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[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]

May not be directly helpful but I was in NJ this weekend (like 60 minutes from Philadelphia) and saw no shortages of anything. I heard at Giant that Purell was sold out, but they had plenty of cans of Lysol and were wipes and I saw a few extra pallets of wipes being brought in that their employees were getting ready to unload though shelves weren't empty of wipes yet. So if they still had Lysol and wipes, I have no reason to believe they didn't have pasta or cereal. I realize that doesn't mean that everyone can just head up to NJ to shop, but what I'm thinking is -- if I go to the stores around here and can't find what I need, I may drive up to Maryland (like the suburbs north of Baltimore) or drive 90 min south of here deeper into Virginia and do a grocery run there. I don't think it'll come to that, but I do think that the stock piling is different in places that are not in/right outside of major metro areas and in places where people aren't taking public transit etc. I do think people may be grabbing 2 boxes of pasta when they'd normally grab one but I also think they aren't as nervous about it -- aren't being told we could switch to telework any day now etc. [/quote]

There are Giants in NJ now? Who knew? Did they take over Shop-Rite or something like that? 
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