My supermarket was out of

No one gives a shit, so you won't need the toilet paper.

Guess I am shit out of luck

I am leaving now to go to Walmart in Tiftonia Tennessee. I’m hoping there isn’t many people there at this time of the morning.

I don’t like crowds and 2 AM to 3:30 AM is the only time I will go to Walmart.

Wish me luck

Walmart is opened 24 hours?

The local Safeway was nearly out of liquid soap, Out of Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, and hillshire farms luncheon meats.

I told you neanderthals to get a luxe bidet on Amazon for $30.

If that's too much, they have a used one for $24!

R3 here. Yes R4 Walmart is open 24 hrs a day. That is the best thing about Walmart.

I am stuck here for at least the next 7.5 hrs. I have a flat and the hole is so big the fix a flat poured out of it so I have to wait here until their tire center opens.

I am sure I will contract coronavirus before I get out of here!

Beans and rice

The first time I felt the panic was in the Stop n Shop tonight about 8:30. To see the entire meat section gone, no paper towels or even napkins. Desperate people milling about with overflowing carts. Signs apologizing for the lack of cleaning supplies. Unbelievable.

What cities are you all in?

I haven't stocked up on food (yet) but will try tomorrow. I barely keep any food, toiletries in bulk because I'm single in a studio. Just keep on hand my immediate needs.

I still can't believe any of this - (Minneapolis, here)

I went by my local Trader Joe's, Stop and Shop and Rite Aid today.

No toilet paper anywhere. Period.

Shelves are getting pretty empty. Lots of frozen entrees and frozen entrees were gone. Beans and ramen that I wanted to stock up on were already pretty bare.

I think there's a lot of panic buying and then the usual stock will be brought back in and to some degree sit there... I expect a balance will return to the stores in the next month.

Greedy fucks.

Buy aloe gel in the sunscreen section and add 91% isopropyl alcohol to it. Homemade hand sanitizer.

I thought we Australians were the idiots over hoarding toilet rolls but I see the U.S.A. is equally stupid.

Almost all of the frozen vegetables were gone where I went, which surprised me, since I didn't think people ate many vegetables. The one thing that was untouched was the gnocchi made from cauliflower.

[quote] Buy aloe gel in the sunscreen section and add 91% isopropyl alcohol to it. Homemade hand sanitizer.

Only, there's no rubbing alcohol for sale anywhere. Would 90-proof Absolut do as a reasonable substitute?

I’m going to Costco tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.

Actually it may not be too bad, what with restaurant and deli owners not buying huge amounts of stuff.

I went to Walmart tonight but aborted my mission when I saw the lines. I may attempt again in the morning, but I have enough food for a couple of weeks. I hope the hysteria will die down a little by then

I was surprised to see that there was very little laundry detergent left on shelves.

Sam's Club and Trader Joe's were fully stocked....that is, until I got through with them.

My favorite brand organic garbanzo beans. I should have bought 100 cans before all of this.

I am pleased to report that my local budget grocery had plenty of Charmin and were slowly restocking their meat coolers.

Fleet Enemas. I live in a major gayborhood, so I guess we're going to be "stuck" (get it?) at home for a while.

Try finding a thermometer!

[quote] Walmart is opened 24 hours?

Not anymore.

Well, since you brought it up, I think you’re two weeks too late. Don’t you read the panic threads on here?

No diapers left either.

[quote] I am leaving now to go to Walmart in Tiftonia Tennessee.

A Walmart in the south? And you’re gay?

You’re a very brave person. The horrors you’ll see will be indelibly etched in your brain forever.

[quote]I’m hoping there isn’t many people there at this time of the morning.

Oh, dear!

[quote] I have a flat and the hole is so big the fix a flat poured out of it

I know the feeling.

I'm just amazed by this...you knew it was coming -why did everyone wait until the last minute???

Seriously R29, can you take a break....your input is snide and so uncalled for especially during this time. Go critique a book or something on-line! It's really enough!

