I was off Thursday and only had to venture out once, and that was to Bojangle's to pick up my turkey and sides - their drive-thru line was wrapped halfway around the building when we got there around 10:15 or so.
Once we got thru the drive thru part (Mom just had to have a chicken biscuit and a drink) we parked so I could go inside to get our dinner. The dining room was almost empty and nobody waiting at the register to be checked out. The employees were working the drive-thru line down, so it took a minute or two to get someone's attention so I could get what I needed.
Other than that, it was home the rest of the day Thursday and still had to work on Friday.
And our store looked like the Tasmanian Devil roared thru the place!
Holes on the shelves everywhere . . . . half of what we needed was out of stock and none in the back room.
At least half the wine I had in back stock went up on the shelf, which cleaned up things considerably in that little corner near the unloading dock. No beer trucks ran Friday to my store - so what we had in back stock is what we've got to run off of until Monday when we get back on regular schedule.
And we had a few customers coming in, a few more than we usually have on Black Friday (grocery stores are generally a ghost town on BF - slowest day of the year usually) but still not enough to keep us from trying to refill with what we did have left on hand.
Just don't come in the day AFTER Thanksgiving asking for the .37 cents per pound frozen turkeys - we sold out on Wednesday. No Kings' Hawaiian rolls either in the Deli - those were gone too. Frozen pie crusts we ran out of on Tuesday.
Had to pick up 2 items on my way out the door Friday and went straight home and haven't been anywhere since. From what I've seen on local news channels covering the BF madness, I'm glad I stayed home.
What little bit I'm buying will be this coming week and I'll just order it online and have it shipped to the house. No way am I risking life and limb over anything.

Once we got thru the drive thru part (Mom just had to have a chicken biscuit and a drink) we parked so I could go inside to get our dinner. The dining room was almost empty and nobody waiting at the register to be checked out. The employees were working the drive-thru line down, so it took a minute or two to get someone's attention so I could get what I needed.
Other than that, it was home the rest of the day Thursday and still had to work on Friday.
And our store looked like the Tasmanian Devil roared thru the place!

At least half the wine I had in back stock went up on the shelf, which cleaned up things considerably in that little corner near the unloading dock. No beer trucks ran Friday to my store - so what we had in back stock is what we've got to run off of until Monday when we get back on regular schedule.
And we had a few customers coming in, a few more than we usually have on Black Friday (grocery stores are generally a ghost town on BF - slowest day of the year usually) but still not enough to keep us from trying to refill with what we did have left on hand.
Just don't come in the day AFTER Thanksgiving asking for the .37 cents per pound frozen turkeys - we sold out on Wednesday. No Kings' Hawaiian rolls either in the Deli - those were gone too. Frozen pie crusts we ran out of on Tuesday.
Had to pick up 2 items on my way out the door Friday and went straight home and haven't been anywhere since. From what I've seen on local news channels covering the BF madness, I'm glad I stayed home.
What little bit I'm buying will be this coming week and I'll just order it online and have it shipped to the house. No way am I risking life and limb over anything.

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