Day 10: Analog Grocery
This post was supposed to be titled ClickList Order #2, but when I put it in on Saturday afternoon, it spit back the first available time as the following Tuesday evening. We’d run out of milk on Friday and half-and-half on Thursday – a milk-fat emergency.
Clicklist is my favorite budget line item. I’ve barely been in Kroger since its advent and not once for a full grocery run. I had to check store hours to see when the store opened on Sundays, and when I rolled into the parking lot at 7:15, it seemed full.
“What’s everyone doing at Kroger during my grocery shopping time?” a friend called from across the chip aisle.
I remembered then that I shouldn’t be surprised to see her because she shops for kale before church – back when church happened at a time and place – and blue tortilla chips, apparently. She plucked a bag from the left shelf while I loaded my cart with standard-issue wavy potato chips (BOGO!) from the right.
Some areas were untouched – the produce aisle, mainly, except for cauliflower, again – and others, quite apocalyptic* – places where powdered milk used to reside. My friend told me there had been a run on chicken, but I hadn’t trolled that aisle. I was here for the dairy.
Butter – $1.99! Half-and-half and whipping cream – here for the taking! Whole organic milk was harder to find, but I finally snagged some in the bottom left shelf of the 4th refrigerated case to the left. There were 3 gallons. I took 2 and then circled back from the hand soap aisle (one dispenser of Method hand soap left) to take Gallon #3 because I’m back to making Crock-Pot yogurt.
“We only allow 2 gallons of dairy, ma’am,” Check-Out Guy said.
I don’t like being ma’amed. I explained that my third gallon of milk meant I wasn’t ravaging the ghostly yogurt aisle.
It didn’t work. He took Gallon #3. It wasn’t until I got home that I realized Check-Out Guy also took my buttermilk. Bread baking foiled, again!
*In continuance of “Beth’s Sociological Understanding of Grocery Shopping Choices in COVID Quarantine – Week 2,” apocalyptic shelves included chicken (hearsay), flour, sugar, pasta, rice, beans, toilet paper, and paper towels – except for the brand, Sparkle. There was still plenty of ice cream. People make no sense.
Your grocery wins and losses this week?
