The Carona Virus Covid19 has the majority of American in lock down. That means that we should ONLY go out to buy groceries, pick up prescriptions and to obtain medical help unless you’re considered an essential worker in the business and healthcare industry.
One issue that continues to be an issue around the country is people buying way too many groceries & supplies and hoarding them. It’s NOT stocking up when you’re walking out of the grocery store with 10 packs of toilet tissue, 8 dozen of eggs, 9 gallons of milk and so forth.
There is NOTHING wrong with our food chain. Food is being shipped all across the country and they’re stocking store shelves as fast as they can. The problem is with people buying way too many items to just “stock up” in case they need it.
They advise all grocery shoppers to ONLY purchase what you and your family needs for a 2-3 week period. Obviously, no normal sized family is going to run through 10 packs of 12 rolls in each pack of toilet paper in 3 weeks. Really folks! No normal size family is going to burn through 8 dozen of eggs in 2-3 weeks unless you’re eating them for breakfast, lunch, dinner & bedtime snack. Seriously!
Please do your part!!! Only buy what you and your family needs for 2-3 weeks at a time. This is NOT the time to be stocking up (overly-so) on everyday items that are in short supply due to hoarding right now. Think of your fellow human beings who can’t find a single dozen of eggs on a store shelf or a half-gallon of milk in the refrigerator. No toilet paper for miles and miles away.
We’re all stressed out and some more than others. Please be respectful and considerate of others who are in the same boat as you. Don’t buy more than what you need!
In the beginning it was hard to purchase many items. Now that has improved , but it still can be difficult. My stores have been quite good at making sure people don’t grab too much.
I also have health problems, live alone and have not been to a store in almost 4 weeks (since March 13th). My grocery store has been wonderful about getting and delivering most of what I’ve requested. Last week I did get a dozen eggs and bread and milk an peanut butter. This week I ordered some potato chips and dip just because I wanted a treat.
Where do I even begin! The picture in your post looks like the shelves at the stores here too in Oregon. I ventured out last week at the crack o dawn and they were sold out of all frozen foods, tp, soap, liquid dish soap, laundry soap, kleenex and even paper towels. I have some of these items I just just taking note of the empty shelves right after they opened. One thing that I noticed is people with large families each getting their own carts OUTSIDE the store and then filling them up and then acting like they didn’t know each other and each going to different cash registers to check out – pissed me off!
Yes! That same crap is going on here too! I don’t understand why the stores are NOT posting employees at the registers and doors (at the very least) or hire some PT security guards right now. This isn’t right! Then if you look at Ebay, Craigslist and other online reseller sites these hoards (not all of them but a lot of them) are reselling the stuff for outrageous prices! I saw a 4-pack of TP being sold for $15.00 plus shipping. Ugh! This is what’s causing the problem. Unfortunately there are bad eggs in every society and these bad eggs need to be “cracked” down on. Fined, arrested or something. Another thing pissing me off is this: Senior’s hour is for seniors! Quit letting these other folks in the freaking door!
We do not hoard either. We have always lived frugally and now make even more meals into’multi’ use meals ie: buy a roast, day1 roast day 2 hot roast beef sandwiches, 3 beef and noodles. I think being in the Midwest with snow storms helps in that we already know what we ‘need’ to last a week or 2 or more. I admit to having 2 freezers- and we usually go through that about now anyway cleaning out from winter stock ups. I really have only had tobuy a few things and that consists more of stocking up for pets in case we can not go out and with pet meds. We both are hiigh risk.
The toughest part for us is we finally bought a different house right before all this mess. It was a bank owned and needs work. We can’t do some of the legal stuff at the courthouse or get water turned on. We had been looking forward to finally getting out of this horrible neighborhood we are in :/
My brother is a manager at a large grocery. They have had to put limits on how much toilet paper, etc., people can buy to try to stop hoarding. They now only allow one person from a household to go in (state order here in KY.) It’s a huge store, with a normal limit of 4,000 in it. Now, though, the limit is 300 because people need to be 6 feet apart. They allow one way ‘traffic’ up the aisles so you don’t come too close to someone. I worry about him being out there every day…and his wife is a nurse. So, they’re both essential workers. So, I worry about them and their kids every day.
Praying for everyone that they stay safe and healthy.
It’s sickening to see this happening around the country. You’d think in the time of crisis people would help one another and not needlessly hoard food and supplies
I can’t go out due to my health and age also. My husband does the shopping and he says the same thing about Walmart. Luckily there is the two of us and we live modestly. We don’t need things like others think they do. We also live in a rural area with a Piggly Wiggly. They are wonderful. They wash the carts for you. They have gloves, one way arrows on the aisles, limits on food, and they enforce it. And this may sound bad but meant in a good way…. most people in the South are really nice and look out after each other. They go by the rules at this store and it is always in stock. I with people would slow down….. STAY AT HOME and let’s get this over with so I can see my grandchildren again.
I am a senior and I just shake my head when I see the shelves. It was always a joke in the winter time that when they said snow was coming people rushed to the grocery store…….TP, bread and milk they might not need it but they might run out. I have a list made have not been to the store in almost 3 weeks. BUT at least the stores are making it easy on the senior with early shopping hours.
Stay safe.
I’ve been home bound for almost 7 weeks. With my health problems I can’t go out. Hubby is an essential worker and goes into the office for 3 half-days a week and works from home the rest of the time. Every 10 days he goes to the store during the senior hour from 7 AM to 8 AM and guess what? Those freezers and shelves are still empty. Ridiculous! He has taken photos with his phone of people running out with cart’s full of items when the store has posted limits of 2 or 3 on the item. No store employees are policing it at all. NONE. He has a photo on his phone of a couple wheeling out 2 carts full of bottled water and toilet paper. Water was limited to 2 cases and TP to 3 packs. They had 2 cart fulls and NOT ONE store employee did anything about it. I understand the stores are doing the best that they can but they need security guards or other employees at the registers & doors enforcing the limit rules. The photo in my post he took of the freezer & refrigerator section at the store. As you can see 99% bare one hour after the store opened. Ridiculous!