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06.10.20, 14:49 PM General Topics
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Trying to get a sense of how people handle grocery shopping at this point. Do you restrict how often you shop? Do you wipe down anything afterward? Or are you pretty much back to pre-pandemic normal? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 06.10.20, 02:49 PM Flag
 

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Never did either of those [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 02:53 PM Flag
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same [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:10 PM Flag
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same never did that [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:30 PM Flag
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Same and I go shopping about 3 times a week. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:37 PM Flag
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+1 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 11:39 PM Flag
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Me neither. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 05:08 PM Flag
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Been trying to limit to once weekly the whole time and continuing that. Never wiped things down, just wash hands after shopping. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 02:55 PM Flag
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+1 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:11 PM Flag
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+++ [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 06:45 PM Flag
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I used to let things sit for a couple of days and would wipe a few things we'd be using right away like perishables, but I've stopped. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 02:57 PM Flag
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+1 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 09:21 PM Flag
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OP: Do you take any special precautions now in the store? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 02:57 PM Flag
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I still wipe down the cart handle. I don't have contactless pay set up, so I just use my credit card in the machine. Figure I don't handle CC again til the next time I shop so if any cooties on it, they'll just die out. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:01 PM Flag
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Frankly, people should wipe down cart handles all winter every year just due to flu season. This is a new habit I think I'll be maintaining. Same with avoiding hand-shaking. That's a social convention that should just die out. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:30 PM Flag
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mask, distance from other customers, don't touch anything i won't buy, go home immediately and wash hands. if they have wipes for the basket handles i use them. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:02 PM Flag
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ditto all of this [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:19 PM Flag
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This - I have also limited my shopping to once a week and I only go to a grocery that has all precautions set up [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 06:46 PM Flag
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Only thing different is that I avoid taking my kid into crowded stores. I never wiped down things or waited 3 days etc. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 02:57 PM Flag
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Sticking to one delivery each week (where possible) and still wiping down but a lot less crazy about it. Then again I left nyc a few weeks ago so that could be part of it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:02 PM Flag
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I'm starting to go twice a week. Not sure if that's a little irresponsible. I go once to Whole Foods and once to the "regular" grocery store. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:03 PM Flag
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I still refuse to go to a grocery store: I get everything delivered via Instacart. However, I am much less obsessive about wiping it down or avoiding touching other things if I've touched unwiped groceries. The science is becoming clearer that you catch the disease from people, not objects or surfaces. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:06 PM Flag
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Wondering why you don't go to the grocery store at this point. Just curious about how you view the decision. I was ordering for a while, but recently started going to the store. In NYC. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:18 PM Flag
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Just seems like an unnecessary risk. Instacart is working fine for us, why abandon something that works for something that carries additional risk? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:24 PM Flag
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np. I get weary of other people picking my groceries. I end up with produce I would have chosen, bread that will expire in 4 days, etc. Plus I've seen the way that many of the shoppers operate and handle food. Not the way I would. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:34 PM Flag
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^produce I wouldn't have chosen [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:34 PM Flag
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I trust myself more than someone shopping for me. When I go to the store, some of the most irresponsible people I see are some of the professional shoppers (definitely not all of them. Some seem very good). But a fair number don't follow basic social distancing. I get it. They have to shop really fast. Many are young. Also feel they may be more likely to come to work if they or someone in their life has been exposed because of really needing the money every week. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:51 PM Flag
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Sooooo... the store employees who stock the shelves and ring up your stuff.... they don't need the money, right? They would NEVER come to work if they or someone in their life had been exposed. Same for all your fellow shoppers in the store. Everyone would do the responsible thing and self-quarantine, right? None of those customers would DARE step foot in the store if they had been exposed or weren't feeling 100%. LOL. The lies we tell ourselves. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:26 PM Flag
