Blizzard + Super Bowl = Shopping Insanity
The AC boardwalk is expected to get 12-15" of snow tonight and tomorrow.
I left my office yesterday nursing my painful knee and stopped at Sam’s Club on the way home for milk and a cooked chicken. Little did I know I would run into a perfect storm of the impending blizzard and Super Bowl party shoppers.
The parking lot was nearly full, my first clue. Cars were following people as they walked towards their cars to get the next available spot. I managed to find one, then entered the insanity zone. The usual five o’clock buzzards were waiting around for the next batch of cooked rotisserie chickens, nothing unusual there. I decided to grab my skim milk, and instead of usual dozens and dozens of milks, I was lucky to grab the last gallon of skim milk visible.
The checkout lines were 10 deep as people were scrambling to get their Super Bowl goodies and food essentials before the blizzard that will begin around 3pm today.
ShopRite was even worse, so I passed on picking up a few items and went home. My mom took over the task of getting pre-storm essentials at 7am this morning and ShopRite was already busy. She reported that the red meat aisles were empty, although there was chicken to be had. She grabbed the last loaf of FiberOne bread and was happy to get it.
We haven’t have this much snow by the shore in at least a decade, so I guess people are over reacting a tad, behavior that tends to snowball (pun intended).
If you don’t have, milk, eggs and your Super Bowl chips and dip by now, good luck finding them.
