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2020-04-04
Sign seen during Covid-19 at Lowes.
this is a picture of my mom standing beside a sign we saw while at lowes. it tells those there how to properly social distance themselves. -
2020-05-01
Grocery Stores During Covid-19
As this pandemic is dangerous and can cause many deaths, the grocery stores have taken precautions and have made aisles one way. if you need something on that aisle, you must go the way in which the arrows are pointing. -
2020-05-25
My Coronavirus Costco Trips
A personal account of how the pandemic has changed everyday life. -
2020-03-31
COVID-19 Toiletpaper Meme
This is a meme, or humorous image associated with both COVID-19 as well as the toilet paper shortage induced by COVID-19. #HST643 -
2020-03-18
looking for eggs
I tried to shop for eggs and ground beef and had stopped at nearly 4 different grocery stores. Every single one had been completely sold out due to everyone panicking. -
2020-05-01
Line to get into lowes
Everyone seems to be trying to work on their own projects during the quarantine. Due to both the demand of Lowes and the limited number of people allowed inside, a large line forms in the front and there is nearly a 30 minute wait to get into the store -
2020-05-01
Lines
Lines -
2020-04-14
The Importance of Family
This is a photo of my little sister and I embarking on a 'journey' to the grocery store. Before this strange time, running an errand was something I never gave any thought. It oddly feels like so long ago: I would just grab my car keys and head out the door. Now, I need to take multiple precautionary steps before I go in public. It is still near impossible to wrap my head around the fact that the steps one needs to take (finding something to cover your face, having gloves ready or at least having hand sanitizer accessible) could literally be a matter of life and death. Not to mention, one needs to wipe down all the items that are purchased and brought back home. Now that I calculate my every move, like limiting what I touch, I realize more and more how much I previously took the little things for granted. I miss being around my friends, playing board games and sharing pizza. These are lonely times, and I could only imagine what it is like for those who live alone. I am so lucky to have my family so I don't go totally insane. This time has brought opportunities for us to have long talks that we would not normally have. This stagnant time has allowed us to discuss topics we would not otherwise dive into: topics of faith, philosophy, community, and what it means to be human. #REL101 -
2020-04-30
No matter what: Racism is not okay
This pandemic is hard enough for all of us. As a health care worker, I've been deemed one of the special "frontliners" the ones who still put on pants everyday to go to work and serve. So shouldn't I be happy? Isn't this what I signed up for when I decided to be a pharmacy technician part time during my undergrad? I'm happy to serve my community. I'm happy to be able to still be okay and healthy and make a difference by helping my patients. But I didn't sign up for racism. I didn't sign up for face rashes because my allergies still happen and when I sneeze all that snot and saliva gets caught in my mask, and by the end of the day my nose and lips are bright red. I didn't sign up for microagressions with anything, not even my age. In the pharmacy, I've had customers make inappropriate jabs at me about my age, ask for older looking workers because they don't think I'm experienced enough, but none of that prepared me for microagressions based on my race. Coming back to work during the pandemic was strange. Because I had traveled back to Southern California, and back up to Northern California for school, my boss didn't schedule me for 2 weeks-- weeks I had asked for off due to school events that were now, cancelled. Coming back during the crisis, I noticed little things. Customers sanitizing every thing I touched, standing a bit farther away from me from behind the plexiglass, but stepping closer to speak with other store associates, asking for other workers. This was fine. I just continued to serve with a smile. But today, today was the worst one yet. As I walked back into the store from lunch, two ladies blocked the walkway to get through to the pharmacy. Needing to get by, I walked a little close to them, but used an aisleway to get by. Noticing me walk by, they decided to scream: 6 FEET AWAY. SOCIAL DISTANCING at me, and only me. Not at the non-asian looking company employee clearly a bit too close to them, not at any other passerby's, just me- a Vietnamese girl who just needed to get back to her job. I still had a good 4 hours to go in the shift, and that didn't include crying. Keeping a straight face, I walked past them, and continued on to do my job. I kept a straight face the whole shift, until afterwards, I got into my car and cried. Those words shouldn't have hurt me in that way. I shouldn't have to hide my feelings, but they were there. As I sat in silence, finally steady enough to drive home, those words still haunted me the entire way back, until I got home, got into my room, turned off all the lights and continued to cry for all the hurt I felt from those words. Social distancing is important, but be mindful of the space you are taking up, and who is around you. Racism is never okay, and I hope my reaction to these words and actions prevent you from do anything of the same sort. Just because we're Asian does not mean this pandemic is our fault. We're all in this together, so we need to support each other, not tear each other down. -
