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Omg bathing soap is impossible to find sometimes now
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Regular bars of soap? I was lucky enough to have purchased a package of Ivory Soap before the hording started.
It's not hoarding because people think there won't be enough IMHO; it's people trying to minimize the number of times they are going to the store and getting exposed to coughing strangers. Buy enough stuff in one trip for 2 months and you are only exposed once. Buy only enough for a week at a time and you are exposed 8 times. It makes sense to me.
All the local chain supermarkets around my neck of the woods seem to be sold out
Our local family owned grocery store - has plenty at close to chain prices. They even have toilet paper.
Next to them, the butcher is all but fully stocked. Again, chains not so much.
Works for me!
Our local family owned grocery store - has plenty at close to chain prices. They even have toilet paper.
Next to them, the butcher is all but fully stocked. Again, chains not so much.
Works for me!
No matter how much people try to buy in advance, there are things they will need weekly.
Not necessarily. OK sometime you might make substitutes of frozen for fresh, or use nonfat dry milk or whole milk powder instead of fresh milk. In winter I never used to shop weekly anyway. I'd pick a time about every four or five weeks when the roads were open, go in and stock up on fresh produce and other perishables. Then use things first that would spoil first... or blanch (if necessary) and freeze half the really perishable greens or other veggies. That way I could use some of them towards the end of the timeframe I'd stocked up for.
It is a bit tiresome that some people who never kept some staple goods on hand may suddenly have decided to build a six-month pantry from scratch in a couple weeks... they've seemed like locusts cleaning out the shelves and online supplies.
I can certainly understand people's disinclination to shop often during the pandemic though. I share their aversion to extra exposure to the virus, and I don't even like asking Instacart shopper/drivers to get fresh produce for me more often than every three weeks or so.
Body wash. It doesn't make a mess - bar soaps drips, diffuses in a steamy shower and makes a scum layer all over the walls - and it's readily available:
4 pack, that'll last you for 4-6 months.
Get you a pack of shower scrunchies:
You're set for 1/2 a year, for < $25
Plus, you'll have healthy skin and a cleaner shower.
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4 pack, that'll last you for 4-6 months.
Get you a pack of shower scrunchies:
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You're set for 1/2 a year, for < $25
Plus, you'll have healthy skin and a cleaner shower.
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tell me about it... Ended up getting it from local Chemist Warehouse.
The big stores though, not the smaller shops.
Ebay would be my last resport for everything, but when you work out the deliver f ordering outside of state, it probably equals about the same.
Glen20 is my biggest concern right now..... Instead, I had to opt for this other crap, which leave residue on everything like Santa snow.
Past service stations told me they could give me their friends phone number for 50 box of glen20...Perhaps i should have taken it.
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I recently noticed that one of the Kroger Brand cereals I buy (small box of granola usually $2.20 now $4.50) had doubled in price. Why? It’s an unusual isolated occurrence at the grocery store. Maybe I’ll get around to asking the store manager.
For paper products - and specifically TP - have you looked around on social platforms to see if anyone is selling it locally. Around here, a number of restaurants (who had large, bulk supplies of it), in addition to takeout service, are doing like grocery products, fresh meats and veggies, and things like TP.
This is a really great local place, they have a whole shop setup:
And some friends with a restaurant:
If you have NextDoor up and running in your area (it's a localized social platform), check that out, lots of local communication about this sort of thing