60$ per case … lock em up buys
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People can be some serious shits at a time of crisis. I’m glad there are states in the US that made it a crime to mark up prices (“excessively”, not sure if that means you can’t go up more than 20% or what) a long time ago.
The simple calculator for how much toilet paper you need to survive the pandemic
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You know you could have not used the duct tape and just rinsed your butt off with the shower hose not attached? Like a hand held bidet?
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Ohhh that’s true… But anyway I’m sure my GF will be more pleased with a more permanent solution
But the duck tape makes this a piece of art worth $120k!
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Our Carrefour limited the amount of toilet paper to two packets per customer.
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Bravo!
I’m going to expect seeing a three year old totter through the express checkout lane tomorrow with their two packs of TP.
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They’ll bring in the whole family.
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Yeah, they’ll send in the whole clan, one by one. I’ve seen it done before.
In Germany thiefs broke into a car and took only the good stuff. Two packs of toilet paper.
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The PXMart / Quanlian / 全聯 near me was once again picked clean of toilet paper today, with a sign saying (I think) limit of one per customer as of yesterday. Lots of the canned goods aisle was gone too. Or at least I think it had been the canned goods aisle - not really enough identifying items left to tell.
Reminder: there is no shortage, this is just what happens when everyone decides to buy stuff. Things will be back in stock shortly.
But I confess that I am trying to keep our designated toilet-paper-storage area close to full, rather than my usual approach of not bothering until it gets down to just a couple of packages left. I’m not buying any more than usual - just topping up the tank more frequently, as it were.
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Every time they announce more cases people flip out and start panic buying.
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This past week has been a little more understandable - things are getting awful in the rest of the world, and lots of us in Taiwan are nervously looking around, wondering how or if our luck can hold.
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1 kg tin of Quaker oats, box of raisins. You can’t go wrong. The bear’s on a solid porridge diet hereon in.
I started regularly making granola a few months ago, and I am finally making some headway through all the dried fruit that we keep buying because it seems healthy, and then never eat (and oatmeal of course is good for that too!). I think I’m now up to the stuff that expired in 2018 or so, rather than back in the Obama years.
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I don’t get why the rest of the world is panicking about toilet paper, not soap. Not that I want them to panic buy soap but why are people buying toilet paper like they’re face masks?
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