OK Boomers.....

[snide]

Originally Posted by Mick

I was at the store yesterday, and it was complete panic. Then, yesterday afternoon, the town announced all schools would be closed until further notice. Went to the store this morning, and everything seemed normal. Don't ask me to explain it.

'Splain.

[GRN ENVY]

Originally Posted by aerovette

All this time I've been thinking of sources for water and then I saw these silver handled fixtures in several places in the house. I moved one and WATER CAME OUT !! Then I turned it one way and the damn water got HOT. I was freaking out. I don't even have to go to any stores. It literally comes right into my house. I am amazed...and luckier than all these people waiting for delivery trucks. I am a KING.

Why use your tap water when you can get exposed to hundreds of people and their germs at the store, all the while grabbing prepackaged water that may have been touched by who know how many other people. Makes sense to me. SMH


I wonder how many of these people will try and return it once this is over. I hope stores say nope, and make the people keep all the stuff they over bought.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by snide

'Splain.

[VITE1]

Our parents and grandparents survived the Great depression, WWII, The cold war, Korea, Vietnam and several recessions and pandemics.

I don't recall any of them hoarding TP or getting into fights over TP.

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by VITE1

Our parents and grandparents survived the Great depression, WWII, The cold war, Korea, Vietnam and several recessions and pandemics.

I don't recall any of them hoarding TP or getting into fights over TP.

So that's why old people smelled funny when we were kids.

[MikeB]

Originally Posted by Mick

I was at the store yesterday, and it was complete panic. Then, yesterday afternoon, the town announced all schools would be closed until further notice. Went to the store this morning, and everything seemed normal. Don't ask me to explain it.

Went to three different food stores today. 1 for produce, 1 for bulk items, 1 for daily stuff. Stayed out of the big box chains.
Crowds weren't too bad, about 25-50% more than the normal Saturday crowds.
All 3 stores were out of TP and most tissue paper stuff, most milk (some ultra low fat shit left), bread, chicken and beef.
Check-out lanes were double what usually happens (time and length).

Anyway, the restaurant we stopped at for lunch was really slow.
2 other couples plus us, where usually 5 - 10 times that is the norm.
Drive thru was busier than normal (3 cars vs the usual 1 during our visit).
Stopped at Starbucks for the SO's Americano. Business as usual there.

WTF? How long will this crap go on?

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Touringmike

Went to three different food stores today. 1 for produce, 1 for bulk items, 1 for daily stuff. Stayed out of the big box chains.
Crowds weren't too bad, about 25-50% more than the normal Saturday crowds.
All 3 stores were out of TP and most tissue paper stuff, most milk (some ultra low fat shit left), bread, chicken and beef.
Check-out lanes were double what usually happens (time and length).

Anyway, the restaurant we stopped at for lunch was really slow.
2 other couples plus us, where usually 5 - 10 times that is the norm.
Drive thru was busier than normal (3 cars vs the usual 1 during our visit).
Stopped at Starbucks for the SO's Americano. Business as usual there.

WTF? How long will this crap go on?

I'm not sure, but my entire garage and shed are full floor to ceiling with TP. Wife and I are empty nesters, so we still have the kids' bedrooms that I could fill. I figure it will take me at least 2 weeks to find enough TP to fill those rooms, so it should last at least that long.

[78SA]

Originally Posted by GRN ENVY

yup, and what I'm most happy about is the snow birds will all be going home or have gone home by easter.... Good riddance

See if they left their TP or took it with them.

[GRN ENVY]

Originally Posted by 78SA

See if they left their TP or took it with them.

They will have returned it to the store for refunds, inwhich the store will have to send it off to the incinerator. Every hurricane season, people don't prepare, and the week leading to the storm the hoarding occurs. Instead of people just storing it for next season they return. Stores can't resell returned water, bread, other food, paper products etc. Off to the dump it goes. I'm betting the same will occur across the nation. Sucks for the retailers because they will take losses after this is said and done.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by GRN ENVY

They will have returned it to the store for refunds, inwhich the store will have to send it off to the incinerator. Every hurricane season, people don't prepare, and the week leading to the storm the hoarding occurs. Instead of people just storing it for next season they return. Stores can't resell returned water, bread, other food, paper products etc. Off to the dump it goes. I'm betting the same will occur across the nation. Sucks for the retailers because they will take losses after this is said and done.

