Item
Grabbing for Groceries
Media
Title (Dublin Core)
Grabbing for Groceries
Description (Dublin Core)
Grocery shopping is part of nearly everyone’s life. We’re used to going into a store at most hours of the day and night and finding what we need. Many of us eat out quite often so don’t stockpile food supplies at home and don’t cook at home very often. So grocery shopping pre-pandemic was a relatively easy and boring task. With the pandemic came restaurant closures and restrictions and people started eating at home more often. People started buying greater quantities of food and other grocery items (particularly toilet paper!), which led to shortages and quotas on the purchase of particular items. The grocery store became somewhat of a combat zone, with people battling each other for items and viewing others as the enemies who either were going to steal their food or give them the virus. The entire grocery shopping experience changed precipitously for most individuals and reflected a major shift in how society acquires and shares its food.
Date (Dublin Core)
January 24, 2021
Creator (Dublin Core)
Sharon E. Hunt
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Sharon Hunt
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Text story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Consumer Culture (shopping, dining...)
English
Food & Drink
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
grocery store
shopping
toilet paper
hoarding
distribution
food supply
home cooking
restaurant
Great Depression
cultural shift
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
food
grocery
shopping
FoodIsLife
foodways
fear
panic
hoarding
cooking
sanitation
store
complacency
sharing
compassion
urgency
selfishness
ignorance
preparedness
emergency
Collection (Dublin Core)
Foodways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
01/24/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/25/2021
08/02/2022
09/17/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
01/24/2021
This item was submitted on January 24, 2021 by Sharon Hunt using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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