Outside of those with space limitations, I’m also surprised how many seemed unprepared. I just returned from my routine Sunday “milk run” and the local grocer’s paper goods aisle was bare. I wasn’t too shocked as everyone lost their shit locally last Friday when schools closed and county limited large gatherings. The store said they are expecting more and shoppers are limited to 2 of each item. They had just received a shipment of disinfectants. I took one big bottle of bleach. Most people were decent, but of course there was one asshole who took half the box of wipes (ha - they were antibacterial only). Most food including produce was fine, and dry goods like beans and pasta were picked over but you could still get some. Same with frozen foods. Other than the wipe jerk most people were being very thoughtful....at least here, and for now.

r24 my University pharmacy has little digital dealies in stock for $2.73.

[quote] Seriously [R29], can you take a break....your input is snide and so uncalled for especially during this time. Go critique a book or something on-line! It's really enough!

Are you fucking new here?

No eggs, no bread, no milk, no flour. I did score a freshly baked baguette of French bread.

The paper aisle looked like a vaccum attacked it. Nothing on the shelves. I went on Friday just to see it for myself.

I went to Safeway this morning for my usual weekly run.

Out of the usual stuff - hand sanitizer, tp, hand soap, cleaning wipes. Good stock of paper towels which I guess could be used as a last resort.

Almost completely out of bread which made me a little nervous.

They did have plenty of frozen goods, meat, seafood, produce, milk, cheese, soup, snacks, etc. Nothing to panic about.

I live paycheck to paycheck and had to wait for my paycheck on Wednesday to shop, I wish I could afford to stockpile huge amounts of stuff. So drop the snooty act some of you.

I genuinely and sincerely hate to see posts like r38’s.

R38, please know if I could somehow help you and flood your house with all these necessary supplies, know that I would. I’m not rich by any definition, but I hate to see my fellow gays not get what they need.

I’m sending you hugs for now.

I'm in Atlanta and I went to 2 stores today. They were were completely out of meat, the frozen tv dinners, milk and fruit were almost gone. The potatoes and pasta were gone, and there was barely any butter or items in the refrigerated biscuit case left. There was some weird garlic/parmesan butter (no margarine) and some chocolate chip rolls left

It took me 4 stores, but I finally found some TP and paper towels. I also found some Method disinfecting wipes even though I don't think they will help against corona, at least I can wipe my counters down at home. I was told no hand sanitizer in stores for at least the rest of the month, unfortunately I need it for work. It looks like Clorox wipes won't be around for awhile either. I also bought hand soap, Tylenol, cough drops, and some bottled water.

Are the grocery CEOs just sitting on their asses?

I hope those fuckers are working weekends to get this shit sorted!

[quote] Out of the usual stuff - hand sanitizer, tp, hand soap, cleaning wipes. Good stock of paper towels which I guess could be used as a last resort.

Just don't flush them, R37. They will clog up your septic system.

If you run out of toilet paper, use those lengthy CVS coupons.

Do you mean receipts, r44?

R44, The Coupon Center machine that scans your Extra Care card. New coupons every Sunday.

I went to the market very early Saturday morning (before 7am) and it was packed and shelves were bare and the lines horrendously long. It's hard not to panic and want to hoard resources when you see that. I found myself buying things that I probably didn't need because when you see the empty shelves and anxiety on everyone's faces, it's difficult not to get rapt up in that. Food scarcity has me more stressed out than the actual virus does at this point.

In Australia, the supermarkets are introducing an hour dedicated to elderly customers only. Between 7-8am only elderly customers with Govt concession cards as proof will be allowed into the stores before the hordes raid everything and leave them nothing after 8am.

r48, that's a great idea. The superstore I shop at the most has had relatively few customers 10pm-midnight, when I shop, so there are periods when it's quiet, but it would be nice to set aside time for the elderly and infirm.

