[AGL] report from the front lines

[Michael Eisenstadt]

We favor HEB and are going to order home delivery from them in a day or 
two. To excuse going to Whole Foods and only for a very few items, they 
are situated just 5 blocks from here and the parking is very convenient 
- 3 floors of parking under the store P1, P2 and P3. Some of the aisles 
have been blocked off and some sections like the sushi stand and pizza 
and delicatessen are closed. The folks that work there hate Whole Foods' 
owner Jeff Bezos and some of them brother-in-law your bill at the 
checkout. OTOH, workers at HEB are very loyal.

On 3/27/2020 5:08 PM, Charles Loving wrote:
> Went to HEB today in Kerrville. They are damn well organized.they  had 
> a medic at the door taking temps of each entrant and deputy to control 
> the crowd. No crowd. They were polite and efficient and disinfected 
> each cart as they entered  and I approved of that. I wouldn't darken 
> the door of a Whole Food store. We wore rubber gloves. Got everything 
> we needed easily. A few signs, one per customer. They were almost out 
> of soup, sugar and flour. Not many eggs or much bread. No deli service 
> but the butchers were working.
>
> Bought three bottles of tequila at the liquor store and we are now set 
> to really hunker until I go to voulteer to die for the economy.
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:17 PM Bill Killeen 
> <bill.killeen094 at gmail.com <mailto:bill.killeen094 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Nice shot, Kathy.
>
>     Sent from my iPad
>
>     > On Mar 27, 2020, at 2:40 PM, Kathy Doyle <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com
>     <mailto:kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Well of course you are entitled to circumvent the rules meant
>     for the health and well being of others and not wait in long lines
>     like the rest of us because..
>     >
>     > Drat! I can't think of why,  can someone else?
>     >
>     > Sent from my iPad
>     >
>     >> On Mar 27, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Michael Eisenstadt
>     <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Yesterday, the battery of our newly re-registered jalopy
>     crapped out. Later that day, neighbor Heny gave me a jump and I
>     drove the car to Firestone's on south Congress. They replaced the
>     battery while I waited and the manager even found a $20 Firestone
>     discount on batteries. The bill was $142. When I worked batteries
>     and tires at Sears Automotive 30 years ago, that battery was about
>     $80. While I waited, I looked around for somewhere to sit down but
>     all the chairs and divans had been stored against the wall upside
>     down. The seating was in quarantine or self-isolated or whatever
>     the term of art is this week.
>     >>
>     >> Whe the battery crapped out, I was off to the 7 to 8am opening
>     at the Whole Foods for old-timers. So I walked there. I entered
>     the store illegally from the downstairs parking via elevator
>     because I was supposed to wait outside and get at the back of a
>     very long line outside. After being thrown out of the store, I
>     finessed this by re-entering the store from the downstairs parking
>     again via elevator and skulking past the view of the store minders.
>     >>
>     >> As you know, the streets of Austin are virtually empty, no rush
>     hour jams as there are not enuf cars. What are you all up to? Is
>     it just samo-samo since our age cohort is mostly/entirely retired?
>
>
>
> -- 
> Charlie Loving

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