Posted on 03/20/2020 1:09:15 PM PDT by Morgana
Notices posted at Costco this week indicate the store is no longer accepting returns on key items that many are stocking up on the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The signs, posted by several Costco Instagram accounts (not affiliated with the store itself), indicate that returns are not being accepted on toilet paper, paper towels, rice, water, sanitizing wipes, and Lysol.
It's not clear if the new policy is store-by-store or part of a national corporate push. Costco announced limits earlier this week on certain items that have seen a spike in purchases as customers stock up. This could be part of that policy, but we've reached out to Costco for more information. For the time being, it's best to refer to your local Costco for more information on its policies.
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They’ll just gift them. Prepare for gifts of hand sanitizer, wet wipes, and bar soap for years to come.
They will be using their TP for poker chips!!!
I have 4 cats. All love to hunt, kill, and eat rodents. All I have to do is turn them out to do what they do naturally, they won't starve, just get leaner and meaner. Dogs on the other hand, are pretty much dependent on humans feeding them or scavenging through their trash. Guess I better don my flame-suit now...lol
Extra attic insulation.
Bonfire starter.
Paper mache’ projects.
“They can donate the surplus to their local food pantries.”
That is a great idea!
Last year for personal and business insurance I spent over $10,000. Been doing that every year for a long time. A couple years ago I finally made use of it for $4,000 of stolen equipment.
I view my modest preparations as insurance. Although at least with the cleaning supplies I’m already getting use out of that. Along with the food that limits our trips going out. And share stuff with friends that need it.
> ...I dont know how they can enforce the policy after the fact.
I imagine buried somewhere in their policy is a statement along the lines of “The policies are subject to change”.
Won’t be returning my Coronavirus/Hurricane/SHTF supply of Costco zipfizz, caveman bars and pistachios.
“Rice is very a poor food to try and survive on.”
Whenever I’ve been caught with a meager meal I remember my Vietnamese hair cutter. As a child she and her mom would beg in the street after the war. She got one ball of rice to eat each day.
“I was so jealous of my older brother who got two balls of rice. But he went to work on a farm all day so he needed it more.”
Her younger sister didn’t survive though - starved to death.
Publix here in Florida has no trouble stocking bottled water during Hurricanes. I suspect there is TP in the warehouses but they don’t want to fill their trucks with it. They’d rather put other merchandise on it.
Sounds right to me. Let the hoarders choke on the stuff.
Generally yes, but....a friend of mine has a farm and went to Iraq for a year on a contract job and when he came back, field mice had chewed up all his toilet paper. ha ha
one lady ordered on line and was ship some 80 years worth of TP. They will not take it back
Sounds like she’s positioned to become a wholesale distributor, unless she paid too much per.
Good move too, because once that stuff has been in peoples homes, you dont know if its been contaminated.
By restocking it, they could potentially be exposing someone else.
The unpaid “renting” to obviate risk, that others mention, is also problematic.
That;s smart. Let the hoarding losers eat many, many rice bowls for the foreseeable future.
Well the Costco I went in deleted every item in the snack bar except hot dogs and ice cream and the sit down tables were gone too.
Rice is very a poor food to try and survive on.
Costco without hot dogs isn’t Costco.
And the elderly on small, limited incomes would still be screwed......
Hoarders will be hoarders and they're the ones responsible for all this crap, not the merchants...
Fortunately this is short term and all the hoarders of TP will have enough TP for the next 6 to 8 months and in a couple of weeks there will be enough for everybody on the shelves......
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