Grocery Store - Trip Report
Quote: GialmereHere's a new experience for me.
My car broke down on the way to work today. I called AAA and waited an hour for the tow truck. Once my car was loaded, the driver informed me that, due to covid, I couldn't ride with him in his cab. There's a new procedure.
As I write this, I'm sitting in my car on the back of the flatbed being transported to the auto shop.
It's cold.
That is not all that new. 20 years ago I had to go two counties over to pick up a driver because the tow truck left him. Boy was I POed.
Quote: GialmereHere's a new experience for me.
My car broke down on the way to work today. I called AAA and waited an hour for the tow truck. Once my car was loaded, the driver informed me that, due to covid, I couldn't ride with him in his cab. There's a new procedure.
As I write this, I'm sitting in my car on the back of the flatbed being transported to the auto shop.
It's cold.
You are not allowed to sit inside the cab even if you had your mask on? I would think because of insurance, you would not be allowed to sit inside the car that's on a flatbed.
Last visit the private label cans were gone, just Reddi Whip. Now most of that is gone, just the fat-free stuff.
A guess is the propellant is maybe sitting off the coast of Long Beach?
Need this stuff for my coffee drinks!
Where I'm at, the biggest issue seems to be shortages in the paper plate/coffee cup aisle.
Quote: GialmereI'm starting to see bare patches in the stores again. Not like 2020, but still, mildly worrying.
Where I'm at, the biggest issue seems to be shortages in the paper plate/coffee cup aisle.
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I am seeing big swatches of empty. USSR style for some things. So far I have not had to go without something i need but the empty spots are getting bigger.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: GialmereI'm starting to see bare patches in the stores again. Not like 2020, but still, mildly worrying.
Where I'm at, the biggest issue seems to be shortages in the paper plate/coffee cup aisle.
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I am seeing big swatches of empty. USSR style for some things. So far I have not had to go without something i need but the empty spots are getting bigger.
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At least it hasn't reached Costco yet; plenty of paper towels and toilet paper (both Kirkland and name-brand) to go around.
Quote: ThatDonGuyAt least it hasn't reached Costco yet; plenty of paper towels and toilet paper (both Kirkland and name-brand) to go around.
Indeed: wife just replenished our supply.
Get it while you can.
Quote: ThatDonGuyAt least it hasn't reached Costco yet; plenty of paper towels and toilet paper (both Kirkland and name-brand) to go around.
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Yeah, toilet paper and paper towels--once the bellwethers of bad news--seem to be plentiful. I assume that industry adjusted to the "new reality" of supply and demand. Instead, I'm seeing bare patches (like for coffee cups) on an otherwise full store aisle or a simple lack of item selection.
Take packaged cheese for an example, the stick kind you might eat for a snack or place in a kid's lunch. Where I'm at, if you want cheddar, there's plenty of sharp available but no medium or mild. Mozzarella sticks are plentiful but regular string cheese seems to be an endangered species. If this was going on for only a week or two and specific to a single store, I'd dismiss it as a temporary glitch. But it's been going on for over a month and I'm seeing it at any store I visit.
Whether this is a Covid thing, a supply chain thing, or a perfect storm combination of many factors, I don't know. It's obviously not the greatest challenge mankind has faced. The question is: Is this a temporary blip, or does it herald worse things to come?
