Current Events > Grocery stores are off the hook right now

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Holy shit

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Lol

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The store I was just at is literally refusing to sell each customer more than 3 bottles of hand sanitizer

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Am a meat shop employee. Can confirm. Ran all the back stock that was cut today and it was mostly gone by the time I left.

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I told everybody here 3 weeks ago to stock up and get supplies for two months minimum and people laughed at me.

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Yeah I went in today and half the shelves were empty. I still managed to get about two weeks worth of supplies, but it was price gauged and last pickings.

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Can confirm. Work at a grocery store.
Limiting everyone 4 per person.

Our Toilet paper,sanitizer, antibacterial soaps, kids meds, dry foods like beans and rice all wiped. Frozen foods has been the next hitter ..all the frozen veggies. Luckily our company makes most of these items in state. But we are running out.

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Awesome posted...

I told everybody here 3 weeks ago to stock up and get supplies for two months minimum and people laughed at me.

Two months? o_O

Thats a lot of food though

Awesome posted...

I told everybody here 3 weeks ago to stock up and get supplies for two months minimum and people laughed at me.

We still are

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Things are actually fairly normal around here, besides people washing their hands and sanitizing more. Grocery stores seem to have a normal amount of stock on shelves (may not have as much product in their back rooms though). A big box store ran out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer is pretty scarce all around (which is funny considering the virus is unaffected by alcohol), but otherwise fine.

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I work at a grocery store.

We're out of meat, bread, toilet paper, sanitizer, most canned goods.

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here its TP sanitizer and sometimes bottled water, but plenty of food.

the bulk stores do get raided for giant bags of rice,pasta, etc. but otherwise things are in stock.
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The Whole Foods I work at has been out of hand sanitizer for weeks now. I last worked Tuesday night, and it was busy as hell. Like it was Sunday. Crazy stuff.
We were already having supply issues with 365 brand dried beans, lentils, etc.
Luckily, next week is spring break, and I scheduled some time off next week because school+work has been kicking my ass, so now I feel lucky as a dog. I only have to work this Sunday, and then I'm off for 5 days.

As for my supplies, I went to the local Asian Market. Their shelves are full of noodles and rice and canned goods.

WilliamPorygon posted...

The store I was just at is literally refusing to sell each customer more than 3 bottles of hand sanitizer

Got you tagged as "Rochester" - you're talking about Wegmans aren't you! Yeah you are, you're talking about Wegmans.

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FarFromFields posted...

Got you tagged as "Rochester" - you're talking about Wegmans aren't you! Yeah you are, you're talking about Wegmans.

Shut up, you're going to get me swatted

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WilliamPorygon posted...

Shut up, you're going to get me swatted

I got a buddy who works at Wegmans in VA, told me he saw the craziest lines since the store opened and that the entire grocery section got slammed. Dairy, meat, bakery, seafood, everything.

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They tried to call me in today too, but was for helping curbside and I'd get OT. But ..nah...I can only imagine the orders.

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WilliamPorygon posted...

The store I was just at is literally refusing to sell each customer more than 3 bottles of hand sanitizer

I havent been able to find any for two weeks. The local stores are limiting toilet paper and other similar stuff, but hand sanitizer is gone. You cant even buy it on amazon now.

I went to the store earlier and it was fine. I probably only have enough stuff for a week tops tho.

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I'm usually a cashier but they sent me to collect carts from the parking lot today. 7.5 hours collecting carts and there was never more than like 10 carts in the corral at the front of the store every time I brought more up. 8 goes in, 16 goes out. I was scheduled to work only until 11 pm, they wanted me to stay until midnight but I legit couldn't breathe and couldn't feel my legs. Didn't feel like it died down until 10 pm ish, but even at 11 pm it was insane.

Lines inside were never before seen insane, we have 13 registers and 9 self-checkouts, every register was open and lines went past aisles. I worked on Tuesday but it was definitely not as bad as today. Returns were nowhere near done at 11 pm, there were still carts upon carts of returns. Idk how most of the aisles looked.

