Hot as summer yesterday.\u00a0 Probably hot again today.\u00a0 Humid too.\u00a0\u00a0 The sun was searing my brain.\u00a0 REALLY hoped Fall was here.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh well, guess we’ll wait a bit longer.<\/p>\n
Did pickups in the afternoon, and some family stuff in the evening.\u00a0\u00a0 Hit the Costco for a few things in between.\u00a0 It was eerie.\u00a0\u00a0 530pm and the place was a ghost town.\u00a0\u00a0 Hamburger was more than HEB, as was chicken.\u00a0 I bought chicken anyway because I like the packaging.\u00a0\u00a0 Bought some steaks too, as they were reasonable, looked good, and I hadn’t seen any ribeye in a while.\u00a0 They had the shelf stable bread back in stock.\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee prices were low, or on sale, which is odd considering some of the things going on in the world.\u00a0 Maybe coffee isn’t a ‘core’ expenditure and its price will fall as people cut back.\u00a0 Most people I know would describe it as ‘core’ but maybe they move down scale to cheaper brands.<\/p>\n
There were only 3 pallets of rice.\u00a0\u00a0 There used to be 6.\u00a0\u00a0 Pancake mix is up from $6 to $6.89.\u00a0 But canadian maple syrup is cheaper than last year.\u00a0 That has to be an exchange rate thing.\u00a0 The store removed another set of cold cases.\u00a0 This was a smaller open front, for organic drinks and salads, near the meat section.\u00a0 Guess they are still remodeling and cutting back.\u00a0 Something else caught my eye and I just figured out why.\u00a0\u00a0 They moved the bottled and sparkling water from next to the frozen fish, to an interior aisle.\u00a0\u00a0 They put beer in the aisle where the water used to be.\u00a0\u00a0 What caught my eye was the space.\u00a0 The beer was all under the warehouse rack, and so was the water.\u00a0\u00a0 In the old days, the water was stocked on 6 foot high pallets in front of the pallet racking.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a whole lot less water on display, maybe half as much.<\/p>\n
All this adds up to reduced SKUs, reduced inventory, and a much more open store.<\/p>\n
Supply issues are just getting started friends.<\/p>\n
Buy it while you can, and stack it high.<\/p>\n
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Hot as summer yesterday.\u00a0 Probably hot again today.\u00a0 Humid too.\u00a0\u00a0 The sun was searing my brain.\u00a0 REALLY hoped Fall was here.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh well, guess we’ll wait a bit longer.<\/p>\n
Did pickups in the afternoon, and some family stuff in the evening.\u00a0\u00a0 Hit the Costco for a few things in between.\u00a0 It was eerie.\u00a0\u00a0 530pm and the place was a ghost town.\u00a0\u00a0 Hamburger was more than HEB, as was chicken.\u00a0 I bought chicken anyway because I like the packaging.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n