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Originally Posted by queasy27
Sorry about your SpaghettiOs, Ed! I was doing a happy dance today when, after being out of stock for weeks, I finally scored two of my favorite penne and sausage frozen dinner.
I was at Publix Southern Trace on Saturday and didn't notice the blue arrows until I'd been down a couple of aisles. As far as store policies go, I'm more appreciative of restricting the number of customers, installing plexi shields at checkout stands, and of employees who wear masks. Especially at the deli counter.
I wouldn't mind alternate shopping days like during the '79 oil crisis. Heck, maybe we're even heading back to the days of rationing coupons!
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Alternate shopping days were a headache. But also the population of the country was only 225 million, and the big box stores hadn't been invented yet so there many more stores of smaller size, so the population was better able to spread out and not all be stuck in the same inside spaces.
Today, there are 331 million, big box stores are a thing which attracts millions of people to them - and there aren't as many ma and pa stores in existence to accommodate them all, should they become overfilled.