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Panic Shopping v2.0

Outside of dairy products, and rum&coke fixings, we could probably go a month or more without re-stocking anything

We live out in a rural part of the county, I shop like I may not get into town for a week or more :homer:
 
We went to Costco today for some paper towels, they had some in stock and we are about out... except for the blue shop papertowels which I am not using. They also had some ass-wipe, the soft stuff. Got a bundle of each. Meat section looked fine. But I did hear from neighbors that the local grocery stores are running dry of paper products.
 
Something to be said about shitting on the company dime. Before this broke out we could last months on a 12 pack... but put 3 of us in the same house 24/7 and have 2 of them be female... it goes fast. I caught my 10 year old spool off about 5 foot for one wipe (walked by and heard the TP roll spinning.. WTF). We had a talk after that. :laughing:
 
After the first panic, I've been keeping two big packages of TP while one is open. Once that one is done, I buy another.

Also been keeping the freezers pretty well stashed.
 
Eric said:
An ex stayed at my place back in August and went through 2 rolls in like 10 days.

Somebody already posted the secret above. Shhhhh.
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Fuck that. I never shit at work unless its a 911 - I am gonna have to explain to the boss how I shit myself and have to go home and change.

Been working there since 2007 and shit there maybe 4 times.

I like the home field advantage. Hotel rooms are fine since they are "mine" but public toilets is a nope.
 
dntsdad said:
Fuck that. I never shit at work unless its a 911 - I am gonna have to explain to the boss how I shit myself and have to go home and change.

Been working there since 2007 and shit there maybe 4 times.

I like the home field advantage. Hotel rooms are fine since they are "mine" but public toilets is a nope.
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Not this. Different secret. Keep reading . . .
 
I just went to Wally world and picked up a few groceries and happened upon a pack of the good TP I like. Totally forgot it at the register. Fuck it. :homer:
 
Saw that it started happening in the bay area again.... glad i left! We happened to walk by a full paper isle in lowes the other day so we grabbed a big pack of tp and paper towels so now i dont need to play that game for months...
we also have some good meat markets around so ill let them have a run on the grocery store if they want.....
 
I used to make fun of my boss clearing out the tp when he stayed in hotels, we haven't bought shit tickets in years. :lmao:
 
And some people aren't' paying enough attention to realize the hoarding has started again. Boss built a new building and the new toilet paper holders won't take the old rolls. He told us to grab some of it if we wanted, he couldn't use it. I found a bag already loaded up and grabbed it when I left. It was a 30 gallon trash bag full. 🤣
 
bigun said:
The news media has spent years telling everyone die from this natural disaster or that, suddenly there is true possible killer and people freak out
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The flu is a killer too but no one freaked out like this. Media love fear mongering brings rating.

I stopped at Walmart today and pickup stuff no problem and they had 308 ammo in stock too boot. We’re stocked good at the house but it’s not from pandemic fear.
 
LOL I contacted my niece to see if we needed to bring anything down for Thansgiving she said Eggs can't find them in Deming as a joke I asked her about TP she said yes so I sent her 24 rolls from Walmart. I figure with one teenage daughter and one almost teen, a 3 year old boy and 7 month old plus mom an dad they'll be through that by next Friday
 
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No panic buying here. We always have a costco tp pack +. As others have mentioned when one is emptied we pick up another. Last costco run we did all our meat shopping too. Bought 105 lbs of beef, chicken, pork and turkey. That was on top of the 100ish pounds already in the freezer including some venison.

Also stay stocked up with frozen veggies and dry goods. Wife has a bunch of stuff canned too. We are probably set for 6 to 8 months except for coffee. We probably only have 6lbs or so.:laughing:
 
Landslide said:
The flu is a killer too but no one freaked out like this. Media love fear mongering brings rating.

I stopped at Walmart today and pickup stuff no problem and they had 308 ammo in stock too boot. We’re stocked good at the house but it’s not from pandemic fear.
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I thought they had removed all the ammo and guns to keep the rednecks pissed at Trump loosing from raiding them for more ammo and guns
 
dntsdad said:
Fuck that. I never shit at work unless its a 911 - I am gonna have to explain to the boss how I shit myself and have to go home and change.

Been working there since 2007 and shit there maybe 4 times.

I like the home field advantage. Hotel rooms are fine since they are "mine" but public toilets is a nope.
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I used to be like that, then I entered adult hood and started shitting in public. I also went from drinking juicy juice boxes to coffee, beer and eating rare meat around the same time:flipoff2:

Jokeing aside, face masks make it more bearable to shit in the visitors arena.
 
