Los Angeles - As of two days ago, the large chain grocery store was mostly back to regular stock levels.
Missing included paper products, frozen vegs & pizzas, a lot of soups, and flour. It’s not clear if they have not been able to restock from the initial panic buying, or if they were able to restock and people are still hoarding these categories. I say this because items like pasta, beans, and rice, were back up to near normal levels.
I’m in Chicago proper, and we seem to have more stuff on the shelves than my friends in the suburbs. I’ve also noticed that here on the south side, there’s more stuff on the shelves than on the north side. I’m not sure if it’s just an income difference - south side has more low income folks who may not have the money to hoard things they have to buy - or, as my boyfriend thinks, a cultural one. In his words, “Black and brown people have always thought something like this was about to happen. They mostly ain’t scared.” (He’s black. He’s scared. But he hides it well.)
Only things out today between the Aldi and the Walmart Neighborhood store were corned beef hash and breakfast sausage at Aldi and paper towels at Walmart.
I absolutely agree, though this made me LOL:
“how they cant keep them clean.”
(and this is different from every other day of the year, how??).
DC metro area (suburbia) and Costco had pretty much everything when I went on Monday, aside from the usual gloves, Lysol etc. I don’t know why chicken was in such short supply - any theories on that? They did have toilet paper. They were low on rice, relatively little in the way of frozen veggies, and cleaning supplies in general were picked over.
DFW area. Went to store yesterday afternoon (Kroger’s). Plenty available, but a lot of bare spots at the meat counter. I was shopping for ribs/pork to smoke, and there was plenty of the large cuts like that. Seemed like the more “prepared” stuff was gone – like ground beef, etc. There were limits on the TP and paper towels, but no effect on me since needed very little. Did pick up a package of each and some extra beer though, just to avoid another trip later.