Grocery shopping levels still increasing but not at frenzied levels

Traffic and basket size at local supermarkets shifted from record- breaking to more modest jumps last week, allowing the stores to replenish shelves with basics and items for Easter and Passover meals.

"The speed at which this occurred went from zero to 400 in four days," Curt Funk, senior vice president of merchandising for Lunds & Byerlys, said of the buying sprees in the past month. "We plan for many months for the Christmas surge, and this was worse, but sales are starting to level off now."

https://www.startribune.com/supermarket-execs-talk-shortages-new-shopping-habits-and-easter-meal-prep/569417052/