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2020-07-11
"Well that settles it! I'm never grocery shopping on a Saturday!"
This past Saturday, I went to the craft store at the local strip mall with my mom. I needed yarn to knit some lace onto a project I have going and she, upon hearing this, called a single 93 year old lady we do the shopping for during the pandemic and asked if she would like any yarn since she knits too, and she did. It was 1 pm when we were there and the line to get into the local Loblaws grocery store was the longest I have ever seen it. I counted at least 14 families in line, which would mean it would likely take them as much 30 mins to an hour to get into the store. The other notable fact about the line is that it contained multiple children. Up until recently the policy was that only one individual per household was allowed in the store at a time and parents were not allowed to bring in children. As this policy has react parents and guardians, according to my mom who does our groceries, have started bringing their small children, sometimes in groups of 4 or 5. There are two sides to this of course, because firstly, many do not have the childcare to do others but the children often do not understand or observe social distancing in the stores. As we drove around to leave and saw the line my mom exclaimed "Well that settles it! If ever I was tempted I am not doing groceries on a Saturday! No matter how desperate we are! It is never that busy on weekdays!" -
2020-03-15
Costco shopping during Pandemic
I saw this scene in a video posted on Instagram about the line of people waiting for shopping in Costco Wholesale before the pandemic lockdown. I surprised by how people are seriously prepared and reacted to the Covid-19 and tried their best to be safe and prepared for the quarantine. -
2020-04-17
Shopping during Covid 19 crisis
During this special time, people need to wait in line outside the supermarkets. Guards will only let ten people in at once to avoid people getting infected. -
2020-03-25
There Are Two Types of People in this World
This is a funny meme poking fun at the toilet paper/paper towel hoarding vs the guy who just wants to drink his Corona beer. They are at the checkout line with their goods. -
2020-04-25
Queuing for essential hardware
Australians are permitted to leave home to shop for food and essentials. -
2020-03-05
Trader Joe's, Long Beach, CA
I took this photo to document the run on groceries that took place in California about a week before we received the official announcement to shelter-in-place. Many of the shelves at the local Trader Joe's in Long Beach were barren. Shoppers had cleaned the store out of pasta, rice, beans, soup, peanut butter, frozen vegetables, some vegetables (sweet potatoes) and other goods. It was the first tangible sign to me personally that a panic had set in our area. -
2020-03-19
Pandemic shopping
This is a photograph of the checkout lines in a Ralph's grocery store in Sherman Oaks, CA. It took 15 minutes to find a parking space in a multi-level parking structure, and the wait to pay for groceries was 45-60 minutes. The photo was taken just after the announcement that schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District would be closed; the volume of people shopping increased after that.