Amy Lu's View

I am very happy and thankful to report that I had a successful Target run today, all things considered.

Admittedly, I was not hoping to buy toilet paper. I didn’t even look to see if they had toilet paper out of curiousity, as I was in a bit of a time crunch and making a run on my late lunch break.

We are pretty secure in our toilet paper supply. We were starting to get a little nervous earlier in the week until Chad found some at Target on Tuesday. Then today we got our Grove natural household subscription order with 8 more rolls (bamboo, even!).

We’ve been really fortunate and successful so far in finding the Chamy provisions we want during the time of COVID-19. (Is it too morbid and melodramatic to say I’m a little worried that I’m going to look back on this post in the not-too-distant future while munching on stale cat food?) I’m sure much of our success is due to timing and luck, but I also think we aren’t necessarily looking for the groceries that others are stocking up on. There hasn’t seemed to be a run on fresh vegetables (I’m being smug, aren’t I? #OwnIt).

I also want to give a shout-out to our Fridley Target. They seem to be making a good faith effort to keep things clean and sanitized and managing their stock.

We’ve encounterd empty egg and yogurt shelves but found them on subsequent trips.

We have had some trouble finding unseasoned, unsauced frozen vegetables (seems like those would be good things to have on hand if our fresh vegetable luck runs out) but I was pretty successful today. I did almost have a heart attack at first because they rearranged the store (not sure in response to COVID-19 shopping trends or not) and I thought Target was selling frozen sugar snap peas for $8.99 package. Fortunately, I realized they had moved the stock but not the price tags, and that was the price for frozen chicken.

I’m especially lucky that I’ve been able to find most of the groceries I want because I am extremely picky about the type and brands of food I want to eat. Even under normal conditions, I often can’t find what I want at Lund’s or Trader Joe’s because they don’t carry the chemical-laden lower calorie products I crave.

Target was out of some of my favorites today, but I think that was mostly just normal shopping karma. I find it unlikely that people are hoarding tofu (yet?!)