[Otter74]

I'd been putting off some grocery shopping for a few days and finally got to it after work yesterday. Whoops! #unexpectedconsequencesofprocrastination.

I was just doing ordinary shopping and since I do that on my bike I'm only ever buying what will fit in my pannier with overflow in my basket. Everything normal in the produce section of my nearby Whole Foods but then I get to the meat section (I wanted ground beef and pork) and I wonder, "WTF, am I in Venezuela??" (I grew up there from the mid 70s to early 80s, when it was a nice place to live) as the packaged-meat shelves are totally wiped out and about 2/3 of the meat counter has been cleared out. Plenty of choices still but stuff like bread and rice and tomatoes were nearly or completely cleaned out, bulk grains heavily so. I don't think I've ever seen empty shelves in a grocery store in the US before.

I'll walk to my neighborhood market after work today and see if I can pick up some of what I'm missing.