2020-04-29
Pobladores forman largas colas para comprar cerveza en plena cuarentena por COVID-19
Pese a las reiteradas advertencias que recibe la población para que no salga de sus casas, decenas de personas llegaron hasta la avenida Grau, en el distrito de Castilla (Piura) con cajas de cerveza en mano y formaron largas colas para comprar esta bebida, pese a que no es un alimento de primera necesidad. Algunos llegaron en motocicletas y mototaxis con los recipientes de alcohol, mientras que otros cargaban una caja de cerveza en cada mano. Tampoco respetaron el metro de distancia establecido para evitar contagios de COVID-19. -
2020-04-29
Separation
The big piece of glass-like plastic separates the cashiers from the customers. It is a way for both the cashiers and customers to be safe while doing their jobs and purchasing during the pandemic -
2020-04-29
Online Shopping
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, I have not been able to leave my house and go to the store. Personally, I love to go shopping and walk around various malls and outlet centers. But, due to COVID-19, I’ve been forced to shop elsewhere. Because I haven’t been visiting traditional stores, I have been purchasing a lot more stuff online. I usually shop online occasionally, but now I’m shopping on online stores almost every day. Since I’ve been away from school, my number of online purchases has grown. In the past two weeks, I have purchased makeup, makeup brushes, a jewelry box, cleaning supplies for my Pandora bracelet, printed photos, and a photo album. Needless to say, I’ve been buying quite a lot. Shopping online can be dangerous because you can’t see the money directly leaving your account and you can forget how much you have really spent. The stress of COVID-19 and having to finish my college semester at home has pushed me to shop more. COVID-19 has not only been dangerous to everyone’s health, but also to their wallets. -
2020-04-25
Queuing for essential hardware
Australians are permitted to leave home to shop for food and essentials. -
2020-04-25
Corona Virus Online Shopping Meme
This meme is based on the level of boredom everyone is experiencing during quarantine. It is a lighted hearted form of humor that emphasizes the useless purchases we are all making. -
2020-03-29
Diary Entry
The ”lay off” Day 7 Whatsthisday, the 307th of Archpril The clocks changed tonight. I only know because I happened to be awake when they switched. An odd experience. One minute it’s 01:59 and the next 03:00. Yesterday was Earth Hour I’d missed that too, but Magdalena remembered and we spent a sleepy hour reading by candle and lamplight before heading to bed at 21:15. It’s a sort of tradition now. I missed both of these events because the available bandwidth to process news is simply overwhelmed with Covid-19. For a microscopic virus, it’s footprint in the macro world has become gargantuan, undeniable. Even for those for whom denial had become a way of life. I went to bed too early and now I can't sleep, so I’m browsing The Guardian and eating Clementines. We used to call them Mandarin oranges when I was a kid, but in Sweden, they call them Clementines for some reason. The US news is just apocalyptic. That’s a word I use far too much, but it really is the only one that fits now. Multiple, simultaneously accelerating sites of infection, the death rate approaching a thousand a day and the federal response remains jerky, incoherent, contradictory. At every news conference, Trump is like a bear in a trap, enraged, striking out blindly, snout spraying foam and blood with every snarl. He seems to sense a looming future that involves piano-wire and a sturdy lampost on some broad american boulevard. The lunacy is incomparable, without precedent in my lifetime. We are watching the Suez-cide of an empire in real time. In Sweden, things remain comparatively calm, but the undercurrent of concern is electric. We all feel it. We all know the exponential curve is on the way for us too. Our own local "Empire", the EU, is under tremendous strain as well, but here at least the causes remain pedestrian and institutional: the predictable outcome of a deliberately weak central authority rather then some bloated Nero. When this is over, we need to take a closer look at that. The house is cold – I’ve turned off the electric heating as spring pushes the temperatures higher, but it’s 0 degrees out there – so I creep down to start a fire. This is a delicate business at 03:30 in the morning or 02:30, whatever. The point is, it’s the middle of the night, and starting a fire tends to be a noisy obtrusive business, what with the roaring blaze, cast iron stove and so forth. I manage to get it