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Errands  today.

Aldi's, pepBoys, Advance Auto., Dollartree. Goodwill for the first time in several months.

 

All places have signs on doors for people to wear masks.  It's rare to see people not wearing them.

 

Advance auto actually the air inside was tolerable.  It didn't have the high toxic petroleum smell that Auto parts and tire dealers often have.  I really don't know how people can work in that.   But pepboys was stinky inside and they didn't have the part I was looking for.

 

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Aldis I had to wait 10- 15 minutes outside in 95 degree full sun which was OK for getting my vit D.  Everything for the most part was stocked. 

Still no Baking Soda.  Limits on some things like those 12 packs of t.p. from last week, only can buy 1.  There were only a few left and there were no other t.p. products.

Prices for some things actually were reduced.  The Kiwi which is typically 3.99 for 6 was 3.50.  The package of pre-sliced sandwich "Black Forest" ham which is typically $3.19 was $2.95

 

Other stuff like raspberries, green onions, and bananas seem to be unchanged.

 

Got a bag of frozen onion rings for $2.19   and 4 lb.s sugar $1.73

 

One thing I've noticed that's gone up over the last month are green peppers.  I'm growing my own so, whateve...

 

 

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Dollartree- They are limiting how many people in the store, but i didn't have to wait.  Noticed that the Marshall's (don't know what they sell) next door was open and relatively busy.

Spent like $10 on various things.   

 

Got a newly REDUCED size  Clorox bleach?  Really?  It was already small before.  It went from 16 oz to 11 oz.  This will typically last for me 6 months.

It still uses the same cap.  Am I the only one thinking this toxic chemical is in an adorable mini-bottle size?   lol

 

They did have the single rolls of t.p. that are Scott equiv.  Didn't buy any.   Got a mini bottle of Gain detergent.

Bought cough syrup which I use sparingly and it usually lasts 6 months.  I swear by this stuff for keeping me from ever getting sick.  When I went through the check out the computer has the cashier ask if the purchaser is at least 18, which is a new thing.  I was like 'yeah, I'm just a smidge past 18'. 

 

The women behind me was like there are some people buying that to use in making meth.  

What?   ugggh.  disgusting.  I guess it's better than the anti-freeze, and radio active isotopes, and gasoline I heard they used.   .... disgusting.

 

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Goodwill- There was a woman inside the door ready to limit how many could enter the store but I didn't have to wait. There weren't that many people there.

 

Found a lamp and a Eureka vacuum.

 

 

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I've just never heard of condensed bleach. 

I remember when they condensed the detergents in the 80s.  There was a time they recommended 2 cups of Tide for a large load of laundry in a top loader.

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WOW!

I ventured out to get my hair cut Friday and stopped in at the supermarket in the same plaza; Hannaford. Generally the only time I go there is for corned beef briskets around St Pat's Day because for some reason they're the cheapest, and if I need to run in for 1 or 2 items. They're on the expensive side... same or maybe a little more so than Roche Bros. and Stop and Shop.

I thought to see what was going on in the meat area. Lo and behold... pork for $0.99/#!!! They had sirloin chops, rib end chops, and country-style ribs all for that price! With the current climate I couldn't believe it! You bet I grabbed some for the freezer! I thought of it later- I could have grabbed some, stripped the bones and had ground pork for a little more than $1/# and had bones for a slow-simmered sauce!

As a comparison for Hannaford's pricing, boneless rib-eyes were $19/# there where everyone else seems to be in the $11-14 range.

Chuck

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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">$12.99 for a pound of sirloin, and ground at that. Lucy & Ethyl were selling sirloin steak for 79 cents a pound, and at a profit. Talk about inflation...</span>

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Glad you're

feeling good Joe! I happened accross Sean A806 on instagram. He lives near Palm Springs. I said thats near twintub dexter. He replied he hadn't heard crickets in here from you. He posts lots of classic car pics. He doen't chime here often lately.
Our kids bought ten pounds of ground round from a gourmet market week before last at the high dollar. Upon opening it up to divide into smaller freezer bags, it smelled foul, like horse manure. The store was reluctant to exchange it. Unbeleivable. Some Italian's make ashamed I am one.
 
