We live about twenty miles away from the closest grocery store, so our pre-pandemic norm was to drive into town about twice a week for groceries. Being the cook in the family, I kept multiple lists of items needed in each store we would need to go to.
The last time we made a retail run was a week ago today (on March 13th). We went out later than usual with the brilliant idea that we'd avoid the crowds. Even though we heard of empty shelves at our usual places, we felt certain that the staff would've had the time to restock the shelves after the mad hordes had left.
Wrong.
We ended up going to five grocery stores and we were only able to get three-quarters of what we deemed as necessary. Fortunately, we had plenty of paper products to begin with and most everything essential, including pasta and tomato sauce. I stupidly failed to buy ground beef at our previous Costco run and didn't find any at any of the stores we stopped at that night.
Right now, we have plenty of everything we need and are able to stay here for a month or longer if we need to without rationing. However, we do have to go into town to pick up prescriptions, though we plan to shift to a delivery system right after we pick up this load. While out, we'll make a stop in a couple of stores to see if we can get the few things we'd like to have on hand (again, ground beef).
This is the new normal. We're slowly coming to grips with that sad fact.
The last time we made a retail run was a week ago today (on March 13th). We went out later than usual with the brilliant idea that we'd avoid the crowds. Even though we heard of empty shelves at our usual places, we felt certain that the staff would've had the time to restock the shelves after the mad hordes had left.
Wrong.
We ended up going to five grocery stores and we were only able to get three-quarters of what we deemed as necessary. Fortunately, we had plenty of paper products to begin with and most everything essential, including pasta and tomato sauce. I stupidly failed to buy ground beef at our previous Costco run and didn't find any at any of the stores we stopped at that night.
Right now, we have plenty of everything we need and are able to stay here for a month or longer if we need to without rationing. However, we do have to go into town to pick up prescriptions, though we plan to shift to a delivery system right after we pick up this load. While out, we'll make a stop in a couple of stores to see if we can get the few things we'd like to have on hand (again, ground beef).
This is the new normal. We're slowly coming to grips with that sad fact.
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