Posted on 03/12/2020 4:39:05 AM PDT by ealgeone
Is anyone seeing runs on supplies like toilet paper, bleach, etc.?
I was at the grocery store yesterday the TP aisle was pretty much cleared out. Most household cleaning supplies were available although bleach was limited.
Believe it or not hand soap/sanitizer was available in limited quantities.
Rest of groceries looked to be good.
Shopping that takes place today will be the real measure, after the president’s speech, more travel bans and news of all the sporting events with no spectators, and school closings, etc.
Down with Big Toilet Paper!
Buy one of those toilet seat bidets!
This crisis has reprogrammed us all. In “The Stand”, survivors left home and headed out of town.
In “The Andromeda Strain” Those addicted to drinking alcohol and crying colic babies were survivors.
Why TP? Why not ice cream and cake? Fritos? Wolf Brand Chili? Bubble bath? shampoo and hair spray? DR. PEPPER?
We are about 35 miles south of Denver.
Way out in the country.
Our local Walmart people were telling us yesterday that people from Colorado Springs and Denver were coming here to shop because stores in other areas were out of stock for so much.
We are making sure our regular supplies are topped up.
Diesel and gasoline supplies, we keep about 30 gals of each for the tractor and other equipment.
I will be doing a “AAA” check today...Arms, Ammo and Access.
Functional checks, magazines loaded up and spare ammo in the house.
Meds and food supplies all topped off also.
I expect to see more people in our area looking for supplies and easy pickings...
IF we start to see more restrictions on interstate travel then trucking operations that provide stock might start getting affected. PEOPLE in the cities will be leaving and coming out to the country...that’s why I am elevating our prep state.
No parking spots and the place was in overflow mode, even during the big sales {which I avoid} it is never this crowded.
If Sam's was selling it, people wanted it {and it could have been anything}.
Panic is in full bloom mode.
Sheryl Crow has two rolls, so she’ll be okay...
LOL!
TP was gone, brand-name paper towels down to about 20 packs, no Costco brand. Facial tissues were out, too. Napkins were plentiful. Disposable plates/bowls/utensils were full. Bottled water was available, but not plentiful. No bleach anywhere. There was some hand soap and other types of cleaning supplies tucked in out-of-the-way areas.
Food was normal-ish. The only thing I could see for certain that was empty was the Panko Breaded Shrimp in the frozen isle. It was on sale for $4.00 off, so it was gone. I did manage to spot a box stuck between the very back of the shelf and the pallets of other frozen goods behind it. I used my height and my reach to free that little sucker from its predicament.
Canned goods were lower than normal (canned beans, corn, tuna, etc...), but it wasn't stripped bare.
Gas lines were full outside - not a normal mid-week afternoon there. I had filled up there yesterday morning at $1.879, so that coupled with the news of COVID-19 probably led to the longer lines.
WP.
Amazon is out of TP
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Wow. They weren’t yesterday. I ordered a box of 80 rolls of Scot. Delivery next week. Things change fast.
My grandmother lived through the depression and WWII, Korea, Viet Nam. When we ramped up the Gulf War in 1991, she bought a whole lot of TP. She still had a bunch of it in 1993 when my folks moved her from Bend, OR, back to Nampa, ID.
Scott is finishing grade tp. We buy the good stuff.
Most of the descriptions of symptoms I've seen regarding COVID-19 include diarrhea. That, along with stores only have about 3 days worth of supplies on hand, and potential supply chain disruptions due to quarantine, are probably the biggest factors. I'm sure there are opportunists in there, as well, buying up all they can to sell for $5/roll later.
I bought several chuck roasts on sale a few weeks ago.
Along with several pounds of carrots, celery and potatoes.
I turned all of that into 12 Qts of pressure canned beef stew.
I also tossed a couple of roasts in the freezer. Praying the power stays on.
I think the ChiComs have kept power on, during this breakout, so, hopefully we can, too.
An addendum to my prior post at the ABQ westside Costco; there was no bleach in the aisles, but I could see in several pallets of Clorox back in their staging area.
When my Norwegian born grandmother died who had come to America just before the great depression as a widow with a young son, my dad, my father and his brother, my uncle discovered her hoard of canned goods and cans of coffee. Some of the coffee cans were brands that hadn’t been sold for some 30 years and some of the many dozens of canned vegetables dated back to the late 1950’s.
It will probably end up that peanut butter sandwiches are the cure.
It does the job.
You are missing that most people are idiots and quickly fall in line with the herd mentality.
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