Grocery Shopping Getting Real

24 April 2020, 11:54 AM

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Originally posted by Axtremus:
Wisdom on shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the Mayor of Osaka Mr. Ichiro Matsui

https://www.foxnews.com/world/...heyre-more-efficient

Let men do the shopping, because women take too long.

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“When a woman goes [they] take a long time as they browse around and hesitate about this and that ... Men can snap up things they are told and go, so I think it's good that they go shopping, avoiding human contact“

Bullshite. Its the exact opposite in our house. Mr pique went to costco and came home with a laptop!

24 April 2020, 12:03 PM

ShiroKuro

Oh don't worry, he's getting flogged in for that comment in Japan.

24 April 2020, 01:57 PM

Amanda

What's hard for me is the one way aisles. Sometimes you're looking for something hard to find (and so is someone in front of you).

And yet it's a no passing zone! And I haven't figured out what to do if someone approaches me "driving" the wrong way.

I was really impressed yesterday at Trader Joe's, when upon arrival the greeter/checker pointed me to a special (small) row of separate carts
outside. informing me they had been completely disinfected!

What a service!

As to my own shopping liability, I find myself making a lot of impulse purchases. Yesterday, I picked up a small box of marzipan (and I'm on the Keto diet!?) not to mention special whole grain mustard and 100% chocolate bars - intention to make "keto friendly" brownies - etc.) It's costing me!

As to the increasingly complicated directional rules (including entrances and exits), I definitely feel I'm in a maze in some stores. G-d help me if I forget something and have to wind back around the ropes and arrows to look for it!

24 April 2020, 03:05 PM

CHAS

Walmart closed due to deaths

24 April 2020, 07:13 PM

BeeLady

I spent sometime in the car driving around just to get out of the house. I had to stop at our greenhouse as all staff were offered leftover seedlings. I stopped there first to find a table set out with pots, each with our names on them.

So I went to Lowes in the next town, found it much better then the HD down the road. Then stopped at the grocery store there. Wasn't busy at all and they had flour!!! Just small bags, and not tons but I did buy two!

The road between cuts by the local movie theater. Right now the parking lot is, I think, the largest testing site in the state. They have tents with four car bays for folks to drive into and at 4:30 the car line was still very long. They supposedly do 1000 tests a day there. It was quite a sight.

24 April 2020, 07:36 PM

ShiroKuro

We got toilet paper! And not just any old TP, but our toilet paper of choice! We also got our paper towels of choice.

It's freaking Christmas over here!

In other news, less than half of other customers are wearing masks, and most people seem completely oblivious to distance.

24 April 2020, 07:46 PM

kluurs

We also scored TP at Costco. It was exciting - lot of smiles and high virtual fives.

One of our discoveries has been frozen fruit. I've never used it. Always thought it was for the smoothie crowd.

Well, it is much, MUCH better for our breaksfast fruit bowl. I put maybe 4 strawberries and rapsberries in a bowl - wait about 10 minutes for thawing and then cut up the strawberries, add fresh bananas, sprinkling of pound cake crumbs and a dollop of yogurt - and voila - a delightful breakfast. I like the frozen fruit - tastes better than much of the fresh fruit from the market which only lasts a couple of days. This stuff is more consistent and a bag of the strawberries lasts over 2 weeks. It's cheaper and more consistent quality.

Of course, if there's exceptional fresh fruit available, we take it - but now when that's not around - we've nothing to fear.

04 May 2020, 03:13 PM

Mikhailoh

Yeast! after two months I got YEAST!

Alright! Instacart delivered it from Gordon's Food Service along with a few other things.

I looked it up on Amazon and the same 2 lb package of Red Star yeast I got for under $8 was going for $25. Thieving bastards.

04 May 2020, 03:24 PM

wtg

So whaddya going to bake?

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04 May 2020, 03:25 PM

Mikhailoh

Pizza! Sourdough bread! (well, I have to make my starter).

04 May 2020, 04:31 PM

Steve Miller

quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
I looked it up on Amazon and the same 2 lb package of Red Star yeast I got for under $8 was going for $25. Thieving bastards.

I've seen a lot of that on Amazon lately.

04 May 2020, 04:34 PM

pianojuggler

Word is out that Costco is going to start rationing meat.

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04 May 2020, 05:22 PM

QuirtEvans

We got chicken from Walmart Grocery this morning. Last week, they scratched that from the order.

Interestingly, they were out of canola oil and avocado oil.

04 May 2020, 05:59 PM

Mikhailoh

quote:
Originally posted by Steve Miller:
quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
I looked it up on Amazon and the same 2 lb package of Red Star yeast I got for under $8 was going for $25. Thieving bastards.

I've seen a lot of that on Amazon lately.

Me too. Sickening. Even jigsaw puzzles they are gouging for.

04 May 2020, 06:09 PM

AdagioM

I picked up my groceries from Fred Meyer this morning, and had to also run inside for a few items (prescription, fresh fish). I heard the U-scan checker tell someone they could only buy 2 packages of chicken; there’s a limit. He could go back and buy in bigger packages. He was pretty ticked off, but the checker made a point that this way everyone gets some.

I didn’t realize there was rationing going on already. We don’t eat a lot of meat.