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>Even under lockdown, quarantined people will be supplied and grocery stores open and supplied. From an American perspective, that is not immediately clear to
by 0xffff2 7y ago
>Even under lockdown, quarantined people will be supplied and grocery stores open and supplied.
From an American perspective, that is not immediately clear to me.
>Avoid big groups, keep a certain distance.
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> buy normal volumes of stuff ... Spread shopping over multiple shops of multiple chains
These two things are not compatible in my view.
>If push comes to shove, accept shortages of luxury stuff and certain products. But we are very far from that.
Maybe where you are. My grocery shopping trip this morning ended with me re-planning meals for the week in the supermarket based on what was available. A wide range of staple ingredients were completely out of stock.
- hef19898 7y agoAs I said, no such problems over here so far. We might see shortages for stuff coming from China, inventoires will slowely be depleted and the replenishment from China severly hampered by the situation in Europe and the US. Stuff sourced / produced on the same continent won't hit nearly as hard. As long the production doesn't break down there shouldn't be to hard impacts. And since quarantine measures only started a couple of days ago, we can rule out those impacts as causes for the shortages you saw. Leaves short term and mid term disruptions caused by, what I might call, panic shopping, which outpaced replenishment.