Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:44     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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.


Eh. Everyone is so busy around here. It's an excuse to slow down. We got the basics but also a lot of fun items so we can enjoy the at-home time.


I don't want to hunker in my house for a week. I can slow down and still go out to the grocery store a couple days after a storm.


Why not? Are you okay? If you need help, call non emergency line or get national help.


DP, but outside of DCUM, people actually leave their homes.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:42     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:37     Subject: Grocery availability
Just got back from the Bethesda Safeway. It wasn’t too bad. Slim pickings on the chicken, though they were restocking it. The milk fridge looked pretty bare and some fruits and veggies missing.

I only went because I do the grocery shopping once a week on Sat or Sun and I figured I wouldn’t be able to do it in the next two days.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:34     Subject: Grocery availability
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I went today at 8am. It was a little startling how much was missing (cow's milk, chicken and meat, eggs, lots of produce, etc...) but I got everything I wanted with some minor substitutions.

I'd advise going right before they close then trying again first thing in the AM if that is a bust.



I went at 830am to Trader Joes, and they were turning people away because store was too full. I dont know of inventory.


DP but I saw the line down the block in Clarendon this morning around 8:30. They open at 8am so maybe it got better after the initial rush. I’m curious how it is right now. After 5pm will be nuts, and probably tomorrow too. I went to Giant around 8:30 and it was busy but fine. No problem getting everything.
Which Tr Joe's was this?
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:28     Subject: Grocery availability
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you expect to be able to drive or get deliveries next week?
I don't. Effing Arlington never treats or plows our little network of streets. A few hundred yards away, black pavement. In between? Many inches of icy ruts, packed snow.


If your street genuinely "never" gets treated or plowed, go to the County website and enter your info. They have a website form for this.

I expect to be back out in the world like normal on Tuesday personally. But I'll also drive over some snow and ice on my side street to get to the main road and not sweat it. Based on the amount of traffic in the days following storms, most people behave the way I do.


Yes. And the effing website won't take reports for residential streets until after the residential plowing is done. Go look.

Our community association had to pull strings to get plowing for our area last January. It had been 3 days. Impassable streets.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:27     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
We have enough to make ends meet, for sure.

But I need the bread baking ingredients to bake the bread I bake when everyone is panic-buying the bread-baking ingredients. Because, you know, there's snow in the forecast.


Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:26     Subject: Grocery availability
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I went today at 8am. It was a little startling how much was missing (cow's milk, chicken and meat, eggs, lots of produce, etc...) but I got everything I wanted with some minor substitutions.

I'd advise going right before they close then trying again first thing in the AM if that is a bust.



I went at 830am to Trader Joes, and they were turning people away because store was too full. I dont know of inventory.


Which Tr Joe's was this?
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:25     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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.


Eh. Everyone is so busy around here. It's an excuse to slow down. We got the basics but also a lot of fun items so we can enjoy the at-home time.


I don't want to hunker in my house for a week. I can slow down and still go out to the grocery store a couple days after a storm.


Why not? Are you okay? If you need help, call non emergency line or get national help.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:24     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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??
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:23     Subject: Grocery availability
Anonymous wrote:Go at 6am.



Shsssshhhhhh....
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:16     Subject: Grocery availability
Anonymous wrote:I went today at 8am. It was a little startling how much was missing (cow's milk, chicken and meat, eggs, lots of produce, etc...) but I got everything I wanted with some minor substitutions.

I'd advise going right before they close then trying again first thing in the AM if that is a bust.



I went at 830am to Trader Joes, and they were turning people away because store was too full. I dont know of inventory.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:15     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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.


Eh. Everyone is so busy around here. It's an excuse to slow down. We got the basics but also a lot of fun items so we can enjoy the at-home time.


I don't want to hunker in my house for a week. I can slow down and still go out to the grocery store a couple days after a storm.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:13     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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.


I want them hysterical, drivers in this area are terrible. Safer for everyone they stay off the roads.


lol
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:12     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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.


Eh. Everyone is so busy around here. It's an excuse to slow down. We got the basics but also a lot of fun items so we can enjoy the at-home time.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2026 14:07     Subject: Re:Grocery availability
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.


I want them hysterical, drivers in this area are terrible. Safer for everyone they stay off the roads.