![]() ![]() They even have their own special spot when loading the dishwasher. ![]() My husband was mystified when they arrived, asking what we would possibly use them for since they were so small. :-(Ī few months ago (or more?) you linked to an adorable tiny bowl set from Target that I impulsively added to an online order because they were cute and cost almost nothing. Luckily it’s a reasonably large city with lots of different store options, but yeah, a lot of missing products when I shopped today. Anecdotally, the public seems to be in solidarity with the workers and are not crossing the picket lines (great!,) but of course it’s creating even MORE supply chain stress at the other grocery stores that are now seeing more than their average numbers of customers. Where I live there is currently a grocery worker strike happening at the Kroger chain. Some of my USUAL FOODS are not here some of my TOP-CHOICE FOODS are not here but there is still ABUNDANT FOOD AVAILABLE.” One of my Coping Thoughts is this: “Even with all the alarming gaps, this store is still VERY VERY FULL OF FOOD. The kids broke, like, four little bowls during the pandemic when I didn’t feel I could go out and buy any, and it’s true that bowls were then scarce at our house and so I felt justified ordering a set of Modern Look With Elk Design bowls, and then when I COULD go out and buy bowls in person I bought maybe six more bowls, so we are ALL SET on little bowls.) (They also had these sweet little bowls, which I put into my cart in a green floral and a pastel floral, and then turned around and put them back because I DO NOT NEED ANY MORE LITTLE BOWLS RIGHT NOW. They too are out of sugar-free cough drops, though, and very low on cough drops overall. Their site says they have Raisin Bran Crunch and Always pads and our usual cat litter. Some of this is probably just my specific grocery chain and their specific supply trucks, though: I had to pick up a prescription at Target the other day, and they had the Gardein beefless ground and regular Morning Star faux-chicken nuggets, they had plain AND mini M&Ms, they had plenty of the soups we usually get. Signs up in the produce department about difficulty getting bagged salads. Still no Gardein beefless ground and no Morning Star faux-chicken nuggets. Very low on popcorn kernels: only two bags of them, plus maybe half a dozen bags of an expensive organic kind.įrozen french fries looking a little better again-more of them, more variety. No regular Hershey’s syrup, just store-brand and Special Dark. Very low on menstrual pads, and out of the kind I usually buy. One flavor of store-brand cough drops was filling almost all the pegs that weren’t empty. I got the last bag of sugar-free cough drops, and the whole section was mostly empty pegs. There was no Raisin Bran Crunch, or even regular Raisin Bran-and the whole cereal aisle seemed very depleted, lots of areas where a single type of store-brand cereal was occupying a bunch of slots. ![]() Further down the aisle I found four canisters of regular rolled oats that had been part of an attempt to fill in another product gap, and I felt very lucky to get one, and resisted the urge to buy TWO. They had SOME quick oats, but no regular rolled oats-and the quick oats were spread out and only one canister deep, and it was mostly the smaller canisters. (I’ve been hearing about national cream cheese shortages but haven’t seen it locally yet.)Ĭhicken nugget-type things were low on variety again. Still no cream cheese shortage at my store. They had Pillsbury canned crescent rolls and Pillsbury canned cinnamon rolls again. They’ve been very low on orange juice, sometimes having only a couple of specialty varieties (e.g., one organic kind with extra pulp, three of the kind where it’s like orange-pineapple or orange-mango or whatever), but today they had much more of it, and they had the kind I usually get. Pasta sauce is also weird and depleted and spread out. They’re not just low on pasta varieties anymore the pasta shelves are nearly empty now. There were a lot of empty spots on shelves a lot of shelves where the items were only one unit deep, with empty shelf behind. It was looking very Early Pandemic at my grocery store. So quite possibly they had ALL those things on pallets in the back all set to put out when I was there on Sunday, and it’s just that I was Little Miss Up Before Dawn and they weren’t ready for me yet. Sometimes on Sunday I will have a series of “Oh no, they’re out of _!! and _!! and _!!!” moments, one after another with rising panic, and then I will stop by again on Wednesday mid-morning and they will have plentiful supplies of all of those things. One reason I am attempting not to panic about groceries is that I often go quite early Sunday morning, when it seems reasonable to assume the shelves might be depleted from Saturday shoppers-particularly if the grocery store is having staffing issues and is low on stockers. ![]()
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