Yes, they are getting 3 trucks per day. One perishable, one frozen and one dry load. Even if those trucks are full 53 foot trailers and just dedicated to that store (which they are likely not) it would take several days to fully restock an empty store of hard grocery.
Our trucks were normally Frozen peddle runs (with several stops on each truck) that would be a mix of Frozen Food, Meat, Deli, Seafood Frozen items.
Combo loads which would have Bakery, Deli, Meat, Dairy, Produce and whatever grocery that could be fit on the end of the trailer behind an insulated bulkhead would be dropped each day. The remaining grocery would arrive an a balance load trailer that was a peddle run later in the morning or early afternoon when drivers returned to the DC (distribution center) with the drop trailers that were picked up containing cardboard bales, empty bakery racks and empty pallets to be reused at the warehouse.
General Merchandise (diapers, baby food, formula, batteries, over the counter drugs items, etc would come several times each week on peddle runs.
Vendors would deliver their products, Milk (including cottage cheese, sour cream etc) Pepsi, Coke, 7up, Frito Lay, Snyders/Lance, Snack Cakes, Liquor, Beer, Pizzas, Ice Cream, Peg Candy, etc through the DSD (Direct Store Door) on their regular runs, some daily, some weekly, some multiple times each week.
Every chain does things a bit differently in order to find the most efficient delivery system that works for them, but that is how ours was done. Store sizes differ, so it would be hard to estimate the number of 53 foot trailers of hard grocery it would take to fully restock an empty store. I did help with a few new store start ups years ago and it was probably in the range of 5-8 loads to get the shelves full for grand opening, but as they didn't all arrive at the same time, I really don't remember.
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