Posted on 01/26/2015 11:27:10 AM PST by Mad Dawgg
Grocery stores in New York City and around the Northeast are being overrun and cleaned out as customers brace for a "potentially historic" snow storm set to bury the region.
Shoppers tweeted photos from checkout lines at stores throughout the Northeast using the hashtags #blizzardof2015 and #Snowmageddon2015:
..and here's proof! @WholeFoods more like wholezoo. #blizzardof2015 pic.twitter.com/XoixguYZrv — Teresa Priolo (@Fox5Teresa) January 25, 2015
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I remember a FReeper telling how he manage to trek out in to a big snow storm to a store that was still open and returned to a Heroes welcome when he returned to his wife and four daughters with a big pack of toil paper!
Equating buying groceries for a few days or a week ... with ... “prepping” is simply fuzzing up the idea of what prepping is and who preppers are.
They are not the same as shopping for weekly groceries.
That's just what I thought.
And Saturday's too.
Juno you forgot cinnamon for the french toast? Better hurry!
I don’t get why you don’t get it ... LOL ...
I find it hard to believe that you “find it hard to believe” ... LOL ...
A dishwasher is worlds from being a generator, and especially during an emergency when the electricity is out.
Why would NYC ban dishwashers?
During the recession I got into couponing(before the TV shows). There was one brand of TP and paper towels called Marcal. I think they were trying to introduce themselves into various markets in the country. Therefore, about once every month they had a coupon in the Sunday paper for $1.00.
It was good for one four pack of toilet paper or one paper towel. The local grocery store Market Basket sold these for $.99.(so they were free).
There are people who sell coupons on EBAY. The coupons at first were about $.08 each for this brand(two cents per TP roll) I was buying them in blocks of 20 or more. Soon I had two other people who I was splitting them with. At one point I bought 400 coupons.
I started pre ordering them from the local grocery store by the case. I heard others were doing the same thing and selling them at the Flea Markets.
The most I ever had was 7 cases of toilet paper(96 rolls per case) and 6 cases of Paper Towels(24/case). Literally over one years worth. Eventually the price of the coupon got up to about $.35 each. Then Marcal stopped putting out the coupon.
I always wondered where the people who sold them on EBAY would come up with thousands of one coupon. They must have worked for the printing company that sent them to the newspapers. I know some people would actually go to their local paper on Monday after they collected the Sunday papers that did not get bought at the stores. They would dumpster dive for the coupons.
LOL! Are you the voice of experience?
Juno I cross de border and get all kinds of free stuff mang.
Acclimation. I used to spend the day outside in 23deg. Skating. Now. No
That would be entirely a matter of personal choice ... and nothing to do with idiocy.
I had friends studying at Cooper-Union that stayed in tenement apartments that had the water closet in a literal closet with a tiny window, no sink. Claw foot bathtub was to one side of the tiny open kitchen space. It had a fold-up wooden lid with a plastic table cloth between bathing times.
Umm...about them dishwashers, I had one installed, third floor.
Are you in NYC?
Juno your cat’s in heat? Out there on a snowdrift?
I don’t kiss and tell. ;-)
The fast food places will be the FIRST BUSINESSES OPEN ... guaranteed. They wouldn’t miss such an opportunity ... :-) ...
What do you think?
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