The Daily Peeve / Rant

[SteveinMN]

My grocery store has a new service where they allow 50 people in the store at a time and you reserve a time. Has anyone seen that?

I haven't seen time reservations yet, but some of the smaller stores here have an employee metering the number of customer who enter the store as other customers leave. Is it appointment only? How do they handle walk-ups?

The close by grocery store we’ve been going to for several weeks has senior time from 7 to 8 AM, and that’s when we go. I miss a few things that our regular grocery store carries, but I know they wouldn’t necessarily be in stock so I may not try the timed shopping event.

I understand senior hours at most stores here are pretty busy because they're also immunocompromised-customer hours, and pregnant-customer hours, and handicapped-accessible hours. I've stuck to the same two smaller stores I've gone to since this all started. Last time I was in there they had no TP or no disinfectant wipes and only a few limits on items like liquid hand soap. It's just worth it to keep things on a human scale. I may try Shipt for our next grocery replenish in a couple of weeks; order stuff this week and wait....