Picked up some groceries at Walmart

[spinbaby]

This morning was my first Walmart trip since the start of the pandemic—with an N95 mask clamped to my face, of course.

Holy hell!

I’d gotten used to spot shortages at grocery stores, but Walmart is positively post apocalyptic.

[getagrip_already]

1. Where? All stores are normally stocked near me.....

Everything from the dollar stores, to target, to big box chain stores. Even the supermarkets are fully stocked.

I don't go to walmart unless I have zero options, so can't say what they are like. But if they are short stocked, I wouldn't expect them to stay open in my area for long.

[hlthe2b]

4. Me too. There are spot shortages of specific brands here and there but no item-specific shortages

nor empty shelves as before. I too am curious where this Walmart is.. Perhaps it is a lingering issue after Hurricane Ida and the floods?

[spinbaby]

10. Western PA

So totally not hurricane related.

[brewens]

2. What state? I've been using the online order/pickup service. I'm several days out from needing

to go. I think I'll start putting together and order to see if they are out some of my usual stuff.

[global1]

3. Went To A Sam's Club Yesterday And Had To Ask If The Club Was Closing.....

Bare shelves. No water. They weren't making rotisserie chickens.

The place had the look of a store that was just selling what they had left on their shelves and not reordering. They looked like they were liquidating and ultimately closing.

When we left the store I asked the receipt checking lady if the store was closing and she told me that they've been having problems getting shipments from their distribution centers.

Lack of product at the distribution centers. Fewer drivers of their trucks.

So I'm wondering if Wal-Mart's are experiencing the same.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Home Depot was (I don't know if still are) experiencing lots of problems in getting stuff...

in (most stuff came from China, other places, after trump's mouthing off, etc., this seemed to impact the shipments more than Covid did)...

[global1]

9. My Home Depot Has Trouble Keeping Shelves Stocked Even In The Best Of Times.....

They run their stores with as few employees as they could. Most don't have the slightest inkling about any of the items they sell and how they are used. They can't answer any questions.

Home Depot takes DIY to its nth degree - because their employees suck.

Quite frankly - I don't know how they stay in business.

I really prefer Menards over Home Depot.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Home Depot is a retail outlet, plain and simple. Anybody that has a question or such, that ...

needs a competent professional to answer, construction-wise, really needs to go to a construction person to have answered. Retail is retail and I don't expect any serious professionals to work at HD (or any other like place, such as Lowe's, Menard's, etc.), although some do work there. But they are few and far in-between.

Personally, I think Menards is a joke, but that's me.

[demosincebirth]

15. I can never get help there. I go to Ace Hdwe

[Phoenix61]

5. Food stamp cards load on the first of the month.

Throw in the Labor Day weekend and most grocery stores look like a swarm of locust has been through them.

[spinbaby]

13. Hadn't thought of that

It would explain the bare bread aisle, but not why the giant Haagen Dazs display in the freezer case had only three flavors—vanilla, strawberry, and pineapple coconut. In some places they’d obviously arranged products to cover bare areas.

[padfun]

6. Every store fully stocked here.

And SaveMart has a hamburger sale at $2.50 lb. that's cheap for Calif.

[BlueJac]

12. Walmart in Palmento Fl stocked full with much more in aisles

Waiting to be put away!

[sellitman]

14. Our stores have bare spots.

Lots of them. So did our Grocery Club BJ's. I'm here in CT.

[jimfields33]

16. I went to Walmart yesterday and totally agree

They are totally wiped out. No snow or hurricane to use as excuse. Just frisks sitting around waiting for ship to get there I guess.

[Demsrule86]

17. It is hit or miss at Walmart in Ohio...I have gone there and the shelves are empty...huge

numbers of shelves with very little on them.

[AKwannabe]

18. In AK right now

Went to a Walmart Friday. Shelves were stocked pre Labor Day
Some stuff bought down like bottled water. I found the items I needed but didn’t get too much.