The overall full store product supply deteriorated for the second week, reversing the two prior weeks of improvement. These may have been nothing more than random vartiations. This week, for 15 specific items we wanted to buy, 7 were not available. and for 2 we couldn't get the quantity we wanted. Last week 7 of the 15 were not available, 1 was not available in the economical large size, and for 2 items, we could only buy the 1 available when we wanted to buy 2. The week before was even worse -- of 15 specific items we wanted to buy, 9 were not available. This week we decided to shop on Tuesday morning, rather than our usual Sunday morning, hoping for better luck. That didn't seem to work.
This week our supermarket had more empty shelves, compared with last week. My overall rating is based on my impression of the product supply in the ENTIRE store -- not just those 15 specific items we want to buy every week.
We normally shop at 6am Sunday morning when the store opens for business, at the huge Meijer's supermarket in Southfield, Michigan. Previous experiments with shopping on Friday, Saturday and Monday mornings revealed no differences when compared with Sunday mornings.
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Paper towels and toilet paper
Fully stocked for the past several months.
Cream Cheese (product flavor wanted not available)
There were 73 eight ounce tubs of Philadelphia soft cream cheese, where there are usually about 200+.
Prior weeks were 81, 85, 82, 84, 81, 111, 105, 93, 38, 78, 73, 104, 58 and 67.
There were 10 Meijer's brand eight ounce tubs where there are normally 50+. Prior weeks were 30, 24, 19, 18, 9, 25, 3, 1 and 12, The cost is $2.19 per tub compared with $4.29 a tub for Philadelphia -- both taste almost te same when smeared on good bread.
There were 100+ eight ounce bricks of Philadelphia cream cheese, where there are usually about 100+.
Prior weeks were 100+, 21, 45, 5, 2, 23, 0, 1, 0, 0, 100, 100, 47, 12 and 0.
There were 100+ Meijer's brand bricks where there are usually about 100+. Prior weeks were 95, 12, 2, 77 and none for four consecutive weeks before that.
Instant Coffee (product wanted not available)
6 Folger decaf and 19 Folger's regular.
Prior weeks:
Taster's Choice: 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1
Folger's decaf 13, 1, full shelf, 8, 22, 6, 0
Folger's regular 0, 7, full shelf, 6, 1, 3, 0
Nescafe decaf 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 8, 0
Nescafe regular 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
Maxwell House regular 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0
The non-instant coffees were not fully stocked today, for the second week in a row, after many months with no empty shelves.
Snapple Tea Large Bottles (product wanted not available)
5 Raspberry and 1 Diet Lemonade-Tea. Wanted two Diet Peach -- none available
Prior Weeks:
Diet Peach 1, 10, 4, 0, 4, 0, 3, 17
Peach 0, 6, 5, 4, 0, 0, 3, 10
Diet Lemonade-Tea 3, 12, 9, 0, 1, 6, 0, 0
Raspberry 1, 8, 10, 1, 1, 6, 2, 5,
Diet Soda Pop (one product wanted not available)
Two liters bottles of 3 of the 3 flavors of diet cherry cola pop that I drink were well stocked, compared with 2 of 3 in the past two weeks, 3 of 3 the week before, and 2 of 3 the week before. The entire soda row was 3/4 full, compared with 3/4, 2/3 and 3/4 full in prior weeks.
Breakfast Cereals - Raisin Bran
This week Kellog's fully stocked, 12 Meijer's and 1 Post
Last week Kellog's fully stocked, Meijer's 5 and 0 Post
Prior week: 0 Kellog's, 3 Meijer's and 3 Post
Prior week; 5 Kellog's, 2 Meijer's and lots of Post
Prior week had a small supply of Kellog's, no Post and 2 Meijer's
Pickles (product wanted not available)
Non refrigerated jars fully stocked.
No refrigerated Meijer's Kosher bread and butter pickles that I want -- not available for over one month. Spicy versions are available, but I don't like them.
Yogurt
Not quite fully stocked for the second week, after being fully stocked for seven weeks in a row. This department had been a disaster in 1Q 2022. And then a miracle in 2Q 2022.
Planter's Dry Roasted Peanuts (product wanted not available)
This week there were 3 34.5 ounce size
and the 16 ounce size bottles were fully stocked.
34.5 ounce size in prior weeks: 18, 2, 6, 6, 1 and zero
16 ounce size in prior weeks: 6, 0, 0. 0, 2 and 2
The Planter's honey roasted peanuts I wanted in the 34.5 ounce size -- none available for the fourth week in a row.
The more expensive per ounce 16 ounce version was also out of stock.
Jif Smooth Peanut Butter (product wanted not available)
All Jif peanut butter was gone due to a recall (for the fifth week in a row). There was a small amount of regular Skippy, and lots of Meijer's brand -- cheaper and definitely not as good as Jif.
Packaged deli meats (product wanted not available)
Fully stocked with ham and turkey. Two brands of salami, but not the low cost, better tasting brand I wanted to buy, for the fourth week in a row. There are normally four brands of salami.
ACE bread from Canada
4 Harvest Grain flavor loaves available and we bought all of them. A 22% price increase from $3.69 to $4.49, but there was a buy one get 50% off the second loaf sale. The resulting sale price was better than $3.69 each for four loaves -- a clever way to disguise a a big price hike (for one week). Past weeks loaves: 0, 0, 0, 6 and 0.
Ice Cream (product quantity wanted not available)
Ice cream section about 3/4 stocked compared with 3/4, 7/8, 3/4, 7/8 3/4, 2/3, 7/8, 3/4, 7/8 and 1/2 stocked in the prior weeks.
1 Breyer's no sugar added ice cream available when I wanted two compared with 1, 2, 0. 8, 6, 4, 0, 6, 0, 12 and 0 in prior weeks. I bought the one -- none left for the next shopper.
There were also 6 Breyer's Carb Smart chocolate, a flavor that could be sold as no sugar added, but is not very good.
Lindt chocolate bars (product wanted not available)
This week 4 of 12 flavors were stocked, compared with 7. 6, 4, 0, 0, 3, 2, 3 and 2 of 12, in prior weeks. A very poor selection of other brands of chocolate bars for the fifth week in a row, after a good selection for the three weeks before that.
Candy and gum
The candy section was only 2/3 full -- very empty in the chocolate bar section and sugar free candy section. The cany section was 3.4, 7/8, 7/8, 2/3, 3/4. 7/8, 7/8, 3/4 and 1/2 full in prior weeks.
Candy impulse purchase shelves at the checkout line were only half full compared with 1/2, nearly full, 2/3, 7/8, 3/4, 2/3 and 2/3 full in prior weeks.
Dole Cole Slaw Mix: (product quantity wanted not available)
This week 4 bags available of the 6 bags I wanted. Last week on sale, but none were available in the first hour of a week long sale. I never know when this product will show up. Pearson's brand is available but it is awful.
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