Spock, I imagine your dog would be happy and healthy with a serving of whatever you are eating.
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I'm not eating. Thats why I need a new belt and smaller jeans.
Metro area of about 1M people
Spock, I imagine your dog would be happy and healthy with a serving of whatever you are eating.
Where was this?
I'm not eating. Thats why I need a new belt and smaller jeans.
Metro area of about 1M people
A note: I see absolutely no reason to keep my mask on when I leave the store and get outside. Plenty of space and fresh air. Unless you are in some dense city, I don't really understand the need to wear one outside.
I don't wear a mask just to go outside, except standing in line with others outside the store. I don't wear one in the car, either. Didn't wear one at the gas station (would have, if I'd gone inside the station to buy something).
Lo and behold, there was some Lysol spray cleaner, though not the kind I wanted (Power and Free with hydrogen peroxide). I don't use cleaners containing hypochlorite bleach because it's bad for our shower doors, and not great for tile, either. So I put the Lysol spray back, searched and found a spray bottle of Kaboom! which is H2O2 based.
Totally depressing day shopping this morning.
Fry's, Super Walmart, and TSC:
* nobody has the dog food our 7lb mutant will eat.
* no medicated soap for my wife.
* hamburger prices are going to beat SpaceX to the ISS, and only mix available was 73% lean/23% fat @ $6/lb. No roasts of any kind.
* bulk rice is up to $1/lb... $20 for 20lb bulk bag. Thats 3=4x above a couple of weeks ago, but I guess on the plus side there were 3 bags left.
* no tomatoes. apples had all been used for batting practice.
* potatoes I bought the bag with the fewest soft ones that I could see.
* I needed a shorter belt and replacement jeans due to all the weight loss, Walmart was picked clean of both.
I damn near started choking up in the walmart when I realized I couldn't provide for my wife and dog.
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I definitely wear it for waiting in line outside which I have only had to do at the meat market. People don’t maintain distance in line. And they are often busy talking. Fortunately the older ladies behind me yacking it up were wearing masks. They came from a couple of hours drive away which is typical with this meat market.I am not wearing my mask outside as long as I can stay 6 feet away from people. But I keep my mask in my pocket and quickly put it on if people invade my space. If people really invade my space I put on my mask and start loudly coughing and they quickly back off.
No line up outside Costco today at 1 pm and none at checkout. All sections well stocked. Beef prices up 40% but lots of selection. Except still no Lysol wipes. I don't know who runs that company but they seem to be missing out. Also no line at Lowe's and not many people either.
I lucked out at Costco last week. While I was shopping they brought out a pallet of lysol wipes (5 containers in 1 package). They went fast but I got one. Gave each of my two children a container, one to keep in each of our cars and one for home. I felt like I had won the lottery.
Spock, I may have missed something. Why aren't you eating? Did you lose your appetite? I've been having a spot of that, but not enough to need new clothes, thank goodness.
I wouldn't call a store being out of a brand of soap, being "unable to provide" for my spouse.
Since you have problems finding so many things at Costco, I'd strongly suggest skipping your planned trip to Costco and instead trying a different store. Maybe the availability problems you are experiencing are just at your Costco? They have such a large customer base that apparently during this crisis many Costco stores have understandably had considerable difficulty in getting enough of everything put out on the shelves regularly. I have heard similar reports about shortages at our local Costco.No cereal, no bread, restricted milk and eggs (until recently), no flour, rice is back but at 3x-4x the price, now meat is going short. Yesterday I bought my first potatoes since March (and they're a little soft... I've started planting potatoes in buckets in the yard but so far yield is not worth the water).
That all added up to skipping breakfast completely, a drastically smaller lunch (an apple), and then try for a normal dinner.
The "no soap" was just the last straw. This weekend my wife shared she wasn't eating the last blueberry muffin in the freezer because she didn't know when we'd be able to replace it. After she went to bed I dug it out of the freezer and set it on the counter so it would be thawed for her the next morning. Now I have to plot an expedition to Costco and hope they have muffins in stock this time.
No cereal, no bread, restricted milk and eggs (until recently), no flour, rice is back but at 3x-4x the price, now meat is going short. Yesterday I bought my first potatoes since March (and they're a little soft... I've started planting potatoes in buckets in the yard but so far yield is not worth the water).
That all added up to skipping breakfast completely, a drastically smaller lunch (an apple), and then try for a normal dinner.
The "no soap" was just the last straw. This weekend my wife shared she wasn't eating the last blueberry muffin in the freezer because she didn't know when we'd be able to replace it. After she went to bed I dug it out of the freezer and set it on the counter so it would be thawed for her the next morning. Now I have to plot an expedition to Costco and hope they have muffins in stock this time.
Ah, bad assumption on my part! According to Wikipedia,Since you live in a city of about a million (somewhere in the US, I assume?) I am sure there other stores there that might be better stocked than Costco.
So, given that info, there is no basis for my prior assumption that you live in the US.as of December 31, 2019, Costco has a total of 785 warehouses: 546 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 100 in Canada, 39 in Mexico, 29 in the United Kingdom, 26 in Japan, 16 in South Korea, 14 in Taiwan, 11 in Australia, two in Spain, one in Iceland, one in France, and one in China. Costco is scheduled to open a warehouse in New Zealand in 2021.
Did my 2-week shopping at Ralph's (Kroger) this a.m. Weird shortage of the month: tofu. And no dry beans yet again, but we've been buying those from the Mexican grocery. Either there are a lot more vegetarians than I realized, or meat-eaters have switched due to price/demand. Can't picture an avid carnivore switching to tofu, though.
If you have a Trader Joe's they still have plenty including the 2 pack 15.5 oz extra firm for $1.90. The single lb pack is less expensive but the 2 pk is easierTofu has been very hard to come by in the last two months. DD1 is a vegetarian. I finally found some of the aseptic packed shelf stable stuff on Amazon, but could only get the soft variety, which is not ideal.
Ohhhhh...for sure my biggest laugh of the day!I managed to get a 5 pack of the wipes from Costco yesterday. I had to fight my way to my car to keep them from being taken from me. Thank goodness I kept that Hai Karate instruction sheet all these years. I got a bit bruised, but I managed to send two old ladies and five Hell's Angels to the hospital while keeping my wipes. To keep others from pursuing me, I threw $20 bills out the car window which clogged the streets with people and prevented me from being followed. I separated the wipes into plastic bags of 20 each. I sold them individually on the black market site located in a dirty alley in back of the local Yoga school. Two undercover policemen approached me but a few bags of wipes convinced them to look the other way. Several of the shapely young Yoga instructors promised me a fun one-on-one class if I paid for it with a bag of wipes. I deposited the profits in my index funds and now my investments are up for the year!!!!
I'm starting to feel like I have to much time on my hands.