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I go shopping more because the store won't let me buy enough food in one trip.

• leetrout 7y ago
  That’s painful. I have been shopping less but spending around the same amount of money. We’re only limited on bread, eggs, milk, meat and toilet paper.
  • souprock 7y ago
    Publix is also limiting cheese. They let me have two half-pound packages, but I wanted about ten packages because I have a dozen kids. The limit for milk was 2 gallons, but I wanted 6. I got 4 by putting them on the check-out counter in pairs, separated by lots of other stuff so that the extra milk would be hard to notice. I don't know about any limit on meat, but I was able to buy a pair of large whole turkeys. Bread was limited, but I didn't want much so that was OK. Since then, my wife discovered that Gordon Food Service Store has a limit of 8 gallons. Today she got 8 gallons. That should last 3 to 5 days. I think she got 60 or 90 eggs, in the big flat packages that hold 30. She got a couple cubic feet of clam strips.
    • leetrout 7y ago
      Wow that’s tough. Can you and your wife check out separately to split the order?
      • souprock 7y ago
        That would work. She sometimes puts a large cooler with ice in the van, then uses it to hold food so that she can go back inside for more. I could also give cash to 5 or more kids, then have each one go to a separate checkout lane. All of that causes more person-hours of exposure in the store. BTW, hackernews is saying the previous comment is 3 days old, and I have used 7 gallons of milk. If I stuck to a limit of 2 gallons, I'd have to shop every day.