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04-28-2020 11:24 AM
@stevieb, I'm giving you a standing ovation for your post.
But might I add, I think we are almost 5 months into this at this point aren't we?
04-28-2020 11:25 AM
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@SharkE wrote:I only have 2 stores to shop from United Supermarkets and Walmart
Forget Walmart. We have a Hispanic market in Amarillo, Tx called Fiesta Market , no shortage there. Seek out off the wall stores. Health food stores, also. Drug Emporium we have one in town you'd be amazed at the stuff they carry I can even get potato flour for my bread there.
You have to hit the bricks.
Oh yea, at the same time they're telling us to 'stay home'... Which is it... ?
I think we're being told to stay home except for going out for essentials, like food.
@QueenDanceALot Uh huh... I get that, but out is out and if we have to go to multiple stores simply trying to find essentials that's just more potential exposure when really, had there been competent management of this crisis a lot of this would have been unnecessary... In my view, too much was left to the states and to the marketplace to manage, it didn't work out so well and it's not getting any better.
Well, we all have to make our decision about how many places we are willing to go to to find the food we need. I have "settled" for some things rather than enter another store. Hasn't been that big a deal to me.
If I say any more here I will get into a realm that would probably be considered political so I will just move along.......................
@QueenDanceALot I suspect most of us are 'settling' often and about a lot of things. I know I have been, still am, and am making every effort to minimize exposure, but let's face it, it's getting old... As for the 'political', yes, I too will leave that alone...
04-28-2020 11:28 AM
@Lipstickdiva wrote:@stevieb, I'm giving you a standing ovation for your post.
But might I add, I think we are almost 5 months into this at this point aren't we?
@Lipstickdiva Yet another side effect of all this joy is yes, I've lost track of time...
04-28-2020 11:29 AM
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@SharkE wrote:I only have 2 stores to shop from United Supermarkets and Walmart
Forget Walmart. We have a Hispanic market in Amarillo, Tx called Fiesta Market , no shortage there. Seek out off the wall stores. Health food stores, also. Drug Emporium we have one in town you'd be amazed at the stuff they carry I can even get potato flour for my bread there.
You have to hit the bricks.
Oh yea, at the same time they're telling us to 'stay home'... Which is it... ?
I think we're being told to stay home except for going out for essentials, like food.
@QueenDanceALot Uh huh... I get that, but out is out and if we have to go to multiple stores simply trying to find essentials that's just more potential exposure when really, had there been competent management of this crisis a lot of this would have been unnecessary... In my view, too much was left to the states and to the marketplace to manage, it didn't work out so well and it's not getting any better.
Well, we all have to make our decision about how many places we are willing to go to to find the food we need. I have "settled" for some things rather than enter another store. Hasn't been that big a deal to me.
If I say any more here I will get into a realm that would probably be considered political so I will just move along.......................
@QueenDanceALot I suspect most of us are 'settling' often and about a lot of things. I know I have been, still am, and am making every effort to minimize exposure, but let's face it, it's getting old... As for the 'political', yes, I too will leave that alone...
Yeah, it's getting old. But I'm thinking we ain't seen nuthin yet.
I'm more concerned with making a living right now and going forward than I am with finding exactly what I want at the grocery. Currently I'm fine with having enough to eat and a roof over my head.
YMMV. Guess it depends on where you're sitting.
04-28-2020 11:38 AM - edited 04-28-2020 11:45 AM
If this "discussion" thread ends by being poofed, I'd like it to be remembered as starting with a real (not fake) news story about meat processing plants closing due to employee COVID virus illness, and the resulting potential effect on our nation's food chain.
Nothing more......nothing less. Just some timely news, gathered by a well-recognized media organization staffed and written by trained journalists.
04-28-2020 11:42 AM
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@SharkE wrote:I only have 2 stores to shop from United Supermarkets and Walmart
Forget Walmart. We have a Hispanic market in Amarillo, Tx called Fiesta Market , no shortage there. Seek out off the wall stores. Health food stores, also. Drug Emporium we have one in town you'd be amazed at the stuff they carry I can even get potato flour for my bread there.
You have to hit the bricks.
Oh yea, at the same time they're telling us to 'stay home'... Which is it... ?
I think we're being told to stay home except for going out for essentials, like food.
@QueenDanceALot Uh huh... I get that, but out is out and if we have to go to multiple stores simply trying to find essentials that's just more potential exposure when really, had there been competent management of this crisis a lot of this would have been unnecessary... In my view, too much was left to the states and to the marketplace to manage, it didn't work out so well and it's not getting any better.
Well, we all have to make our decision about how many places we are willing to go to to find the food we need. I have "settled" for some things rather than enter another store. Hasn't been that big a deal to me.
If I say any more here I will get into a realm that would probably be considered political so I will just move along.......................
@QueenDanceALot I suspect most of us are 'settling' often and about a lot of things. I know I have been, still am, and am making every effort to minimize exposure, but let's face it, it's getting old... As for the 'political', yes, I too will leave that alone...
