OT: Panic Buying. When Will it End?

Dennis 37 · Post #81 » by **Dennis 37** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:56 am

Had a good laugh at the local Walmart. Three quarters of the chips and pop isle was empty.

Yeezus_ · Post #82 » by **Yeezus_** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:56 am

When did toilet paper become an item you need to survive? Lol

gp2015 · Post #83 » by **gp2015** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 am

Dennis 37 wrote:Had a good laugh at the local Walmart. Three quarters of the chips and pop isle was empty.

All Chef Boyardee and all the Heinz pasta like Alphagetti were sold out. People must be really desperate for food.

trending · Post #84 » by **trending** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:09 am

gp2015 wrote:
Dennis 37 wrote:Had a good laugh at the local Walmart. Three quarters of the chips and pop isle was empty.

All Chef Boyardee and all the Heinz pasta like Alphagetti were sold out. People must be really desperate for food.

they weren't selling well in recent years due to popularity of organic products.

trending · Post #85 » by **trending** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:10 am

temporary workers won't be available to pick the crops. agriculture may be hard to find in stores. you can't stock that.

gp2015 · Post #86 » by **gp2015** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:15 am

trending wrote:temporary workers won't be available to pick the crops. agriculture may be hard to find in stores. you can't stock that.

I'm sure people can survive by eating frozen or canned fruit/vegetables for the short term if it comes to that.

Roco14 · Post #87 » by **Roco14** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:16 am

This is more than enough evidence that even though we consider ourselves "advanced" as a species, a few rumours and a little bit of fake news brings the majority of us to complete sheep-like behaviour.

Kevin Willis · Post #88 » by **Kevin Willis** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:23 am

Johnny Bball wrote:Oh I almost forgot... it's not just the people doing this, it's **** Loblaws. The Gaylea butter was 7.19/lb. It's never been that much. I have also never seen a day where there was zero on sale. Well all of a sudden... nothing is on sale.

Loblaws, if they think I'm not going to remember that and I'm not going to recover my pound of flesh back later, they are really **** mistaken. I left that place pretty disgusted by even higher prices for a fair bit of items and flat out profiteering.

This I also noticed, nothing was on sale. I went to one of the stock boys and said you must be making a killing. He just laughed. Usually stores would have manager specials but nope, only thing I saw was things that were about to spoil being discounted.

gp2015 · Post #89 » by **gp2015** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:24 am

Raps in 4 wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:
Basketball_Jones wrote:
Oh damn I didn’t realize they weren’t flushable. I know other people have been doing it for years though no problems.

You might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later you'll **** up your pipes.

Some brands are flushable.

Example: https://www.cottonelle.com/en-us/products/cottonelle-flushable-wipes

The general consensus is that even if they're marketed as "flushable", they're really bad for for your plumbing and it will clog your pipes at some point if you keep using them. I've read this from plumbers so I think it's better not to use them.

Johnny Bball · Post #90 » by **Johnny Bball** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:34 am

gp2015 wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:

You might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later you'll **** up your pipes.

Some brands are flushable.

Example: https://www.cottonelle.com/en-us/products/cottonelle-flushable-wipes

The general consensus is that even if they're marketed as "flushable", they're really bad for for your plumbing and it will clog your pipes at some point if you keep using them. I've read this from plumbers so I think it's better not to use them.

Ok... enough of this foolishness. They aren't plastic and if you leave it overnight in the toilet it breaks down like toilet paper so you can imagine what happens elsewhere.

Basketball_Jones · Post #91 » by **Basketball_Jones** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:35 am

Lol a lot of the trash canned boyardee stuff is sold out. Some chunky soup there, don’t mind that though a bit pricier. Fruits and veggies plenty left lol.

The Warrior · Post #92 » by **The Warrior** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:36 am

C_Money wrote:So many mindless brain dead people out there. Stocking up on toilet paper because everyone else is doing it.

Sheep! It’s time like these that you realize how many people are really brain dead.

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Westside Gunn · Post #93 » by **Westside Gunn** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:37 am

RaptorsJunkie wrote:
C_Money wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:It's stupid not to stock up. A real man will spend at least a few hundred dollars to protect his family. My worst case scenario is I'm down a grand or so while others worst case scenario is hunger/death. I'm also prepped for any social unrest. IMO, I'd rather be prepped to ensure the survival of my family even if the possibility were low for it to come to that.

