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It appears to be occurring in my area again. I went to the store today and one of the items on my list was pasta. The shelf was empty so out of curiosity I went down the paper products isle and it was empty as well except for a few pack of TP selling for $13.00 a pack.......
Anyone else seeing this again?
I would assume the supply chain has evened out and this is a demand driven event.
I think it is wide spread. It seems people are fearing another lock down and so they are making sure they have a stock pile of the "basics".
Corn cobs are hard to come by these days :shrug:
Costco was out of paper towels yesterday.. and last week..
Aldi on Wednesday AM.. let’s hope there is peanut butter.. and ice cream.. I’ll “eyeball” the pasta shelf..
Rice and flour were big hoarding items in the past..
There is an interesting article in the WSJ this morning about the resurgence of paper/cardboard recycling and it's regained value. The scrap price collapsed a few years ago when China tightened their specs on what they would accept. That coupled with a new "wealth" of scraped boxes brought on by the home bound has made it practical and profitable for US firms to begin recycling here---even greasy pizza boxes are noted as having value.
I wonder how well that greasy residue works out in TP? :rolleyes2:
Doesn't help when the media announces these items will be in short supply and guess what? Those items are in short supply. Last time it was TP and drinking water in my area. Our tap water is pretty foul but potable. As for TP, if I run out I'll do whatever they did before it was invented.
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Originally Posted by Roland_Jenkins
Maybe not---when I was a kid, a few years ago, a new Sears and Montgomery Ward catalog would arrive (I think) every six months---and the previous ones would recycle to the outhouse as "sacrificial" components of the in situ library. First to disappear, were the indexes since they were printed on the same type of paper as the phone books---after the indexes were used it was off to the "glossy" pages and life on the "slippery slope" would become more challenging. :geezer:
Maybe that is the “lotion “ in the special, easy on the nose, tissue...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
Note: do not clean your glasses with the special lotion tissue
We have Bidets so our TP use is minimal.... Glad I installed them when I did. The price has gone thru the roof.
Great scene in Deadpool-2.. see bilge for linkQuote:
Originally Posted by Phillbo
I have encountered high tech toilets in Japan that strike the fear of God into me. All written in Japanese, I am in fear of pushing the wrong button and coming out of there as a new "person" :rolleyes2::AHHH:
Hoarding has shot the price of ammo right through the roof...(Pun intended by the way)...:arr:...Ben
I didn't get caught with my pants down this time. I should be good for the rest of my days, except for maybe 22's. I only have around 10,000 of those.:gay:
So.. now you need 10,000 empty beer cans.. big project, but can be done.. save the used targets for Ben..Quote:
Originally Posted by CactusCurt
Pasta report.. just back from Aldi.. only two boxes of spaghetti but cases of every other shape pasta.. lotsa rice and TP, paper towels.. no butter pecan ice cream!, meat rack full..
Guess we didn’t get the hoarding memo here..
That's the best advice I've seen in a long time.