5StarShield said:

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Have the grocery stores either put on limits or have pricing structures like this:

1 roll of toilet paper = Regular Price
2nd roll of toilet paper = 1.5x Regular Price
3rd roll of toilet paper =2 x Regular Price

I'm not sure their systems would allow them to put pricing in like this though.. may have to be hand entered.

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Ok, now your screwing people like my wife and I who have 9 bathrooms.

But, seriously you're screwing a family of 4. It's just not gonna last as long.

Sadly, I'm adding this without a clear solution.

What I find funny about hoarding items like meat is that they already have a relatively short shelf life. Sure, you can freeze some but there's only so much space in a fridge. Milk is another item. There's going to be a lot of waste in all of this.

I'm in Tyler and last night rode my bicycle over to the neighborhood Brookshires for a few things. It was incredibly calm, no crowds, no lines. Yea inventory was a little lower than normal, but I got what I came for.

The lack of traffic has made bicycling around easier and the air cleaner. I'm kind of enjoying the slower pace of life around here.

Whens lunch said:

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5StarShield said:

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Have the grocery stores either put on limits or have pricing structures like this:

1 roll of toilet paper = Regular Price
2nd roll of toilet paper = 1.5x Regular Price
3rd roll of toilet paper =2 x Regular Price

I'm not sure their systems would allow them to put pricing in like this though.. may have to be hand entered.

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Ok, now your screwing people like my wife and I who have 9 bathrooms.

But, seriously you're screwing a family of 4. It's just not gonna last as long.

Sadly, I'm adding this without a clear solution.

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Now is the time to discover the wonderful world of bidets

Try shopping for five kids and keep things under the limits they have set

Stopped at Costco off of DNT in Plano Thursday, we needed dog food, was able to buy salmon and some premade meals. No eggs, chicken, or ground beef but had plenty of steak and brisket. No canned tomatoes or rice, cleaning supplies where hit or miss. What was nice was they had a chart at the front of the store that listed what they were short of and at checkout they directed you to which checkout to use and separated you from the customer ahead of you in line.

Hit Sprouts yesterday in Allen and they had everything I needed. No eggs, milk or ground beef. Limited many items to two per customer.

Costco here in SA had one long line weaving through the aisles leading to all checkout stands. As bad as it looked at first, it actually worked pretty well.

aaronag02 said:

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Try shopping for five kids and keep things under the limits they have set

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Guess you don't need birth control, though.

bonfarr said:

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HEB has everything I need but milk and toilet paper. I can make our TP last until supplies get replenished. Every gas station I have been in the last few days has gallons of milk so I don't know why people are worried if HEB is out.

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Edit...no longer available...that escalated quickly

alamogeorge said:

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Since then, we have been able to just top off every day or two through the express lane. Now I'm trying to figure out where to build my pantry after this is all over.

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You are part of the problem.

Its true.

Vernada, THAT IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF THINKING THAT PREVENTS DECENT FOLKS GETTING ANYTHING, A GREAT BIG THANK YOU FOR HOARDING!

At what point would you consider it hoarding? More than a week of food? Two weeks? A month?

I would put 2 weeks at the max although 1 week is probably more considerate.

Whens lunch said:

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5StarShield said:

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Have the grocery stores either put on limits or have pricing structures like this:

1 roll of toilet paper = Regular Price
2nd roll of toilet paper = 1.5x Regular Price
3rd roll of toilet paper =2 x Regular Price

I'm not sure their systems would allow them to put pricing in like this though.. may have to be hand entered.

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Ok, now your screwing people like my wife and I who have 9 bathrooms.

But, seriously you're screwing a family of 4. It's just not gonna last as long.

Sadly, I'm adding this without a clear solution.

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Finally looking at this again and it should say "one package" not one roll.

Texaggie7nine said:

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I would put 2 weeks at the max although 1 week is probably more considerate.

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When I go to Sam's Club, I buy a pack of toilet paper that lasts my family three months. Is that hoarding? Does it matter that I do this habitually every three months?

To each his own. We used to live in a free country, but I failed to realize how comfortable living creates tyrannical beasts that want me to live their way and only their way.

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aaronag02 said:

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Try shopping for five kids and keep things under the limits they have set

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Guess you don't need birth control, though.

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Might see if the grocery store has an electronics section and pick up a TV for the bedroom though....

HowdyTAMU said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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I would put 2 weeks at the max although 1 week is probably more considerate.

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When I go to Sam's Club, I buy a pack of toilet paper that lasts my family three months. Is that hoarding? Does it matter that I do this habitually every three months?

