Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

Had I grabbed an extra 5lb bag of red potatoes last time I could have stretched time needing to go to store.
So I am stocked up on many things. Thursday April 2th and time to see if any changes/what changes at my
mega-mart. You need to read whatever signs are posted as this "social distancing" easily forgotten grocery
shopping. I never gave it a thought as I pushed my cart around the store. Light crowd very similar to a
Thursday afternoon "before it got weird". Bananas keep selling at a brisk rate but found a nice green bunch for
next CCBB. Vegggies/fruits look to be plentiful. But the meats can still be hit or miss. Found my ground turkey
and I mentioned 2-weeks ago that only chicken in the store were these organic air-chilled whole body chickens
selling for $17-19 a piece and no takers. I noticed they re-stickered these chickens with $1.99lb prices and
a great price but need to freeze or use soon. I bought 2. The number one on my shopping list was "Red Star active yeast"
and the first "UH-OH" of the day was there was no yeast of any kind in the 3ft blank shelf space. In 20 years of making
homemade bread I've never encountered "no yeast". No yeast or flour or sugar to buy shelves empty going on 2+weeks.
Ketchup out of stock. My first trip through the "bung fodder" isle looking for maybe a roll or two of paper towels.
Nothing but bare shelves. This shortage continues on. I'm still +12 rolls of TP but last roll of paper towels. Satisfied
with my selections I head to checkout stand where you need to read signs. New rule is you don't unload your cart of
stuff on the black belt until the customer in front is done with transaction. Old days you could have 2-3 customers stuff
separated by the "bar". Thankfully a cash register malfunction took me next door to a fresh cash register and no fresh
germs to be in. Next was a visit to a Cigar Store to get more smokes and the second "UH-OH" of the day as it was shut.
The other Cigar Store in town was open so that was good. All the bottle shoppes open in whatever form they are today.
So to re-cap 3+weeks into this big change to grocery shopping. Everything you go to store to get may not be there for
the first time in your life. This is taking more time to fix.

I mentioned the Mars square Uranus aspect now/all week and I read a headline that says "don't go grocery shopping next 2-weeks".
So what does that mean exactly. Think its a peak time for the only thing the population can do outside their home is get groceries.
Not exactly sure when they issue such orders as this presuming the whole population has a bulging pantry and freezer and prepared.
Think I've spent nearing a $1000 trying to stock-up on things in the last couple weeks just to take care of me. I admit to having
some vices that need to be stocked up as well which is very spendy. But on the food side of things trying to accumulate enough
chicken/ground turkey has taken 4 trips to the store since all this began to actually find it and buy it. So Sunday with the "warning"
in my head needed to make another run to try to find things not available before. 2nd time I grab a hand basket going into the store
thinking I'm only going to find so much. I was wrong in minutes as I traded the hand basket for a cart. First "UH-OH" was all the
bin coffee beans gone. Same for all the bins of nuts and candies. No "U-serve" with these items due to the virus. All that was on the
shelves was "ground" coffee packages. Grabbed one of those I never tried before. Still no yeast or flour or sugar but 1 package of
organic cane juice remained and snagged it. The bung-fodder isle did have something on the shelves this time as I snagged the last
6-pak of Brawny paper towels. TP was available in 4-packs one to a customer but supply not much left. Satisfied with my current
supply of food and extras it was to make sure I got 2-weeks worth of peanuts/critter crunch/birdseed and "Ace is the Place".
I done what I can to not attempt grocery shopping next 2-weeks. It took some serious thinking/doing and bucks.