Grocery Stores limiting food purchases

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Limited purchase items

Wegmans



All items are now a limit of two per purchase.



Baby



Baby Wipes

Baby Medication

Diapers

Bakery



Packaged Breads & Rolls

Cleaning Supplies



Bleach, Laundry Boosters & Pre-treaters

Disinfecting Wipes

Household Cleaners

Dairy



Eggs

Milk, Buttermilk & Milk Substitutes

Frozen



Frozen Vegetables

Grocery



Boxed Cereal

Canned & Packaged Fruit

Canned Meat & Beans

Canned Seafood

Canned Vegetables

Flour or Corn Meal

Hot Cereal

Juices

Packaged Dinners & Entrees

Packaged Milk

Packaged Pasta

Pasta Sauce

Peanut & Other Nut Butters

Rice

Soups

Sugar, Sugar Substitutes & Corn Syrup

Water

Health & Wellness



Allergy Medications

Anti-Bacterial Hand Soaps

Blood Pressure Monitors, Health Trackers, Thermometers, Vaporizers, and Humidifiers

Cold & Sinus Items

Cotton Balls, Pads & Swabs

Feminine Hygiene Items

First Aid Items

Hand Sanitizers

Herbal Supplements

Homeopathic Items

Incontinence Items

Mouthwash

Nutritional Meal Replacements (bars, shakes, powders)

Pain Relief Items

Shaving Items

Sports Medicine Items

Stomach Relief Items

Toothpaste

Vitamins

Meat



Bacon

Beef

Chicken

Ground Meat

Ham

Lamb

Pork

Sausage

Turkey

Veal

Paper Products



Bath Tissue

Facial Tissue

Paper Towels

Produce



Bananas (bunches)

Grapes

Carrots

Potatoes

TOPS Friendly Markets



The bulk items section will be temporarily closed. All items listed below are two per customer unless otherwise indicated:



Disinfectant Wipes

Disinfectant Sprays

Hand Sanitizer

Bath Tissue, 18 roll pack or larger

Cleansing Flushable Wipes

Gallons of Water- four per customer (this includes spring, distilled, purified or 3-pack gallon water)

Multipack water

Eggs

Milk

Commercial breads and rolls

Big Pack Chicken

All packages of ground beef

Flour- One package per customer

Sugar- One package per customer

Peanut Butter

Oatmeal

Diapers

Baby wipes

Cough and cold medicine

Laundry detergent

Liquid dish detergent

Facial tissue

Rubbing alcohol

Frozen vegetables – Four bags

Cereal - Four boxes

Pasta sauce – Four jars

Tops Stick Butter Quarters 16 oz.

Price Rite



The following items are limited to two per order:



Disinfectant cleaners and wipes

Paper products

Bar and liquid soaps

Cough/cold/flu over-the-counter medicines

Fresh meat

First-aid supplies

Bottled water

Eggs

Target



Target has not released a full list of limited purchase items, but has indicated that it will limit purchases on hand sanitizer, toilet paper, disinfectant wipes, bottled water and more.



Walmart



Walmart has empowered their store managers to use their discretion on limiting high-demand items.



Price Chopper



On March 14, Price Chopper Supermarkets released a statement saying that they will begin to implement purchasing limits on certain high-demand items.



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Now is when grocery shopping will be interesting.

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I have a feeling Martial Law will have to be declared.

[Clipper]

I don't think we will see martial law. I do think that supermarkets need to put limits on just about anything in the store that is being bought in large enough quantities to cause a supply shortage. The stores are not going to close, the farmers are not going to stop producing, the truckers are not going to stop delivering. There WILL be groceries in the market next, week, next month, or for however long this quarantine and social distancing thing goes on. The bakeries are baking bread every day. Why the hell are people buying every loaf that they can fit into their cart?

Common sense has to come into play at some point if we are ever going to get back to being able to readily buy the consumer goods that we all use. If people are not mature or smart enough to realize that, then I would guess that either the supplier or the government needs to step up and temporarily monitor and control the situation. During WWII there was rationing of food and other necessary items out of necessity to support the war effort and insure that troops were supplied with materials critical to fighting the war. It was not martial law. It was a program set up with ration stamps and limits on things like meat, sugar, butter, and gasoline, for a few examples. When it no longer was necessary, it was suspended and terminated. If sanity cannot rule, I don't care if we DO ration some items. I would rather be able to buy two rolls of toilet paper than none. I would rather buy 2 lbs of hamburger than to go to the store and find that some individual had bought 50lbs and that there was NONE available for anyone else.

It has now become an issue of gouging. People are buying up and hoarding hamburger, pork, and other meats, so some stores have found it an opportunity to raise the price of chicken, which by the way was also in short supply due to hoarding. I saw a facebook post this morning about a woman that wanted chicken breasts but refused to buy them because the package that normally cost 7 o 8 bucks was $14 and change for three moderately sized chicken breasts, probably less than 3 pounds total.

[Ralph]

   People really have lost their minds.   I have put more product on the shelves in the past week then I ever have, but it disappears faster than I stock it.  No meats, no frozen potato products, no veggies, pasta, rice, etc.  It's all gone by the end of the night, if not before.

  We blew through most of the breads last night, they put what little was left out today and it was gone by the time I went on break at 4PM.

   If people shopped simply the way they always have, there would be plenty for everyone.  But no, greed took over and it seems to be relentless.

[BHU]

Mar 22, 2020 23:55:27 GMT -5 Ralph said:

   People really have lost their minds.   I have put more product on the shelves in the past week then I ever have, but it disappears faster than I stock it.  No meats, no frozen potato products, no veggies, pasta, rice, etc.  It's all gone by the end of the night, if not before.

  We blew through most of the breads last night, they put what little was left out today and it was gone by the time I went on break at 4PM.

   If people shopped simply the way they always have, there would be plenty for everyone.  But no, greed took over and it seems to be relentless.

Don't people get their SNAP benefits next week? Walmart & other stores will be mobbed if they do. 

[Ralph]

   Yes they do BHU!  And it's not going to be pretty.