Grocery availability

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Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

People who eat cereal for breakfast everyday.

You can survive without cereal everyday. I guarantee it.

Your post makes no sense. Someone asked who over 7 drinks milk this was the answer. No on was concerned about not having cereal. What a stupid comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to point out that people probably aren’t hoarding. Grocery stores watch inventory carefully and try to balance sales per day and inventory. An upcoming storm screws this up because all the sales are compressed into a few days rather than spread out over a week. As people assume that they will not be going out to dinner or lunch, the per customer purchase increases to accommodate for this. Stores that can quickly pivot and increase inventory will be stocked, ones that can’t won’t.

I agree.

I see people with full carts every time I go shopping. Sometimes we go to Costco and families have two carts. No storm predicted!

There was a point in my life that I didn’t have a car. Once a month, I’d go to the grocery store and get an Uber home. I’d spend $500 or more and the Uber would be $9-10. It happened that once my regular shop coincided with the 2009 storm. I wasn’t panic shopping or hoarding, but I guess people assumed I was.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

People who eat cereal for breakfast everyday.

You can survive without cereal everyday. I guarantee it.

Your post makes no sense. Someone asked who over 7 drinks milk this was the answer. No on was concerned about not having cereal. What a stupid comment.

The comment was referring to the PP above (quoted in the reply you quoted)

“Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk?”

People who eat cereal with milk everyday can go without milk because they can go without cereal. Thus, everyday cereal eaters is not an example of a cant-go-without-milk-er.

I can’t believe I needed to explain that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to point out that people probably aren’t hoarding. Grocery stores watch inventory carefully and try to balance sales per day and inventory. An upcoming storm screws this up because all the sales are compressed into a few days rather than spread out over a week. As people assume that they will not be going out to dinner or lunch, the per customer purchase increases to accommodate for this. Stores that can quickly pivot and increase inventory will be stocked, ones that can’t won’t.

I agree.

I see people with full carts every time I go shopping. Sometimes we go to Costco and families have two carts. No storm predicted!

There was a point in my life that I didn’t have a car. Once a month, I’d go to the grocery store and get an Uber home. I’d spend $500 or more and the Uber would be $9-10. It happened that once my regular shop coincided with the 2009 storm. I wasn’t panic shopping or hoarding, but I guess people assumed I was.

True. A lot of people normally shop on the weekend for the coming week. I bet a lot of those people went on Thursday or Friday this week instead of waiting for Sunday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to point out that people probably aren’t hoarding. Grocery stores watch inventory carefully and try to balance sales per day and inventory. An upcoming storm screws this up because all the sales are compressed into a few days rather than spread out over a week. As people assume that they will not be going out to dinner or lunch, the per customer purchase increases to accommodate for this. Stores that can quickly pivot and increase inventory will be stocked, ones that can’t won’t.

I agree.

I see people with full carts every time I go shopping. Sometimes we go to Costco and families have two carts. No storm predicted!

There was a point in my life that I didn’t have a car. Once a month, I’d go to the grocery store and get an Uber home. I’d spend $500 or more and the Uber would be $9-10. It happened that once my regular shop coincided with the 2009 storm. I wasn’t panic shopping or hoarding, but I guess people assumed I was.

Yours is an example of why I decline to do grocery shopping pre-storm. I can almost always wait. Others not so much.

Also I get my Costco delivered because being in that 2cart mob is not enjoyable.

[Anonymous]

I let my Costco membership lapsed because it always felt like A Big Deal to go. And I think they are a good employer so would rather support them than others. They need to do some internal studies on why shopping there is a miserable experience on a good day...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

My college age son still drinks close to a gallon a day, luckily low fat and he drinks a lot of water but still. DH drinks milk everyday, no fat but not in the huge quantities as DS. DD drinks whole milk but sporadically and cooks/bakes with it. So if everyone is home for 4-5 days I need 4 gallons of low fat milk, one gallon of skim and 1/2 gallons of whole milk. If I had to go a full 7 days. I would need 7 gallons low-fat, 1 gallon skim and 1 gallon whole. I’d look like a milk hoarder during storms.

DP. PP asked about "can't go without".

You say "need". Does your family "need" the 9 gallons of milk per week? What consequences do you face if they go without the 9 gallons of milk?

NP. But why is "can't go without" the standard not to be called a hoarder? It's not panicking to get an amount of milk or food that you'd normally get or that plus some extras because kids aren't buying school lunch and parents aren't grabbing lunch out by work. You need more food by nature of being home all day.

