Sit-rep in your area?

[Vigilant]

I hear ya. I walked up to the bread aisle and it was picked clean of all but the weird stuff. And 5 loaves of Italian sliced bread. (regular sliced loaf, not what you get up at the deli) couple ahead of me threw 3 of them in the cart, obvious that they dont normally buy it, but its all their was. I grabbed the last two, because that is what I normally buy. I put the 2nd one back because I know that stuff goes bad faster due to fewer preservatives and it might be a waste. Might as well let someone else eat it.


And it was nuts last night. I could have loaded every bit of land based animal protein in the store in two carts. It was like a 80s textbook on Eastern Europe . All that was left in the cases was things like beef livers, some lamb, and andouille sausage. On Friday to get sage sausage I couldnt buy it by the tube. I had to buy preformed patties marketed for grilling to be eaten on a bun like a burger. Last night even those were gone. Luckily it still fried up nicely to be crumbled up into spaghetti sauce.

looks like with many stores going "9-5" and restocking overnight instead of progressively stocking throughout the day, the only way to get some things will be to wait in line. I overheard a coworker say she arrived at a grocery an hour before they opened and was already 41st in line.

After years of making a weekly meal plan at home and then buying the stuff to make those dishes, I think that is over for now. Now its going to be "what can we find at the store?", and once we have that, we can decide what we are able to cook later.

Welcome to Amerika, comrade.

Quit yer *****in' we're just tryin ta Bernie this **** up!

 

[dsol]

I work for an airline... that aint good right now. All of them are parking planes and cutting flight by 30% or more. I hope we can keep hanging on by our fingernails, reducing our small fleet to 20 AC that are flying short hops along the west coast. We are a regional that flies for one of the major airlines and maybe they will keep us around since smaller planes are easier to fill up and use less fuel than the larger mainline planes. Especially for the short legs.

If not, guess I will be trying to find something along with everydamnother person in the area... maybe Menards or Aldis is hiring, sure wont be anything in my industry for a while to come. It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better for airlines.

 

[VUPDblue]

On the West side of Indy, the big stores are out of lots of things just like is being discussed here. That said, the ethnic stores (Saraga, Guanajato, Patel Bros, Tres Hermanos) seem unaffected. I stopped in quite a few yesterday and it appeared business as usual for the most part. In fact, today's lunch for myself and my beat partners is chorizo/jasmine rice/cheese stuffed poblanos on the BGE

 

[JettaKnight]

I work for an airline... that aint good right now. All of them are parking planes and cutting flight by 30% or more. I hope we can keep hanging on by our fingernails, reducing our small fleet to 20 AC that are flying short hops along the west coast. We are a regional that flies for one of the major airlines and maybe they will keep us around since smaller planes are easier to fill up and use less fuel than the larger mainline planes. Especially for the short legs.

If not, guess I will be trying to find something along with everydamnother person in the area... maybe Menards or Aldis is hiring, sure wont be anything in my industry for a while to come. It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better for airlines.

But, at least they don't have to worry about those parked 737MAX planes and the lack of seats.

 

[churchmouse]

Indy west side.
As VUPD stated there is not a loaf of bread to be found in the Meijer's on west 38th street the speedway Krogers or the Sams at west 10th.
Sams is picked over pretty hard. No Bacon or ground beef. None. Shelves were full of holes where things had been. We found what we needed on the list and moved on to Krogers. They have meat but limit how much you can buy. Eggs near gone and zero sliced bread.
Stopped at Meijer's and yes they had TP. No hamburger little to no chicken. Some steaks.

I need to look in the stores VUPD is roaming through.....

 

[IndyBeerman]

I would bet that food pantries will be getting lots of donations of canned goods in 6 months or so.

That's highly unlikely in the next 6 month.

Most canned goods (reaffirmed by checking my pantry), have a minimum 1.5 to 2 years shelf life.
To have can goods expire to that extent, would require hoarding on a level that makes the TP shortage look like child's play.

 

[Karl-just-Karl]

On the West side of Indy, the big stores are out of lots of things just like is being discussed here. That said, the ethnic stores (Saraga, Guanajato, Patel Bros, Tres Hermanos) seem unaffected. I stopped in quite a few yesterday and it appeared business as usual for the most part. In fact, today's lunch for myself and my beat partners is chorizo/jasmine rice/cheese stuffed poblanos on the BGE

The "Mexican" parts of Wally World weren't too bad. Picked over, yes, but there was still taco stuff, salsa verde, cans of pickled jalapenos and carrots. There were still a lot of tortillas. The refrigerated section still had plenty of Chorizo and Queso Fresco. I actually stopped to admire it and chuckle a little.

 

[snorko]

Evansville Schnucks on South Green River was interesting yesterday. Pork & chicken were gone, the butcher's case and deli salads case were closed out. Plenty of slice to order and pre-packaged lunchmeat. Good selection of cuts of beef & ground. Oddly, plenty of bags of frozen chicken breasts & tenders, minimal bread, lots of soup. Dried beans were non-existent except for many bags of limas. Guess no one likes those. There was a stock person opening what loked like three cases of TP. Packages of 6 rolls were not even hitting the shelves, he just handed them to folks walking down the aisle who asked. I bought some tinned hams that were on sale and some salmon. protein is something I need to build up.

