On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 11:51:41 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:19:03 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 12:55:57 PM UTC-4, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 3/13/20 11:00 AM, trader_4 wrote:

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It's happening here now with some items too. Supermarkets and Walmart
are out of TP, wipes, spray disinfectant. But plenty of food of just
about all kinds, including some that you'd think could be out, like
canned soups.

Once I heard that strawberry Pop-Tarts were a common item for stores to
be out of.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." Philip
K. Dick [what the dead men say, 1964]

I noticed one of the few things Walmart was out of here was Chef Boyardee
canned Italian crap. Why anyone would buy that when there is lots of dry
pasta and sauces, IDK. I just heard some Costco in LA have a 2.5 hour
checkout line. You'd figure that with a line like that, you probably
can't get much of what you want anyway. But you do expose yourself to
a crowd for 2.5 hours.


Costco was pretty normal here the other day. It was actually better
because without the people on every end cap grazing the free food,
people were actually moving right along. They were out of TP and
sanitizers of all types but I didn't notice anything else in short
supply.

Shoprite here, the biggest supermarket, Sunday morning 6:15 AM was
moderately busy. They open at 6, I don't think you'd see many people
in there at that hour prior to this. No fresh meat, no TP, just a few huge
$17 paper towel bundles, no sanitizing anything, dry pasta mostly
gone. Rest of the store was pretty much OK.

Some supermarkets here just announced they are limiting the number of
people allowed in at one time, that's a good idea.