Confrontation in aisle nine...

Reading that grocery stores all have limited operating hours, the local 24 hour Walmart is down to 7am - 8:30pm so my plan of beating the crowds and shopping at 4am didn't work out.

I was there a few minutes before 7am and a line of 30 people with carts were already waiting out front. We entered the store at a normal pace and all looked normal.

No empty bins on the breads, cookies and groceries.
Knowing what happened on previous visits, I headed straight for the paper goods for paper plates and tissues.

On the way, I glanced over to the wall where the meats are... sorry, where the meats were. It looked like they did when the last hurricane came through. Empty.

Workers were opening boxes of frozen fish and filling island refrigeration units.

I've been busy the last few weeks with projects and this morning was my first attempt at weekly shopping.

I veered over to the meats and the only thing there was lean ground chicken that I routinely buy weekly. Lucky for me and it became a priority as people were picking so fast, If I waited more than a minute, all would be gone.

Back toward the paper products I could hear a fight had broken out. Two women were hoarding as they collectively had more than 9 twelve-packs of toilet tissue in their carts and it was causing trouble. Another woman said "Lady, how could you possibly need 60 rolls of toilet paper. Leave some for the others!"

I'm faulting the store on this for not putting up signs limiting purchases of 2 packs.

I got paper plates, bowls and tissues without having to fight for it.

While I did read about shortages of eggs and milk, it wasn't an issue at that store.

Lysol products or rubbing alcohol? Forgetaboutit...