My town has confirmed community spread, so I understand the panic, but holy shit.
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I went to a Total Wine in NY earlier and it was a complete fucking madhouse. I was paranoid as fuck. People were buying carts full of liquor.

The entire lot was packed. It's right next to a Walmart. Can't imagine how bad it was in there since there's no Walmarts in NYC, so everybody comes here.

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Puglia77 posted...

I'm usually a cashier but they sent me to collect carts from the parking lot today. 7.5 hours collecting carts and there was never more than like 10 carts in the corral at the front of the store every time I brought more up. 8 goes in, 16 goes out.

Did this play while you were chasing carts?

https://youtu.be/MK6TXMsvgQg

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Did this play while you were chasing carts?

https://youtu.be/MK6TXMsvgQg

I've had days like that.

I fear tomorrow will be one of those days.

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So realistically speaking, takeout is going to be a thing more often it seems. Sigh.

Yeah every store here is basically wiped out of like... Everything that can sit in a pantry or fridge.

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Cheese_Crackers posted...

hand sanitizer is pretty scarce all around (which is funny considering the virus is unaffected by alcohol)

Wait what
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I'm just glad my stores aren't going crazy right now, since I live paycheck to paycheck, buying things more than a week, maybe 2 in advance ain't an option for me

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DarkFists posted...

I'm just glad my stores aren't going crazy right now, since I live paycheck to paycheck, buying things more than a week, maybe 2 in advance ain't an option for me

Same more or less

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The Wal-Mart near me is limiting sales of water cases to 2 per customer.

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St0rmFury posted...

Wait what

I was a little misinformed (not much though). The nature of the virus as a fat-enclosed body means that soap and warm water are far more effective than anything else at breaking it up. Reasonably high alcohol-content sanitizer is probably fine, but with the downside that it coats your hands if you use it too often.

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Idgi all my stores in Queens are pretty much stocked. Shelves are a bit emptier but there are still those items there so I don't see any of this empty shelves panic.

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Yeah was at a grocery store earlier thats usually pretty slow and I only ever see middle aged to old people at. Today it was decently busy but a lot more people in their 20s than ive ever seen in there.

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I got a cheat freezer that is always stocked. Im good for 2 weeks.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Did this play while you were chasing carts?

https://youtu.be/MK6TXMsvgQg

I laughed way too hard at this.

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I got about three or four weeks of food. Family of 5. Two fridges stocked up. And pantry full. I will get more food when needed. I'm sure supply is low right now because of all the panic shopping and will be better in a few weeks

Fucking toilet paper is the big ticket item here in southeast Michigan. Canned food is low but not out.

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As the lone meat cutter in the store today I can confidently say that this is the worst day of my entire life

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Even the local middle-of-nowhere Dollar General is out of toilet paper
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I went yesterday and stocked up. It was so wild. I got there around 11:30 in the morning and luckily parking seemed ok. Its a Gelsons thats tucked away and not popular. But I saw people coming out of there pushing 2-3 carts worth of shit. I was in and out in an hour and managed to stock up on things but shelves were starting to get empty. There was hardly any meat and chicken was completely out.

I beat the lunch rush at least. As I was leaving there was a line up of 20 cars trying to get in and circling around for parking. Today seems even worse. My friend waited in line at Target for an hour.

We are good for about 2 months and also have a supply of MREs and dry camping food for emergencies. Thats like another month or so. Both my husband and I plan to wfh and ride this shit out.

Update.
We are out of:
Toilet Paper
Paper Towels
Alcohol
Bleach
Lysol Wipes
Antibacterial Soap
Hand Sanitizer
Baby Wipes
Gloves
Masks
Canned Soups
Boxed Pasta
Canned Tuna/Chicken
Bread
Meats like Beef and Chicken from the Market.
All frozen breakfasts..

Then produce is looking really rough. Today was a slow day but that's because everyone knows what we are out of lol.

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Frozen fruit and TP are what seem to be com consistently out all all local places around me.

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its like the apocalypse but dumber