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I used to shop on a daily basis. Lately, though, I cannot know that food I want will be available on a daily basis, so I buy in bulk when it is available. This

I used to shop on a daily basis. Lately, though, I cannot know that food I want will be available on a daily basis, so I buy in bulk when it is available. This week diet soda is not on the shelves, but at least jumbo eggs are, and that’s rare. I only have this problem on the west coast, so I suspect it’s a local distribution issue; I’m looking forward to moving back to the east coast, where groceries are more plentiful.

richiebful1 4y ago
I haven't spent much time on the West Coast, but this surprises me. California is the real "Garden State" in terms of produce production. Can other people verify this or offer a theory why this would be the case?
- whimsicalism 4y ago
  Grass is greener on the other side? The bountiful produce production is mostly more noticeable in SoCal/central valley than in SF.
- astrange 4y ago
  Groceries aren’t that good in NYC because they won’t allow enough warehouses to be built; IIRC this leads to produce being older and sometimes spoiled in stores. Other places on the east coast do have better groceries than NorCal and proximity to farms doesn’t seem to matter that much. Which makes sense; “eating local” and “farm to table” are not actually real things, wouldn’t be good for the environment if they were, and are mostly products of green meme boomers’ wishful thinking.
- gkop 4y ago
  I live in the bay, we have fabulous and abundant groceries. Maybe other parts of the state are different.
randallsquared 4y ago
Things randomly not being available really underwent a step change that hasn't been reversed in the period since 2020. The best solution to that which I found, in NYC, was to order as much as possible through Amazon Fresh (really Prime Now was better, but for whatever reason they killed it in favor of the worse version). The benefit of that is that it only takes a moment to check if things are in stock, and if they're not in stock, it just won't let me order them. If they are in stock, I bulk order (best example is, as you said, diet soda). Until I moved out of Manhattan recently, the absolute best shopping experience was Gorillas, which had the "not available in the app if it's not available in real life" experience of Fresh, but also delivery in near real-time. I have started meals, found that I was missing an ingredient, and ordered it through Gorillas with no disruption to the meal prep time.

richiebful1 4y ago

I haven't spent much time on the West Coast, but this surprises me. California is the real "Garden State" in terms of produce production. Can other people verify this or offer a theory why this would be the case?

whimsicalism 4y ago
Grass is greener on the other side? The bountiful produce production is mostly more noticeable in SoCal/central valley than in SF.
astrange 4y ago
Groceries aren’t that good in NYC because they won’t allow enough warehouses to be built; IIRC this leads to produce being older and sometimes spoiled in stores. Other places on the east coast do have better groceries than NorCal and proximity to farms doesn’t seem to matter that much. Which makes sense; “eating local” and “farm to table” are not actually real things, wouldn’t be good for the environment if they were, and are mostly products of green meme boomers’ wishful thinking.
gkop 4y ago
I live in the bay, we have fabulous and abundant groceries. Maybe other parts of the state are different.

randallsquared 4y ago

Things randomly not being available really underwent a step change that hasn't been reversed in the period since 2020. The best solution to that which I found, in NYC, was to order as much as possible through Amazon Fresh (really Prime Now was better, but for whatever reason they killed it in favor of the worse version). The benefit of that is that it only takes a moment to check if things are in stock, and if they're not in stock, it just won't let me order them. If they are in stock, I bulk order (best example is, as you said, diet soda). Until I moved out of Manhattan recently, the absolute best shopping experience was Gorillas, which had the "not available in the app if it's not available in real life" experience of Fresh, but also delivery in near real-time. I have started meals, found that I was missing an ingredient, and ordered it through Gorillas with no disruption to the meal prep time.