Why return the TP? I would just leave it where I was storing it and use it until I need more.

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by GRN ENVY

They will have returned it to the store for refunds, inwhich the store will have to send it off to the incinerator. Every hurricane season, people don't prepare, and the week leading to the storm the hoarding occurs. Instead of people just storing it for next season they return. Stores can't resell returned water, bread, other food, paper products etc. Off to the dump it goes. I'm betting the same will occur across the nation. Sucks for the retailers because they will take losses after this is said and done.

Grocery Stores are putting up no return signs alot of areas, they know the idiots will try to return 90% of what the purchased.

[Rikki Z-06]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Grocery Stores are putting up no return signs alot of areas, they know the idiots will try to return 90% of what the purchased.

Good.

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Grocery Stores are putting up no return signs alot of areas, they know the idiots will try to return 90% of what the purchased.

Good. Stupid should hurt.

[simpleman68]

Many of our distributors are doing a fantastic job of ramping up deliveries to retail grocers to meet demand.

One in particular which is the largest in the US, often known for poor service and turn around time, is actually doing very well.

POs are way up and they've got trucks rolling out everywhere.
Scott

[Mick]

Originally Posted by simpleman68

Many of our distributors are doing a fantastic job of ramping up deliveries to retail grocers to meet demand.

One in particular which is the largest in the US, often known for poor service and turn around time, is actually doing very well.

POs are way up and they've got trucks rolling out everywhere.
Scott

I took some Operations Management courses in grad school, and one of the cases was what should the supermarket do when the snow is falling idiots clear the shelves of break and milk. Basically every team got the same answer = nothing. People don't eat more bread, nor drink more milk because some frozen precipitation is falling from the sky, so if they buy 2 weeks worth of bread and milk, it will be 2 weeks before they are back to buy more. The smart thing is to keep the regular nightly deliveries coming so that the non-idiots have bread and milk to buy each day, and the stocks will return to normal in about 2 weeks.

It is more challenging for non-perishables like TP though. People can, and I assume some are actually doing it, hoard a year's worth of TP. Get enough of those idiots, and they can keep the shelves clean of TP for months, but eventually, they run out of places to store it. In that case, stores HAVE to increase deliveries so that the non-morons will be able to get some TP when they need it. In that case, the store needs to watch demand very carefully, and cut back on the ordering when the morons stop hoarding, or the store will get stuck with a bunch of TP with no place to store it.

What we learned: Running a supermarket well is actually pretty hard.

[Millenium Vette]

Originally Posted by Mick

Why return the TP? I would just leave it where I was storing it and use it until I need more.

You would keep it, but you are not a "snowbird". Snowbirds are a different sort. They figure when they get to Florida nobody knows them so they can be assholes. Egotistical assholes at that. They buy or rent a shitty trailer or dumpy condo for three or four months and think they are King Shit. Some even go so far as to buy an old-assed Lincoln or Cadillac so they have the full snowbird kit.

Originally Posted by Mick

I took some Operations Management courses in grad school, and one of the cases was what should the supermarket do when the snow is falling idiots clear the shelves of break and milk. Basically every team got the same answer = nothing. People don't eat more bread, nor drink more milk because some frozen precipitation is falling from the sky, so if they buy 2 weeks worth of bread and milk, it will be 2 weeks before they are back to buy more. The smart thing is to keep the regular nightly deliveries coming so that the non-idiots have bread and milk to buy each day, and the stocks will return to normal in about 2 weeks.

It is more challenging for non-perishables like TP though. People can, and I assume some are actually doing it, hoard a year's worth of TP. Get enough of those idiots, and they can keep the shelves clean of TP for months, but eventually, they run out of places to store it. In that case, stores HAVE to increase deliveries so that the non-morons will be able to get some TP when they need it. In that case, the store needs to watch demand very carefully, and cut back on the ordering when the morons stop hoarding, or the store will get stuck with a bunch of TP with no place to store it.

What we learned: Running a supermarket well is actually pretty hard.

It is hard. I spent eight years working in a grocery store. The store directors had a tough job. I never wanted to go into management there.