Grocery stores like Kroger and Publix adjusted their hours, closing early in order to get staff safely home during the worst of the ice and snow. However, several staff members still could not safely get into work for the shifts.
News 2 visited several grocery stores in Nashville throughout the week and consistently found packed parking lots, lines wrapped around isles, and emptying shelves.
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It wasn't nearly that bad here in Lafayette, 40 miles NE of Nashville.
I did most of my shopping for persihables as soon as I saw the extended forecast for ice and snow in my area. We got iced in for several days and it was Friday afternoon before I was able to make it out due to the fact that the road into town was nothing but a solid sheet of ice.
I wouldn't have gone then but I was out of bacon and you know how that shit goes.
Our Walmart was surprisingly well stocked. About the only things they were short on was the main essentials such as dairy, bread, meats and being Tennessee, Mountain Dew. I picked up what I needed and they had, then went to the Piggly Wiggly for the rest of the stuff. That store was completely stocked and I made it back home with everything that was on my list.
I wouldn't have gone then but I was out of bacon and you know how that shit goes. Right. Most of us feel the same way.
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BACON!
Wal*Mart carries cooked BACON! crumbles.
Our pantry rarely has less than a couple-three bags.
Just to be on the safe side.
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"...wrapped around isles..."
As a one-time perfessersional journalist, I vaguely recall grocery-stores have 'aisles' between shelves of merchandise.
The phrase 'wrapped around isles' either indicates lines of folks standing knee-deep in gentle waves just beyond tropical beaches... or the journalism trade is filled with millennial idjits.
To re-cap:
* an 'aisle' is the walking/cart-pushing space between shelves of merchandise.
The linked article describes folk '...wrapped around empty space...'.
The decline in stupid is vast, and yet, I am not disappointed.
@wirecutter, but using your brain and thinking ahead doesn't make for an exciting instaflem video of how the world is coming to an end and mass hysteria! You'll never get enough "likes" by doing it the sensible way! Just sayin.
ReplyDeletePiggly-Wiggly.
ReplyDeleteMy first paying job was as a grocery bagger at one in Charleston, SC.
I hate to be sacrilegious, but I am not a huge bacon fan. Hear me out. As a kid, bacon was a real thing, and I loved it. I could eat as much of it as my older brothers, and come back for more. But you have to admit, the BS that they try and pass off as bacon today is far from that of the days of old. The only way that I bother with bacon now is if I take the time to go to an actual butcher, of which there are several in town, and buy the real, made by someone who cares, stuff. That is every bit as good as it used to be.
ReplyDeleteHere in my part of Michigan, right on the coast of Lake Michigan, they have been very good about stocking the stores, even the small local convenience stores. Since the initial pandemic shock, and the run on Toilet Paper, etc, the supply chain here has been pretty good. With the increase in the price of fuel, I suspect that prices will rise pretty suddenly, and people will claim price gouging, which of course, they made laws against.
I am actually on the fence about price gouging. The law of supply and demand always holds true, and capitalism being what it is, I always thought that the people who had the foresight to buy low and sell high, were those who were smart and good businessmen/women. But of course, when they do so at the cost of those who are suffering during a period of either a natural disaster, or a badly handled issue such as the government not planning for the possibility of electrical problems due to a cold spell, in a normally warm place, it is now not so cut and dried. When it can mean the danger of people dying, such as the elderly who cannot get out and pick up food, when the people were depending on meals on wheels, etc. then at that point, the government does bear some responsibility.
In one feel good story, a woman from my hometown works for a small government agency that helps those who are old, and sometimes passing from life to death. She was asking for help to find a dentist who would call on a man, confined to his home, and life was not a long thing for him. Many people would just say, the man only has a year, maybe less, why bother to worry about dental issues. But the woman wanted the man to be able to live his last months with dignity. She wasn't asking for money, just for someone to recommend a dentist willing to do the now days unheard of house call, to pull a painful tooth, and to let the man live the rest of his life, able to eat without pain, and to not feel the need to hide his smile, due to an ugly tooth. Some people seem to just be the kind who sense what others need, and motivated to attempt to help. I told her that the Good Lord has a special place reserved in Heaven for people like her.
I want to wish everyone suffering due to anything, be it the weather, or any other reason, all the best. At some point, things will get better. No matter how bad the government should get, or the pandemic, or anything, I am a Christian, and I believe that God is in control, and will continue to be so.
Wirecutter, thanks for your blogsite. From the many comments you get, no doubt you not only entertain, but you also perform a public service, by the posts you make, giving people something to look forwards to other than themselves. I can only urge you to get started on that book. I think that people are more than ready for it now. Stay safe and give my best to Miss Lisa and your loved ones.
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Well said, sir. There're folks here, such as yourself, I'd proud to call my friends in meat space.
DeleteOf course, nobody here has to reciprocate. :^)
Pigpen, you Sir, are truly a Gentleman.
DeleteRegarding price gouging, when the government interferes with markets beyond their normal responsibility of setting uniform regulations, the laws of supply and demand can be seriously affected. Regulations merely shift the curve, but meddling changes the shape of the curve.
Regarding dentistry, one of the reasons dentists don't do house calls for extractions is because extraction has become a surgical procedure and the risk of complications such as nerve damage or sinus perforation is high. The woman might better serve her elderly client by arranging safe transportation for him.
I ran out of birdseed after the second day of our record snowfall so I ventured out to wally world. 1st off, I discovered that the 4x4 actuator in the front axle of my 28 yr. old beater had failed. No biggie, I'll just have to take it slower. When I finally made it to the store, I thought I'd grab some whompum biscuits for breakfast. No such luck. It looked like the dairy section had been over-run by looters.
ReplyDeleteBacon, it's what's for breakfast, Damn right it is so off to the store I go. Lmao
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Been making bacon at home for a number of years. Get a pork belly...not hard to find. Search internet for recipes. Pick one that looks good. Go for it, then play around with what ever you like to add or eliminate. It's not hard and the results are wonderfully, smokey, tastiness!!
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