Chic Hamptons food stores ransacked by
the wealthy amid coronavirus pandemic
by
Jennifer Gould Keil
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/19/2020 7:50:23 AM
Wealthy people who have flocked to the Hamptons to escape the coronavirus are ransacking grocery stores in epic shopping sprees that are costing thousands of dollars a pop.Since COVID-19 hit Long Island’s tony beach towns last week, its residents have been lining up for groceries and other essentials as they prepare to hunker down at home. But unlike in other parts of the country, Hamptonites are dropping massive amounts of money as they clean up on high-end goods, like salmon, steaks and rare bottles of wine, sources said.“I had one customer spend $8,000,”
Glad I’m not so nuanced, and lack gravitas! Being a Deplorable, I have a modicum off Common Sense...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
philsner 3/19/2020 8:08:24 AM (No. 350712)
We need more socialism!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/19/2020 8:17:13 AM (No. 350719)
My favorite comparison for grocery buying has always been in 1971, $30 would buy 2 paper sacks full of groceries whereas nowadays, you could put $30 worth of groceries in your glove compartment with room left over for the gloves. Thanks to this article, I can ponder how many sacks of groceries $8,000 would buy. Back here on earth, $8,000 might buy 4 Escalade tires, sans the install (but you could still get to the welfare office in style).
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mobyclik 3/19/2020 8:41:30 AM (No. 350746)
Look at the bright side, it's always fun laughing at these self-important empty headed twits.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
plaids 3/19/2020 8:46:28 AM (No. 350752)
This is crazy. Seriously, whether it's $8000 or $80 it all gets eliminated the same way in the same place.
Money doesn't always buy class.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 3/19/2020 8:55:01 AM (No. 350764)
FTA: "Philanthropist and socialite Jean Shafiroff has taken the unfamiliar step of cooking.... 'I’m spending $300 to $1,000 a day on food and supplies,' she said. 'I even bought the drugstore out of all its dental floss. I wanted to make sure I had enough.... If I have to be quarantined, I better look nice.”
Philanthropist. And nobody laughed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dolphin 3/19/2020 9:02:15 AM (No. 350776)
Great. Now there's going to be a worldwide truffle shortage.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kono 3/19/2020 9:18:11 AM (No. 350798)
"Ransacked"? :eye-roll:
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 3/19/2020 9:19:05 AM (No. 350800)
Meanwhile, out here in small-town America, this country girl is thankful no one has come up with a "Final Solution" for the wild hogs. Those pesky nuisances rooting up your yard just might be your next Happy Meal!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
marbles 3/19/2020 9:32:57 AM (No. 350812)
They fled NYC and are now in their houses in the Hamptons where all the restaurants are also closed. Some one has to cook, and for that you need ingredients. This is funny, they're doing what the little people have always been doing for themselves .
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
greggojo 3/19/2020 9:46:55 AM (No. 350825)
"Philanthropist" and socialite Jean Shafiroff: "Shafiroff also is buying canned goods like the rest of America, but only out of an abundance of caution. “I can donate them later,” she said of the items like Progresso chicken noodle soup and Del Monte peas and carrots — brands “I had never heard of before.” So, she never heard of Progresso or Del Monte? If she's never heard of Del Monte, she knows nothing about the history of California, including Pebble Beach, which I would think even the airhead Ms. Shafiroff may have heard of.
My other thought, was that in passing Ms. Shafiroff mentions that she customarily eats out every night. What I am waiting for all of America's young socialists to discover, is that Nancy Pelosi and all of the other Democrat/swamp political honchos also eat out every night. At the most expensive and exclusive restaurants in Washington DC as well as in their own home districts. And those meals are paid for by American taxpayers, directly or more often indirectly via lobbyists who politicians favor with pork-laden legislation favoring the lobbyists' clients and not the American taxpayer.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
sanspeur 3/19/2020 9:48:25 AM (No. 350826)
this is something a bernie bot / aoc would write . People it’s their $$$ . The stores out there are more $$ . It costs to transport way out to LI . They have horrible roads and traffic is crazy . The real season is very short and people close their houses for winter so they have to be restocked and re victualed . These mostly summer folk keep the year round folk employed . Yes there are obnoxious celebs , wealthy dumb bunnies etc out there and easily mocked . but ..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jacksin5 3/19/2020 9:58:47 AM (No. 350838)
It's just like looting, but you bring a credit card. My DIL, mother of a family of 4, has yet to track down toilet paper for her family.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 3/19/2020 10:24:21 AM (No. 350871)
Honestly, why would the wealthy behave differently than the rest of the country? It'd be horrible to be isolated without the vintage wines, caviar and other "necessities" that befit their status.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 3/19/2020 10:25:12 AM (No. 350873)
How much toilet paper is required for 8k in groceries?
2nd question.....who's doing the shopping? The wealthy or the help.
8K in food is easily a years supply.......if you shop Walmart and or Winn Dixie sales.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 3/19/2020 10:31:09 AM (No. 350881)
Idiots with deep pockets. "I bought out all the dental floss" and needed lots of toothbrushes? Geez, does she reuse her toothbrush or get a new one every day?
Stupid, stupid people, but with deep pockets. Good news for the businesses in that area.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/19/2020 10:37:44 AM (No. 350891)
Thank you #9: Silly me, I thought ransacked meant Black Friday style shopping with a few tramplings.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jebediah 3/19/2020 10:40:55 AM (No. 350898)
Looked up Jean Shafiroff and found she is called the" First Lady of Philanthropy" for all the balls and fetes she sponsors. Realizing that so many of these are simply virtue signaling and a method to get a mention in magazines and/or newspapers and that very little $ actually goes to the Red Cross or diabetes or whatever (this is the general rule of thumb and I doubt if this denizen of Town & Country is any different) she is pretty laughable and so far out of the loop that she doesn't even realize what a joke it is when she doesn't recognize regular brand names.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DARling 3/19/2020 10:56:11 AM (No. 350924)
Ransacked is what you get when Walmart announces the EBT system is down. Carts left in the aisles, merchandise left to spoil. Trash all over the place. Panicking and loading your cart, paying in full on the way out, is not ransacking. It might be childish, but not destructive.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/19/2020 2:08:18 PM (No. 351125)
Bless their hearts.
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