Toilet paper update...
I made it to Walmart this morning 10 minutes after opening to do (what I consider) weekly shopping. Since this area is on a stay-home order, I got a few extra items to minimize my trips out... important things and not 4 bottles of Coke like the last trip!Expecting the panic buying to be over... I was wrong.
Displays of fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs all looked like normal. This time there were a limited selection of meats, better than the last visit.
It was the paper products aisle that was empty.
I did see one woman with a package of toilet paper so there must have been some stock that got scooped up in 15 minutes of the store opening!
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They also had smaller 4-roll-packs on promotion at end-of-aisle at a price designed for the impatient (and very rich)
Costco customers line up at 3 am. Costco allows 1 toilet paper, 1 milk ,1 of bread
Worse situation than world war 2
This is normal for me and hoarding isn't required.
Jenny, thoughts of customers waiting at 3am is frightening.
I know my local Walmart normally restocks with a night crew at 10pm.
Now with limited hours that may change to after the store closes.
They would bring everything out on pallets with shrink wrap and lately customers break the wrapping, pull open boxes to get to products.
It's too much for the employees to control.
One woman told that she really didn't need t.p. but when she saw others ..................next
Two days ago I was in a store and 1/2 joked to the manager, "will you ever have toilet paper again ?". To my surprise, she stated, "can you be here at 8 am tomorrow". Thinking of my neighbors across the street, I retorted; "Yes, I can." So, the next morning I got there exactly when they unlocked the door and was the first person in the store (although there were several people waiting in their vehicles, while I walked, and timed it perfectly).
I saw the manager and reminded her of our conversation (there was no toilet paper on the shelves) from the day before. So, she went to the loading dock area and walked back out with 1 case of toilet paper. Thus, I bought four 4-packs (the store limit), thanked her, and walked back to my street with the Bounty (pun intended) and knocked on my neighbor's door and gave it to them. They thanked me "very much" and started to get money to pay for it and I said, "It's my treat for being such good neighbors". This morning they knocked on my door and surprised me a carrot cake.
issue. Spotty on a lot of things. They did find lemons for me that they couldn't find a few days ago. I promised the girls we'll make a lemon pound cake next week. So, we're just winging it like everyone else.
7:30am Walmart had about 20 four-packs of name brand toiled paper.
That's it. The other shelves remained empty.
Even better 3 fig trees.
TP ain't the only game in town.