bought it for the bottle cover and it's 80 proof for $5. If it's good they had cases of this stuff. I should try it to see if it's case worthy. I'm sure Kansas is known for Moonshine.

Rocky Raab

Buy your two cans. Put in car. Go back in, get two cans and go through a different checkout line. Go back tomorrow and repeat.

Locust Fork

mogley98 said:

Who can do anything with just two cans of soup?

Eat twice.

It was very nice of you to try to help out, that said who doesn't have more than two cans of soup in their pantry??!!

In all seriousness my dentist always sends me home with a bag full of soft food goodies when I have had a procedure that warrants it. Unless the wisdom teeth procedure was an emergency which I doubt fore thought would have accounted for some soft foods in hand prior to having the surgery done.

I know if I had ANY elective stuff coming up it is canceled for sure, who needs a colonoscopy right now!I'm conserving calories not intent on pooping them out!!

My son and his girlfriend are 23.    I think they prepared by making sure they had time off from work and a bit of ice cream.    This age group can be a bit sketchy when it comes to life skills.