just right, a minimum of metallic pings and ticks, the air flow turned down low to throttle brighter flames but not the coals. Satisfactory. I get back to writing. We’ve been in voluntary lockdown for about 2 weeks now. The first week was just a conventional work from home and then the layoff came. That was week 2. Today/Tonight/This morning, we are heading into week 3. That doesn’t mean we don’t do anything and I’d planned a series of activities with a minimum of social interaction for Saturday. Two things actually, a trip to hand stuff in to the 2nd hand place (Vinden which literally translates as Attic) and the open air recycling center. The fruits of a week with too much time on my hands. To that we've added a trip to ICA Maxi for a final round of supplies buying. The handoff at Vinden was perfect. There were some other people dropping stuff off, but we waited in the car for them to finish and then dumped our stuff. Eight bags of assorted clothes, utensils and older electronic odds and ends. Social interactions? Zero. Then we headed to Maxi. It’s dawning on me that this isn’t ideal. I’ve had misgivings about heading into an enormous shopping center in the middle of a global pandemic. Shopping should really be done only during off peak times and Saturday morning is about as on peak as you can get. This is feeling more and more like an avoidable error. I clutch my hand sanitizer and pull on my gloves. However, when we finally pull into the parking garage I’m encouraged. There are very few cars. We don’t need that much stuff, so instead of a trolley we get one of those rolling baskets and head in. There are plenty of people about, but Maxi (as the name suggests) is very large. It has acres of floor space and I can immediately see that people are distributed for maximal social distancing. There is a weird synchronicity to their movements, as if everyone is generating a repelling magnetic field, they slide past each other with meters of clearance. Even when people are speaking to each other or staff, they seem to be standing on either side of a 2 meter gorge. We pinball our way to the cat food (these goddam cats will be the death of us), traversing a wide arc through pet toys and obscure cleaning products, it’s a very lightly trafficked part of the store and we meet no one. Then down into fruit and vegetables to pick up oranges, clementines, apples and bananas. I read somewhere you can freeze fresh fruit and I want to try it. Magdalena has more practical goals in mind and selects the ingredients for a salad. In the fruit and veg section we actually bump into our handyman, Lars. Not literally of course. He has a heart condition and we don't want to kill him, so we stand either side of the gorge and shout pleasantries. Then onto dairy for milk (reason number two, after cat food, we are here at all) and two big plugs of cheese. Then I decide I want to get a loaf of freshly baked bread, but it’s a dilemma. No packaging. If I touch the bread with my gloves, anything on the gloves will transfer and then I’ll shove that material into my stupid fat face when we get home. I opt to remove the gloves, sanitize, pop the bread into the bags provided, then put the gloves back on. A month ago this aberrant, peculiar behavior would have attracted stares. Today, not the merest ripple of interest. The world has moved on. We head to the check outs. They are well manned and we immediately find one with a single shopper finishing up. I realize then we should have self-scanned all this crap. Now the checkout person is going to touch all our stuff, breath on it and so forth. While they contaminate everything I’m blipping my card. The blipping is great because you just hover the card over the reader. Nothing actually touches anything. You still have to punch in the code on the keypad (I shudder at this even though I’m wearing gloves) but the whole business is so much superior to the epidemiological nightmare of handing physical cash back and forth. Uuurgh. Cash. Filthy lucre. What a mad unsanitary idea cash is. Or more correctly in Sweden, was. Another big plus in Sweden’s fight against the spread of the virus. Cash is no longer king. It’s not even a local warlord and all its Statues were pulled down years ago. We head out to the car, sanitize, and home. Social interactions? Two. -
2020-04-20
A New Normal
Thoughts on a a new normal -
2020-04-19
Stickers on floor of Safeway
Stickers on the floor of Safeway at Dobson and Main in Mesa, Arizona warning customers to maintain six feet apart from each other while shopping. Stickers show the distance. -
2020-04-19
Stickers on floor of Safeway
Stickers on the floor of Safeway at Dobson and Main in Mesa, Arizona warning customers to maintain six feet apart from each other while shopping. Stickers show the distance. -
2020-04-05
Self check out at a Frederick, MD grocery store
Plastic covering credit card number pad telling customers it has been disinfected. -
2020-04-15
Grocery store madness part 2
Text describing the Grocery Stores in New York -
2020-04-15
Stop and Shop FAQs for Customers
A PDF resource for Stop and Shop customers on what they are doing to provide safe grocery shopping. -
