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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have people been shopping lately (like today or yesterday - after the weekend which i suspect was nuts)? Can you say where you went (general location + store) and how did it look? Did it look like lots of things were sold out or did you feel you could get whatever you wanted food-wise even if they were out of wipes and Purell?[/quote]

I haven't been out yet -- wanted to give it a day or 2 post-weekend. With regular food, we have no reason to believe there is ANY supply shortage. Pasta is still being manufactured (at least the domestic brands), as is cereal, peanut butter etc. People cleaned out the shelves on the weekend, so Target or Safeway or whoever was likely able to turn to their distributors and up their orders to restock the shelves same way they do after snow storms etc. Distributors aren't waiting for the manufacturers to make 100 more jars of peanut butter and then deciding they'll send it to the Target in Atlanta instead of here; they already hold pallets and pallets of this and as they're sending it out to stores faster than normal, they are telling the manufacturers -- hey keep making more, we're upping our orders for next week. With ~100 cases in America, our food manufacturing is still going as normal and I have a feeling they are busy and working some overtime up there in Battlecreek Michigan to make more cereal.[/quote]

We are stocking up not due to supply shortage, but in the not-so-crazy event that we should need to self-quarantine for a couple of weeks when the cases peak here. In such a case, I don't think we can rely on deliveries because they will be overwhelmed, delivery drivers may be out sick and quarantined, etc.[/quote]

Got it. But still that doesn't mean everyone must stock up on the SAME day. Sure it's better to do it sooner rather than later but honestly is it a big deal if you do it today vs. tomorrow (assuming that you aren't sitting with an empty fridge today either - you just want MORE.)[/quote]

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