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NYC Costco shoppers empty shelves in panic over port strike: ‘No toilet paper, paper towels’
NY Post ^ | 10/3/24 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 10/03/2024 9:18:30 AM PDT by DallasBiff

The dockworkers strike that has shut down dozens of ports on the East and Gulf Coasts has reportedly triggered panic buying of toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco on Staten Island — despite experts’ insistence that paper products won’t be affected by the strike.

Video footage on Wednesday showed vast, empty shelves of toilet paper, paper towels and facial tissues. One segment posted by FreedomNews.TV shows just a few pallets of Kleenex at the Costco on Richmond Avenue near the Staten Island Mall.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: costco; panic; portstrike; toiletpaper
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To: FlipWilson
I have heard the theory that this is designed to get bad and have Harris ride in to save the day.

If Harris gets elected, we'll be using paper dollars currency instead of toilet paper... because it'll be worthless.

81 posted on 10/03/2024 11:32:19 AM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: Rio

I was in Costco here in Cali yesterday and threw one of those mega packs of TP in my cart, not because I was worried about supply chain problems making TP unavailable, but because I was worried about everybody panic-buying all the TP like they did during COVID. And, lo and behold, some old guy in line ahead of me had nothing but 4 mega packs of TP in his cart.


82 posted on 10/03/2024 11:35:15 AM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
With the Covid panic in 2020 I walked into a Walmart and all the toilet paper was gone! In the bath supplies I found wash clothes 10 for $1.

As a child, I remember my mom scrubbing cloth diapers on a scrub board in the bathtub, from my younger siblings soiling their butts. She was very happy when my dad bought her a washing machine with rollers that squeezed out the water, for hanging the diapers from a clothesline.

People now don't realize times before disposable diapers.

83 posted on 10/03/2024 11:38:22 AM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: DallasBiff

NO PAPER! Well */\*&/*!!%^

“John Spartan you have been fined for violating the anti-morality statute”

Paper problem solved!


84 posted on 10/03/2024 11:40:19 AM PDT by Zack Attack (✔)
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To: DallasBiff

There is a strike against USA ports.

What about the USB ports?


85 posted on 10/03/2024 11:44:20 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: DallasBiff

Did they not learn from 2020?
You can buy a bidet attachment for your toilet for under $100. It installs in ten minutes. If you got poop on any other part of your body, would you just wipe it off with some paper? No, you’d wash it off! Wash your butt, NYC.


86 posted on 10/03/2024 11:46:25 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: DallasBiff

redneck bidet

garden hose


87 posted on 10/03/2024 11:57:11 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: DallasBiff

And in the meantime the DNC is holding focus groups with their media whore to spin this as being Trump’s fault.


88 posted on 10/03/2024 11:59:10 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Pollard

God blessed us with this house in 2019 and I bought a BIG chest freezer in the fall, just before Covid hit.

Watching the news and following what was happening in China, here on FR, you could see it coming so I started stocking up in Jan.

When President Trump announced the lockdown, I figured Id make one last run to Wegmans. The shelves were BARE. I found a few items and got those. Then I went to the local New Hope Mills in Auburn and their shelves were filled with flour, and baking supplies. Apparently nobody else thought of going there.

Then I ran over to Sauder’s in Seneca Falls, and they had a whole case full of meat, including chicken. Grabbed a bunch there and headed home to hunker down.

Those was my last stock up trip. It certainly would NOT have been enough for someone who had not prepared at all, but it was enough to top off everything I had and give us a few more weeks before going into the supplies.

Good thing too, because April first I got sick with what I am sure as Covid. I was sick as a dog but could still breathe and my lips weren’t turning blue so just treated myself through it.


89 posted on 10/03/2024 12:02:42 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Jane Long

Vacuum sealers rock.

Anyone who doesn’t have one and wants to freeze should get one. No freezer burn to deal with unless the bag gets punctured.


90 posted on 10/03/2024 12:04:21 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: dynachrome

“ Sponge on a stick, hose in the backyard, neighbors cat.”
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Look at this way, if you use the neighbor’s cat, maybe then the Haitians won’t eat them. 😂😂😂


91 posted on 10/03/2024 12:04:57 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: fr_freak

Bidet master race checking in

LOL luddites


92 posted on 10/03/2024 12:06:26 PM PDT by baclava
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To: Leaning Right

Typical NYC voter: “This is a disaster! The whole country is falling apart. I will, however, still vote for Harris.”

Sigh. 😒
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Ironically, Biden could have, and still can, end the strike with the stroke of a pen. He chooses not to do so because he doesn’t want to piss off the unions before the election. So I sincerely hope the New York City runs out of toilet paper, so they can find out exactly what Democrats bring them.


93 posted on 10/03/2024 12:06:53 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: joshua c

That’s going to be a bit tough with winter coming.


94 posted on 10/03/2024 12:13:21 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Red Badger

I didn’t know it was made overseas.....................
= = =

So far it is cheaper than paper currency.


95 posted on 10/03/2024 12:39:32 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: metmom

Our sealed meats (especially beef) lasted for YEARS :-)


96 posted on 10/03/2024 12:40:00 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: DallasBiff

i remember the great kung flu toilet paper shortage. It was so stupid. There was NO shortage of toilet paper. It was just packaged up for bulk deliveries through paper and janitorial supply houses. My shop is a few blocks away from a paper supply company and they had warehouses full of it they couldn’t get rid of. I got a huge case for wholesale.


97 posted on 10/03/2024 12:47:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: dynachrome
Sponge on a stick, hose in the backyard, neighbors cat.

Gargantua spoke well of the neck of a goose, but didn't like it when he tried a cat. Too scratchy.

98 posted on 10/03/2024 1:02:29 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: AbolishCSEU
I keep telling people we are back in the 70s with a worse sound track.
99 posted on 10/03/2024 1:05:48 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DallasBiff

My local costco was sold out of toilet paper yesterday but still had paper towels.


100 posted on 10/03/2024 1:13:13 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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