Notice any shortages besides TP?
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Northern Ky, no meat, frozen or fresh, no Po Tate Toes, no milk, no eggs, no cleaning supplies no TP, nothing. Luckily I'm a crazy prepper and live in the sticks, all good, also no 5.56 or 9mm and oddly enough no 40 cal. Strange times.
A lot of fruits and vegetables are imported this time of year. Chicken could be because of outsourcing the processing of chicken to China.
www.nytimes.com
Chinese Chicken Processors Are Cleared to Ship to U.S. (Published 2013)
The approval by the Agriculture Department is likely to add to the debate over the safety of food imports.
A lot of fruits and vegetables are imported this time of year. Chicken could be because of outsourcing the processing of chicken to China.
Chinese Chicken Processors Are Cleared to Ship to U.S. (Published 2013)
The approval by the Agriculture Department is likely to add to the debate over the safety of food imports.
Cant get past the NY times paywall. Does that article say they are shipping back raw frozen chicken or just chicken nuggets and things?
Take a look on Amazon and notice how scarce TP, hand sanitizer, even paper towels etc. I maintain a healthy stock of various canned beans, large bags of rice, and canned meats for nutritious meals "just in case." Rice and beans with animal protein and a good stock of multivitamins, Vitamin C...will get you through to the other side for a good long while if you have adeqauate supplies.
I do not believe there is a problem with supply, it's the demand that's gone bat-poop crazy.
As for ammo and firearms, I determined a "comfort level" of ammo inventory in my calibers of choice and maintain it at that level. When I shoot some, I but some.
Everyone has their own comfort levels for these kinds of things.
I do not believe there is a problem with supply, it's the demand that's gone bat-poop crazy.
As for ammo and firearms, I determined a "comfort level" of ammo inventory in my calibers of choice and maintain it at that level. When I shoot some, I but some.
Everyone has their own comfort levels for these kinds of things.
Most every human in the country decided to double or triple their rate of consumption last week. Once they backfill the supply, all will be good. Toilet paper is cheap vs the space required to store mass quantities of it, so the hoarders will run out of space soon enough too. I’ll go shopping again in a couple of weeks.
Went to the store last night smallish town. Granted I went at about 9PM so the ravaging had already taken place. They were starting to restock some items. My observations...
-Tons of fresh fruit and veggies were on the shelves. No impact here. Bought a big bag of oranges and apples because we go through them pretty quickly just on a normal basis.
-dry pasta, rice and beans, completely wiped out. Shelves bare. Loose pasta all over like there were pasta fights.
-bread and eggs, completely wiped out. All that was left were hamburger buns.
-coffee took a noticeable hit. Plenty of bags of beans left, but the cans of coffee were obviously diminshed.
-no tp, paper towels, napkins, hand sanitizer, iso alcohol or antibacterial soap. Completely wiped out.
-tons of laundry detergent, which is why I went.
-tons of fever reducers, like ibuprophen and acetametaphen. Lots of vitamins left too although there was an obvious hit on vitamin C.
-lots of fresh meat left.
-canned veggies, soups, beans were still available but also took a noticeable hit. Lots of frozen veggies avaialable.
-fresh oj and milk took a hit but were still available.
-Tons of fresh fruit and veggies were on the shelves. No impact here. Bought a big bag of oranges and apples because we go through them pretty quickly just on a normal basis.
-dry pasta, rice and beans, completely wiped out. Shelves bare. Loose pasta all over like there were pasta fights.
-bread and eggs, completely wiped out. All that was left were hamburger buns.
-coffee took a noticeable hit. Plenty of bags of beans left, but the cans of coffee were obviously diminshed.
-no tp, paper towels, napkins, hand sanitizer, iso alcohol or antibacterial soap. Completely wiped out.
-tons of laundry detergent, which is why I went.
-tons of fever reducers, like ibuprophen and acetametaphen. Lots of vitamins left too although there was an obvious hit on vitamin C.
-lots of fresh meat left.
-canned veggies, soups, beans were still available but also took a noticeable hit. Lots of frozen veggies avaialable.
-fresh oj and milk took a hit but were still available.
My wife went to two grocery stores Friday evening for her weekly shop. The shelves weren’t completely bare, but they were certainly low on stock of many things. She wasn’t able to buy her usual brands on certain items like pasta, spaghetti sauce, canned fruit, milk, etc. She commented that people were still being picky about what they bought, regular people weren’t buying the vegan spaghetti sauce or salt free options, so not in full panic mode.