I fucking hate Costco! I fucking drive 20 miles, only to find out they are out of what I came for. But what really pissed me off is my coffee! I have been grinding my own Costco's "First Colony" coffee. Yeppers; gone don't have it anymore! Fucking teaser on some castelvetrano olives; nope, no more!. Bought a couple of golf shirts; wore them once. CRAP! I am about ready to start punching babies and kicking nunns. :mad3:
 
billdacat said:
I fucking hate Costco! I fucking drive 20 miles, only to find out they are out of what I came for. But what really pissed me off is my coffee! I have been grinding my own Costco's "First Colony" coffee. Yeppers; gone don't have it anymore! Fucking teaser on some castelvetrano olives; nope, no more!. Bought a couple of golf shirts; wore them once. CRAP! I am about ready to start punching babies and kicking nunns. :mad3:
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Sounds like somebody needs a strong cup of coffee :flipoff2:
 
billdacat said:
I fucking hate Costco! I fucking drive 20 miles, only to find out they are out of what I came for. But what really pissed me off is my coffee! I have been grinding my own Costco's "First Colony" coffee. Yeppers; gone don't have it anymore! Fucking teaser on some castelvetrano olives; nope, no more!. Bought a couple of golf shirts; wore them once. CRAP! I am about ready to start punching babies and kicking nunns. :mad3:
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Amazon has a good selection of beans and the advantage is you don't have to go to Costco.
 
Halffastford said:
And some people aren't' paying enough attention to realize the hoarding has started again.
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:homer: Like me. Wife told me last night. A friend asked me to shoot any deer I see. It alarmed me.

why? 1,000,000 cases a week I guess. Election

do people not just keep their shelves full all the time and just replace what you use? Call me silly but it’s simple. There is no need for multiple rounds of hording if you simply learned your lesson the first time.
 
Slander said:
I used to be like that, then I entered adult hood and started shitting in public. I also went from drinking juicy juice boxes to coffee, beer and eating rare meat around the same time:flipoff2:

Jokeing aside, face masks make it more bearable to shit in the visitors arena.
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For me it’s not about being shy and all about the toilets looking like they’re stuccoed every time I have to use them. I work on an AFB and I swear the Airmen are supplementing with everything that can give them diarrhea . :barf:
 
Poke said:
:homer: Like me. Wife told me last night. A friend asked me to shoot any deer I see. It alarmed me.

why? 1,000,000 cases a week I guess. Election

do people not just keep their shelves full all the time and just replace what you use? Call me silly but it’s simple. There is no need for multiple rounds of hording if you simply learned your lesson the first time.
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Try finding a freezer to store all your meat and whatnot in. My big freezer is stuffed after she went out and binged on groceries a few weeks ago. I’m like oooooh kaaaay, if I kill a deer where am I going to put it at. I get this :confused: So we went freezer shopping. Only found 7 cu ft and 5 cu ft freezers and they’re selling fast. Nothing big is available ever since the first panic buy.
 
Landslide said:
I’m like oooooh kaaaay, if I kill a deer where am I going to put it at. I get this :confused:
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At first, this was a concern of mine as well. Then I laughed at the idea of me even seeing a deer. :laughing:
 
Santa said:
. We are probably set for 6 to 8 months except for coffee. We probably only have 6lbs or so.:laughing:
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Not a sophistcated coffee drinker, Folger's classic roast buy in 2, 48oz containers for $9.96 we buy it as a filler when I need to make the minumim to get free shipping from Walmart on line. we opened one this morning so we are down to 16 pounds
 
I'm wondering if some of it is trucking/shipping capacity right now as well. All of the Black Friday and holiday stuff moving around. Truck freight shit is a mess right now, SLC was running 4 or 5 days behind last week when we were trying to get parts to site.
 
Broncokyle88 said:
That’s part of it. There has been a driver shortage for the past 5+ years. And as such, there’s little to no capacity available in the system for a sudden surge in demand. There’s a brief surge in freight volume in spring and before the holidays, and most carriers are scaled to handle that as their maximum. No extra equipment or drivers to handle anything beyond that. There’s also the change in the way retailers are ordering product that is a factor. Everyone wants to run lean, and relies on “just in time” logistics to replenish their inventory. They don’t keep massive warehouses loaded with huge stockpiles of inventory anymore. They order enough for the week, and that’s it. The less inventory you keep sitting in the warehouse or on the shelf, the lower your overhead, and the better you look to your investors. A steady stream of small shipments instead of huge ones. Which works fine for 95% of the time, but when something interrupts that flow, such as stupid panic buying wiping the shelves of a months worth of inventory in an hour, or a carrier shutting down or going on strike, is when you see the shit hit the fan. The carriers can’t keep up with the hugely increased demand even if the manufacturers were able to pump out the product fast enough to keep up with the retailers ordering.


tldr

Penny pinching to please investors leads to retarded just in time logistics being the norm, and when something not normal happens everything goes to shit
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I've been making the lean, time on target inventory argument since this started. Production is setup the same way, so the smallest hiccup has a huge ripple effect. Places are doing no or severely scaled back outages on top of it that is going to bite them in the ass starting next year. One IP plant I visit usually does a month outage in the fall, they didn't even take two weeks this year, I got hung up in Idaho and couldn't make it back in time for their annual inspection...
 
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