Yeah, it's getting old. But I'm thinking we ain't seen nuthin yet.
I'm more concerned with making a living right now and going forward than I am with finding exactly what I want at the grocery. Currently I'm fine with having enough to eat and a roof over my head.
YMMV. Guess it depends on where you're sitting.
@QueenDanceALot And where you happen to live... The major metro areas and their suburbs, it would seem, are enjoying this little exercise to the fullest... I think we're all grateful for what we have, I know I am, but along with the uncertainty about the very real threat, there's the financial uncertainty and the uncertainty of not knowing where our next bag of groceries might be coming from, if it'll be coming, whether our loved ones, including our pets, will have enough to eat and how long we can sustain this situation... There are times, increasingly so, when it all gets to be a bit overwhelming...
04-28-2020 11:44 AM
@noodleann wrote:
@stevieb wrote:Before this thread disappears and it will... let me just say, to me, this isn't about the more noble among us who can find ways to 'tough it out' and to 'make do'... It's not about how much meat any given one of us might or might not eat anyway and hence how impacted (or not) we might be by this latest little lump of excrement in the punch bowl... It isn't about who has a local farmer and who doesn't or who can get by on beans, rice and cereal (assuming they can find them) and who can't... It's about the reality that we're now three months into this and nothing is being effectively managed... On top of the threat of illness or worse, its one freaking kick in the seat after another... Grocery store shelves haven't been stocked for the duration of this situation... There hasn't been enough of anything to go around and now, thanks once again to poor management. to states making their own calls about too many things and to supply chain managers left to their own devices we'll enjoy yet another deprivation, with moronic neighbors hording and retailers gouging prices... Are we having fun yet?
There's been a stunning lack of leadership, top to bottom, and poor-quality information coming from what people think of as high-quality sources. The lack of good info and the amount of conflicting info and useless, misleading static on the science and medicine, on the trillions of dollars being thrown around, and on the supply chain issues, to name the three biggest ones in my view, fosters anxiety and lack of confidence.
When the so-called authorities behave capriciously, we really are left to our own devices. It's every person for him/her self in securing survival, because no one else is looking out for us. It's time to dump the canard that we're all in this together, because we're not. The fracturing of actual and psychological community does not create a bedrock for pulling together and getting out of this mess. It's almost the inverse of the spirit that seems to have guided this country on the home front through WWII and its aftermath.
@noodleann Amen... Shall we form a ticket...?
04-28-2020 02:03 PM
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@SharkE wrote:I only have 2 stores to shop from United Supermarkets and Walmart
Forget Walmart. We have a Hispanic market in Amarillo, Tx called Fiesta Market , no shortage there. Seek out off the wall stores. Health food stores, also. Drug Emporium we have one in town you'd be amazed at the stuff they carry I can even get potato flour for my bread there.
You have to hit the bricks.
Oh yea, at the same time they're telling us to 'stay home'... Which is it... ?
I think we're being told to stay home except for going out for essentials, like food.
@QueenDanceALot Uh huh... I get that, but out is out and if we have to go to multiple stores simply trying to find essentials that's just more potential exposure when really, had there been competent management of this crisis a lot of this would have been unnecessary... In my view, too much was left to the states and to the marketplace to manage, it didn't work out so well and it's not getting any better.
Well, we all have to make our decision about how many places we are willing to go to to find the food we need. I have "settled" for some things rather than enter another store. Hasn't been that big a deal to me.
If I say any more here I will get into a realm that would probably be considered political so I will just move along.......................
@QueenDanceALot I suspect most of us are 'settling' often and about a lot of things. I know I have been, still am, and am making every effort to minimize exposure, but let's face it, it's getting old... As for the 'political', yes, I too will leave that alone...
Yeah, it's getting old. But I'm thinking we ain't seen nuthin yet.
I'm more concerned with making a living right now and going forward than I am with finding exactly what I want at the grocery. Currently I'm fine with having enough to eat and a roof over my head.
YMMV. Guess it depends on where you're sitting.
@QueenDanceALot And where you happen to live... The major metro areas and their suburbs, it would seem, are enjoying this little exercise to the fullest... I think we're all grateful for what we have, I know I am, but along with the uncertainty about the very real threat, there's the financial uncertainty and the uncertainty of not knowing where our next bag of groceries might be coming from, if it'll be coming, whether our loved ones, including our pets, will have enough to eat and how long we can sustain this situation... There are times, increasingly so, when it all gets to be a bit overwhelming...
I'm not unfamiliar with feeling overwhelmed.
04-28-2020 02:07 PM
and yet another thread on the meat "crisis"....
04-28-2020 04:51 PM
At BJ's this morning. No pork, chicken, hamburger, limited beef. No tuna, No DD K cups. Very poor selection of fruits and vegetables. Limited whole pieces of cheese. This was my first time out. I usually use Instacart. Plenty of TP though. It was an eye opener for sure.
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