So today I took my neighbor to HEB and Kroger's, I felt sorry for the people working.

[texanwitch]

The stores were packed, long lines to check out.

I would rather eat at Luby's then ever shop on Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

There were shopping cart wrecks, cars blocking the way.

Shoot me first.

[freshwest]

1. Guess everyone was too busy or too broke to shop in advance. I mean, you know it's coming.

[texanwitch]

3. The turkey section was very busy.

I thought two guys were going to have a fight over a certain turkey.

Just take one and go.

I shop in advance of the day, I don't like crowds.

There were enough checkers, that helped.

[freshwest]

13. I always like HEB's. And Randall's, but IDK if they still exist. The HEB nearest me was run out by..

Wlmart who did a real bait and switch all the retailers in that area. Super low prices which they kept up until the others went out of business. Then shot right up. Definitely a lack of understanding on the part of regulators on price fixing. A real problem and most people don't know that there was ever such a mechanism to prevent such closing down of smaller business. But then the GOP, who snivels about small business all the time, doesn't believe that, really.

[sammytko]

2. HEB will be open on Thanksgiving til 2PM

Very surprising. I didn't think they were open before. My nephew has to work there tomorrow, but my sister (his mom) always had Thanksgiving on Wednesday, since her hubby was a police officer and he always worked on T-Day.

I bought a frozen turkey on Friday, but if I was going to get fresh, I would have been out there yesterday or today.

[texanwitch]

5. I have a friend who works at Walmart, she is working the whole weekend.

Early hours, late hours, all hours.


She really needs the money.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I had physical therapy and a routine lab test checkup at the hospital today...

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... and on the way home, I stopped at my primary grocery store (not
really THINKING about what day it was and/or the potential mayhem).
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It was early afternoon and it looked like a normal day -- though
they had a few extra cashiers on.
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Even went to my bank -- no crowd there (I would imagine a LOT of
people got paid today -- usually payday Fridays exhibit themselves
in long lines at the bank).
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[texanwitch]

7. These two stores are very popular.

I think a lot of people have the day off or half day.

It does seem like a Friday night.

[fizzgig]

6. i've had to hit the grocery stores a couple of times the last few days

somehow managed to get out without any blood shed

[nolabear]

8. Well, yeah, but there are worse things than working the holidays.

Heck, I used to do it. People usually arranged things around me as much as possible and I was really glad to have the money. My son manages a wine dept. right now and he's utterly swamped, but, as he says, the scrilla is killa. Union, doncha know.

[K8-EEE]

9. That's the good thing about frozen turkey (plus it's like 39 cents/lb on sale!)

We did a "practice turkey" in advance of company & the real Thanksgiving so I thought I would practice on a frozen one -- it turned out delicious so we are getting the same for the real day!

Our first bbq'd turkey, delish!

[texanwitch]

10. I don't what was so speical about this one turkey.

There were a lot of them, all about the same size.

As long as I was there I bought a few extra turkeys for the Christmas and later.

I had a turkey frozen for over a year, it was still good.

[K8-EEE]

11. Well, company anxiety!!

I didn't want my first Webber Kettle turkey to be FAIL with a house full of guests. OMG when I had my first apartment I invited a lot of people over to my house for turkey. It turned out it would not fit in my cute little 1950's style apt. sized oven. I started hacking it up looking for tiny pans to cook parts of it in and ended up putting the whole mess in the freezer (made a lot of soup from it later though!) and getting pizza instead! It was not Thanksgiving so the change in menu was not too weird, but my mom had gotten me a free turkey with a 2 for 1 coupon, I had to charge the pizza on my AMEX.

[texanwitch]

12. You will be fine.

I used to smoke turkeys until I started to fry them.