Well, donned my stupid mask and hit Costco for the first time in over two months.
I got there at 0945 (they were already open) and saw lots of cars, so thought there would be a line, but I walked right in. It was the least crowded I had ever seen the place. Most everything seemed fully stocked, they even had loads of TP, paper towels, and water (I took none since I still have a tears worth of my pre-panic stock
). I saw few people with TP in their carts, and then only one package.
The one thing they were short of was meat. Today was the first day of their "three fresh meat items per shopper" limit. There was some chicken and pork, but not much and little variety. Other than a little ground meat, there were zero beef products. Even the $50 ribeye packs they sell were gone. I guess meat is the new TP. They had lots of fish though, and plenty of meat products in packages. Unrelated, but score for me - they have their Schnitzel packs back in stock. Best packaged schnitzel I've ever had. Almost as good as mom made. I stocked up on five of them.
When I left the store, there was a ridiculous line outside of people waiting to get in as they were apparently limiting number of shoppers, which explains why my shopping experience inside was nicer than usual without dummies blocking me in the middle of every aisle. Maybe they need to make that a standard policy.
I will give them some kudos after ragging on them about the mask requirement and people showing up unaware. They were actually handing free masks out at the front door to anyone who wanted one. They're doing it for this week only though, then everyone is on their own.
I'm going by my local market tomorrow, so will see what the meat situation is there. I'm expecting them to be fully stocked, but you never know.