Last night, Walmart.com "stunned" both of our credit cards (they got locked) when I tried to order groceries for pickup from their website. So I ventured to the local grocery store during "Senior hour" right after a snowstorm, wearing two balaclavas, a dust mask under them, and black ski goggles - plus rubber gloves under thick cloth gloves. It was sparsely populated with shoppers, but I hadn't brought enough cash (I was a bit shell-shocked from the Walmart.com debacle that kept me busy all night), and had to abandon part of a cart of groceries to be restocked. I'm angry at myself for not bringing more money, at the credit card companies for freezing our cards for no good reason, and at Walmart for screwing up implementation of their grocery pickup and delivery (full up) system. I'm also not thrilled with the young cashier who kept rushing over to me to slap 'PAID" stickers on every large item in the cart. I had to ask her to stay away from me - right before having to ask her to take one item off the automated checkout.
There was no toilet paper or paper toweling at all, and maybe 1/4 as much lettuce as usual, despite the store just having opened for the day, after supposedly being restocked overnight. There was barely any pasta despite a limit of 4, and not much flour despite a limit of two per customer. I have to make my own bread and rolls for my low sodium diet, so I've been chasing flour all over the internet. I've managed to accumulate enough of it, at an approximate cost of $120. The reality at the stores isn't matching up with what we are being told by grocery organization reps on television. Now I get to spend another 14 days waiting to see if I'm infected. I also get to 'decontaminate' a trunkload of groceries tomorrow. And I'm one of the lucky ones who has most of what they need for a month or two...
There was no toilet paper or paper toweling at all, and maybe 1/4 as much lettuce as usual, despite the store just having opened for the day, after supposedly being restocked overnight. There was barely any pasta despite a limit of 4, and not much flour despite a limit of two per customer. I have to make my own bread and rolls for my low sodium diet, so I've been chasing flour all over the internet. I've managed to accumulate enough of it, at an approximate cost of $120. The reality at the stores isn't matching up with what we are being told by grocery organization reps on television. Now I get to spend another 14 days waiting to see if I'm infected. I also get to 'decontaminate' a trunkload of groceries tomorrow. And I'm one of the lucky ones who has most of what they need for a month or two...