Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19
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Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Social distancing markers, positioned outside of the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 With no rule on limits, most prepackaged lunch meats are out of stock at the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St. The deli however, where customers can pay slightly higher prices for freshly cut lunch meat, seemed full and open for business.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Prepackaged bacon, almost fully stocked in the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Trimmed poultry options, largely out of stock in the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St. Off camera, there were still at least 12 packages of bulk chicken breasts available for purchase.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Turkeys and assorted bags of chicken fill the open coolers in the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St. Where basic options such as lone packages of thawed legs, wings and chicken breasts might be low, there are plenty of frozen choices yet to make.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 The ground red meat section as it exists in the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St. Similar to the poultry, customers will likely have to buy their ground meat in bulk to freeze for the time being, but it's still there.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Steaks, in short supply in the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St. Thankfully, should one find that a local grocery store is out of their favorite cuts, there are plenty of other places to search for them.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 A lane marker in the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St. Grocery stores across the country have implemented this practice in order to keep people from risking face-to-face contact with others.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Bottled and jugged water, fully stocked in the Walmart Supercenter at 3101 W Princeton St.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 At the Publix in College Park, purchases of lunch meats and bacon have been limited to two units per customer. As a beneficial consequence, opposed to Walmart, there now appears to be enough to avoid a shortage.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 At the Publix in College Park, poultry purchases have been limited to two units per customer, just like their processed meats and bacon. Though more expensive than the chicken at Walmart, these shelves are mostly full.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Ground meat and steaks in healthy supply at the Publix in College Park. There appeared to be no limits on how many units one could buy at a time.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 A lane marker at the Publix in College Park. Out of all changes made to Floridian grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic, lane markers and social distancing markers have been adopted almost unanimously.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Fully stocked prepackaged poultry options at the Whole Foods Market in Winter Park. Here, there seemed to be no mostly empty sections of any given food item.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 Eggs at the Whole Foods Market in Winter Park. Out of all shelves, these were the most bare, yet there are still enough available to avoid a shortage.
Down, but not out: local grocery stores keep up with COVID-19 A social distancing marker at the Whole Foods Market in Winter Park.