Toilet paper nowhere to be found

[Galdorf]

I was thinking to myself that panic buying in world would ever happen here but it has shelves where more empty than i have ever seen them in 50 years guess i will have to buy a bidet lol.

 

[lcoughey]

My wife spent $16 on small pack today. There is ample supply of nose tissue which should work just as well.

 

[backwoodsman]

I haven't been to the store in a week, but stock levels looked normal then. Seems like most folks around here are wondering why all the craziness. If you're going to panic and cause a shortage, at least do it over something you can eat. Not that it affects me at all; we buy large quantities when it's on sale anyway, so not going to be worried about TP for a while.

If you use something other than TP, remember most other things shouldn't be flushed. One would think facial tissue is probably OK, but paper towels are intended not to easily dissolve in water, so would have a greater chance of clogging the plumbing.

 

[Galdorf]

what is really odd even paper towels are nowhere to be seen either as well as basics bread shelf milk and eggs canned and dry goods all gone.

 

[lcoughey]

You'd think that the food supply is going to end.

 

[brandonkick]

We normally buy that type of things a months worth at a time (which should easily last more than a month) only because we don't often make it to samsclub due to it closing a little earlier than most other places we shop. We tend to shop later, on average... usually around 8-10 PM EST.

Having said that, we have plenty of poo poo paper for the incoming "quarantine". We didn't go nuts in my opinion, we bought double what we normally do... so basically two months worth.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Thankfully we'd bought a 12 pack before things started. Only my wife and I in the house and 2 Yorkies. So we still had 7 or 8 rolls. However, when things started up, I decided to start looking. My wife saw that a grocery chain (ruler foods, which is Kroger owned chain similar to Aldi's), had stock. So I was able to go in and get 2 more 12 packs there.

I'd advise joining one of the local Facebook buy/sell/trade groups near you. That's how my wife found the 2 packages as someone posted that they were stocked. So I'm thinking in a week or so start looking again just to keep ahead of it.

 

[sapphirescales]

I've been having toilet paper and ass wipes delivered every month automatically for a while now. I was never able to get the deliveries to line up with when I'm actually running out so I have a surplus built up and won't run out anytime soon. I probably have 50 rolls or so in my workout room closet. I also have about a dozen packages of ass wipes. I'll be good for a few months. Hopefully this madness will end by the time I start to run out.

On another note the canned soup is totally sold out at my grocery store. I eat a lot of soup and I don't store it (or any other food) so I was really p*ssed off when it was all sold out. I went to Target and they had a couple cans of the soup that no one likes left. I want my chicken noodle, dammit! I picked up a few microwave meals instead. I don't have time to cook so that's why I like soup so much. But microwave meals are yucky.

What I'm worried about is those people that didn't freak out and panic hoard toilet paper will do it themselves once they're able to buy it again. "I'm sure as hell never running out of toilet paper again! I'm buying 2x 48 roll mega packs!"

 

[Your PCMD]

The thing that gets me is there are laws about price gouging here in the US, yet a 10 pack of 400 sheet toilet paper on Amazon is $160 (up from $13 just last week) as well as a 2pk 16oz bottle of hand sanitizer for $90. My wife makes homemade hand sanitizer using aloe vera, alcohol and essential oils. We bought a 32oz bottle of aleo vera on Amazon for $7 not even 2 weeks ago, now its $38. Seems Amazon is immune to the laws.

Here were I live in my city, the mayor has set a limit on 2 packs of toilet paper and 2 cases of water. Although that doesn't stop people from returning an hour later to buy again. Although, there is no shortage of anything here, yet!

 

[sapphirescales]

Seems Amazon is immune to the laws.

Amazon isn't, but third party sellers are (or at the very least the authorities see it as a waste of time to go after third party sellers).

 

[Galdorf]

Wow now most tv shows and all of sports are on hold for a few months guess i will have to play video games while i hide in my underground bunker.
Store shelves are still empty here not a good sign people are hording supplies they need to enforce item limits otherwise panic and chaos will happen.
What chaos you say well money might become worthless and stuff like this happens...

 

[sapphirescales]

now most tv shows and all of sports

I haven't watched cable in like 20 years. What do you mean by TV shows being stopped? Do you mean they've stopped filming new episodes?

 

[Galdorf]

I haven't watched cable in like 20 years. What do you mean by TV shows being stopped? Do you mean they've stopped filming new episodes?

yes all shooting and productions have been shutdown no more new episodes also same goes for movies currently in production.

 

[nlinecomputers]

HEB a major chain of Supermarkets here in Texas is reducing hours of all stores from 8 am to 8 pm, most are 6 am to Midnight some are 24 hrs because shoppers have just picked the stores clean of TP, frozen foods, dairy and so on. People are stockpiling like a zombie attack is immediate. And what is most amusing and also horrifying is that lots of people in this town are Trump Supporters and it seems like all the die-hard MAGA hat-wearing types are all saying that this is some kind of political conspiracy by the democrats yet they too are in line, and probably exchanging virus sheds to get that last roll of TP. I am in pretty good shape before this panic run began except that I am out of milk and don't expect I will be able to find any. I am hoping that I can hit Walmart at like 1 am and catch them restocking.

 

[Porthos]

HEB a major chain of Supermarkets here in Texas is reducing hours of all stores from 8 am to 8 pm, most are 6 am to Midnight some are 24 hrs because shoppers have just picked the stores clean of TP, frozen foods, dairy and so on. People are stockpiling like a zombie attack is immediate. And what is most amusing and also horrifying is that lots of people in this town are Trump Supporters and it seems like all the die-hard MAGA hat-wearing types are all saying that this is some kind of political conspiracy by the democrats yet they too are in line, and probably exchanging virus sheds to get that last roll of TP. I am in pretty good shape before this panic run began except that I am out of milk and don't expect I will be able to find any. I am hoping that I can hit Walmart at like 1 am and catch them restocking.

The one by me was out of most everything. My sister n law is a checker and said they are having record sales and she was exausted when she got off.

 

[phaZed]

Almost nothing left in our stores here... Amazing turn of events. God forbid a "real crisis" happens... society is but a house of cards.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Almost nothing left in our stores here... Amazing turn of events. God forbid a "real crisis" happens... society is but a house of cards.

True, but is that news? Especially here in the US the people's ability to deal with a real crisis has been virtually nonexistent since I was a kid, possibly longer.

 

[phaZed]

Maybe not news, but a wake-up call. Without getting into the politics of it, Gov't is woefully unprepared, too - of which I lump into "society".

 

[JoeTech]

If you want to know why you can't find toilet paper or hand sanitizer it's because of people like this guy. Once he got tipped off these might become high demand items, he drove around and cleared out stores buying 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer. Now that Amazon has cracked down on price gougers he is stuck with them.

He doesn't seem to feel bad about it either. He is only upset that it has made national news now and is taking heat for denying people that really need it.

"If I can make a slight profit, that’s fine,” he told the NYT. “But I’m not looking to be in a situation where I make the front page of the news for being that guy who hoarded 20,000 bottles of sanitizer that I’m selling for 20 times what they cost me.”

https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/who-is-matt-colvin-hand-sanitizer-hoarder-3967283/

 

[phaZed]

@JoeTech That guy is a quick summary of the entire US system. Our sh*t healthcare is making it worse: