That’s not bullshit. Just because the food item is available in-store does not it’s available for delivery. This is entirely reasonable when food can’t be safely delivered without being damaged.
It’s offered on their website and shows as available when we select it. After the order is placed, it fails to appear and is marked “unavailable” on the receipt. Whereupon we drive to the store to find racks and racks of both. Offering an item you have no intention of delivering is most certainly “bullshit”.
I agree it’s misleading website design, but:
- The item was available in-store, and not for delivery
- You were therefore correctly prevented from making a delivery order, saving your time
- You arrived at the store and correctly saw that the items were available for pickup.
You got all the necessary information to get what was available at the promised time and place. The store offers delivery for some items and not others. What is “bullshit” about that?
Let’s call it bad web design. If it’s available in-store and pick-up, but not delivery, the site should say so.
However, I’m sure it’s the store deciding not to deliver those items, and corporate wouldn’t want to give them that much authority, so the problem isn’t going to go away
I kind of gave up on curbside pickup. I would order Manichevitz noodles, kept with “ethnic” food & showing as available. But I would get regular egg noodles from the noodles dept. as a substitute since the ones I wanted were “unavailable.” I would go in the store & buy my damn Manichevitz noodles. Too many other examples of same.
I’ve had trouble getting good oranges. Each new batch that comes in seems older than the previous batch. This is at several produce stands, grocery stores, and Costco. So not exactly shortages, but things don’t seem to be moving much.
Lots of complaints in canning group about the unavailability of both lids and jars. Lately it seems some people have been able to find some in the stores.
Like mistymage, I had plenty of jar and rings. My supply of lids was getting low, so in the late spring I thought I’d order a bunch from Amazon (I did this a couple years ago). Lawdylawdy, my jaw dropped when I saw the price – over $4 for a pack of 12. I found a farm supply store online that had them for <$2 a pack, so ordered a dozen packs from them.
Have either of you tried the reusable Tattler canning lids? I bought a supply about 10 years ago, and they really do work well. I never run out of canning lids now.
I prefer the regular-sized lids as I have very few sealing failures with them. I just canned up 3 dozen quarts of tomatoes and not a single lid failure. Full pantry, happy girl.
The only thing I’ve seen a current and consistent shortage of around here is Campbell’s chicken broth. I use it in one of our weekly dinner recipes and I don’t like the flavor of other brands as much, so it’s kind of a pain. Everything else seems to be in pretty good supply.
Sleep and sanity. Mine.
I actually looked into Tattlers when I was reading a zombie/prepper story that talked about them. I looked for reviews on them and ran across this article Comparison of Metal Lids and Tattler Lids (Reusable Lids) and decided they weren’t for us.
The Atlantic’s view (hopefully not paywalled).
“In just a few months, the pandemic has turned the all-encompassing, carefully constructed institution of American consumerism on its head. Supplies of basic household goods such as paper towels and all-purpose flour have only partially recovered, and mundane, seemingly random items join the list of shortages constantly—inflatable kayaks, kettlebells, ceramic tile, seeds, foot peels, many things sold in aluminum cans. The problem of pandemic commerce doesn’t lie simply with low supply or high demand. Instead, the coronavirus has eaten away at the entire system by which things are bought and sold in America, and few signs of improvement are on the horizon.”
I’ve still not seen rubbing alcohol in the shops, but i managed to buy some on Amazon. A normal brand for a somewhat normal price, even. That’s what I’ve been using to sanitize my hands when i go out, since i don’t like having them covered with whatever the residue is from “sanitizer”. I did buy some sanitizer made from a local distiller (at drinking booze prices) to tide me over, but I’m back to using rubbing alcohol.
I never used sanitizing wipes before the pandemic, and still don’t, except that now i wipe the handles of the the grocery store cart. But they provide a giant box of wipes for that purpose.
Not that I’ve seen. I, also, bought a little more garlic than usual. But i keep seeing it on the shelves.
Yeah. In the 2-1/2 months since I wrote that the supply of disinfectants has normalized a lot. Pocket/purse sized hand sanitizer is in big tubs near cash registers everywhere. etc.
A local take-out restaurant/brewery tells me chicken wings are hard to get and the price has been fluctuating wildly. They are also having a hard time sourcing banana peppers.
I went to Costco the other day (Senior hours - I qualify but just barely) and there were no restrictions on meat purchases, unlike the time I went in mid-March. Stocked up on the packaged boneless chicken breasts - the way they are packaged, you don’t have to use a whole huge flat of them (like the family-size grocery store packages) - so I’m happy about that. The last time we went, they had a limit on one package of each type of meat product, and they literally had only one skimpy package of the chicken breast.
Freezer update. I doubt the nationwide shortage is resolved, as such - but last week I looked up the one we had ordered from Sears, and supposedly we could order one and have it within a week. We’d already cancelled that order anyway, since I found a smaller (5.1 cu ft vs 7.2) at Lowes back in late July. And for less money, too - 189 dollars vs 350 - let’s say about 36 dollars per cubic foot vs 50 dollars.
Sears took most of a month to refund my money, though it did finally show up.
I just ordered a freezer from a major local retailer. They say there is still a nationwide shortage. They had a couple of chest-type freezers in stock, and that was it. I ordered something (pay now, we’ll deliver it when it arrives, you can get a refund until it’s delivered) that they expect to show up by the end of the month.
I hope I can plug it in from the existing outlet – do freezers need 220, like stoves and dryers, or are they okay with 110?
My chest freezer uses 110.
Also, if you know the model number of the chest freezer you ordered, you should be able to find the manual online, so you can review things like the electrical requirements (although it would be very unusual for a residential model to require anything but 110 power) and the dimensions, so you can see if it will fit in the space you chosen.
Yep - ours just plug into regular outlets.