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Soooo . . . I'm talking about the difference between me handling food and a personal shopper handling all my food. Can you grasp that? Maybe not. I'd rather shop myself. As for the rest of the store, the Whole Foods I go to actually has very good protocols for how the cashiers and employees handle everything. I've actually been impressed. Pexiglass to protect the cashier, masks, employees constantly cleaning as they work. They don't let many people in at one time, so it's easy to keep a distance from the other people. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 06:52 PM Flag
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Sooo... how do you think your food magically ended up at Whole Foods in the first place? How did it arrive at the store? How did it arrive on the shelf? Nobody else touched it? Everybody who handled it was guaranteed to be covid-free and properly masked? LOL. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 07:50 PM Flag
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Again, since you seem very dense, Whole Foods has many strict safety protocols. They personal shoppers do not. Believe me, if you saw how they operate, you'd get it. But, hide in your rich bubble! Be sure not to go outside. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 07:58 PM Flag
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She doesn't go outside among the regular folk to see how the hired shoppers do things. So who's telling herself lies? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 11:48 PM Flag
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And then the stuff is shoved into the trunk of some random guy's car [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 11:52 PM Flag
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God, you just sound so awful. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 08:04 PM Flag
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Total difference betw the way store employees in a good grocery store behave vs. the random gig-shopping dudes. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 08:16 PM Flag
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This. I shop at off times when the store is pretty empty, once a week. Only shop at one store where they are super strict with the precautions. I wear a mask and pretty much just touch the cart handle & the food I choose. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 08:09 PM Flag
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And they spend more time in the grocery store around people longer. I see them walking around without masks and gloves. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 07:09 PM Flag
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General Topics 06.10.20, 07:50 PM Flag
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Many look like they're about 18. It's like they think Covid doesn't exist. Many like this at our WF in Brooklyn. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 12:05 AM Flag
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+1000 Instacart and Peapod (Stop & Shop) have been awesome. I haven't set foot in a store in 3 months now! At the peak of this I was wiping down religiously but I've stopped doing that. You can't eliminate every single risk from your life, but this is a simple way to eliminate a weekly one. For me the quality has been terrific. I think I got one bad pineapple the whole time I've been doing this. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:24 PM Flag
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Np. I also posted above. While I like instacart every item costs 50% more between their surcharge and tip for driver. Expensive, but nice if an extra $100 no big deal [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 11:28 AM Flag
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100%. It boggles my mind that any NYker would go indoors, into a grocery store with other shoppers, cashiers. Have to touch the keypad, their wallet, after touching shopping carts, etc. Just get it delivered [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 06:45 PM Flag
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Give me a break [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 07:49 PM Flag
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+1 The person above is arguing that she doesn't want the instacart shopper touching her items. It's better to be in an enclosed store with many other people (never mind all the people who just left, all the stuff to touch? Seriously? That's like a festival of airborne and surface exposure. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 07:55 PM Flag
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You need to go out to the store once or twice, lady. Then you'd get it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 07:59 PM Flag
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The store is managed for safety. The hired shopper is not. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 01:23 PM Flag
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Are you kidding me? Talk about living a life of privilege. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 08:00 PM Flag
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what are you talking about? my local grocery is so overpriced, so we've been ordering on instacart from BJs. The only privilege I have is knowing how to save money! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 08:21 PM Flag
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It boggles your mind that anyone would go into a grocery store?? I think we have a winner for the looniest rich person. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 08:11 PM Flag
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not rich! i spend way less at BJs than i ever did at my local store. We cant afford a car , so there's a limit how far we can go to get groceries. Nice try judging someone who is trying to protect their family's health. Yeah, all of us who cant go out are rich! lol [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 08:26 PM Flag
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Okay then, you're just a loony. What kind of person says "It boggles my mind that any NYer would go indoors into a grocery store" Are you crazy? People who need food go to stores. Except some people are spoiled enough to hire other people to take the risk for them. Jokes on you if you could see how your precious delivery is handled on its way to you. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.12.20, 03:56 AM Flag
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No: we like instacart was just very expensive. Between each item mark up and tip, every item was costing 50% more (at Costco ) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 11:24 AM Flag
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^np: [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 11:25 AM Flag
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I am you. Haven’t gone into any store since March. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:26 PM Flag
