Los Angeles- prepare now

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we panic buying again? Just curious what the fear is?

That you’ll get covid & have to stay home for 2-3 weeks or longer?

Or...that stores will have TP/flour/yeast shortages & you don’t want to be shafted?

Or, there will be supply chain disruptions?

I’m doing it because last time in LA it’s was impossible to buy food for 3 weeks. Then it was just difficult for 3-12 weeks. Now it’s normal again but we are headed towards lockdown again. I’m buying so I have food in case I get sick but mostly just to have food in general!

Please, stop exaggerating—it was not *impossible* to find food. You might not be able to get eggs one day but you could get most of your list unless you were picky about brands or needing organic/gluten-free. I have been getting food from my local stores and nonperishables online from Target and Walmart, and occasional fresh/frozen food from Amazon Fresh. I am the pp that said I was tired of hoarding. You realize that most people cannot afford to do more than a week’s shopping, right? Just buy what you need going forward and we’ll all be better off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we panic buying again? Just curious what the fear is?

That you’ll get covid & have to stay home for 2-3 weeks or longer?

Or...that stores will have TP/flour/yeast shortages & you don’t want to be shafted?

Or, there will be supply chain disruptions?

I’m doing it because last time in LA it’s was impossible to buy food for 3 weeks. Then it was just difficult for 3-12 weeks. Now it’s normal again but we are headed towards lockdown again. I’m buying so I have food in case I get sick but mostly just to have food in general!

Please, stop exaggerating—it was not *impossible* to find food. You might not be able to get eggs one day but you could get most of your list unless you were picky about brands or needing organic/gluten-free. I have been getting food from my local stores and nonperishables online from Target and Walmart, and occasional fresh/frozen food from Amazon Fresh. I am the pp that said I was tired of hoarding. You realize that most people cannot afford to do more than a week’s shopping, right? Just buy what you need going forward and we’ll all be better off.

Where do you live? Because in the valley it was actually impossible to find food and I’m not exaggerating at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly I’d go to the store tonight if you can. Last time the real panic buying (when the shelves were completely bare, before it was just tp we couldn’t find) happened after schools shut down. The governor is probably going to close them down for sure tomorrow thanks to orange county voting for kids to go back without masks or social distancing. I feel like lockdown 2.0 is just around the corner. I wasn’t prepared last time and I regret that. It caused me so much unnecessary stress!

Well theoretically, closed schools should help slow the spread and reduce a run on groceries/supplies.

Schools open = covid spread, overwhelmed hospitals, run on supplies & groceries

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NP. I live in SGV and it was not impossible to find food at any point. Like a PP said, you might not be able to find your favorite brand.

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OP, I live in Culver City.

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NP: I live in the valley. It was hard to find some things at all and then there were just brands that I couldn’t find. So far Instacart is finding what we need.

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South Bay / Beach Cities. Yes, it was truly difficult to find food. I'm talking entire bread aisle and freezer case wiped out at Ralph's and Target, day after day. This started right around March 14 (the Friday schools announced they would close on the 17th, but before the "Stay at Home" order) and got worse over the next few weeks.

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Van nuys here and the Ralphs was completely empty for at least two weeks. Maybe if you can afford gelsons or whole foods, you could find food but for those of us who rely on Ralphs and Walmart grocery to buy food then yes it was impossible to find food. Just because YOUR neighborhood had food don’t make it sound like it was easy for those of us who live on a fixed income and can’t afford instacart. I just hate this attitude. Good for you that you could find food but I couldn’t find bread for a month and had to use powdered milk.

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Pp again- ‘Maybe you couldn’t find your brand’ poster. Do you even get it? The only eggs I could find for a month were $6.99 organic at Ralphs. I can buy non organic for $2 and can’t afford that so yes for me it meant NO EGGS. Please deter outside your privileged bubble to understand that if the only eggs left are $6.99 to those of us who only early $498 a week, that means NO EGGS. I can’t afford $5.99 bread so when that was the only bread on the shelf, that meant NO BREAD. Do you get it now?

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*step, not deter!

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Anonymous wrote:Pp again- ‘Maybe you couldn’t find your brand’ poster. Do you even get it? The only eggs I could find for a month were $6.99 organic at Ralphs. I can buy non organic for $2 and can’t afford that so yes for me it meant NO EGGS. Please deter outside your privileged bubble to understand that if the only eggs left are $6.99 to those of us who only early $498 a week, that means NO EGGS. I can’t afford $5.99 bread so when that was the only bread on the shelf, that meant NO BREAD. Do you get it now?

I’m not the PP you’re responding to, but I get it. I’m privileged, and so I just suck it up and spend $6.99 for eggs & bread. But it’s a lot for people on a tight budget. Hopefully it doesn’t get that bad again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Van nuys here and the Ralphs was completely empty for at least two weeks. Maybe if you can afford gelsons or whole foods, you could find food but for those of us who rely on Ralphs and Walmart grocery to buy food then yes it was impossible to find food. Just because YOUR neighborhood had food don’t make it sound like it was easy for those of us who live on a fixed income and can’t afford instacart. I just hate this attitude. Good for you that you could find food but I couldn’t find bread for a month and had to use powdered milk.

Do you have a car? What is stopping you from driving to other neighborhoods? This is LA. I am willing to drive to find what I need and, no, it isn’t Whole Foods or Gelsons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp again- ‘Maybe you couldn’t find your brand’ poster. Do you even get it? The only eggs I could find for a month were $6.99 organic at Ralphs. I can buy non organic for $2 and can’t afford that so yes for me it meant NO EGGS. Please deter outside your privileged bubble to understand that if the only eggs left are $6.99 to those of us who only early $498 a week, that means NO EGGS. I can’t afford $5.99 bread so when that was the only bread on the shelf, that meant NO BREAD. Do you get it now?

Ralphs is expensive, pp. I’m surprised you are shopping there on a limited budget.

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Nextdoor has been invaluable for me to source food and household items during the pandemic. If you ask people for help finding something, you get a lot of help. I found out that there were restaurants selling eggs, milk, bread and produce directly to consumers, which stores had things currently in stock and even neighbors who would pick up extra items for you on their next shopping trip.

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Anonymous wrote:No, I’m tired of hoarding. I will make do with what we have and whatever fresh produce I find at Vons and Ralphs.

Yeap, I would be doing the same. I love Vons Return Policy and they would allow me to have fresh food as they would not let it customer down to return back fresh products.