Near here, people were flipping out that a local place charged $12 for TP when Walmart only charged $6. Um, that's kind of how things work when you compare scale vs. no scale.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com> To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 9:00:25 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Preppers The Walmart grocery area here was picked clean, but smaller corner grocery store has everything except TP and certain cleaning products. Super weird. It's like people forgot the other grocery store existed. I also read a post on Quora last night. It was middle eastern man living in Arizona and he said something to the effect of, "It's adorable that Americans are more worried about wiping their asses than whether they have something to shit out in the first place. It's clear you've never had any serious troubles here." On 3/17/2020 7:42 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: The store I went to still had potatoes. I’m always amazed that you can buy nice big baking potatoes for 49 to 99 cents per pound. Easiest thing in the world to bake, just stick them on the oven rack for an hour. Even better than bananas because you can eat the skin. And you can put some of your bacon on them! I don’t see how anybody makes money selling potatoes, it has to be a loss leader. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:07 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Preppers I went by the meat shop today, father in law is offering a side of beef, who am I to say no. They're 2 weeks out on packages They're always 2 weeks out on packages I guess the hoarders think retail packaging and prices are better for survival than white paper wrapped fresh killed cow that is a 1/4 cheaper On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 5:02 PM Mathew Howard < mhoward...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> I'm not sure why you would even want anything else... On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 4:49 PM can...@believewireless.net < p...@believewireless.net > wrote: <blockquote> Do you really need anything else to live on? " The takeaway here is if you need bacon and hard liquor you're good to go." On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 5:44 PM Seth Mattinen < se...@rollernet.us > wrote: <blockquote> On 3/17/20 2:29 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > Grocery stores seem free of hoarders now, I stopped to check one out and > they were pretty well stocked with bread, meat, fresh produce, dairy. I > didn’t even venture to the TP aisle But so far nobody is going to > starve. When the crazy hoarders were running amok, I couldn’t even go > inside a grocery store, I was more afraid of the crazies than the virus > or gosh forbid running out of TP. I went to a Raley's last night for kicks and there was nothing: no eggs, no dairy, no canned goods, no frozen foods, no breads, no condiments, no paper goods (towels, napkins, TP, etc.), no cleaning products, no baking staples like flour, not even jello. They did have plenty of fresh produce but not potatoes. No lines to check out so I bought ice cream, chips, and reeses. Bakery and deli counters had normal supply, but all self serve things were pulled with notices to ask (i.e. donuts). Bulk bins section was mostly untouched. A store near me this morning was similar but the hoarders made the line wrap around the inside of the store so I walked out rather than wait forever to buy literally two items I can wait to get later (bread flour and powdered milk for my bread machine). A local butcher shop was cleaned out within 10 minutes of opening except for bacon. All the liquor aisles were fully stocked though. The takeaway here is if you need bacon and hard liquor you're good to go. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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