On the plus side, this kinda forced me to go through and reorganize my pantry. Found some canned beans that were 10 years expired and rusting. Otherwise, I will slowly build back up what I am lacking.

 

[Leadeye]

Stopped at Rural King today to get some plastic buckets, all the food items they carry were there.

 

[eldirector]

Kroger this morning made my wife pretty upset. Crazy, with empty shelves. Produce was all fully stocked and fresh.

Whole Foods up north? Not busy at all and stocked.

Really don't know why she went out. We don't need anything, and she only picked up some random snacks.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

My wife hit Meijer on the south side of the Bend last Friday. A zoo. Her normal $200 spend for the week was $54. She said it wasn't worth it.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I think the key (if one can do it) is make multiple trips shortly after the stores open (Kroger for example by me, is now only open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.). I went yesterday morning and picked up a couple of loaves of bread and a few other things. I didn't get there until almost 8, so not much available in the bread aisle - but plenty of white bread (I like whole grained bread). No TP. This morning I went right at 7, and managed to pick up 2 more lbs. of bacon (but it was slim pickings), 3 lbs. ground beef (they had plenty), a couple of packages of bagels for my breakfast sammiches, 12 double rolls of TP, coffee and tea. So by making multiple trips, you can find some things in stock one day, and maybe other things in stock the next day, etc.. Just can't make a normal big weekly list and expect to find everything.

Luckily, my Kroger (Southern Plaza) is only 5 minutes away, and since I'm working from home for the next month at least, it's easy enough for me to run up there and back in like 20 minutes, and do it early enough that nobody even misses me.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Italian bread scored by SherylinAvon at Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market in Plainfield. Only bread on the shelf was "Italian", starting to be a trend.

 

[maxwelhse]

Elkhart, Bristol Street Martin's:

I intentionally got there about 12:45pm... I figured that would be the eye of the storm and it looks like I was right. I had reports all week of that place being a mad house (and last week it was busy, but not insane) and when I was there today it was about as normal as could be expected. The customer level was about what it would be on a normal Friday night, so not crazy insane, but nuts for a Wednesday afternoon.

No TP, very thin soup selection, most but not all fresh chicken gone (they had some wings), plenty of frozen chicken, no hamburger at all, plenty of beef roasts and steaks, good inventory of pork. Lunchmeat was at about 50%, but the usual suspects were all there. Lots and lots of eggs and milk. Pasta and other dry good were holding their own. Produce was good, unless you wanted lettuce (virtually none and they had decided to take their usually pretty gnarly looking head lettuce, shred it themselves, and put it where the normally shredded lettuce would... also at a considerable mark-up). A decent amount of bottled water, but not heaps. NO turkeys, hams, etc. Any large chunk of meat was out of there, except the roasts at the meat counter.

Frozen foods were King Kong levels of strong. Tons of frozen pizzas, veggies, fries, etc. I didn't go down the prepped meals and ice cream aisles, but they looked fully stocked.

And they had the runner up to the Holy Grail: Bread... BUT... They had Sunbeam white, and that was it (which suits me fine) and probably only 50 loaves at that, and a sign saying 2 per customer. They had plenty of donuts and whatnot and it looked like the actual bakery section of the store was stocked alright.

The pharmacy of deserted as far as customers, so, no problems there.

Employees were running around the place like mad, no doubt trying to take inventory and put up various limited quantity signs (nothing I bought other than the bread was limited). I asked a few people about how the last couple of days had been and they looked like they had been to war. For a store that is usually about as close as it gets to shopping in what would be an early '80s "Supermarket" to having their complete inventory turned over at least twice in under a week, things were looking good.

I was in and out with what I needed, making a full lap of the store to get it as well as admire the carnage, in about 30 minutes.

Sooo... If the hysteria there is slowing down, that means that the hysteria at the bigger stores should relax some too soon. As I was leaving I heard someone say that the bread truck had just pulled in, which is good news.

Anyhow, they had enough pasta that I didn't feel guilty about buying 4lbs of regular spaghetti to donate to the charity box at work along with my 2nd loaf of bread. Bread usually wouldn't be one of the items they'd take (and this is a charity thing for employees... it stays in the facility for people who need it to take home) but I figured somebody could probably use it from the stories I've read here.

So... From up here in the north, things may be improving.

 

[66chevelle]

Today was the first day I have left my property in almost 2 weeks. I needed dog food so I went to the greenfield mall(Walmart). They had bread racks full of bread, some beef, hot dogs, brats, cheese, and milk. I looked for Chicken but there was none. The fresh veggies and fruit was full.

 

[VUPDblue]

Panaderia at 38/Moller has plenty of freshly baked bread and pastries. Yum.

 

[VUPDblue]

The speedway Kroger was demolished and there were zombies everywhere inside and in bad moods.

 

[Vigilant]

The speedway Kroger was demolished and there were zombies everywhere inside and in bad moods.

How many’d You get? Not fair starting before the rest of us!!!!

 

[Ark]

Bloomington, haven't seen fresh chicken in stock in six days.

 

[Vigilant]

Bloomington, haven't seen fresh chicken in stock in six days.

Nobody eats chicken for reals anyway. They just buy it to make themselves feel better.