1) With tales of supermarket chaos and panic buying sizzling in ears, I left the house a bit before 6:30 this morning to shop at ye Ryche Brythyrs at ye Dywntyne Crossynge. So of course I was the first person through the door when the nice man opened it at 7 AM; the only other customer waiting stopped to talk to him.
1a) I chose this supermarket because fewer people live downtown than in, say, Back Bay.
2) While I didn’t quite have the place to myself, shopping was very easy and I found 95% of what was on my list. Mostly I had to dodge employees toting room-sized boxes of foodstuffs on dollies throughout the store to restock.
3) The most notable gap on the shelves was bread, though they still had quite a bit. Peanut butter, crackers. Otherwise the place seemed, to me, stocked as usual.
3a) I wasn’t looking for paper goods, thank goodness!
4) They did have a display of pies out for Pi Day, but I took a pass.
4a) Alas, they didn’t have any green carnations for St. Patrick’s Day!
5) Home by 8 AM! Not a bad 90-minute excursion to start the day. But having slept badly and gotten up at 5 AM, I know I am going to crash this afternoon.