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Yes, they have no bananas
By adamg on Sat, 01/06/2024 - 3:03pm
The Dedham Stop & Shop has plenty of milk, eggs and bread, but almost no bananas. Also, the checkout line stretches all the way to the end of the store and then bends back into the bread aisle.
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People seem to forget that it
People seem to forget that it is not Armageddon, just our first "plowable" snow, which will be plowed! And then they can drive to the store again!
One thing to consider when a
One thing to consider when a storm hits on a Sunday is that it isn't just your storm shoppers shopping, you get all the Sunday shoppers on a Saturday in addition to all the Saturday shoppers. The two biggest shopping days of the week combined with the fact it's the first week of the month which means benefits and other payments got released to many.
I needed to pick a few items up but one store was out of stock so I went to a few places this morning (pro tip, shop st places with 12 item or less lines and grab a basket!) I noticed that often weird stuff was out of stock and could see them trying to restock (lettuce at Market Basket for instance.) It's not that they ran out, it's that they had two days of shopping at once, which causes a strain on the supply side with produce. I noticed that boxed and canned items were pretty immune.
Most likely the case
It's a lot of the reason stores get busy the day before Thanksgiving and Xmas. It's not just that people are buying more food for the holidays, but that half of the people who would normally shop on the holiday shop over the couple of days before. So that adds, say, 25% to the volume, and I assume grocery stores see pretty steady volumes over time because, you know, people eat.
Kind of like what happened during the pandemic with things like TP and flour. These are institutions which are set up to accommodate a pretty steady stream of people, one moderate perturbation can push them over capacity. (I'd say that about highways or the T, but those seem to break on their own.)
I read a great article during
I read a great article during the pandemic about toilet paper and they cited exactly what you just said. They also talked about how there was a tour of go in the form of industrial tp meant for stores , offices and public bathrooms. It wasn't a shortage of toilet paper but a run on it combined with supply being locked up in a zone where it was not usable. After reading that article I went online and bought a big box of toilet paper from a commercial supply outfit despite not being able to find a single roll anywhere near my house.
there were videos on youtube
demonstrating how to use a portable drill to remove an entire roll of TP in a commercial setting, and transfer to an attached roll for home use.
Same as in East Providence on
Same as in East Providence on Thursday night! They said the banana truck hadn't arrived.
Big Storms moving West to East
These mess up our supply chain. We may not have gotten overrun by the storms yet, but trucking has been held up across the region and country.
I heard once
Every day, a ship with bananas comes in to Cork, Ireland. If the ship cannot unload, there will be no bananas in the country.
Don’t know if it’s actually true, but it’s a great story.
Cork people
love to tell stories like that, because people in the rest of Ireland always fall for it.
There are always bananas in
There are always bananas in the banana stand
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I’d like a banana
I got no bananas!
https://youtu.be/nT7joWaT_Y8?feature=shared
Hopes MIT's Banana Lounge is well-supplied
What the subject says. If unfamilar, this page reprints the Globe article about the 24/7 lounge at MIT where you can always get a banana (although not mentioned in the article, it's my understanding that on April Fool's Day you get an orange; orange you glad I didn't say banana?). https://1962.alumclass.mit.edu/s/1314/bp19/interior.aspx
Banana French Toast
Must be an influencer going viral with Banana French Toast
that is bananas
n/t