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Same. Everything delivered, but I stopped wiping down things a couple of weeks ago. I want to avoid people in confined spaces. Plus I've had good luck with Instacart's selections, and I really don't miss shopping. This may be a permanent change for me. In Chicago. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:40 PM Flag
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+1 I never had groceries delivered until this pandemic, but now I'm hooked. I may never go to Costco in person again! (NYC burbs) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:28 PM Flag
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I tried delivery for 2 months. Nothing was every properly refrigerated. The frozen food was mostly thawed. Gross. I started thinking we'd end up getting food poisoning one of these days while we were so busy worrying about Covid. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 08:03 PM Flag
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Pre-pandemic normal for me was a Sunday stock-up trip for the week, and that hasn't changed at all (other than buying MORE than we used to because all 4 of us are eating 3 meals and snacks at home now, when before it was just dinner). DH is insistent on wiping things down (so I let him do it, still does), but I was never concerned with that. Wear a mask, sanitize immediately after using the self checkout, then wash my hands when I get home. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:08 PM Flag
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Mask, shop by myself, go once a week [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:08 PM Flag
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I mostly get delivery and wipe groceries down (wash fruit/veggies right away). Go to the store 1x per week. I don't take the kids with me, wear a mask, wear a glove when picking produce, shop only at stores that are properly following social distancing. In NYC. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:10 PM Flag
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Should have asked whether people responding are in NYC or not. Thinking some New Yorkers may handle things a little differently than elsewhere, since we've been through so much in the past weeks. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:16 PM Flag
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Once a week at the Park Slope coop. They are pretty good about sanitizing carts, number of people in store and per isle is strictly limited. I still wipe and wash everything. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:24 PM Flag
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NYer. I have a weekly delivery set up with fresh direct. I have gone to trader joes once and another market once. I don't wipe down groceries. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:26 PM Flag
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I go once a week and I've never wiped down [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:53 PM Flag
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^^Am at summer place in CT, fairfield county [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 03:55 PM Flag
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Mostly order from Fresh Direct or Whole Foods. Don’t wipe anything down, I just wash my hands after unpacking and wipe down refrigerator/freezer handles. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:11 PM Flag
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We shop once a week by instacart and wipe everything down. It's a luxury to be able to do this, and we appreciate that so much. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:28 PM Flag
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^^^ midwest [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:28 PM Flag
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We live in Manhattan and I've been ordering my groceries for years. I've been more mindful with it these past few months trying to make sure we don't run out of anything - pre-Covid it was so easy to pop into the corner market and get anything I forgot or a different ingredient if I changed my mind about dinner. Really trying to plan now to avoid the grocery as much as possible. It's a very tiny, crowded place and it makes me nervous. I stopped wiping things down in May. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 04:48 PM Flag
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Just changed from going every week to now going once a week. Only DH goes. We never wiped down the groceries. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 05:02 PM Flag
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Im in Park Slope. Have been doing Fresh Direct this entire time. Once a week. I wipe down everything (mostly the milk containers, plastic packages of meat. I rub them with dishsoap in the sink, and rinse). Its seems that fewer people are infected now, so the chances are lower then a month ago, but all it takes is one contact. Also, because of the protests, i think the next 3 weeks will have a lot of asymptomatic spreaders, like we had mid-March. If in a month the infections in NYC havent gone up, I will reconsider this and feel a LOT more comfortable being out. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 06:44 PM Flag
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I try to go every 10-14 days, but sometimes have to do another short trip to fill in. I never wiped down. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.10.20, 06:45 PM Flag
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we're mostly doing fresh direct. make store or drugstore runs as needed. we wipe down everything. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 12:08 AM Flag
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Whole foods delivery since March. Haven't been inside a store since then. I hate grocery shopping btw. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 01:20 AM Flag
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I never stopped going to stores and I never wiped down groceries. I try to limit going to the store only because it takes longer and there can be lines to get in. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 11:55 AM Flag
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Ordering groceries. We change containers when we can (wash bagged veg into tupperware for example), wipe the rest. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 12:57 PM Flag
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I go when I need to but since we are home and I have a moment once in a while to plan, I need to go less often. I go, wear a mask, get what I need as expediently as I can (not walking down aisles more than once) and I use an app to scan as I go, so I can swipe and leave. I don't bother washing anything by my hands. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 08:26 PM Flag
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