[mbrd]

I've just got back from doing an HEB shop about 10 minutes ago, our first shop since the crisis full hit the USA. It was surprisingly pleasant!

There was a short queue to get in (~5 people stood 6 feet apart), but once inside there were very few customers compared to any other time I've been in the store. I got everything that was on my shopping list.

Of the things that I saw labelled as limited to a certain number per transaction, toilet paper was the only one that was completely out of stock (I didn't check hand sanitizer, but assume it was too). I got eggs, milk etc with no problems.

I spoke to the cashier and they said toilet paper sells out by 10am most days.

[starpilot]

I'm in Seattle, and the grocery stores here are almost exactly in the same state. 90% back to normal. Just no one's posting on social media the full shelves now.

[empath75]

It wasn’t a panic. People were rationally stock piling so they would have to make fewer trips to the store later.

Now that they’ve stocked up, they’re not going to the store.

[Tempest1981]

Someone compared it to preparing for a big snowstorm.

[skunkworker]

I just shopped at my local Trader Joe’s here in Utah and they had pretty much everything back in normal stock amounts. Costco though still was out of 5 or 6 staples