I had to run to the farm store in Ontario, OR (Hi 230RN!) and decided to stop at the Albertsons there. They were surprisingly well-stocked. I picked up the milk I couldn't get yesterday as well as some polish sausage for my breakfast scrambles (they had sausages, but most meats were in short supply). I forgot to look for *expletive deleted*ing eggs though!
They were out of TP and cleaning supplies and also out of all the varieties of your typical "wonder bread" type sliced breads. Comically, this Albertsons has a bakery and the fresh bread shelves were full. Sold out of potatoes.
Decided to try my little store (in an undisclosed location in a certain state) again for the potatoes. No go, but I picked up some tri-tip since my store still seems to stay well-stocked in good cuts of cow meat. The checker told me they are now not even getting potato deliveries and hoping maybe something comes in on Friday. It's cracking me up that the potato state is out of potatoes.
So what I'm learning is that even in the same general region, supplies can really vary by store. Meat at my store, but not at Albertsons; full shelves of milk at Albertsons, but empty milk shelves at my store. In fact the checker at my store told me her sister spent half the day yesterday driving to eight different stores to fill her shopping list .Her sister also did the same thing I did yesterday: showed up to Costco, saw the lines and said, "screw this!" and turned around.