2020-03-29
Wiped Out Bulk Cereal
Shoppers wiped out the bulk cereal aisle at Walmart in Belmont, North Carolina. -
2020-03-29
Empty Shelves at Walmart, Belmont, NC
Empty toilet paper and paper towel shelves at the Belmont, North Carolina Walmart. Many shoppers persist in getting their groceries and still gather items that they deemed essential and chose not to wear masks. -
2020-04-11
I Just Want A Hug
I just want a hug. Nothing means more to me right now in the time of crisis than a hug. I am not much of a hugger. By me saying that I want a hug, that must mean something. It is strange to go visit your family and having to stay more than 6 feet away from them. Overnight we went from being able to hang out with our elderly family members to now not being able to hug them. I miss hearing my great-aunt say, “Give me some sugar” when she wants a hug. I miss being able to see my extended family. I miss being able to go over and hear stories about their life. I feel that the coronavirus has taken time away from that! I just want to shop. I want to be able to go to the store without just going to get groceries. It happened overnight. I miss being able to shop. I don't even want to buy anything. I just want to go look. I have only been able to shop online. I will not buy anything online, but it’s nice to know that if I ever wanted to buy a $100 blanket, I know where to find one. I want to go to Ross and Goodwill. I mis being able to just walk in the malls. It has been a month! It may not sound like a long time, or like I have an addiction, but trust me, it is hard when your life comes to a halting stop. Not shopping with friends is hard. We would go at least once a month. We just shopped to shop. Sometimes we went shopping for my apartment or for clothes, but now we can't do that. Before the quarantine, I would hang out with my friends at least once a week. Now we have not physically hung out for a month, which has been very hard. -
2020-04-01
Ghost Town
Today was the first day I have left my house since the stay at home order was placed in New York. I did not expect things to be this quiet. I live in a busy-ish town and there was nobody on the road on my way to the grocery store. We have picked today to run all of our errands so we can limit our time outside. People in the grocery stores are all wearing masks and gloves, and the vibe is very off. People are scared of getting too close, scared of touching things, scared to bring their children in the store. I have checked on my aunt who lives in the next town and is a recovering cancer survivor, and she is doing well and doesn't need anything from the store. As of right now, there is no end in sight to this stay at home order. -
2020-03-21
Farmers Market
I never thought about how everyone normally touches the food at the farmers market, until they put up these signs preventing it. This will make us think differently, I think, about many of our normal routines if and when we do go back to normal. -
2020-04-04
Women lined up outside Tottus supermarket
Peru is controlling the movement of men and women by allowing women to go out certain days, and women to go out other day to shop. This video shows women lined up and spaced apart to enter the Tottus supermarket in Arequipa, Peru. -
2020-04-06
Shopping in Scuba Suit
This snapshot has been circulating in Hawai'i as it shows a shopper wearing scuba gear as a means to stay protected while in local grocery store. -
2020-04-06
Man’s Pursuit of Toilet Paper
This empty shelf has become emblematic of a serious disruption in the Toilet Paper supply chain. After shopping in 5 stores, this is what i found. this is so frustrating because we are towed in the media that there is no shortage of toilet paper but it is still difficult to find. -
3/28/20
Creamed Soup Now A Food
Two weeks ago, I noticed that many aisles were depleted and most of the soups were gone The "cream of" soups were all still there, which made me laugh. Now, they're gone, too. Can't decide whether this is funny. -
2020-03-12
Toshia Brownstein
This image shows a grocery shopping line wrapping around the aisles of the store. When the epidemic first started hitting, many people ran to the store to stock up on as much food, water, and toilet paper as they could possibly get their hands on, like it was the end of the world and the store was going to run out of supply. -
2020-04-03
Working in Retail During COVID-19
Working in Retail During COVID-19 -
04/03/2020
North Scottsdale Shopping Scene - A Drive By at Kierland Commons and The Scottsdale Quarter. 1:30pm Friday afternoon.
North Scottsdale Shopping Scene - A Drive By at Kierland Commons and The Scottsdale Quarter. 1:30pm Friday afternoon. -
2020-03-27
People's shopping bags marking their place in the queue for shopping on the Day 3 of Indian lockdown in Lumpyngngad locality of Shillong, Northeast India
People's shopping bags marking their place in the queue for shopping on the Day 3 of Indian lockdown in Lumpyngngad locality of Shillong, Northeast India -
2020-03-27
Queuing up for necessities in Lumpyngngad locality market of Shillong while maintaining social distancing on the Day 3 of Indian lockdown.
