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[gidgetgh]

I've been doing our shopping in person, but this week, I used Instacart. 

I placed my order on Sunday. Delivery was set for this Friday (first time available) but I checked the fast and flexible box and they were delivered late this afternoon.  I was happy to get anything, but the shopper made a few weird substitutions and some things weren't delivered that I'm really surprised were out of stock. But, overall I'm thrilled. We have plenty of food to eat.

Three of the substitutions, I just gave to our neighbor.  I called her. She said she could use the items. I washed my hands, took them across the street, laid them in her driveway and came back across the street.  She came out of her house at that point, picked them up and took them inside. 

Weird, weird times. 

[mspatmac]

I have no problem with the precautions stores are implementing to protect us well as their employees.  Obviously they are doing the best they can and not doing it to aggravate us.  I'm too am having difficulty geting items I want so i get what I can and make due as responsible people due.  

[shoesnbags]

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@Reever wrote:

Simply stay home people. I am shocked people are still out food shopping. People should have had a large selection of dried beans and lentils to get through a crisis.  I bet half the people at the supermarket are buying junk foods and chips !   Exposing people to the virus for no reason other than to get a bag of Lays chips is assinine.  

Please be safe and use the delivery services.  I am using "Instacart" and they have been very reliable.

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@Reever 

Have you read the responses to your suggestion to use delivery services?? I don’t know where you live, but in many areas the deliveries are backed up for many weeks, or just not taking orders at all.  

[tansy]

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@gidgetgh wrote:

I've been doing our shopping in person, but this week, I used Instacart. 

I placed my order on Sunday. Delivery was set for this Friday (first time available) but I checked the fast and flexible box and they were delivered late this afternoon.  I was happy to get anything, but the shopper made a few weird substitutions and some things weren't delivered that I'm really surprised were out of stock. But, overall I'm thrilled. We have plenty of food to eat.

Three of the substitutions, I just gave to our neighbor.  I called her. She said she could use the items. I washed my hands, took them across the street, laid them in her driveway and came back across the street.  She came out of her house at that point, picked them up and took them inside. 

Weird, weird times. 

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Even though I didn't download the Instacart app, I was able to "shop" with my shopper and to reject some odd substitutions.  I checked that same box for a faster delivery, obviously for an additional fee.  It's been nice to have some of our favorite go-to meals like pesto salmon and mushrooms.  I'm full and happy🙂

Weird times indeed.

[Snoopp]

I have been trying for a month to get a slot for delivery at 4 stores.  Nothing available.  This is what happens in a hot zone.  Pickup has been suspended in many cases due to high demand.  Not so easy to stay home when you need food.

[shoesnbags]

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@Snoopp wrote:

I have been trying for a month to get a slot for delivery at 4 stores.  Nothing available.  This is what happens in a hot zone.  Pickup has been suspended in many cases due to high demand.  Not so easy to stay home when you need food.

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@Snoopp 

Same here. I feel your pain! 

[dimin]

I'm not willing to let the virus run it's course because I don't know what my outcome will be. It's just a bad situation any way you look at it. 

[Spurt]

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@stevieb wrote:

I continue to think it's absolutely abysmal leadership at every level that continues to focus so exclusively on the virus itself, when it's clear there's not much to be done about it other than to let it run its course, but has yet to do ANYTHING to address the fact that we the people cannot get what we need in the way of food and daily essentials. We all realize this is a mammoth issue, but it seems by now that some entity would be empowered to help address the dire need for goods required just to get through the day. Continuing to look so exclusively at the big picture is doing nothing but overwhelming everyone. Break this monster down into smaller pieces and start dealing with those that can be dealt with, like getting food into stores...

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@stevieb 

Yep, you are so right!!!! Something definitely needs to be done!  And its going to get even worse in some parts of the country because now a store manager here said he received a memo that grocery store warehouses are starting to see their stocks depleted "thank you" hoarders (thanking them with SARCASM) and many of the grocery stores now have to wait for more trucks to arrive before they can stock the empty shelves...........And Food Banks that rely on the grocery store surplus to help those in desperate need dont have groceries to give them either.  Some Food Banks say people have donated cash, so now they have cash but no groceries to buy ITS A BIG MESS that no one wants to address....

Stores are sitting back content watching their coffers grow. Meanwhile some shoppers are in denial and consider themselves "being prepared" when they are actually hoarding goods and preventing others from finding food and essential products to buy!!!! .  And adding insult to injury hoarders are now monopolizing the delivery services that are backed up.....Im hoping the hoarders money runs out and they get their karma when the bills come around that they can't pay because they've used up their cash hoarding groceries!!! ....

[gidgetgh]

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@tansy wrote:

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@gidgetgh wrote:

I've been doing our shopping in person, but this week, I used Instacart. 

I placed my order on Sunday. Delivery was set for this Friday (first time available) but I checked the fast and flexible box and they were delivered late this afternoon.  I was happy to get anything, but the shopper made a few weird substitutions and some things weren't delivered that I'm really surprised were out of stock. But, overall I'm thrilled. We have plenty of food to eat.

Three of the substitutions, I just gave to our neighbor.  I called her. She said she could use the items. I washed my hands, took them across the street, laid them in her driveway and came back across the street.  She came out of her house at that point, picked them up and took them inside. 

Weird, weird times. 

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Even though I didn't download the Instacart app, I was able to "shop" with my shopper and to reject some odd substitutions.  I checked that same box for a faster delivery, obviously for an additional fee.  It's been nice to have some of our favorite go-to meals like pesto salmon and mushrooms.  I'm full and happy🙂

Weird times indeed.

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@tansy - my shopper didn't notify me that he was shopping.  When I did this last year, I watched on the app while they shopped. Not today. Until he put them on the front porch I had no idea he was shopping.    I mean, he came close on a few things. For example,   I'd ordered 2 individual pepperoni pizzas.  He brought one large supreme pizza instead. We won't eat that.  Just a few weird things like that. But it's ok.  Our neighbor took them. And it was just a few things. 

[stevieb]

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@ciao_bella wrote:

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@Reever wrote:

Simply stay home people. I am shocked people are still out food shopping. People should have had a large selection of dried beans and lentils to get through a crisis.  I bet half the people at the supermarket are buying junk foods and chips !   Exposing people to the virus for no reason other than to get a bag of Lays chips is assinine.  

Please be safe and use the delivery services.  I am using "Instacart" and they have been very reliable.

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Upon reading your post, at first I wasn't going to bother responding, but it irritated me to think that simply because 'you' don't have a problem using a grocery delivery service such as Instacart, you clearly don't have any understanding what so many people in other parts of the country are going through!  I've tried  using Instacart on two separate occasions.  The first time I had an order of $157 but on the day of them filling the order, only $42. and change of what I ordered were in stock.  The order had a delivery date of 7 days from the time I had put in the order.  The second time I tried using Instacart, I again put in large order for around the same amount and that order was cancelled  due to high demand....AFTER waiting for over a week for them to contact me they couldn't fill the order.  Oh, and BTW...NO snacks or non-essentials were in either order, so please do not assume everyone has the luxury that you have ordering and receiving everything you need.  If you're using Instacart, then clearly you're not simply consuming lentils and beans either!

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@ciao_bella  I fear there are people here who assume their experience is the universal experience... When that's the case, comments fall on deaf ears...