Our local Safeway stores (owned by Albertsons) have been undergoing
remodeling while remaining open. Empty shelves were common while everything was
being re-positioned. Then the Wuhan Virus panicked buying hit.
There was no way I was going to any store this past weekend,
but went into my local Safeway this morning. Chaos at 1030 hours!
Three checkers open with four to five shoppers in line for
checkout. Eight self service checkouts with lines stretching back into the
aisles. There were empty shelves everywhere. Some were from the remodel, true,
but which?
After using the self service machine for my lottery tickets
(yes, I know. A tax on those bad at math) in the front of the store, I left.
Those Safeway employees are entitled to combat pay, IMO.
8 comments:
Eventually the panic will subside. Rule of thumb is that you should have enough food and goods for a month for you and Banner. And of course the Coven, should they come calling, hat in hand, with apologies, and possibly the devil's cash.
LL
Always a month +. Current shopping list is onions, heavy whipping cream (for coffee), and 18 eggs. Hard boil and shell the eggs. Banner has a 45 day supply of dog food and a 30 day supply of "treats". Both vehicles have full gas tanks and a 72 hours+ emergency kit. Several water filtration methods in both the apartment and vehicles. Need to stock both vehicles with some Banner food.
The Coven are smart and hit the food banks hard. Always some basic food to share in the common room.
My son works at a Ralph's (King Soopers here; owned by Kroger) near LAX and the shelves get picked clean as soon as they restock with what they had, and what came in. The first few days people were demanding the store get more stock, and then they settled down and are now thanking him for being there, exposed to The Public, and doing the best he can.
I remember shopping at both Safeway and Albertson's when I used to live in the People's Republic of Oregon. They were not co-mingled like they are now. Safeway jacked up their prices and then gave away Gold Bond stamps, remember those? You would lick them and paste them into books, and then once you filled a book, you could go to their catalog and redeem X amount of books for the crap they had in the catalog.
Albertson's also signed onto the same scheme: they gave out S&H Green stamps, I always wonder how long it took for people to figure out that this stuff that they gave out to stamp lickers who redeemed their full books of stamps that nothing is free.
I don't see those anymore, it's been a long time since my parents redeemed any Gold Bond or Sperry and Hutchinson Green Stamps. Nice scam while it lasted, though.
Fredd
The stores always have gimmicks. My mother was big on stamps.
drjim
I don't envy your son.
Agreed! Those folks are doing a fantastic job all things considered...
Old NFO
Made it a point to thank a couple this morning.
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