Trying to Avoid Store Crowds

With Thanksgiving this week, one thing I am dreading is getting to the grocery store before the holiday and trying to avoid the crowds. I had to pick up something on Thanksgiving Day last year and when I arrived at Safeway, there was literally no place to park. Walgreens and Target were both closed, and only one line was a Rite Aid. So I went back to Safeway and found an empty parking space, and was able  to get what I needed. I was willing to fight the crowds on this one; getting into the store to begin with was the real challenge here.

But I'm hoping to avoid all this for this year. I already made a store run yesterday, but even before that I went to Dollar Tree to stock up on bathroom items before the holiday. These are things I don't want to have to rush down on Thanksgiving Day to get. And since I have Tuesdays off, I plan to get drinks for my potluck at work then, as well as something to take on Thursday. I'm going to a friend's for the holiday, the same one I went to last year. I really enjoyed it then. I plan to get a pie for that one. I was going to ry to make a no-bake pie, but since I have never tried such a recipe, I decided to get one at the store. Maybe another time I will try a no-bake pie, perhaps for Christmas. I'm going the store on Tuesday won't be crowded like that depicted in this photo.

And I would never even think of shopping on Friday early in the morning. If a grocery emergency should arise that day, I will wait until later in the day, hoping the crowds thin out by that time.