If you’re one of the 50 million people in the northeast currently under a blizzard or storm watch, chances are you’re trying to stock up on goods at the grocery store.
Unfortunately, you’re not the only one who’s trying to buy snacks in bulk before two feet of snow hit. Grocery stores are pretty chaotic right now and we’ve got the pictures to prove it:
It's 4:15 pm and this is the Trader Joe's line.....to get inside pic.twitter.com/nCA5o4v6dp
— Nicole He (@nicolehe) March 13, 2017
A full house means a line outside to enter Trader Joe's in center city west Philadelphia. #traderjoes #stella #wint… pic.twitter.com/WeSHQT9w9Y
— Sean Kardon (@seankardon) March 13, 2017
Man by the looks of the 100+ people just waiting to get into Trader Joe's we're getting 10 feet (not 10 inches) tomorrow pic.twitter.com/IPnfHjnOvN
— Nick Bayer (@nickbayer) March 13, 2017
Turns out Trader Joe's isn't giving the food away. There's just a storm coming to Brooklyn. #stella
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Conclusion: Trader Joe's is def worse #blizzard2017 pic.twitter.com/2IFjZZbfbL
— Jennifer N Levin (@ClassicLevin) March 13, 2017
Good grief. You'd think we were preparing for Armageddon, not 8"of snow #stella #blizzard2017 pic.twitter.com/bJiuKChsoV
— Brian Smith (@elonsmitty) March 13, 2017
Trader Joe’s Clarendon update: massive line of pre-snowstorm shoppers snakes all the way around the store pic.twitter.com/jEeYNEAxJF
— Arlington News (@ARLnowDOTcom) March 13, 2017
@nynjpaweather @spann grocery store chaos in Queens, NY! #stella #blizzard2017 #BreadandMilk pic.twitter.com/Nq02ARjmSq
— Kristine Kubacki (@kkubacki) March 12, 2017
Lines are out the door at Trader Joe's on Broadway & 72nd! #NYCBlizzardShopping pic.twitter.com/BXkpniy4kZ
— Sherma Felix (@shermafelix) March 13, 2017
Line to get in to Center City Trader Joe's before #snowmageddon2017 pic.twitter.com/9XM53vpzRi
— David Munson (@DavidBMunson) March 13, 2017
People have already observed some crazy things in line at their respective stores:
Trader Joe's pre-blizzard is not for the faint of heart. Just dodged a box of Joe Joe's hurled by a human who was cut in line #blizzard2017
— Kate Johnson (@mkathrynjohnson) March 13, 2017
I deadass just saw a lady get a dominos pizza delivered to the Trader Joe's line lmao smh #nycblizzardprep
— Kat Kovacs (@katsamkov) March 13, 2017
I'm at Trader Joe's shopping for the office hours before the blizzard and things are HAPPENING here
— Ryan Martin Brown (@ryanbrown23) March 13, 2017
Other people just can’t get over the long lines and the chaos that comes with them:
Apparently all New Yorkers are at the Trader Joe's on 14th right now. pic.twitter.com/FRksIuTz1c
— Hai Kim (@thehaikim) March 13, 2017
Line JUST to get inside Trader Joe's is making me paranoid. 😳. It's only a one day blizzard right?
— biola (@BiolaOdunewu) March 13, 2017
Line to Chelsea Trader Joe's goes out the door, all the way down the street. That's the line to get in.
— Amy Wilson (@amywilson) March 13, 2017
In a pre-blizzard Trader Joe's. Pray for me.
— Sailor Mer(Kaye)ry (@gildedspine) March 13, 2017
Long lines at the grocery store, "world is ending" lines like at Trader Joe's.
— Dvora Meyers (@DvoraMeyers) March 13, 2017
Certain model citizens even tweeted about what was missing from their stores:
@rachsyme Whole Foods TriBeCa has been emptied of all brussel sprouts
— Danielle Sacks (@daniellesacks) March 13, 2017
Good luck #blizzard2017 survivors. Whole Foods Gowanus was even sold out of coconut milk last night...
— Lindsay Powers (@lkpe) March 13, 2017
Stay safe in the storm. And if you can, head to a bodega.
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