When Grocery Stores Go Empty – A Back Door Shopping Strategy

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When Grocery Stores Go Empty – A Back Door Shopping Strategy
Despite our best efforts, many of us will be forced to join the masses and head to the grocery store to stock up for the days or weeks to come.  If that happens, this is your guide to surviving the ordeal and coming out with a good amount of needed nutrition.
How to Avoid the Grocery Store
stock up on dry and canned goods in advance, please do it.  Have woods for hunting, a pond for fishing, a garden for vegetables, fruit trees for peaches and apples, and even a trap line, as well as, grape vines, wild edibles, mulberry trees, and blackberry bushes.  This is the ideal setup to avoid the grocery store when SHTF.
What to Expect at the Store
Like shopping on Black Friday, but add in the variable that everybody is fighting for their lives.  Yes, it will be that insane.  Initially people will assume that power will be restored within a few days, so perishable versus non-perishable will not be a huge factor.  Milk, eggs, bread, butter, meat, produce, and premade meals will go first.  These aisles will either be picked over or will be a war zone, so you are best to avoid them completely. Batteries, alcohol, cigarettes, and toilet paper will also go fast.  After 72 hours, people will start to realize that this problem could be long term.  At this point there will be a larger focus on canned goods and dried goods.  In order to come home with anything of value, you need to have a strategy going into the store.
Phase 1
Try to target the high value items that other people may be overlooking on day one of the panic, you will have some opportunity to focused on non-perishable items.  This includes rice, pasta, beans, powdered milk, juice, powdered eggs, jerky, boxed meals, canned goods, pickled items, dried fruit, nuts, popcorn, cereal, crackers, or anything else which does not have to be refrigerated or frozen.  Also look for any toiletry items that may be overlooked.  Everybody will go for toilet paper, but items like deodorant, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, razors, and shaving cream can make life much easier. 
Phase 2
Move on to the items that almost everybody forgets.  Hit the baking aisle for flour, oats, sugar, oil, and spices.  Go after disposable items such as cups, paper plates, silverware, and paper towels, cleaning supplies for the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry. Get medical supplies such as aspirin, bandages, Benadryl, antacid, prescriptions, rubbing alcohol, iodine, chap stick, and petroleum jelly.  Raid the vitamin aisle for multivitamins, protein shakes, energy bars, supplements and chocolate bars.
Get some wet and dry dog food (as a last resort for nutrition), charcoal, flashlights, candles, cordage, superglue, and air freshener.  You do not want to make more than one trip to this mad house.
General Caution
Before you enter the store, be realistic about what you are going to face.  There will be fights and people will be trampled.  Someone may even open fire to clear out an aisle.  This is a very dangerous scenario.  Be the grey man, blend in and do not bring attention to yourself.  Move quickly, but do not run.  If there is conflict in one area of the store, move to another.  Avoid paying with cash if possible so nobody is tempted to try and rob you.  Bring a way to defend yourself, but do not pull it out unless you have no other choice.  Do not run into the store and go nuts like everybody else.  Be methodical about the items you target, go after the items that others forget, you will get more of what you need will very little chance of conflict.

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Under General Conditions, I would add team up two people to one cart.  I no it is a waste of time, but could make a huge difference in keeping what you did find.  No little kids off by themselves either.

Along with the spirit of the post don't forget specialty stores, like cake stores and bakery's they be will to part with bags of flour.  Or even ethnic stores you will most likely be the outsider if you don't shop there now, but might not be a lot of choice.