I've been in the stores and they are, except for a few items, pretty well stocked except for milk, paper products and Land O'Lake products (no butter and no deli cheese).
For a while there, there was little to no meat, although that's better now. So, where was the meat going when the restaurants were closed and selling less through take-out?
I've read two articles detailing how the dairies are dumping milk -- while there are mostly empty refrigerator cases in the stores. Why are they dumping milk? Well, the piece said it was a processor problem. ?? All of a sudden, the processors have their hands full, too much milk? Are some of 'em closed? Wouldn't they be considered 'essential' in the new categorization? Or did the cows go into overdrive for some bovine reason?
I'm not buying the "hoarding was/is the problem" (it's not customers who are dumping milk). I know some people never have enough, but I doubt there are enough of them to have continually emptied the meat cases everywhere.
The frozen food/meals cases are still roomy. Evidently, a whole lotta people would rather have ding! food than cook, so the stores are still catching up, which leaves me back at wondering where all the damn meat went since the restaurants aren't buying nearly as much so there should be/have been a glut instead of a dearth.
eta: There's no shortage of cops, though; they're out everywhere.
