Organizing a Group Buy of Flour

Re:Organizing a Group Buy of Flour by vonmoltke on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:31AM (#22878912)

While not pallets, I have read anecdotal reports here in NJ that stores are selling out of toilet paper within hours after opening following a restock, so it seems to be more than just buying an extra package every time someone goes to the store.

The only way I have been able to get any since this started is the store I mentioned elsewhere that is selling individual institutional rolls.

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Re:Organizing a Group Buy of Flour by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:02PM (#22885345)

Hours?

About 3 weeks ago I went to Walmart at 6AM to beat the crowds. I got meat (20lb tube of ground beef!), rice, flour, and a bunch of essentials. Checked the toilet paper aisle and they were out.

Went back to my car and while I sitting there, I saw people leaving the store with TP. Asked a lady where she got it and went back inside. It was gone!

Between the time I checked the racks and left the store (maybe ten minutes at most), they put out toilet paper and sold out! That's insane.

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Re:Organizing a Group Buy of Flour by ghaff on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:51AM (#22879212)

TBF, the many people who don't keep a lot of extra stock in the house probably got caught out early on even as the usage was going up a lot. So there probably are genuinely people who need it at this point and they're buying more than they usually do. (And, yes, a lot of people who are in the store for other reasons may well grab a package of TP even if they don't really need it and wouldn't normally have bought it.)

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