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IDK where you live (and I won't ask! because I respect privacy and stuff), but in central Texas (Austin) and most of the urban markets I have been to (HEB, Cent
by ci5er 6y ago
IDK where you live (and I won't ask! because I respect privacy and stuff), but in central Texas (Austin) and most of the urban markets I have been to (HEB, Central Market, Randall's, Trader Joe's, all the regional BBQ joints), I don't think I have seen any disruption in anything the whole time, except TP, briefly hand-sanitizer and a pop in the price of milk. I'm guessing the first two (at least) were because of people doing the lemming-thing and over-buying.
I understand that this is/was not the case across the country, and I have been a bit baffled about that. (Although I do recognize the supply chains to restaurants and to corporations (TP) and to grocery stores are not the same and don't easily switch on a dime. But, we have meat and yogurt and eggs and milk on the shelves, but some friends in Connecticut or NYC, for example, say that they do not. And I can not understand why.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThe Eastern supply chains are mostly restored but liquid soap, alcohol, Lysol, and other cleaners are unobtanium. Some frozen foods are still cleared out because nobody is eating out and stores haven't compensated for the demand.
- ci5er 6y agoThanks. It's hard to get nation-wide reports by chain. All I see are pictures on social media of outraged people going: "Why don't we have any sock-eye salmon? And Look! The shelves are empty!". Surely data are the aggregate set of anecdotes, but while I see a lot of spot anecdotes, I don't see much data.
- perl4ever 6y agoWhat I'm seeing in the NY state capital is that the stuff that was out of stock early on like toilet paper, paper towels, kleenex, flour, etc. returned some times ago, but seems to still be rationed to one or two per person per day. I don't find this to be a hardship, but I don't shop for a big family. However, I just saw packets of yeast for sale again. That was the last thing that I had trouble finding. But take my observations with a grain of salt, because part of my response (and maybe others) to COVID is that I haven't felt like shopping around much; I mostly just go to one store and make do with what's there.
- ci5er 6y agoThanks. Makes sense. I never drive or shop, so I am kind of used to people bringing me off-brand stuff. And I buy in bulk, so I am already set regardless, but I am told by friends that the shelves are full (sometimes they even send pictures!) Maybe we are lucky that so much is semi-locally sourced.
- perl4ever 6y agoNew locally or regionally sourced products have been appearing on shelves here; I think that the stores are adjusting.
- pmiller2 6y agoWell, I will tell you, because it's already on here! I live in the SF Bay Area. East Bay, more specifically.
- ci5er 6y ago"On" means that the shelves are fully stocked?
- perl4ever 6y agoOccam's razor says it's because Texans mostly ignored the epidemic in general. That's why yesterday there were 3,787 new cases in TX and 803 in NY. But NY is reopening and cases are going up, so maybe things will change.
- ci5er 6y agoIdk. In Austin, they were pretty strict. Nothing was open- stores (besides grocery and gas, I think?) - no shops, restaurants, bars, hair cuts (i need one), dentists, clinics, eye doctors, parks, DMV, churches, funerals. I don't know about the rest of Texas, but the mayor here pretty much shut it down.