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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Nusa:
Advanced the pharmacy trip to Costco to today, since neighbor stopped by and begged for a ride to/from there (her car is broken). Went during normal hours, line was only about 10 minutes long to get in. The fact it was raining might have been a factor in that. Still flow-control into the store, so wasn't crowded and no lines at checkout. All the paper products were still in stock, but still no spaghetti. They did have the Kirkland 3-pack of orange juice back in stock -- it was missing the previous week.
bd139:
Interesting. All our pasta is still gone as well (other than wholemeal linguine so I'm happy as I actually like that). It's all actually made in Italy here (not sure about the US) so I'm wondering if there are supply problems due to lockdown there rather than hoarders.
rdl:
I haven't been out to the grocery in over a week, but the last last two trips pasta was pretty well depleted. I figure people buy it up because it keeps pretty well. No bread to be seen either. I ended up buying a bunch of flour tortillas. Been eating burritos for days... hotdog burritos, peanut butter burritos, etc.
Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 07, 2020, 09:49:01 pm ---Interesting. All our pasta is still gone as well (other than wholemeal linguine so I'm happy as I actually like that). It's all actually made in Italy here (not sure about the US) so I'm wondering if there are supply problems due to lockdown there rather than hoarders.
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The last time that I went to the store was a week ago but pasta was in stock here then but not a lot of it. I bought two boxes of the Barilla (made in Italy) pasta. Oddly there wasn't a lot of choices for the sauces, most of the varieties were sold out but there were plenty of the less popular choices. Hoarding is pretty common around here, it happens every time that a hurricane comes near but this is the first time that I've seen a run on TP or pasta.
EEVblog:
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--- Quote from: thinkfat on April 07, 2020, 09:48:35 am ---Still sort of rare around here. But it isn't really all that wondrous. People stay at home mostly instead of taking a dump at work.
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No such luck around here. You can go to all the supermarkets and fire a chain gun down the paper products and you won't hit anyone or anything. |O
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Yes, what I meant is that _obviously_ the domestic consumption of toilet paper is higher now that people are mostly shitting at home instead of at work.
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Our building still has plenty of dunny rolls every day. Although someone has been nicking them and breaking the locks on the holders because they have signs up on the door about it now. But I've never seen the ones on my floor empty.
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