How's Everyone Enjoying This Taste Of Life Behind The Iron Curtain?

[vraiblonde]

I was in the grocery store last night and the pattern seems to be twofold.
a) The quick and easy stuff is non-existent. Pasta, sauces, hamburger helper, boxed mac and cheese, hamburger, chicken.......I could easily get a rack of pork ribs or a picnic though.
b) Demand is high because people are forced to eat in and the stores are not used to buying that much.Its also possible that the automated ordering systems are not working that well A system thats accustomed to ordering 5 and 10 now sees 100 and short circuits itself because the programmer never allowed for more than 24 of something without a high turnover history. Whens the last time stores had a run on all meats, all paper products, all bleach products, etc.

Reminds me of my time in Iceland at the end of the month before the supplies came in..

And yet here in New Braunfels, TX the shelves are fully stocked and have been for about a month.

I don't understand why some cities/states are having such a hard time getting food and paper products.

 

[frequentflier]

I was in the grocery store last night and the pattern seems to be twofold.
a) The quick and easy stuff is non-existent. Pasta, sauces, hamburger helper, boxed mac and cheese, hamburger, chicken.......I could easily get a rack of pork ribs or a picnic though.
b) Demand is high because people are forced to eat in and the stores are not used to buying that much.Its also possible that the automated ordering systems are not working that well A system thats accustomed to ordering 5 and 10 now sees 100 and short circuits itself because the programmer never allowed for more than 24 of something without a high turnover history. Whens the last time stores had a run on all meats, all paper products, all bleach products, etc.

Reminds me of my time in Iceland at the end of the month before the supplies came in..

You wouldn't think people were stocked up on food from the drive thru fast food joints in Solomons. Mickey D's often has lines all the way to the road. The taco hell and KFC is busy ALL the time.

 

[PrchJrkr]

And yet here in New Braunfels, TX the shelves are fully stocked and have been for about a month.

I don't understand why some cities/states are having such a hard time getting food and paper products.

Because shoppers around here are paranoid pessimistic *******s.

 

[PrchJrkr]

You wouldn't think people were stocked up on food from the drive thru fast food joints in Solomons. Mickey D's often has lines all the way to the road. The taco hell and KFC is busy ALL the time.

I was in from 9 until 2 yesterday and there was a line at Roy Rogers all day long. Unbelievable...

 

[Yooper]

I don't understand why some cities/states are having such a hard time getting food and paper products.

I would suspect population density has something to do with it.

Also, the geography here in SoMD canalizes; meaning; where you are in TX people can fan out in 4 directions and away from San Antonio and Austin, in search of supplies. While here in SoDD one can only travel along a single axis (301 in Charles, 5 in St. Mary's, and 4 in Calvert). Also,, at least for SMC and Calvert one end of the canal is a dead-end (the water) and the other leads into the bottleneck of DC. Maybe that has nothing to do with it.

We also noted quite a few places of empty shelves and limits in the Pax commissary a parallel system to what's outside the gates and one that is restricted shopping (from the general public). That it has scarity seems to suggest there is at least a regional supply chain issue.

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[BOP]

I hate Trump because my handlers told me to.

I see Stupidus hasn't changed his schtick all that much. Another MPD on ignore.

 

[phreddyp]

I see Stupidus hasn't changed his schtick all that much. Another MPD on ignore.

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[PeoplesElbow]

I was in the grocery store last night and the pattern seems to be twofold.
a) The quick and easy stuff is non-existent. Pasta, sauces, hamburger helper, boxed mac and cheese, hamburger, chicken.......I could easily get a rack of pork ribs or a picnic though.
b) Demand is high because people are forced to eat in and the stores are not used to buying that much.Its also possible that the automated ordering systems are not working that well A system thats accustomed to ordering 5 and 10 now sees 100 and short circuits itself because the programmer never allowed for more than 24 of something without a high turnover history. Whens the last time stores had a run on all meats, all paper products, all bleach products, etc.

Reminds me of my time in Iceland at the end of the month before the supplies came in..

Lean manufacturing, extra capacity is wasted money. It works great when the demand is steady, but fails in situations like this.

 

[Bann]

And yet here in New Braunfels, TX the shelves are fully stocked and have been for about a month.

I don't understand why some cities/states are having such a hard time getting food and paper products.

I'm not sure, but people in this are must eat OUT a LOT normally and are being FORCED to stay home to eat now.

One of the managers at Safeway told me (I posted earlier in this thread) that the demand on their store was like having 4 back to back snow storms. He said the manufacturers haven't caught back up to the demand.

Fresh foods are plentiful. Frozen foods, cleaning products, packaged/add-to/boxed foods are not. Meat is not, except certain types of meat. I was able to get chicken breasts at Weis in PF on Friday. I got 2 family packs, since I can freeze those in portions.

