Pandemic Hoarding: Shoppers Empty Shelves
in Fear of Another COVID-19 Lockdown
KNTV-TV [San Jose CA],
by
Scott Budman
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
11/18/2020 9:56:41 AM
Some shoppers are stocking up on supplies and emptying shelves once again as fears of another coronavirus lockdown rise. Several retailers in the Bay Area have posted signs warning customers of shortages of paper goods and limiting how much can be purchased. A business professor said the aisles should not say bare for too long. "It's a little bit more difficult to move things around than it was because you can't get people within 6 feet of each other, and that slows down stuff in the supply chain," said Robert Chapman Wood, a professor of strategic management at San Jose
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Donna M 11/18/2020 10:08:28 AM (No. 609371)
Starting to see some of that in NJ and NY too. The more Corrupto Cuomo and Mussolini Murphy shut down, the more this will happen. Actions have consequences.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 11/18/2020 10:09:36 AM (No. 609376)
Bizarre. I had no difficulty getting anything other than eggs previously. Eggs were out of stock in one grocery store for a couple of weeks, but available in several other. The canned beans aisle was pretty low stock but you could get a can or two if you just wanted some beans with dinner.
Perhaps on the Left Coast or in the NE Insanity Zone things were different. Out here in Free America (well sorta-kinda free, these days) food was not a problem, or TP.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 11/18/2020 10:17:16 AM (No. 609388)
An thus they will create the very shortages they fear. Way to go, idiots.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jc96 11/18/2020 10:20:52 AM (No. 609392)
here in Italy it's not an issue except flour and yeast but that corrected after the first round. On the nearby air base there are vast shortages but attributed to distribution issues. Anything Chef Boy Ardee and wipes have been out of stock for seemingly ever. And meat from the US has nearly tripled in price.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
AltaD 11/18/2020 10:20:53 AM (No. 609393)
There are signs of this happening in grocery stores in Chicago too. It isn't as bad as March but cleaning and paper products are getting difficult to find.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/18/2020 10:35:33 AM (No. 609414)
Feeling jerked around enough by your 'Rat masters, yet?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 11/18/2020 10:40:17 AM (No. 609419)
Yep, I've been hoarding TP since 2015. I had fears that BO would declare martial law and cancel the 2016 election.
I started in Sept to stock up.
No bacon in Aldi yesterday.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Califedup 11/18/2020 10:54:24 AM (No. 609446)
On display - The absolute evilness of the media in stoking fear and panic in the general populace over a flu and the absolute stupidity in a huge segment of the populace who succumb to this fear mongering and their own selfishness into igniting another round of panic buying.
Since March I have been asking the question as to why these idiots all seem to target toilet paper as some sort of magic bullet against the Chinese Flu. Can anyone provide some sort of rational reason for overbuying toilet paper? Is TP a vaccine against the Chinese Flu?
Thank all the ignorant and lazy panic buyers for making our own lives more stressful.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man 11/18/2020 11:02:00 AM (No. 609456)
I'm here in the panhandle of Florida. Nobody wearing masks (except the rare dimocrat), nobody social distancing that you would notice. This is Trump country and we know that Covid is a cold.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
zzzghy 11/18/2020 11:03:23 AM (No. 609461)
Not exactly a shocker.
This is what happens when panic pigeons begin pooping themselves.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/18/2020 11:46:10 AM (No. 609516)
Spare us the “business professors”. They are the ones who usually start the panics.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/18/2020 11:48:25 AM (No. 609519)
Does there have to be rivalry and division in everything? No, the so-called “Left Coast” is well-stocked. And we have food markets on nearly every corner. Full-service to corner 7-11s and farmer’s markets as well. We haven’t seen shortages for some time. Able to get everything we need in groceries, paper goods and fresh produce.
Southern California.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 11/18/2020 12:14:15 PM (No. 609541)
If you dont make sure you have enough for your family, someone else will get what you could have. Then you get nothing.
Figuring all the taxes I pay at all levels of government, I am well over 50% being forced from me to give to "others" who I dont even know. I'm not feeling particularly charitable to strangers.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 11/18/2020 12:16:35 PM (No. 609545)
#12, the report is out of Cali, although not southern California. Don't blame anyone here who might get the idea that this is an issue on the Left Coast - that is what the article says.
Perhaps is it just more Fake News. That would be easy to believe.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
StormCnter 11/18/2020 12:19:13 PM (No. 609548)
At my store, paper supplies are plentiful, but I have been looking for Ekrich Smoked Breakfast Sausages for weeks without success. I have one package in my freezer, but one granddaughter is arriving home from college and another getting a 10 day leave from the Air Force and those gals will be expecting Smokies with the breakfasts an Nanny's house. The store manager said he just hasn't been able to get them, but I found a 10-pack at Amazon Fresh that will come in next week.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/18/2020 12:59:10 PM (No. 609573)
Not happening here in South Carolina. Our governor has not issued any mandates or regulations. He has left it up to individual cities and towns. Of course, our idiot leftwing mayor of Charleston has a mask mandate going where we are required to wear them in public buildings and even outside if we are downtown. Most people are not complying with the outside mandate and I am frequently defying the inside mandate. I have yet to be called out when in a store or even the post office. I was once stopped on a sidewalk downtown by a policeman and told to put my mask on. Which I did, but I removed it as soon as he walked away.
As the pro-abortionists like to say...my body, my choice.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/18/2020 1:02:41 PM (No. 609579)
Forgot to add...my daughter lives in the DC suburbs and she told me this morning that these shortages are starting to pop up there.
Big surprise! /s
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/18/2020 1:11:54 PM (No. 609591)
So far, the Kroger store where we shop in Grand Junction, Colorado is adequately stocked. Some TP was available but, some bare shelves. The store has been rationing toilet paper, paper towels, and hand sanitizer since last spring. Bottled water and soft drinks were in short supply.
Colorado governor Polis has been making some noise about instituting another lockdown, but, remains to be seen if Gov. Polis will risk it. Two petitions were recently circulated statewide to force a recall vote to remove him, but, not enough signatures were gathered. People believe these lockdowns are overkill and sooner or later will take matters into their own hands.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Daisymay 11/18/2020 1:19:48 PM (No. 609599)
I live in Florida! Our Governor said NO lockdown, ever! So here we are, minding our own business, store shelves have everything you need and then a week or so ago, BOOM! Shelves are suddenly empty of paper products again. WTH! I know what happened, Snowbirds! They come down by the Thousands, which normally is just fine, but this time they decided they were still in NY and needed to buy up all the TP, Paper towels, Napkins and Kleenex! Jeesh! You don't have to hoard here! We are not going to lockdown! Makes us want to stop them on 95 and turn them around!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
OhioNick 11/18/2020 1:35:22 PM (No. 609606)
Here in Ohio, I noticed that the supply of paper napkins never recovered. Although there's plenty of paper towels at all the stores I got to, for whatever reason there has been a dramatic shortage of napkins.
But the bigger issue is the massive increase in food prices this year. National chains like Wal-Mart and Aldi haven't jacked up their price like the local and regional chains. If fact, back in the spring I noticed that the prices of many food items at one local grocery chain DOUBLED in price.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 11/18/2020 4:40:53 PM (No. 609755)
Are these folks afraid they're going to cough so hard that they have to set on the toilet -in order to not mess their pants? This is NOT a digestive tract type of flu. I guess that many are full of what they fear is going to be a symptom!
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#19 I live south of you and the shelves at Publix were cleaned off tonight even thought they have signs limiting for months. Part of the problem is Instacart and other shopping services.
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