It multiplies to empty shelves when many people do it on a compressed timeline (as recommended by experts) before the stores can restock. Plus it's highly likely many will lose power so the mix of food is different if you can't cook or open the refrigerator. I'm so tired of people calling reasonable behavior panic and hoarding just so they can feel superior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to point out that people probably aren’t hoarding. Grocery stores watch inventory carefully and try to balance sales per day and inventory. An upcoming storm screws this up because all the sales are compressed into a few days rather than spread out over a week. As people assume that they will not be going out to dinner or lunch, the per customer purchase increases to accommodate for this. Stores that can quickly pivot and increase inventory will be stocked, ones that can’t won’t.

Thank you. I just wrote some of your points before reading yours but didn't get into stores not being able to pivot, which is what I was thinking in the background. Still don't understand why people insist on acting superior rather than accepting this is a logical outcome from people acting rationally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

My college age son still drinks close to a gallon a day, luckily low fat and he drinks a lot of water but still. DH drinks milk everyday, no fat but not in the huge quantities as DS. DD drinks whole milk but sporadically and cooks/bakes with it. So if everyone is home for 4-5 days I need 4 gallons of low fat milk, one gallon of skim and 1/2 gallons of whole milk. If I had to go a full 7 days. I would need 7 gallons low-fat, 1 gallon skim and 1 gallon whole. I’d look like a milk hoarder during storms.

DP. PP asked about "can't go without".

You say "need". Does your family "need" the 9 gallons of milk per week? What consequences do you face if they go without the 9 gallons of milk?

NP. But why is "can't go without" the standard not to be called a hoarder? It's not panicking to get an amount of milk or food that you'd normally get or that plus some extras because kids aren't buying school lunch and parents aren't grabbing lunch out by work. You need more food by nature of being home all day.

It multiplies to empty shelves when many people do it on a compressed timeline (as recommended by experts) before the stores can restock. Plus it's highly likely many will lose power so the mix of food is different if you can't cook or open the refrigerator. I'm so tired of people calling reasonable behavior panic and hoarding just so they can feel superior.

Or one could adjust and say hey, you don’t need to drink a gallon of milk a day this week.

How greedy are some of you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

My college age son still drinks close to a gallon a day, luckily low fat and he drinks a lot of water but still. DH drinks milk everyday, no fat but not in the huge quantities as DS. DD drinks whole milk but sporadically and cooks/bakes with it. So if everyone is home for 4-5 days I need 4 gallons of low fat milk, one gallon of skim and 1/2 gallons of whole milk. If I had to go a full 7 days. I would need 7 gallons low-fat, 1 gallon skim and 1 gallon whole. I’d look like a milk hoarder during storms.

DP. PP asked about "can't go without".

You say "need". Does your family "need" the 9 gallons of milk per week? What consequences do you face if they go without the 9 gallons of milk?

NP. But why is "can't go without" the standard not to be called a hoarder? It's not panicking to get an amount of milk or food that you'd normally get or that plus some extras because kids aren't buying school lunch and parents aren't grabbing lunch out by work. You need more food by nature of being home all day.

It multiplies to empty shelves when many people do it on a compressed timeline (as recommended by experts) before the stores can restock. Plus it's highly likely many will lose power so the mix of food is different if you can't cook or open the refrigerator. I'm so tired of people calling reasonable behavior panic and hoarding just so they can feel superior.

Or one could adjust and say hey, you don’t need to drink a gallon of milk a day this week.

How greedy are some of you?

Lots of people have multiple children at home. A gallon of milk is nothing if you have three teen boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

My college age son still drinks close to a gallon a day, luckily low fat and he drinks a lot of water but still. DH drinks milk everyday, no fat but not in the huge quantities as DS. DD drinks whole milk but sporadically and cooks/bakes with it. So if everyone is home for 4-5 days I need 4 gallons of low fat milk, one gallon of skim and 1/2 gallons of whole milk. If I had to go a full 7 days. I would need 7 gallons low-fat, 1 gallon skim and 1 gallon whole. I’d look like a milk hoarder during storms.

DP. PP asked about "can't go without".

You say "need". Does your family "need" the 9 gallons of milk per week? What consequences do you face if they go without the 9 gallons of milk?

NP. But why is "can't go without" the standard not to be called a hoarder? It's not panicking to get an amount of milk or food that you'd normally get or that plus some extras because kids aren't buying school lunch and parents aren't grabbing lunch out by work. You need more food by nature of being home all day.

It multiplies to empty shelves when many people do it on a compressed timeline (as recommended by experts) before the stores can restock. Plus it's highly likely many will lose power so the mix of food is different if you can't cook or open the refrigerator. I'm so tired of people calling reasonable behavior panic and hoarding just so they can feel superior.

