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[september]

@bandaidinmysalad   Ok.  Well your experience has been completely different than what I see where I live. 

I have shopped during "senior hour" and there are employees already in the store, filling carts, when we all go in.  They all have the hand held devices and are there to take care of online orders.  

if you have an issue where you live, I suggest you contact your local store manager. 

[bandaidinmysalad]

My husband went back to that grocery store a couple more times that week but not during senior hour or on a senior day.  The first shopping day he bought $300 worth of groceries and the 2nd trip $197 worth.  Big dfference in selection not only of food, meat and produce but in paper goods as well.  We will never again be suckered in to "we care about seniors" baloney.  Instead, we will go when WE feel like it! 

[september]

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@bandaidinmysalad wrote:

My husband went back to that grocery store a couple more times that week but not during senior hour or on a senior day.  The first shopping day he bought $300 worth of groceries and the 2nd trip $197 worth.  Big dfference in selection not only of food, produce but in paper goods as well.  We will never again be suckered in to "we care about seniors" baloney.  Instead, we will go when WE feel like it! 

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Yeah...you do that!

[bandaidinmysalad]

@september that is the only reason why we have plenty to last us 3 weeks! 

[stevieb]

@september  I've had a couple of best buddies myself, much loved and now gone. I do have a current best bud and he's loving my sheltering at home. Me, less so. Though I enjoy being at home, this has gotten to be too much of a good thing, so to speak. I've had mixed results at all the local stores I've accessed. There are a few I haven't checked, as I'm trying to miniimize my time outside the house. Target here has been pretty pointless, but it's not been a particularly well run store for the past year or so and I guess this just compounds the problem. I've had some luck at Giant, Shoppers Warehouse and Safeway. There are about five others I've not checked out and I hope not to have to. Those mentioned are those closest to my house. I'm just outside of DC in Virginia. I might try Whole Foods, as others here have said they had good luck there.

[stevieb]

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@bandaidinmysalad wrote:

My husband went back to that grocery store a couple more times that week but not during senior hour or on a senior day.  The first shopping day he bought $300 worth of groceries and the 2nd trip $197 worth.  Big dfference in selection not only of food, meat and produce but in paper goods as well.  We will never again be suckered in to "we care about seniors" baloney.  Instead, we will go when WE feel like it! 

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Some neighbors have said too they think the senior hours are bogus. Too early for the store to have been restocked and no real advantage to them. Personally, I'd opt to go later in the evening when I've generally found them less crowded, but, of course, so many of them are curtailing hours.

[september]

@stevieb  I know your general area.  My daughter lives outside DC, in Maryland.  There is a Safeway almost across the street from her.  Good for basics, but she's been liking Whole Foods and an organic market called MOM's 

MOM's is more expensive, but has been well stocked. They even had toilet paper when all the other markets didn't.  

I went to MOM's when I visited her in mid February, and actually bought a lot of non perishable  food items for myself.  Still using some of those up.  We had no idea back then that we'd be in this place now!   

hoped to go back to the area to see the cherry trees blossoming, but things took a turn for the worse.  Next year, I'll be there 😊

[stevieb]

@september  We're really being toyed with... Usually, spring here is pretty iffy. This year, of course, because our options are limited and going out isn't exactly a great idea, we've had some very nice days. I have no idea how the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin looked this year, but we have a large copse of them nearby and they were very pretty. The problem with them is they last such a short time and then, to tell you the truth, they just make a huge mess... There are several Mom's throughout the area, though none of them really close by... Under normal circumstances, it sounds like a winner... There's one not too far away and if I get truly desperate for groceries or if things ever return to some level of sanity, I'll check it out...

[bunnygirlbrem]

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@bandaidinmysalad wrote:

@september that is the only reason why we have plenty to last us 3 weeks! 

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You bought $497 worth of groceries for only three weeks? :-)

[rnmom]

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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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Totally agree!