We went to Costco two weeks ago and spend about triple what we normally would on staples we use all the time so we are stacked deep. Yes, I bought two bulk packs of TP, one of paper towels, hand soap, and a few more cases of bottled water that I use anyway. In addition I was looking for long term storage food items like canned chicken, precooked beef, canned veggies, canned corn, beans, etc that don’t require refrigeration but we will use over time. We completely filled our chest freezer with meat, fish, cheese, frozen fruit (for smoothies), bread, frozen veggies, and butter. I did stock up on the supplement/vitamins I take and grabbed rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, bleach, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc.
We would’ve been ok for a couple weeks without stocking up, but I feel better going into potential quarantine with more like 6 weeks worth of food in the house.
We went to Costco two weeks ago and spend about triple what we normally would on staples we use all the time so we are stacked deep. Yes, I bought two bulk packs of TP, one of paper towels, hand soap, and a few more cases of bottled water that I use anyway. In addition I was looking for long term storage food items like canned chicken, precooked beef, canned veggies, canned corn, beans, etc that don’t require refrigeration but we will use over time. We completely filled our chest freezer with meat, fish, cheese, frozen fruit (for smoothies), bread, frozen veggies, and butter. I did stock up on the supplement/vitamins I take and grabbed rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, bleach, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc.
We would’ve been ok for a couple weeks without stocking up, but I feel better going into potential quarantine with more like 6 weeks worth of food in the house.
At the local store, it's slim pickings on a lot of popular stuff.
Of course paper products are be there when the truck comes or don't get any.
The meat sections are pretty cleaned out, but you can still get what you need if you are a bit flexible and also come back when the trucks arrive.
Vegetables are hit and miss, get there when the truck arrives and you are good.
Same with dairy and eggs, get there when the truck arrives.
Pasta, bread, spaghetti sauce, ramen noodles, a bit short, but if you are willing to get the more expensive stuff there is still some on the shelf.
Peanut butter, jam, and stuff a bit scarce but available, just have to get the less popular or more expensive stuff
hand sanitizer or alcohol or that kind of stuff, don't bother, just go to the local liquor store and buy stuff (well not today if you are in Texas, but tomorrow you can).
Price are a bit up, okay technically prices are not up, they just cancelled all "sale" pricing or did less of a "sale discount" and usually everything is on "sale" as most retail places do.
Lots of folks interested in talking and chatting about food, prices and availability.
It's actually turned shopping into a much more social event.
Of course paper products are be there when the truck comes or don't get any.
The meat sections are pretty cleaned out, but you can still get what you need if you are a bit flexible and also come back when the trucks arrive.
Vegetables are hit and miss, get there when the truck arrives and you are good.
Same with dairy and eggs, get there when the truck arrives.
Pasta, bread, spaghetti sauce, ramen noodles, a bit short, but if you are willing to get the more expensive stuff there is still some on the shelf.
Peanut butter, jam, and stuff a bit scarce but available, just have to get the less popular or more expensive stuff
hand sanitizer or alcohol or that kind of stuff, don't bother, just go to the local liquor store and buy stuff (well not today if you are in Texas, but tomorrow you can).
Price are a bit up, okay technically prices are not up, they just cancelled all "sale" pricing or did less of a "sale discount" and usually everything is on "sale" as most retail places do.
Lots of folks interested in talking and chatting about food, prices and availability.
It's actually turned shopping into a much more social event.
As of 8am this morning in the metro Detroit area the only thing missing was TP and paper towels. Everything else was in full stock. It just looked like a normal to slightly more busy Sunday morning at Kroger. There were a few fools running around franticly but everyone else was quiet, calm and fine. Cashiers were friendly, lines were relatively short. The atmosphere actually felt like this wave of idiot stupidity finally passed.
I just hope the stock market stays low for a few months so I can buy some cheap stocks before they go back up and I can retire 30 years early.
I just hope the stock market stays low for a few months so I can buy some cheap stocks before they go back up and I can retire 30 years early.
Durex XXL Condoms , last time at the store they had plenty in stock thank god.
When I went to the store yesterday, they were out of most fresh meat, TP and paper towels, and the particular brand/size of tortillas I prefer, among other things.
But it was also late afternoon on a Saturday and the tortillas were on 2-for-1 sale so they always get wiped from the shelves, they usually have a lack of fresh meat products (or they just hadn't restocked the shelves as yet) at the end of the week, and they just happened to be out of the gallon jugs of iced tea. The cashiers were just as baffled by the TP/PT craziness as I was. Everything seemed normal and outside of the TP/PT, the only odd emptiness on the shelves was the meat. Canned goods, bottled drinks, all that stuff were all fine.
