Not to be the Ahole of the thread, but to all of you going to the store multiple times per week or weekly - why? Do you not have the means to "stock up"? Genuinely curious...
I'm not advocating hoarding by any means. There's 4 of us in my house, and we do Kroger online order/curbside pickup every 2 weeks right now, and haven't had to "make a quick run" in between. If I was going to go enter a store and shop for myself, my process would look like Fred's because my wife is a germaphobe, and I have two people in the house who are immunocompromised that I'm trying to shield.
On two separate outings last week (Thursday and Friday afternoons) I went to three different grocery stores and to the same dollar store twice. Let me explain.
1) I'm starting off from the premise that grocery shopping is just not all
that risky assuming the store is not packed. I think wearing an N95 masks, sanitizing my hands constantly (easily every 2-3 minutes while in the store), and staying 6+ feet away from others (more like 8-10) is protection enough.
2) Due to random-ish outages, I have found it impossible to go to one place one time and get everything that I want/need to stock. Until last Friday, ONLY the nearest dollar store ever had paper products. I had a two month stock of TP and two weeks of paper towels on March 11 (the night the NBA shut down). My initial thoughts were to be ready for a two-week quarantine ... which has stretched to a month so far and will for sure be a second month. It didn't occur to me in mid-February to stock stuff like that for, say, three months.
Last Thursday, it was eggs. Main local chain grocery had no eggs, so I went to the nearby budget grocery and score two dozen. Neither place had any kind of paper products so I stopped in the close-by dollar store just to see. Their paper doesn't come until Friday ... so no dice.
So on Friday ... I check the local WalMart Neighborhood Market out for paper products and hit paydirt (see above). Since I'm there, I also pick up a lot of items that I prefer to buy at WalMart because their price is always cheapest -- plus, it gets me ahead on trips out of the house. Since I was also on an Easter-candy/gift mission, I hit the main local chain grocery (slow afternoon, plenty of space) and the dollar store again.
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Well, that was a lot of writing. Ask anything ... it doesn't make a lot of sense, I don't guess. But it depends on the amount of risk you feel you're taking on. My thing is not being at the grocery -- I'm fine with that. My thing is more not being at a
crowded grocery where it gets hard to maintain my six-to-ten feet.