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stevenpiziks) wrote2020-02-29 12:47 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2020-02-29 12:47 pm
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Plague Shopping
Darwin and I went plague shopping last night. We bought a couple-three weeks worth of non-perishable and frozen food, medication, and household supplies in case we get quarantined and can't leave the house.
Darwin was at first reluctant to go. It was late, we were both tired, we could go tomorrow morning, etc. But I insisted, and he gave in. I was glad we did it when we did.
We went last night (Friday) at 9:00 PM, and the store was nearly deserted. We filled one and a half carts. Certain areas of the store had already been hit:
--no hand sanitizer in the entire store
--all the disposable razors were gone (which struck me as weird)
--the medication shelves were half empty
--there was a special display of anti-flu medications
When we finished, we discovered that the only checkout option was the self checkout--not very feasible with the amount of groceries we had. So I tracked down a manager and asked for a regular checkout. After some dithering, they opened a lane. Right after we started in (with the cashier scanning and me bagging like a madman), two more people with full carts got in line behind us. Clearly the store needs to leave a checkout lane open later at night, yeah?
We hauled everything home and socked it away in the garage freezer and in the basement. If something does happen, we're good. And I'm extremely grateful that I have both the money to buy this stuff and the space to store it all. If nothing happens, we can live off it for weeks.
This morning, I woke up to learn that three cases of COVID-19 have shown up on the west coast, none of them related (as far anyone knows) to travelers from China. As a result, I'm predicting that this weekend, the stores will be mobbed.
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Darwin was at first reluctant to go. It was late, we were both tired, we could go tomorrow morning, etc. But I insisted, and he gave in. I was glad we did it when we did.
We went last night (Friday) at 9:00 PM, and the store was nearly deserted. We filled one and a half carts. Certain areas of the store had already been hit:
--no hand sanitizer in the entire store
--all the disposable razors were gone (which struck me as weird)
--the medication shelves were half empty
--there was a special display of anti-flu medications
When we finished, we discovered that the only checkout option was the self checkout--not very feasible with the amount of groceries we had. So I tracked down a manager and asked for a regular checkout. After some dithering, they opened a lane. Right after we started in (with the cashier scanning and me bagging like a madman), two more people with full carts got in line behind us. Clearly the store needs to leave a checkout lane open later at night, yeah?
We hauled everything home and socked it away in the garage freezer and in the basement. If something does happen, we're good. And I'm extremely grateful that I have both the money to buy this stuff and the space to store it all. If nothing happens, we can live off it for weeks.
This morning, I woke up to learn that three cases of COVID-19 have shown up on the west coast, none of them related (as far anyone knows) to travelers from China. As a result, I'm predicting that this weekend, the stores will be mobbed.