But it was also late afternoon on a Saturday and the tortillas were on 2-for-1 sale so they always get wiped from the shelves, they usually have a lack of fresh meat products (or they just hadn't restocked the shelves as yet) at the end of the week, and they just happened to be out of the gallon jugs of iced tea. The cashiers were just as baffled by the TP/PT craziness as I was. Everything seemed normal and outside of the TP/PT, the only odd emptiness on the shelves was the meat. Canned goods, bottled drinks, all that stuff were all fine.
Got back from regular Sunday grocery shopping and observed most of what was stated above.
Still plenty of PB&J.
Someone bought most of the carrots and broccoli... WTF?
Fruit cups almost gone, but the canned stuff is stocked full.
Cookies wiped out.
Frozen burritos wiped out.
Most of the folks in our area are educated and apparently they know to wipe out Advil and Tylenol.
We had water available and some bleach but the usual hoarding items are gone.
There were a lot of Walmart looking shoppers in the store last night when I went there for polishing cream and left with a bottle of wine instead.
We don't get a lot of Pajama shoppers in our area.
I think they are widening their search and fuckup areas so they can fill their closets with asswipe.
If it doesn't end soon, people will start stealing TP from public places.
Look before you poop fellas.
Still plenty of PB&J.
Someone bought most of the carrots and broccoli... WTF?
Fruit cups almost gone, but the canned stuff is stocked full.
Cookies wiped out.
Frozen burritos wiped out.
Most of the folks in our area are educated and apparently they know to wipe out Advil and Tylenol.
We had water available and some bleach but the usual hoarding items are gone.
There were a lot of Walmart looking shoppers in the store last night when I went there for polishing cream and left with a bottle of wine instead.
We don't get a lot of Pajama shoppers in our area.
I think they are widening their search and fuckup areas so they can fill their closets with asswipe.
If it doesn't end soon, people will start stealing TP from public places.
Look before you poop fellas.
My girl, who is my all-American redneck Mexican (LOL) told me it must be all the white people hoarding because all the tortillas and other mexican foods and "Fabuloso" cleaner are still in stock. I died laughing.
we have been having a large run on firewood, no shortage at this time
standby to standby
standby to standby
We did our weekly grocery shopping early Saturday morning. We found every thing we needed except coffee which we found later at Wally World. Plenty of paper products on the shelves but the stocking guys said it would probably all be gone in a couple of hours. I'm not going to panic. It is what it is and if some moron thinks he has to have 75 packages of TP or dozens of cases of bottled water because he may not be able to turn on the tap, then so be it.
Pallet under the shed still well stocked with clays. Still have more shotshells than a white man aught to have. Lots of beer and the better part of a roll of cope. Most of a carton of marlboros (don't tell the wife). All is well stocked here. If you mean town, fuck town.
Here it is 1lb of ground beef per person, there were no potatoes or carrots on the shelf, canned goods are very limited, and no paper products to speak of.
spam oh my god it has finally happened our local store has finally sold those 30 or so cans of spam lol the ones with the dusty tops mmm someone going to eat them lol.
Went out to my nephews to show him how t9 breakdown and clean his new pistol .
On the way traffic was lighter than Christmas Day but all the drivers were effin Special Olympiads . Had one heffer flippin shit cause I wouldn't move 9ver for her to pass me in the shoulder . On the way home I saw some 400lb Free Shit Army baby factory losing her shit cause Burger Kang wuz closed . Arms flailing , giving the doors the finger . Kept taking pictures of the sign on the door then lather rinse repeat. So evidently there is a shortage of Burver Kang Whoppers not FSA Heffers .
On the way traffic was lighter than Christmas Day but all the drivers were effin Special Olympiads . Had one heffer flippin shit cause I wouldn't move 9ver for her to pass me in the shoulder . On the way home I saw some 400lb Free Shit Army baby factory losing her shit cause Burger Kang wuz closed . Arms flailing , giving the doors the finger . Kept taking pictures of the sign on the door then lather rinse repeat. So evidently there is a shortage of Burver Kang Whoppers not FSA Heffers .
I forgot to mention flour. None on the shelves except coconut or other horrible alternate flour.
The whole TP thing is really starting to make me laugh. I mean the bottled water thing at least makes sense if running water got cutoff, but where's the logic in having a shit ton of TP when you don't have running water to flush it?
Anyways, the only shortages here that I'm actually taking notice of is the lack of regular and ice beer. Nothing but useless light beer on the shelves that only kids and boomers drink!
Anyways, the only shortages here that I'm actually taking notice of is the lack of regular and ice beer. Nothing but useless light beer on the shelves that only kids and boomers drink!
