How is Your Local Grocery Store Holding Up?

[MannyGlocks]

Our local g.st. has everything including....hold onto yer hats...T.P. in 24 roll containers!

 

[Ura-Ki]

I have noticed the Milk prices have gone up in the last three weeks! We go through it pretty good with 2 little ones here, and I drink a lot of it as well, so it's a twice a week deal for us! Wally Wirld was $1.98 ( Whole Milk) before all this, today they are a dollar more, and Costo is right there with them! Gas was $1.89 though, so I tanked up all three gas guzzlers, diesel is still high, but seems to be coming down a little!

 

[Retired Guy]

Went to Costco Lacey this morning and saw this sign. They're limiting meats again.

 

[pdempsey1097]

Went to Costco Lacey this morning and saw this sign. They're limiting meats again.

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Good info - thanks!

 

[tac]

Just got back from a shopping trip to the Oregon City WinCo, and have to say was pretty impressed especially for Saturday at Noon.
Observations:

• The store was CLEAN everywhere. I worked in the business from High School through my 20's. I know all the tricks and shortcuts. This store is genuinely clean.
• Most things were in abundant stock. You could even get toilet paper, paper towels, and many sanitizers. No hand sanitizer or wipes, but that's par for the course everywhere.
• Produce is fresh and well maintained.
• They have plans in place to keep people spaced at the checkout line (6 foot marks) and are capping how many people can be in the store. I don't know what the cap is, but when I left they had started to queue people up in front of the entrance and were letting one enter as one left.

I'm going to give them an overall A rating considering the sales pressure.

Customers:

• Didn't see any wild eyed panic shopping like I have seen over the last few weeks.
• People are NOT getting the social distancing message. Saw many kids running loose. Looked like what you would expect pre pandemic.
• I only saw one other customer in the store wearing gloves. Because Mrs. 3M has a high mortality risk I also wear a mask and observe strict protocols. I got a lot of stares and even a smirk or two. Makes ni difference to me, just noting the prevalent denial.

How is your local grocer holding up? Please let us know.

For Oregon City WinCo, read Huntingdon Marks and Spencers, Sainsburys, Tesco Superstore and Iceland. Also a GP store, Wilco's, and the ever-open West End DIY store. The UK version of Canadian Tire, Halfords is open, and the STS - Specialist Tyre Services dealership is open for repairs and replacements, but not for alignment - same for Ian's tyres.

Here in yUK we are managing well, but then that's a Brit thing, mostly, just like you guys are doing 'zackly the same, right?

At 8pm every night we are all stood outside our houses, giving a rousing round of applause for the dedicated folks of the NHS, who are dying in dozens caring for the sick, in spite of all the precautions taken. The numbers of doctors and intensive care nursing staff who have given all they had to give is appalling, and some kind of permanent memorial to their sacrifice just has to be promulgated after this bl**dy mess is over.

 

[tac]

Interesting to see that Australia has had just 93 people die from coronavirus.

UK has had over 26,000.

But then the UK borders have never been closed, and Australia's have never been open especially to the Chinese.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

I have a steer and a hog being processed right now. As for produce, we buy ours from the local restaurant supply wholesaler. They decided that since the restaurants are buying about 25% of what they were before all of this, they would sell retail. You call in your order from their weekly price sheet, they assemble it, you drive to their warehouse and they take your payment over the phone. They put the order in the back of my truck and off I go. ZERO contact.

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At home we have a table outside the back door that gets everything put on it so that it can air out and get a few hours of sunshine before being wiped down (if possible) and moved into the house.

 

[The Heretic]

I don't wipe down much of anything, but I won't buy prepared meals either - no burgers/tacos/fast food from drive-ins/etc., nothing from the deli/et. al - only packaged foods (hopefully packaged before CV). So far, so good.

 

[albin25]

Seems that most food stores around here are pretty much business-as-normal except now limiting quantities on meat that's on "special"....like as an example, boneless skinless chicken breasts at $1.69 a lb have a limit of 5lbs per person per day.
Although Winco still has 10-ish lb bags of carnitas meat (pork steakettes?) at $1.38 per lb with no limit on quantity... and they are great on the grill, tender and no bones or fat/gristle. I really prefer it to chicken anyways, so win-win!
I have noticed that dairy is real cheap and plentiful, like butter at $1.68/lb. and most dairy products freeze really well.

The freezer (and his l'il buddy, the generator) are my friends.

There's no lines outside, parking lots are normal, with the only hints of "that's different" is mask wearing customers are at maybe 50%, plexi shields at checkouts, and people standing 6 feet apart. Walmart/Costco are exceptions.... but they're across the river in WA.

 

[MannyGlocks]

The goofy masks and must be 6' s. distance nonsense away from each other is baloney and is rapidly disappearing in my part of the world.

As it should...

And, if I want to shake someone's hand, eff dr. foochi and his bizarre viewpoint...as in: His opinion - Sex with a stranger is ok, but shaking hands is verboten.

This pinhead doctor is not credible for a number of other reasons too.

He's not only not credible, he's a menace.

 

[Joe13]

Tried to go and get stuff for burgers 2 days ago at Safeway.

They had 3 little 1lb chubs of 73/27% ground beef for $5.50 each. Hardly anything else in the meat cooler.