Or one could adjust and say hey, you don’t need to drink a gallon of milk a day this week.

How greedy are some of you?

Lots of people have multiple children at home. A gallon of milk is nothing if you have three teen boys.

Not the milk poster, but I don't see getting an amount consistent with what you'd normally get as greed. It's just carrying on and existing. Not everything people do is an attack on others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

+1. More people need to get on Ozempic. How on earth is everyone eating so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

My college age son still drinks close to a gallon a day, luckily low fat and he drinks a lot of water but still. DH drinks milk everyday, no fat but not in the huge quantities as DS. DD drinks whole milk but sporadically and cooks/bakes with it. So if everyone is home for 4-5 days I need 4 gallons of low fat milk, one gallon of skim and 1/2 gallons of whole milk. If I had to go a full 7 days. I would need 7 gallons low-fat, 1 gallon skim and 1 gallon whole. I’d look like a milk hoarder during storms.

DP. PP asked about "can't go without".

You say "need". Does your family "need" the 9 gallons of milk per week? What consequences do you face if they go without the 9 gallons of milk?

NP. But why is "can't go without" the standard not to be called a hoarder? It's not panicking to get an amount of milk or food that you'd normally get or that plus some extras because kids aren't buying school lunch and parents aren't grabbing lunch out by work. You need more food by nature of being home all day.

It multiplies to empty shelves when many people do it on a compressed timeline (as recommended by experts) before the stores can restock. Plus it's highly likely many will lose power so the mix of food is different if you can't cook or open the refrigerator. I'm so tired of people calling reasonable behavior panic and hoarding just so they can feel superior.

You can definitely open the fridge in a snowstorm because you can put all your food outside and it will stay cold.

We did choose to keep a gas stove so that we could cook even with a power loss, but the heat is the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

+1. More people need to get on Ozempic. How on earth is everyone eating so much?

Yeah, definitely put my hungry tween on Ozempic

I went Friday for a couple items we needed to get through Tuesday (flour, salt, box of spaghetti, a couple cans of tomatoes, cheese). The only thing I saw totally out of stock was bananas. Just one sad little brown one left.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people really don't plan to leave your house for A WEEK?????

No wonder the aisles are bare.

The level of hysteria here about navigating sub-optimal road conditions from some people. Wow.

You realize some people only shop once a week on a typical week??

DP

Most people have several weeks worth of well-above-survival-level food in their homes. It might not be ingredients for fresh baked banana bread, but it is nutritious and it is as exciting as the skills of the person preparing it.

The people going to stores right now want ingredients for specific bread/lasagna/cookies/chili/etc... they don't need. But if this is how they want to spend their time -- emptying shelves of flour and toilet paper along with a mob of like-minded doomsday psychos -- they are welcome. It's their hobby.

They take everything and then others can’t do their normal shopping. Last night Wegman’s milk shelf was completely empty of all types of milk - absolutely none left except soy and oat milk.

Are there that many people over the age of 7 who can't go without milk? Bizarre.

My college age son still drinks close to a gallon a day, luckily low fat and he drinks a lot of water but still. DH drinks milk everyday, no fat but not in the huge quantities as DS. DD drinks whole milk but sporadically and cooks/bakes with it. So if everyone is home for 4-5 days I need 4 gallons of low fat milk, one gallon of skim and 1/2 gallons of whole milk. If I had to go a full 7 days. I would need 7 gallons low-fat, 1 gallon skim and 1 gallon whole. I’d look like a milk hoarder during storms.

DP. PP asked about "can't go without".

You say "need". Does your family "need" the 9 gallons of milk per week? What consequences do you face if they go without the 9 gallons of milk?

NP. But why is "can't go without" the standard not to be called a hoarder? It's not panicking to get an amount of milk or food that you'd normally get or that plus some extras because kids aren't buying school lunch and parents aren't grabbing lunch out by work. You need more food by nature of being home all day.

It multiplies to empty shelves when many people do it on a compressed timeline (as recommended by experts) before the stores can restock. Plus it's highly likely many will lose power so the mix of food is different if you can't cook or open the refrigerator. I'm so tired of people calling reasonable behavior panic and hoarding just so they can feel superior.

Or one could adjust and say hey, you don’t need to drink a gallon of milk a day this week.

How greedy are some of you?

Lots of people have multiple children at home. A gallon of milk is nothing if you have three teen boys.

Not the milk poster, but I don't see getting an amount consistent with what you'd normally get as greed. It's just carrying on and existing. Not everything people do is an attack on others.

+1
It's cheap protein. It's not like they are all insisting on 2 steaks a day