That is fucking unacceptable. What the fuck kind of third world shithole we in when Amazon deliveries are delayed???
Pure malarkey
Went to King Soopers with the wife yesterday, looked like the stores I saw visiting East Berlin while being stationed in West Germany during the 1980s. I guess sort of an election year preview of what stores would look like on some of the better days during a Bernie Sanders Presidency/Communist Dictatorship.
No TP, no paper towels, no tissue paper, no hand sanitizer, no chicken, or meat, except the $100 cuts, no eggs, no tomatoes, bottled water, the frozen section all but wiped out, no milk, some advice whispered from a store employee on how to score some of those goods elsewhere giving the whole thing a black market/flea market flavor. People scrambling for things just because they are still available whether they currently need them or not. Short supply of everything, especially common sense and restraint.
The only thing that wasn't in short supply seemed to be empty shelves, fear and panic; the Dems and their water carriers of the propaganda media must be so proud of themselves.
In light of this whole virus affair it has become very clear that our media is communist infected as well and in need of being sanitized because right now they are dirty and ultra red, and hyping "pandemic" to help try to destroy the economy, facts be d@mned.
No TP, no paper towels, no tissue paper, no hand sanitizer, no chicken, or meat, except the $100 cuts, no eggs, no tomatoes, bottled water, the frozen section all but wiped out, no milk, some advice whispered from a store employee on how to score some of those goods elsewhere giving the whole thing a black market/flea market flavor. People scrambling for things just because they are still available whether they currently need them or not. Short supply of everything, especially common sense and restraint.
The only thing that wasn't in short supply seemed to be empty shelves, fear and panic; the Dems and their water carriers of the propaganda media must be so proud of themselves.
In light of this whole virus affair it has become very clear that our media is communist infected as well and in need of being sanitized because right now they are dirty and ultra red, and hyping "pandemic" to help try to destroy the economy, facts be d@mned.
When they announced they were shutting down IL schools on Friday my wife and I hit the store to get diapers. I normally keep a reserve of a few boxes in the basement, but the last month or so I’ve been allowing our 2 year old’s supply to dwindle because he’s been expressing interest in using the toilet. We figured potty training is around the corner and didn’t want to get stuck with diapers we won’t use. With the incoming panic buying, we knew they’d be quick to disappear. Took us three stores to find Pampers in stock in his size. ?
I hate contributing to the shortage, but sure as hell my kid’s gonna have a place to shit until this idiocy subsides.
I hate contributing to the shortage, but sure as hell my kid’s gonna have a place to shit until this idiocy subsides.
Fundamentally transformed! See that was then, Sleepy Joe "No Malarkey" is now Quid Pro Joe "Pure Malarkey" with 100% less truthful content. Sort of "Truth Free", like "Gluten Free", after all who doesn't want "Truth"? Who doesn't want "Free"? Democrats now give it to you in one package "Truth Free"! LOL As Joe recently said "they won't let facts stand in the way of the truth."
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the trend i noticed was cheap stuff was gone as in low costs meats and such. Also noticed these panic buyers were buying perishables. But plenty of protein bars on the shelf lol
The thing I noticed most was people i’d lower income and fixed budgets being constrained to a budget which is understandable.
I had “cough cough” no choice but to buy ribeye.
The other thing I noticed was shopping at a higher end grocery store I had no issues with food selection. But walmart’s and targets were empty
The thing I noticed most was people i’d lower income and fixed budgets being constrained to a budget which is understandable.
I had “cough cough” no choice but to buy ribeye.
The other thing I noticed was shopping at a higher end grocery store I had no issues with food selection. But walmart’s and targets were empty
Shit paper aside....I wonder how many other countries could have sustained even the initial massive stress on supply? I mean there were millions and millions of people buying wayyyyyy more than usual.
Could get worse of course...so not a pat on the back...
I would bet a roll of TP (actually I am all out and been wiping with tshirts then using as fuel to cook my beans) that stores will clamp down on the bulk buy stuff much much quicker next time (if we survive this).
Could get worse of course...so not a pat on the back...
I would bet a roll of TP (actually I am all out and been wiping with tshirts then using as fuel to cook my beans) that stores will clamp down on the bulk buy stuff much much quicker next time (if we survive this).
Two years old and not yet potty trained?
I blame paper diapers.
If you had to hand rinse and hand pre-wash cloth diapers, I'll bet he would have been pretty used to the potty about a year and a half ago.
I'd like to offer a special shout out to those who remember boax, diaper buckets and rinsing things off by hand.... Bonus points if you remember when you had to also use a ribbed hand washing board for it.... and laundry lines with rows of pegged up drying diapers.
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