Asked the butcher and he said try back tomorrow morning

I opted to get the other stuff I needed and defrost some ground beef from the freezer.

Yay, panic buyers I guess or maybe my local store just gets a lot more business idk.

 

[gunner13]

All good here

 

[3MTA3]

Tried to go and get stuff for burgers 2 days ago at Safeway.

They had 3 little 1lb chubs of 73/27% ground beef for $5.50 each. Hardly anything else in the meat cooler.

Asked the butcher and he said try back tomorrow morning

I opted to get the other stuff I needed and defrost some ground beef from the freezer.

Yay, panic buyers I guess or maybe my local store just gets a lot more business idk.

That seems to time up with the CEO of Tyson turning his products into the next toilet paper panic by announcing that the supply chain was breaking down when it patently isn't. The reason that packing houses were not buying livestock is not because they were closed due to the rona, but because cold and frozen storage is at a highest levels since 1960.

Just like the oil companies are running out of room to store their production, meat packers are running out of room for the same. They are also having to break down bulk packaged product that was bundled for restaurants into consumer packaging, making it even more difficult to free up storage space. Since they have to slow down they are buying fewer animals, and so now farmers are having to decide if they can continue to feed them or if they have to put them down,

The solution is to incite a manic when there are literally months and months and months in the supply chain. An added benefit is that they can increase prices while they lower what they pay to the distressed farmers.

Lied to and bent over yet again. Yippie....

 

[E4mafia]

All the locals in H town seem fine.

The only inside report I get is there are more and more uneasy and upset customers coming through lanes that I hear from my gf. Not just common to Winco either sounds like its been on the rise at other locations to.

 

[Mikej]

Tried to go and get stuff for burgers 2 days ago at Safeway.

They had 3 little 1lb chubs of 73/27% ground beef for $5.50 each. Hardly anything else in the meat cooler.

Asked the butcher and he said try back tomorrow morning

I opted to get the other stuff I needed and defrost some ground beef from the freezer.

Yay, panic buyers I guess or maybe my local store just gets a lot more business idk.

There have been runs on meats. Hamburger has been one of them. Winco had a heck of a time keeping burger up from the beginning. It's still hit and miss with the burger. Hamburger in the Safertson's stores is ground daily. Except for the pre packed, fancy stuff. I'm thinking that you just hit on a day. Was it later in the day? Or maybe they got shorted on beef to grind? We don't eat a lot of burger at our house, but when we do Wifey hasn't had a problem getting it at her Albertson's, nor have I when I get it at the Safeway. I always get burger from the bulk in the Butcherblock.

 

[Joe13]

There have been runs on meats. Hamburger has been one of them. Winco had a heck of a time keeping burger up from the beginning. It's still hit and miss with the burger. Hamburger in the Safertson's stores is ground daily. Except for the pre packed, fancy stuff. I'm thinking that you just hit on a day. Was it later in the day? Or maybe they got shorted on beef to grind? We don't eat a lot of burger at our house, but when we do Wifey hasn't had a problem getting it at her Albertson's, nor have I when I get it at the Safeway. I always get burger from the bulk in the Butcherblock.

It was later in the day, maybe 3:30pm.

Went today for some other stuff (try to limit my store trips but I have specific dietary needs and there's only so much fridge space) and they had GB for a good price but a big sign up saying limit 2 packages of anything per household and the packages were smaller then usual. That was about 3pm.

I'll admit I bought 2 packs since I went brain dead and froze what I got from Costco this morning (hit a different one then normal) but even they didn't have it stacked and I was there early.

I eat about 2lbs of protein a day plus what my wife has (which is substantially less), and have been cutting back cuz my trips to the store continue to get more expensive and I'm just buying the normal stuff I always do.

 

[3MTA3]

White's Country Meats in Gresham was well stocked today with no limits, although the meat packages they usually have available were all sold out.

I try to keep my freezer full and rotated, so replace every few weeks what I use hopefully during a sale. The limits for various foods work against the intent of social distancing, since I'm a every two week to monthly shopper and usually only get perishables like veggies a couple of times a week.

I hope the new and coming unnecessary food panics don't result in a lot of spoilage. Probably going to avoid Tyson brands after this stunt. Panic is the last thing we need right now, and an unnecessary food panic may increase corporate profits but will cause hardships to many. When my current Jimmy Dean supply runs low I'll just get fresh ground pork sausage from White's or other, season as desired, package and freeze. It's even cheaper.

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[Alexx1401]

The ones I go to are almost back to normal. Wife is of course freaking out now about meat. As always I told her to calm down, no one is going to starve. Yes there will be some shortages yet again. The media is doing everything they can to create more panic to make it worse as people panic buy. As supply tightens price will go up. As price goes up, more will be brought on line. In the mean time I will eat less of it. Hell been hearing from the health nuts that we eat way too much meat all my life, so they should be dancing in the streets over this.

 

[LibertyNews]

Thursday @ the Tumwater Fred Meyer - Lots of meats, no soups, no flour, only 2 bags of sugar left. Didn't check TP. Produce section appeared to be fully stocked.

 

[tac]

Just now - 28.131 dead here in yUK.

What the **** has gone wrong here?

Australia has just 93 dead.

Why?

The Australian government prohibited entry to ALL Chinese coming into the country as soon as they could arrange the legislation.

Then they closed the ports and airports.

ALL of them.

The result is plain to see.