I imagine some people’s butts are likely to grow a bit during this debacle, but not at this rate!
I did my normal Costco run yesterday. They had a sign out front showing what they were out of (TP!) and what they were limiting purchases on. I was glad to finally get some eggs!
In basements?
I was pretty surprised to see that it’s not currently available on line. (I buy a box of 40 rolls. Have been doing that for more than a year.) How long does it take to resupply the chain?
I suspect a LOT more people are ordering things online than usual. I know I am. I literally just ordered $120 of groceries that we didn’t quite need yet just so I didn’t have to pay for shipping on the case of Kleenex that we bought in lieu of the toilet paper we actually wanted. And now that’s out of stock, too. Ah well, on the bright side, we will be well supplied with coffee, dried fruit, nuts, and cooking oil.
If so, I hope they all experience plumbing leaks and/or spring floods.
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This aspect is particularly infuriating, since they usually won’t let you back order it. (Or at least Costco won’t.)
We have enough to last about one month to six weeks, and it would be nice if we could put in an order now so we have it coming when we need it.
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Just got back from Kroger, first trip since last Friday. Things looked somewhat better. Ground beef, chicken and much more pork available. Got a 5 lb. bag of white rice. There wasn’t a lot of rice but better than last week. Still no toilet paper, hand sanitizer, isopropyl alcohol. Had plenty of cheapo napkins.
One thing that is unavailable at the brick and mortars (2 drug stores, Kroger, hardware store) I checked is the battery that fits digital thermometers. All the batteries you want except 392s. Amazon was out yesterday but it looked like there were some available online. Some online places don’t tell you that something is out of stock until you actually try to place the order. I didn’t pursue it that far. Yet.
Sometimes you just can’t wait a month it’ll all come out okay in the end :D:smack:
Publix has been fairly better, consistently, than Kroger.
Better stocked shelves.
Even some disinfectants!
Where are people getting the idea that you can’t leave your house? Unless I missed something it’s not supposed to be like house arrest; you’re allowed to go to the grocery store, among other routine essential errands.
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So? Are you going to troop down to the grocery store’s restroom every day?
(My local grocery has not had any TP on the shelf in more than a week.)
And in my experience, most grocery stores (as opposed to Walmart etc.) don’t make restrooms public often. Sure they’ll point it out to you if asked in most cases, but often there’s no sign on the store floor and you have to go through a warehousing section.
all grocery stores here in NC have signs for restrooms. They are either at the front or back of the store.
Went to Lidl today and the only thing in short supply was milk. Plenty of meat and pork and chicken and seafood. I think it’s best to go early in the day.
If you or a family member is sick, you won’t be able to leave the house for a minimum of 14 days.
All the grocery stores I go to regularly have clearly signed restrooms. Usually someplace out-of-the-way, but I’ve never needed to ask for help to find one. (Convenience stores usually lock the restrooms, and you do need to ask for help.)
Restrooms in grocery stores are ubiquitous enough that a friend who looked at a lot of insurance claims for stuff like “person raped on this commercial property” once recommended that if I was on a road trip and needed to use a restroom, I should look for a supermarket or grocery store. “Safer, and usually cleaner and better maintained than gas station restrooms”, he told me.
eta: but I’m not going to the supermarket to use their restroom when I’m at home, of course. So like everyone else, I want enough TP here.
not all convenience stores lock bathrooms here. Only about 1/3 lock them.
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Whoa there!
I meant you can go to the store to buy stuff, theoretically including toilet paper.
Not just to use their bathroom.
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We’re under shelter-in-place in Oregon but I don’t think we have this stipulation, at least not yet.
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Even if you don’t, if it’s applicable please keep it!
Other shoppers, and storeworkers, really don’t need sick and recently-exposed people coming into the store.
– somewhat belated report from rural Finger Lakes New York:
Monday 23rd, area Mennonite-run grocery store: café of course takeout only. Plenty of eggs (locally-sourced); some holes in the (partly locally sourced) dairy selection, but still plenty there to get what you needed. One cheese cooler closed down, but that was probably coincidence, as there was a good cheese selection in a different cooler. Shelves for the most part seemed normally stocked; the only other gap I noticed was that there was very little beef in the meat case. They carry a lot of nuts, dried fruit, and baking supplies; I didn’t inspect the baking supplies closely as I was already stocked on those, but they looked normal from the end of the aisle. Produce looked about normal for the time of year, including plenty of oranges – I don’t remember whether there were bananas. They don’t in any case carry paper goods and hand sanitizers – I think there’s a shelf of homemade soaps but forgot to check it.
Tuesday 24:
Tractor Supply: plenty of cat litter and a near-normal supply of cat food. Normal stock of tractor oils and garden-hose nozzles/connectors. Normal-appearing stock of everything I went by en route to getting those. I forgot to check for cleaning products; I think they might carry some ordinarily but not much.
-- whoops, posted before done by accident. Tops grocery: most aisles appeared normal, but there were a batch of signs limiting quantities. No toilet paper. Very little facial tissue or paper towels. No rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, hand sanitizer. Limit-of-two signs on (among other things) laundry soap and dish soap, but a pretty good selection of those with a few gaps -- there weren't any large-size Dawn Original dish soap, but there were plenty of mediums, so I took the limit-two of those (it gets used both in house and in packing shed, though I don't yet have any produce to pack.)