food rationing???

No shortages and no limits in northern suburbs outside Chicago.

No lines.

People in the Midwest are a civilized breed.

Im originally from Miyami. Not many folks down there are from Florida...much less America.

It’s no bueno in SouFla hermano.
Where? Here in Kane and McHenry counties, shelves are pretty bare.
 
LOL.......That’s why they put pop top cans on beans....millennials don’t have can openers.

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I went to Costco this morning for the 8am to 9am 60YO and over shopping hour. Got there about 8:10 to see a line the length of the building and then back again. Only waited about 10 minutes to get in as they were limited number of shoppers allowed in at one time. Cash registers had plexiglass set up between the customer and the cashier and employees directing customers to the cash registers one at a time for social distancing. They had all the food you wanted but no TP or paper towels. Crazy time!!!
Be safe,
Rob
 
Nw indiana no tp for about 3 week . Sams club allows one of each kind of meat. Going to store early morning havent been for about a weeks so well see how it is. Been very slim choosings
 
Where? Here in Kane and McHenry counties, shelves are pretty bare.

Lake and Cook. Jewel wide open. Marianos wide open. No limits. We bought 8 rib-eye and 4 NYorkers. Ground beef, ground turkey. All kinds of fruits and veggies.
 
I moved to Vegas from Alaska in 2014 and have plenty of food for now as we are use to stocking a two week supply in Alaska because of the earthquake danger. Here in Vegas theres no tp or paper towels and the shelves are pretty bare at our local Albertsons. What the hell is everyone doing with all that tp? If all else fails I will rob it out of my Motorhome and Sundancer neither are going anywhere.
 
Texas is absurd. Moved here a couple of years ago and quickly learned the locals view anything slightly out of the norm to be a potential Armageddon. Not kidding, it's absurd.

Fortunately having learned this the hard way - was ahead of the curve on paper items, cleaning supplies, food and such. I buy our meat from a butcher, there's been no issue there. Krogers/Albertsons/Sams Club/Costco.....forget about it. No paper products, no cleaning products, no macaroni and cheese, in fact no noodles for anything, no water, shelf after empty shelf everywhere. It's ridiculous.
 
Wife went to Publix today, store opened @8 am, she was there @ 7;45 and was # 21 inline. She got to the meat department, no chicken or pork, got two packages of hamburger and two packages of fillets. When she got to register they told her only one package of each kind of meats...The lady let her go but damn.... BTW she went to paper isle first and got last big package of TP. Have any of you guys experienced this yet? Sh#@ is getting real my friends.... Be safe out there. Lance
 
I still don't figure all the water hoarding what is your well or city water all about. Don't like the taste well buy a britta picture and guess what you have good tasting water. People are just stupid I would hate to see what will happen if this goes for a long time where our supply chain runs out of supplies, better have a gun and ammo thats for sure, I do I brought my 12ga Bear gun with me from Alaska with the bear rounds. I'm a Vietnam Vet and at 71 am not afraid to protect my family.
 
That's what I was telling my wife the other day, we'll have no shortage of meat. We just need to plant some TP trees and we'll be self sufficient. I see some snow, where you located Wanderer?
I am just north of Traverse City MI. After temps in the 50’s Wednesday and Thursday the snow is gone.
 
I went to Costco this morning for the 8am to 9am 60YO and over shopping hour. Got there about 8:10 to see a line the length of the building and then back again. Only waited about 10 minutes to get in as they were limited number of shoppers allowed in at one time. Cash registers had plexiglass set up between the customer and the cashier and employees directing customers to the cash registers one at a time for social distancing. They had all the food you wanted but no TP or paper towels. Crazy time!!!
Be safe,
Rob

The local supermarkets have no real early morning lines that we’ve found. Places I’ve personally been in several times in the early morning hours and was able to get everything but paper towels are:
Stew Leonard’s, Stop & Shop, Shoprite, Guintas’s. Had no problem buying TP in Guinta’s.
My wife has been in Target several times. She reports they’re well stocked with no lines or wait. She also bought a large pack of paper napkins there for us to use in place of paper towels.
My neighbor has been to Walmart and told me there were no early lines there and the shelves were in good shape. I just hate shopping in our local one so I’ve avoided it.
Please PM me if you need the exact locations of these stores.
Not sure how Far East out on LI you may be but if you’re having trouble getting basic supplies it may lay to come this way.Traffic doesn’t seem to be an issue these days.
 
Seem like it is a distribution problem. The shelves getting barer and barer here in the Mountains. No TP in stores for like 2 plus weeks. Pasta, canned goods running low too. No chicken at all last week. Had a few packs this week. Meats are slim pickings.
 
I'm on Long Island. I've been finding stock in stores variable.

Early last week I had heard that South shore stores were reportedly fully stocked, but my local Stop and Stop was mobbed and wiped out. I went to Uncle Giuseppie's (a higher-end Italian specially grocery store). 1st time they were fully stocked, store traffic was light fully staffed. No lines. Lots of TP, etc. 2nd time they were still fully staffed, but many shelves were bare: baking section (flour, baking powder, regular oatmeal), paper goods, canned section, frozen veg. Had plenty of pasta, fresh veg, milk, eggs, meat, etc. We found a restaurant distributor that has a cash and carry open to public; got a bunch of stuff there that was not available at Uncle G's: 25 lb bag of flour, baking powder, some other stuff. Industrial size rolls of TP. Prices incredibly reasonable too. (The 25lb flour was $10 where a 2 lb bag at Uncle G was $4.) They were trying to match or be below a normal retail store.

Went to Stop and Shop yesterday morning. It felt very calm, like people had settled down and were no longer panicked / hoarding. Shelves were fully stocked except for flour, TP, and...ice cream. They were limiting # of eggs, TP and perhaps meat you could buy per trip though.

Anyway, I think people's reaction to this situation is highly localized. I think, in my area anyway, people have what they think they need for a while and the stock has been replenished. Now, if my doltish neighbors would just stop congregating in the local park and stay the fuck home we could get over this thing faster.
 
Supermarkets here are well stocked except for TP and disinfectant cleaners. Not crowded at all.
 
ere in Jax area and Amelia there is now most of the time some kind of paper towels. I havent seen toilet paper in weeks.
We still have because we bought in bulk a few times a year. Now nothing.
I saw no eggs either but they have meats in some varieties. My wife is vegetarian.
I think is slowly getting better though.
 
The same people hoarding the maple syrup... :mad:
I was low on syrup and managed to get 2 gallon jug of good stuff for $30. It was normally $120, but was “expiring” this month. I figured, what the hell? Syrup doesn’t go bad!
 

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