Instacart Anyone?

I was looking for Kemp's Frozen Yogurt (because where I buy it does not have it anymore) on Google and Instacart came up. I have never used before but am trying this time for 4 cartons to be delivered between 9 and 10 tomorrow morning. A friend a year older than I uses it for all of her grocery shopping.
 
I Just Got Thru Putting Away the Groceries

and its 8:54am as I begin to write this.  I left the house at 7:45am and drove the 5 miles to Target going the back way to help charge the battery.  

 

The store opened at 8:00 am and I had all my groceries checked out and in the trunk by 8:21 am.  I had a full shopping cart too.  The score of the day was the purchase of three 1 lb pkgs of extra lean ground beef for .69 cents each and they had $5.00 off coupons.  The expiration date for use or freezing is 7-9, so in the freezer they went.  For $2.07 I got 3 lbs of 93% lean ground beef, and Target’s lean ground beef is the best I’ve ever purchased anywhere, consistently fresh, lean and tastes good too.

 

I haven’t filled up with gas since 3-5-20, over 4 mo ago and when I got back home the trip odometer had 219 miles showing and I still have 1/3 of a tank left.  This is unbelievable!  I may even make it to the 5 mo. mark on one tankful at this rate!

 

Target has discontinued the Senior hour on Wednesdays, but the checker told me that if I come any day at 8:00 am the store isn’t crowded.  What a blessing!  And they had just about everything stocked too.  I can make it thru this pandemic OK if this keeps up.  I strive to stay away from people as much as possible to remain uninfected.

 

Eddie
 
What a difference a week makes.  Last week, HEB's web site had a tremendous variety of whole wheat pasta and I could order as much as I wanted.  This morning, only one option for WW pasta.  The runner even called me and told me almost all pasta of any kind was gone and the same with dried beans.  And he said they are continuing to intensely restock the shelves.  
 
 

 

Unreliable restocking. Yes, that is certainly an issue. Today's order from Instacart (Stop&Shop), out of 25 items ordered, 8 were "of of stock".

It happens a lot on Amazon Fresh as well but at least it shows you when an item is not available before you order. And these are common, everyday items. Here we are 7 months later and this crap is still going on. Just goes to show how fragile our food distribution system really is.
 
I’ve never found online grocery shopping to be reliable.  Fifteen years ago I tried doing online shopping at Safeway three times in a row.  It was very time consuming going thru screen after screen, specifying the size and amounts of meat and produce I wanted and checking to be sure the items were in stock.

 

Each and every time I received my order there was always at least one or two items that weren’t there, stating they were out of stock.  And the expiration dates on the dairy products were always close to their final sale date.  The weight of the meat packages was always over what I’d specified and the produce was always a higher weight than I’d requested.

 

So, I still had to go to the store anyway, and guess what, those items that they claimed were out of stock were always there when I arrived about 30 mins after I’d received my order.  I think that the store shoppers just didn’t give a sh*t, if it took too much time to locate an item they just said it was out of stock.

 

After these experiences I gave up on online grocery shopping.  Four months ago when this mess all began I tried to order online from many different sources.  Each one never had most of what I wanted, so the hell with them.  I’ll just go to the store either during Senior Hour or the first hour of opening, with a list in hand and get the hell out ASAP.

 

Eddie
 
I do my selections via the HEB web site.  When I put a selected item in my "list", the system will notify me if there is none in stock.  I'm very methodical, I don't select generic item descriptions, I go through and enter the item description as it states item by item because I have specific items I need.  Also, HEB is very good about removing items from their web site when items are no longer in stock.  
 

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