Shopping in Canberra

I realise that we should support the Mallacoota retailers but there are things that we can't buy there (eg the 2.7% alcohol beer I usually drink) or are just unrealistically priced at Mallacoota (diesel at Mallacoota was 155c/l last Friday - it was 123.7 c/l at Costco).  So we do buy stuff in Canberra.

Today we went to COSTCO and Aldi at the Airport.  (As an aside: another breach of ethics in indirectly supporting the Snow family enterprises.)

The shape of things to come was revealed by a queue to get in the door!
Possibly part of the reason for the queue backing up was 2 staffers spraying sanitiser on the handles of the trolleys.   Haven't seen that at any other stores, but it seems like a good idea.
 The crowd inside was enormous.  I'm sure there were more than 500 people in there!
Some of the shelves were empty.  This one was an aisle for flour.
This is one of the queues for the checkout.  It actually goes right to the end of the aisle and round the corner.  When we joined in, it took us almost exactly 30 minutes to get to the checkout.  The woman who served us was still very friendly, and as usual efficient.
While in the queue you could see what others had bought.   Obviously this trolley belonged to someone who had got on the door as soon as it opened.
The award for "I don't care what it's called" shopping goes to the lady with a case  of Corona beer!

When we got to Aldi it was far less crowded.  That applies both to customers and the shelves.  Toilet rolls all gone, also meat, yogurt and cheese.  Apparently it had been a lot busier earlier in the day.  When we got back to Civic Frances ducked over to the Aldi store and found the products we needed still in good supply.  (She didn't check for bog-rolls and we are still OK for that.)

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