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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
I found out last night via FB of all places that my daughter was down to her last tin of baby milk and had been searching for the last five days for more without any success.
I rang her and said her mam and I would go to the local supermarket first thing in the morning and she played merry hell about us exposing ourselves in public.
Of all the contacts on FB one who was my wifes ex-apprentice over twenty years ago responded out of the blue an hour later stating she had sourced four tins from personal contacts she knew.
We arrived at the supermarket at 7.30am and I was initially surprised to see people exiting the supermarket with toilet rolls (the supermarket has a restriction of a maximum of three items of the same nature and I wholeheartedly support that position).
We took a trolley each and quickly realised we had just missed the exhaustion of TP stocks by a matter of minutes which was no real issue because between my daughters and our household we have sufficient for now.
We continued shopping and managed to get tinned food, frozen fish and fishfingers, soap, paracetamol, pizzas, coffee etc. etc.
Most importantly though, there was an abundant stock of the precious commodity (to us anyway) of baby milk so we promptly gathered three tins each meaning our granddaughter Lucia should now have enough milk to last until she is on solids.
It has been a good day thus far.
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Sounds like you made a good score on the baby milk...
Here, locally, the availability is somewhat hit and miss. What is in short supply in one place can be in stock just a block or two over; there seems to be no rhyme or reason; I have found avoiding the big chains and box stores and, instead, going to the smaller, neighborhood places yields better results; also, the ethnic stores (here that would be Hispanic and Asian) can very often be a good source for the odd commodity. I am somewhat ironically fortunate since my recent health difficulties have instilled a need to stock up as much as possible on a regular basis; following the whatever 'bug' it was that laid me out for over a month, I replenished my stores and have kept them topped off since, so I can weather a fair period of reduced stocks in the markets...
Hope you and yours can continue to weather the times well...
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