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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by shoo on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:51AM (#17263684)
my strategy is to only go shopping at supermarkets when i have recently eaten a decent meal, and i already have enough food back at home to survive with out needing to go grocery shopping for a few days. that way i only buy bargains, and reasonably often dont buy anything at all. it helps to live close to multiple supermarkets, and have too much spare time.
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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by mcherm on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:41AM (#17264706)
> my strategy is to only go shopping at supermarkets when [...] and i already have enough food back at home to survive with out needing to go grocery shopping for a few days.

Great strategy, but if you ever have interruptions that cause you to empty out the larder, you will then starve since you can't shop.

Oh, wait... you're probably a human being not a computer program. Sorry: it's a kind of a reflexive code review process for me by now.

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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by teddyh on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:58PM (#17268638)
“Oh no! I Waited too long! I’m slightly too hungry to leave the house!”

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/time-of-useful-conscious...

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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by chiefalchemist on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:39AM (#17264352)
> "...and reasonably often dont buy anything at all..."

Yes. But time has a cost. The reality is, leaving empty handed is a loss.

As for bargains, that's the key. Buy big when X is priced low.

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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by dagw on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:44AM (#17264385)
Buy big when X is priced low.

Unless having lots of X at home will lead to you consuming more X at a faster rate than you normally would.

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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by Djvacto on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:06AM (#17264486)
What are you talking about? I would nev-

Where did all my pistachios go? I bought like 20 pounds.

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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by jschwartzi on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:03AM (#17265453)
And gained 40.
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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by chiefalchemist on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:40PM (#17269026)
I was thinking TP and such. But maybe having more TP makes me shit more? I'll have to set up a spreadsheet :)
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Re:Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early ... by dmarlow on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:28AM (#17265727)
That may apply to certain things, but I'm not going to use more napkins for the heck of it.
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