To each his own. We used to live in a free country, but I failed to realize how comfortable living creates tyrannical beasts that want me to live their way and only their way.

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I think what you're seeing is a lot of people who assumed paper goods would be stocked in plenty within a few days are finding they aren't even after a week. If many could go back, they'd be buying more than a week's worth.

That's not to say there weren't real hoarders buying 3 months worth of supplies, and that's not to say that the supply chain won't kick into gear and we'll all be fine by next week.

But I never really understood all the people laughing at those buying extra toilet paper... It's cheap, has shelf-life, will eventually get used, and would have been bought in normal purchases within the year anyways. It's one of the few things that does make sense to buy a little extra.

(as a side note, part of the joking about the matter came from people saying "corona makes you cough it doesn't give you the ****s"... except reports now are coming out that 20% of those positive for corona have diarrhea).

HowdyTAMU said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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I would put 2 weeks at the max although 1 week is probably more considerate.

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When I go to Sam's Club, I buy a pack of toilet paper that lasts my family three months. Is that hoarding? Does it matter that I do this habitually every three months?

To each his own. We used to live in a free country, but I failed to realize how comfortable living creates tyrannical beasts that want me to live their way and only their way.

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Aren't you being a bit melodramatic? If you buy a 3 month supply and buy it again 3 months later nobody would accuse you of hoarding. I have friends and neighbors that are running around buying up toilet paper every other day and buy it whenever they see it just because it's there that's the crap that's causing the problem.

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Gizzards said:

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tmaggie50 said:

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I love all the people complaining about all the hoarders getting groceries while they are out trying to get groceries.

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Just because people trying to do normal grocery shopping complain about the idiots running around and buying things in mass quantities doesn't make it ironic as your post implies. As a family one of us is at the grocery store 2-3 times per week. I have 4 large grocery stores within 10 minutes of my house and I like fresh food so we don't buy and freeze large amounts of stuff. If we lived far away, we probably would. In the two times this past week I've been to the store I've watched in disbelief at how much utter stupidity surrounds us in the world. Sadly those people appear to be in the majority.

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I think what I find most ridiculous about this whole thing is that, in a time when everyone is supposed to be staying at home and social distancing, some people think your "an idiot" "selfish" or "panic buying" just because you are buying enough food and supplies to avoid going to the grocery store for as long as possible where there are big crowds in confined spaces.

Maybe the idiots are those people who continue to expose themselves to large crowded areas where the object is to put your hands on items.

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Exactly.

I have more food in my fridge right now than I've ever had.

Am I hoarding?

No, I just don't really want to go to the grocery store and be around people every week to re-stock. It's literally the one thing above all else that we're being told we should avoid.

Rutedown said:

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Grocery stores should have set limits early on. Not blaming them, that should have been communicated to them early. Now they're playing catch-up.

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agreed.

and some of the limits were pretty ridiculous even 2 weeks ago. limits of 4 on hand sanitizer and lysol should have been limits of 2 max. the shelves woulda stayed stocked longer, and more people would have had a chance.

I just don't understand why milk is gone some of the time all the sudden.

I buy a gallon of milk a week because my kids love it and drink a lot.

Now that corona virus is here we still want only a gallon a week.

Who are the people that suddenly needed two or three times their normal amount of milk? Does their milk not go bad like mine does?

HowdyTAMU said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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I would put 2 weeks at the max although 1 week is probably more considerate.

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When I go to Sam's Club, I buy a pack of toilet paper that lasts my family three months. Is that hoarding? Does it matter that I do this habitually every three months?

To each his own. We used to live in a free country, but I failed to realize how comfortable living creates tyrannical beasts that want me to live their way and only their way.

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Any other day I'd say no problem, but when we know stocks are being stretched because of demand.... it's a little assholish.

aggie-beta said:

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I just don't understand why milk is gone some of the time all the sudden.

I buy a gallon of milk a week because my kids love it and drink a lot.

Now that corona virus is here we still want only a gallon a week.

Who are the people that suddenly needed two or three times their normal amount of milk? Does their milk not go bad like mine does?

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I'll try to explain. This applies to milk, meat, toilet paper, almost every item I see people asking about. Millions of people used to have their kids get milk at school for breakfast and/or lunch. Now those kids are home. And a lot of parents are now having to buy a lot more milk because of this.

The supply chain is not set up where the truck driver who used to deliver milk to the schools can today drive that milk to HEB. The packaging of the products is different. The routes are different. Different accounts. Different SKUs. Different credit limits.

