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Item availability has been really random at most grocery stores lately. It's something I took for granted most of my life and has been difficult to adjust to. U
by jobu 6y ago
Item availability has been really random at most grocery stores lately. It's something I took for granted most of my life and has been difficult to adjust to. Usually we make meal plans for the week, then go buy what we need. Now I have to go to several stores, assess what meat or produce is available and figure out on the fly what meals we can make out of it (hopefully remembering all of what I bought at the last store).
I can't imagine how hard it is for services like Instacart to handle. Same chain of grocery stores a few miles away from each other often have wildly different items in or out of stock on the same day.
- ghaff 6y agoIt's one reason I haven't been using delivery services. I only go in once a week or two--earlyish on a weekday. But I pretty much have to plan on the fly (while also having pretty good freezer stock at home). I do mostly just go into one store. But e.g. today went into a small meat farm store and they had nothing I was looking for. Bought a couple of different things that will be fine. But TBH I used grocery delivery previously once because of a broken foot. And missing/poorly substituted items were a pain and often led to me having to go to the store personally anyway.