I drove up to Harris Teeter in Dunkirk today just to see it. I've never been in one. They had paper towels and TP. I didn't need TP, but I got a 6pk of paper towels and those will last me about 6 more weeks. Harris Teeter was stocked up on meat as far as I could see.

Oh, and they don't force you to travel 1 way in the aisles and they don't have those any lines on the ground telling you where to stand and where to stop in the aisles. They also had plenty of people working and they were all very helpful and ready to help when you asked for something.

 

[Yooper]

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[black dog]

And yet here in New Braunfels, TX the shelves are fully stocked and have been for about a month.

I don't understand why some cities/states are having such a hard time getting food and paper products.

Same here, shelves full. Sometimes the red meat missing maybe 50% in the open cases but behind the glass shelves full with the meat cutter waiting to serve you.

Big citys folks are just still buying more than they consume.

 

[Grumpy]

“The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.” I suspect the razor applies to many government leaders who simply did everything wrong and then doubled down on their error rather than admit mortal fallibility. They were stupid—and too proud to acknowledge their mistake....

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[PeoplesElbow]

I think everyone gives politicians too much credit in this situation.

I simply think nobody wants to get the blame for zigging when everyone Zags and it doesnt turn out well. The safe thing to do is just follow the crowd.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

The last two weeks of March the HEBs in New Braunfels were barren. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before in the United States. Then beginning of April the shelves started getting stocked and about the only thing you couldn't get was toilet paper and a rotisserie chicken. By mid-April everything was back to normal. They still have markers on the floor for social distancing, but I think we should keep those for good and in fact we should have always had them. Some people are wearing masks but most aren't. People are going about their business and the bars/restaurants opened last weekend. Today the salons and other service businesses reopened.

So you all who are still living in Soviet conditions need to ask your state and local elected officials why.

Say what? What of the awesomely scented, physically fit, man in front of, or behind, you, in the grocery line, that you'd surely want to stand close to? Or the sweet smelling, curvy, bodacious, and petite, woman standing in front of of me in the grocery line, that I want to stand close to? Or any other similarly situated male or female in like circumstances? Hummmm? In these cases? Social distancing, really really really sucks.

 

[Scat]

Lean manufacturing, extra capacity is wasted money. It works great when the demand is steady, but fails in situations like this.

hard to blame the manufacturers when they are most likely using historical trending data. Why would I want to produce 6 million when Ive never sold more than 5?
Didnt the Navy adopt some stuipd just in time logistics principle?

 

[PeoplesElbow]

hard to blame the manufacturers when they are most likely using historical trending data. Why would I want to produce 6 million when Ive never sold more than 5?
Didnt the Navy adopt some stuipd just in time logistics principle?

It also means when their supply chain has the most minor hiccup they can't do anything and could have the other supplies stacking up.

I think this whole experience will have them looking into what interruptions can do. I think there is a happy place, but finding it could prove difficult.

For example my factory makes chairs but the boat carrying the thread sank, suddenly I have material, springs, and foam piling up but no way to sew it all together.

 

[frequentflier]

I went to the Giant in Lusby yesterday and many shelves are still empty. There was no TP, PT's, little pasta, tuna, still no vinegar and I bought four jars of alfredo sauce because the has been none on all my recent trips.
As usual, I had a list and knew where everything was and wanted to $hit and git and didn't realize till I was at the far end of the store that there were arrows on the floors and I had gone the wrong way through my whole visit
I wondered why people were giving me the stink eye

 

[black dog]

I went to the Giant in Lusby yesterday and many shelves are still empty. There was no TP, PT's, little pasta, tuna, still no vinegar and I bought four jars of alfredo sauce because the has been none on all my recent trips.
As usual, I had a list and knew where everything was and wanted to $hit and git and didn't realize till I was at the far end of the store that there were arrows on the floors and I had gone the wrong way through my whole visit
I wondered why people were giving me the stink eye

Arrows to walk through the grocery store correctly........ I would have walked through backwards just to see if someone would actually tell me I was going backwards......
I'm a needler thou, I enjoy situations like that.....

 

[Auntie Biache']

We've had moderate shortages, with the exception of toilet paper. I've seen it on the shelves once since it all disappeared, and bought a pack, even though I didn't need it. I may need it before all is said and done. Moving on, down here in GA, people are getting fed up. I was in WM yesterday, and I'd guesstimate that 85-90% of the people in the store were not wearing a mask. The others had those fancy schmancy masks, and wore them like a badge of honor.

 

[vraiblonde]

NB HEB doesn't have one-way aisles, but I like that idea. Reduces traffic jams. I'm an orderly shopper, for the most part - start in the produce section, weave my way to the other end of the store, hit the checkout. One-way aisles works for me, as does individually wrapping the donuts and rolls in the bin.

The sneeze guards between the customer and the cashier - 100% of cashiers polled want to keep that.

Floor stickers - "stand here and wait your damn turn" - let's keep those.