No candlestick makers
#100DaysToOffload – Day 10
When lockdown started and lots of people went panic buying there were lots of images of bare supermarket shelves in the media. I know from personal experience most supermarkets first sold out of lots of tins and dried goods then when those stocks were getting back to the shelves lots of fresh goods sold out. Still now there is no flour on supermarket shelves and if there is it all sells out straight away again.
However throughout this most of the cornershops/convenience stores have had stocks of everything that was sold out in the big stores and pretty much all of them were just selling at the regular price too. In the first week of lockdown I had a banging headache and needed some paracetamol. Sold out in all the big shops I went to, go to local corner shop and he had a full shelf! My son nearly lives on pasta with pesto. It's easily his favourite dish but all the supermarkets were stripped bare of pasta before lockdown was announced. No problem as the cornershop down the road had loads of stocks of 4 different types of pasta at bargain prices. You get the picture.
Since lockdown we've had the local grocer doing us a weekly delivery, the local butchers doing deliveries, the local fishmongers too and lastly the local bakery. Sadly we've not needed any candles so no candlestick makers as yet.
Coming out of this I'm determined to shop local a bit more and rely on supermarkets less.
100 Days to offload is a blogging challenge started by Kevin Quirk. Check out https://100daystooffload.com to see if you are tempted to join in yourself.