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abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 07:42 PM Mar 2020

Here's my take on what I saw shopping at WalMart this week. I usually shop on Tuesday and

Friday but his week I went on Wednesday and Saturday/today. Usually I check our mail at our post office box on Friday but I did that today, too.

From what I saw this week it looks like the hoarding spike has begin to level out. This week I've been able to buy things that I haven't been able to the few weeks before, like a 4-pound jar of peanut butter, Oscar Meyer sliced oven-roasted turkey lunch meat and A&W Diet Cream Soda. I actually saw one store worker stocking large packs of toilet paper and there was more liquid dish soap on the shelves. There was an abundance of bread on the shelves that were bare previously. So things are looking better.

I tried to maintain my distance from people I met going about my shopping. At the check-out everybody was maintaining their 6-foot distance so we're doing our part. I got into a conversation with the man in front of me. I told him that I thought I've already had the virus and he told me that he's worried since he hasn't been able to contact two of his sisters. We all have a story but we're doing the best we can.

I always have my home-made disinfectant wipes with me and I use them liberally. (Put some paper napkins in a one-gallon storage bag and douse well with 91% rubbing alcohol.) I use them when I get a cart in the parking lot and when I wipe down my groceries after I get out and put them in my car and of course rub down my hands. I have some spray disinfectant left over from when sewage backed up in our apartment so I use that too on my clothes.

Stay safe, everyone!

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Here's my take on what I saw shopping at WalMart this week. I usually shop on Tuesday and (Original Post) abqtommy Mar 2020 OP
We just got some TP at Costco. Turbineguy Mar 2020 #1
hopefully they will stiff MFM008 Mar 2020 #2
I've been trying to get a delivery window from Amazon fresh pantry for more than a week... Grasswire2 Mar 2020 #3

MFM008

(19,776 posts)
2. hopefully they will stiff
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 08:18 PM
Mar 2020

have something when I get paid on the first.
What id give to see a pack of Viva paper towels, lysol wipes
Kleenex and ice cream.
all have been out at Albertsons in Lakewood Wa.
And Walmart when ive gone....

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
3. I've been trying to get a delivery window from Amazon fresh pantry for more than a week...
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 08:44 PM
Mar 2020

.....and yesterday I tried to get a food delivery from Kroger and it's the same thing. No windows available.

I hear that Insta-Cart, which Kroger and other grocers use for delivery option, is going out on strike this coming week.

Bah, humbug!

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