Lol so you are one of the crazy f*ckers we keep hearing about on the news. Here he is guys

You think it's crazy to do whatever it takes to protect your family?

It means I'm an alpha male. I will walk over betas and not think twice.

Alphas hunt and grow their food breh

which im sure none of us do.

agentzero2010 · Post #94 » by **agentzero2010** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:41 am

Here are my quick solutions:

1. Improve our healthcare system so that there is less panic and stress about overloading the system. Build more hospitals, emergency clinics and have a larger emergency fund to hire emergency nurses and doctors.

2. Establish some guidelines and protocol on the federal, provincial and municipal level for disaster events such as outbreaks, natural disasters, and wars?

3. Prohibit people from reselling items such as toilet paper, hand sanitizers, wipes, masks, etc at a rate of more than 50% above original value to discourage price gouging. The same goes for prohibiting stores from jacking up prices too.

4. Build more factories that produce essential items that people are and will panic about to minimize import shortage in future events.

Social panic occurs from a lack of coordination, information and trust in our government. More and more of these events will occur in the future, and with the increase in social and free media, people will panic in the next event until our government addresses the core issues.

What I truly don't understand is why does it take less than a second for governments around the world to provide relieve funds, bail-outs and tax breaks for big corporations to "save the economy" when it takes years to secure funding for things that we actually need. Its as if the government works for the big corporations and not us -_^

JustLucky · Post #95 » by **JustLucky** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:45 am

Washington state and italy are examples of places that were panic buying and now the selves are full 2 weeks later it was be the same in canada. There's just not enough trucks to supply the hoarders and in a few weeks no ones gonna need anything

Mikistan · Post #96 » by **Mikistan** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:45 am

Westside Gunn wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:
C_Money wrote:
Lol so you are one of the crazy f*ckers we keep hearing about on the news. Here he is guys

You think it's crazy to do whatever it takes to protect your family?

It means I'm an alpha male. I will walk over betas and not think twice.

Alphas hunt and grow their food breh

which im sure none of us do.

Comon guys, alphas do it all or at least have the capacity to do it all.

Today my son burnt his little hand on the fireplace... He has never wanted to touch it his whole life.

gp2015 · Post #97 » by **gp2015** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:45 am

Johnny Bball wrote:
gp2015 wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:
Some brands are flushable.

Example: https://www.cottonelle.com/en-us/products/cottonelle-flushable-wipes

The general consensus is that even if they're marketed as "flushable", they're really bad for for your plumbing and it will clog your pipes at some point if you keep using them. I've read this from plumbers so I think it's better not to use them.

Ok... enough of this foolishness. They aren't plastic and if you leave it overnight in the toilet it breaks down like toilet paper so you can imagine what happens elsewhere.

Yeah and all those stories about city sewers being clogged up by wipes, it's all just a conspiracy.

Go ahead and do whatever you want. It's not my house but good luck to you.

The Warrior · Post #98 » by **The Warrior** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:46 am

Westside Gunn wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:
C_Money wrote:
Lol so you are one of the crazy f*ckers we keep hearing about on the news. Here he is guys

You think it's crazy to do whatever it takes to protect your family?

It means I'm an alpha male. I will walk over betas and not think twice.

Alphas hunt and grow their food breh

which im sure none of us do.

The fact that he even insinuated that he’s an alpha because he’s protecting his family suggests to me that he’s no alpha.

A real alpha doesn’t panic buy while suggesting that those who don’t are not real men.

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Mikistan · Post #99 » by **Mikistan** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:49 am

JustLucky wrote:Washington state and italy are examples of places that were panic buying and now the selves are full 2 weeks later it was be the same in canada. There's just not enough trucks to supply the hoarders and in a few weeks no ones gonna need anything

The problem is the stuff too. It's all junk in plastic packaging and packed full of processed chems

The city centres bring out stories too, I heard a guy pulled a gun out at Loblaws at queen and Portland for toilet paper

Westside Gunn · Post #100 » by **Westside Gunn** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:50 am

flushable wipes: be careful. toilet paper is designed specifically for the plumbing. flushable wipes will **** it up. just toss it in a bin.

i mean, you dont want the zombies to smell all that **** when your toilet is overflowing because of those wipes.

or even better yet: much better for the environement and overall more hygenic.