Went to my grocery store today. It looked like scenes from Russia

[pwb]

or North Korea, lots of empty shelves in every isle. A first in my lifetime and i am old.

[CrispyQ]

1. I thought the panic buying might subside this week, but I don't think so.

I was hoping I would exit planet Earth before things went totally in the shitter. Oops. Missed it.

[Loki Liesmith]

4. It'll take sone time but it will get sorted

Supply and demand curves will eventually intersect.

[brewens]

26. If Trump had been straight with people, we may have seen a lot of the same, but spread out

a little more. Now even his followers that may still believe what he tells them are panicking. They are now hoarding because others were even if they still pretend it's some kind of hoax.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Online pet food sites also have shortages

I ordered pet food from Chewy.com and several items I wanted were not available. I wonder whether the problem is due to hoarding or due to a problem in the supply chain.

[In_The_Wind]

8. It may be a problem on the manufacturing and shipping end.

One brand of my pup's favorite chew treats is made in China.

[eShirl]

15. I was able to put Fancy Feast on subscription at Amazon

yes, I know, they're evil

[TrishaJ]

24. Yes, well I just ordered some groceries

from Amazon, evil or not!

[Newest Reality]

3. Da Comerade!

Most importantly, was there any vodka?

Me too. I haven't seen this one before, here. Well, that's a booming economy! Explosions go boom.

[pwb]

6. I have a full bottle of vodka and 3 bottles of Mrs Ts

The store was a sad sight to see.

[evertonfc]

5. panic will get people killed

You can go to damn store people. Geezzzz

[SharonClark]

7. Where are you? I went to two grocery stores in Des Moines this morning.

Although some of the shelves were empty, they hadn't ruin out of anything other than rubbing alcohol and alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
They had plenty of produce, meat, canned goods, pasta, beans, and snacks; they were also in the process of restocking the shelves.

[pwb]

14. Upstate N. Y.

The stores are trying. It is sad to see and I wish I didn't . Soups, canned foods, cereal, meats, especially, but lots of space in every isle . The hoarders are out for sure. None of the usual cleaners.

[Dem_4_Life]

17. San Antonio stores are cleaned out

It is really hard to find any meat, eggs, milk, pasta or veggies. People are nuts for sure. Every time the stores stock up then stuff is gone shortly after even with purchase limits on items. I placed an order for curbside pick up for normal weekly groceries yesterday and the first opening was for Saturday March 21st. Most of the stores have shorter hours to give the employees time to restock.

I keep hoping that people will eventually calm down soon. I heard that some Houston stores are starting to get back to semi-normal.

[awesomerwb1]

9. Bernie must love those types of scenes.

[Sherman A1]

13. Huh?

[BComplex]

18. I know. They keep popping up everywhere.

Haters, and they point the finger at their opponents as being haters.

Even when it has ABSOLUTELY NO BEARING on the discussion at hand. I'm sick of it. I don't even click on those threads anymore.

[area51]

23. +1 n/t

[gibraltar72]

10. Neighbor called this morning

said he'd driven all over county and finally found toilet paper. Said he would have bought us some but limit was 2 packages. Told my wife to hurry if she wanted some. She told him if you needed it that bad you should have called we would have given you some.

[Sherman A1]

11. Went to the one nearby the house this AM

Grocery aisles were hit & miss, with lots of holes. Frozen pizzas were in rough shape, but still significant stock on hand. Dairy had been hit hard over the weekend, meat case was near empty. Produce had no bananas and lots of empty displays.

[earthside]

12. 'This is what socialism looks like!'

I've actually had Facebook 'friends' posting photos and proclaiming this.

Of course, this is the epitome of capitalism ... people irrationally buying as much of things as they possibly can with no restaint.

Socialism would have had rationing from the beginning (and we may get that yet).

However, it is capitalism that will have the shelves restocked by tomorrow or so.

[Lars39]

16. We're kinda stocked up,

and I am stretching it as far as I can.

[Vinca]

19. Still lots of empty shelves, but it appears they are restocking as fast as they can.

Not a roll of toilet paper in the place, but I got downright delirious when I found paper towels. This is so weird.

[BusyBeingBest]

20. My husband went to our Safeway yesterday--

NO chicken, no sugar anywhere, no paper products, frozen entrees picked over but he did score some PF Chang shrimp lo mein, some gorton's fish filet packages, frozen veggies, frozen lasagna, frozen California pizza kitchen pizzas, some pork tenderloin filets (vacuum pack), milk, pineapple juice.

[msongs]

21. honolulu safeway at 6 AM in good shape, even some TP. busy shelf stocking tho nt

[BusyBeingBest]

22. Yes, husband was told by cashier they were going to be doing a lot of restocking

this week. Really except for the fact that I'm about out of sugar and would like a roast chicken we're not too deprived yet.

[Hortensis]

25. Wow! Nothing AT ALL like that here in Central Florida.

I knew just swinging by the front doors of all supermarkets plus Sam's Club on the way to the freeway that I wasn't in Venezuela -- people were placidly rolling out with carts full of purchases just as usual. Some spots were bare on the shelves of the stores I did go in; and a couple -- we specifically wanted to check this out -- were rationing paper products, but not out of them.

Even dropped by Trader Joes an hour away (across the freeway from my husband's Bass Pro) to compare it to the horror stories on the news. Nope. Some bare spots, but shelves mostly loaded up. Joes was also rationing paper goods, but not olive tampenade or kale gnocci, and I lucked out that all the specific items I wanted to pick up were there, except green cheese tamales and those were out last time also.

Btw, we'd already "panicked" and picked up a 36-roll pack of TP ($22) at Sam's in December on our way to our winter place, so we cheated death-by-riot on that one. Or not.

Not to say it can't get very tiresome, with multiple trips to the store required, waits to get in, rationing, etc., before this is over. The long hours I waited in gas station lines while our children played and napped in the back during the gas shortage in the 1970s come to mind (as a home mom, it was my job to get the cars gassed up so my husband could get to work and back).

But we're not there yet.

[milestogo]

27. I've never been to Russia or North Korea.

[comradebillyboy]

28. Like the Zombie Apocalypse...

[matt819]

29. Here too

No beans. Almost no water. Maybe 90% down on canned tomato products. No pasta.

Produce and fresh fish okay.

Didn’t go through the whole store. But not good.

[edbermac]

30. Went to 2 stores, not a package of chicken in sight.

Guess I’m stuck eating steak. 🥩