People queuing up for necessities in Lumpyngngad locality market of Shillong while maintaining social distancing on the Day 3 of Indian lockdown. -
27 March 2020
Queuing up for necessities in Lumpyngngad locality market of Shillong while maintaining social distancing on the Day 3 of Indian lockdown.
People waiting for their turn to shop from the two designated grocery shops in Lumpyngngad locality of Shillong, Northeast India. -
1 April 2020
Business closure
Many shops on Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe now closed for business. There was some controversy when government allowed hairdressing appointments of 30 minutes when other businesses were already being asked to reduce their services and social distancing was already de rigueur. -
2020-03-31
Silent shopping
#HIST4800 -
2020-10-13
Where is my toilet paper?
[Curator's Note] An image of a shelf with no toilet paper -
2020-03-24
Temperature taken before entering Tottus Supermarket.
Shoppers at Tottus in Arequipa, Peru line up to enter the store to buy groceries. Before they can enter, an employee takes their temperature. Anyone who is running a warm temperature or has a fever cannot go inside. -
Social Distancing at the Grocery Store
There I was, at the grocery store. As I approached the checkout line, I waited, to let the man ahead of me have some space. As he paid I put my groceries on the conveyor, figuring the space between us was more than sufficient. He looked at me and asked, “a little close, aren’t you?” I thought I was sufficiently distant. I said, “ excuse me.” In a perturbed voice, he asked, “Did you see the sign?” What sign? I wondered? I decided to step back and as I stepped back, I looked for the sign. There it was. So, I snapped this picture as he finished. He left. I checked out. As I left the store, I noticed that same guy laughing and joking with his buddies. Not two feet from each other. I laughed to myself. So much for social distancing. -
2020-03-27
Instacart Gig Workers Are Planning a Nationwide Strike
News article about a planned strike of Instacart workers who are calling for hazard pay of an additional $5 an order, free safety gear (hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, and soap) to workers, and paid sick leave to include workers with pre-existing conditions who have been advised by their doctors not to work at this time. -
2020-03-26
The Exchange at West Point during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York
The Exchange is usually bustling with activity, as it operates similar to a shopping mall for cadets as well as families who live at West Point. Upon entry to the military post, temperatures are taken of people entering as a precautionary measure. This photo conveys the effects of the pandemic at the military post West Point. -
2020-03-16
Meat Section of a local Grocery Store
The image shows the panic that people are feeling, and how they're rushing to purchase all their essentials from the stores which shows the uncertainty that people feel about their future. -
2020-03-18
Empty shelves at Wegmans in the Lehigh Valley
All over the Lehigh valley stores are running out of toilet paper and other necessary items. People bulk bought in the very beginning and stores are having a hard time restocking these items. -
2020-03-04
Single toilet paper roll sells for $1000 as coronavirus panic-buying reaches new level
A commercial news website reports on the panic buying of toilet paper. URL for full article here: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/single-toilet-paper-roll-sells-for-1000-as-coronavirus-panic-buying-reaches-new-level-c-729542 In Australia, supermarket shelves were stripped of many essential items once people understood how serious the pandemic was, but the one that became a national obsession was toilet paper. People were filling trolleys with packs of toilet paper as soon as they realised lockdowns might be ordered. Major supermarkets eventually instituted 2 packs per person limits. A black market emerged online. There were many many memes, videos, articles, as well as serious analysis of this phenomenon. The irony is that toilet paper is in fact produced in Australia, so it was never going to run out. So this was an opportunity for us to think about human irrationality and panic; local and global manufacturing (and ignorance of this); enjoy humour as a response... and so much more. Also an opportunity to think about what people used before toilet paper was the norm - squares of newspaper, leaves etc! Suddenly ads for bidets appeared in our newsfeeds as well! -
18 March 2020
Trolley wipes
We can wipe our trollies, but no toilet paper. -
2020-03-28
The social distancing line
The Australian Government has recommended social distancing of at least 1.5 metres. This pharmacist has taped a line on the ground in front of their counters — it makes trying to reach forward to pay for goods a bit like a fairground game of "tap the card reader with your bankcard". -
2020-03-17
Meat and Poultry section at Fry’s Grocery Store
The meat section is almost completely sold out of supply. People have not only been hoarding paper products in their panic, but meat and non-perishable foods, too. -
3.16.2020
Empty shelves at Publix in Atlanta.
At 1:00pm on Monday, March 16, 2020, the shelves at my local Publix were almost empty. The store was packed with people, all of whom were stocking up to be locked in for an indefinite period of time.