It's a hassle and costly to switch the supply chain from delivering to restaurants and schools to delivering to grocers. And since no one knows if this is going to go on for a week or a year, then it's done piecemeal and by the seat of your pants.

We can't just snap our fingers and get little cartons of milk at your school to turn into gallons of milk at your grocery store. Getting food and supplies from the farms and manufacturers to your house is a lot more complicated than you think.

Please be as patient as you can!

aggie-beta said:

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I just don't understand why milk is gone some of the time all the sudden.

I buy a gallon of milk a week because my kids love it and drink a lot.

Now that corona virus is here we still want only a gallon a week.

Who are the people that suddenly needed two or three times their normal amount of milk? Does their milk not go bad like mine does?

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People freeze milk.

Texaggie7nine said:

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HowdyTAMU said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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I would put 2 weeks at the max although 1 week is probably more considerate.

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When I go to Sam's Club, I buy a pack of toilet paper that lasts my family three months. Is that hoarding? Does it matter that I do this habitually every three months?

To each his own. We used to live in a free country, but I failed to realize how comfortable living creates tyrannical beasts that want me to live their way and only their way.

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Any other day I'd say no problem, but when we know stocks are being stretched because of demand.... it's a little assholish.

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You do know that Sam's and Costco only sell bulk packages. That's the point of even shopping there. Hopefully saving by buying in bulk.

We do the same thing. I bought tp and paper towels in Feb at Costco because we were running out. I also bought a pack of about 12 boneless chicken breasts, dog treats, coffee, Tylenol, a 2 pack of worcestershire, an 8 pack of Rotel, a case of Shiner Bock and a 4 pack of quart size Ziplock bags. Then I went to the attached liquor store and bought 2 bottles of tequila for my wife.

I put the chicken and coffee in an ice chest loaded it all in the YukonXL and headed to HEB for everything else.

I suppose I belong on the assholish list.

btw: The day before yesterday I went to Costco again.

Who is taking all the toothpicks???

DSAg44 said:

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Who is taking all the toothpicks???

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Rutedown said:

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DSAg44 said:

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Who is taking all the toothpicks???

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I'm serious - 2 times I put my life in danger this week and both times H-E-B completely out of toothpicks! I'm not taking one from a disease infested restaurant!

Have you tried the room pick and floss combo from Walgreens. That's what I'm using.

Whens lunch said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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HowdyTAMU said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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I would put 2 weeks at the max although 1 week is probably more considerate.

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When I go to Sam's Club, I buy a pack of toilet paper that lasts my family three months. Is that hoarding? Does it matter that I do this habitually every three months?

To each his own. We used to live in a free country, but I failed to realize how comfortable living creates tyrannical beasts that want me to live their way and only their way.

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Any other day I'd say no problem, but when we know stocks are being stretched because of demand.... it's a little assholish.

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You do know that Sam's and Costco only sell bulk packages. That's the point of even shopping there. Hopefully saving by buying in bulk.

We do the same thing. I bought tp and paper towels in Feb at Costco because we were running out. I also bought a pack of about 12 boneless chicken breasts, dog treats, coffee, Tylenol, a 2 pack of worcestershire, an 8 pack of Rotel, a case of Shiner Bock and a 4 pack of quart size Ziplock bags. Then I went to the attached liquor store and bought 2 bottles of tequila for my wife.

I put the chicken and coffee in an ice chest loaded it all in the YukonXL and headed to HEB for everything else.

I suppose I belong on the assholish list.

btw: The day before yesterday I went to Costco again.

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Ya I kind of skimmed though the post. One giant pack of TP or paper towels from Costco isnt being assholish. What are you gonna do cut it in half? I just mean if you are getting a months supplies of things that require you to buy multiple package.

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HotardAg07 said:

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I have been wondering lately if the recent shortages are moreso due to a legitimate spike in demand caused by a large amount of the population decided to prepare food at home rather than eat out as they normally would.

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It has something to do with it, but the real problem is the people who are buying 3-5 times what they usually buy. Grocery stores have already stated this.

Panic buying is selfish and dumb.

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I'm buying twice as much groceries. We are not hoarding but we eat out more than we should and we stopped to avoid exposure and my kids stopped eating lunch at school and I usually had a work lunch once a week. Now all of those meals are made with food from the grocery store. I think this is true for a lot of people.

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I agree with this. We're currently eating 12/12 meals a day at home for our family of four. Before this my husband would eat breakfast & lunch at work, I ate out twice a week, and my kids don't really eat breakfast during the week because we have to be out the door so early. Then we would eat out as a family once or twice a weekend. Our regular grocery bill has easily doubled and they all just keep ****ing eating out of boredom.