No butter, cheese, or orange juice today. The only meat left was stuff nobody wants like tripe and liver.

I never buy fresh meat, so it's interesting to see what other people regard as necessities. Everything I eat at home is ready made and cooks in the microwave. I thought there would be a run on frozen entrees, but the store had plenty of them. I bought enough to last the two weeks.

I haven't been able to get any eggs anywhere.

Went to the market today for tea, coffee, butter, and produce. Refrigerated goods were well stocked - eggs, butter, milk, cheese and meat. Plenty of produce.

No paper products, no pasta or sauce, rice, and beans. No paper products, hand sanitizer, or liquid hand soap. There was a lady in aisle where diapers are usually stocked yelling about diapers being sold out and what is her son supposed to wear now.

Oh for fuck's sake, people want to fight a VIRUS with ANTI-BACTERIAL soap???

Anyway, my supermarket was clean out of rice. That makes sense, at least.

[quote] people want to fight a VIRUS with ANTI-BACTERIAL soap???

I wouldn’t say anyone wants to, darling, but I do have cherry pomegranate, vanilla coconut and unscented soaps on my boudoir washstand.

If times get desperate I may have to open my decorative soap curio!

I founds a 16oz. bottle of hand sanatizer in the hatch area of my car. bidding starts at $1,000.

Kitty litter.

[quote] There was a lady in aisle where diapers are usually stocked yelling about diapers being sold out and what is her son supposed to wear now.

Jeez, with the wit of DL this could be its own thread with great responses.

Rice was gone, TP was gone, pasta was down to dregs. No surprises there.

What surprised me is that the bagged salads and greens were all gone! Who the hell hoards salad greens? They only keep a few days and you can't freeze them.

Eggs, anything paper, any cleaners, OJ, milk, half and half, canned goods. Freezer section was wiped out. I just went in for milk but took a look around to see what was going on. Found milk at Walgreens, they had just gotten a delivery.

All the lazy-people-food will be gone.

Pasta was wiped out. Then I saw in the crunchy funky section a selection of organic pasta in pretty colors made of interesting vegetable flowers. I threw 5 varieties into my basket. They rung up at 4.95 each bag!!!!

vegetable flours

I’m finding Greenwise (Publix’s organic store, non-Southerners) to be the least problematic shopping experience. They had a full egg case today while Publix was empty. The shoppers have been all chill, too.

I finally got two dozen eggs today ordering from Whole Foods on Prime Now. Amazon cut their 2-hour delivery windows completely and only had 1-hour delivery windows, which they charge $5 for. Three of my items were not available, two others were substituted, and they grabbed me a mustard that was beads.

Agree about Greenwise. Hardly anyone in there and the shelves weren't bare. Got my eggs and veggies there

R61 is right. All the Chef-Boy-are-you-lazy cans were gone.

My Target was out of lube.

[quote]I finally got two dozen eggs today ordering from Whole Foods on Prime Now.

r65, assuming you're not egging the neighbors or wanting to give your statin medication something to work on, what do you plan to do with all those eggs? The mother of all omelettes?

[quote] [R65], assuming you're not egging the neighbors or wanting to give your statin medication something to work on, what do you plan to do with all those eggs? The mother of all omelettes?

I make egg white omelettes and I usually use 4 eggs.

...thyme.

thyme tea is antiviral

People thinking they're going to die, stocking up on a comfort food, but how is Chef Boyardee comfort food? It's fucking gross.

I'm with you r73 I never even liked it as a kid. I also hated Spaghetti-Os and kids were supposed to like those.

People just make your own sanitiser with a mix of Isopropyl Alcohol, Aloe Vera gel and whatever essence smell you like.

R75 what a clever idea, R75. You should share that on the internet, generally.

Just use hand or dishwashing soap. Don't need the insta-dry hand sanitizer because where are you going?

Nowhere, if you're smart.

Not everyone is working from home/off work r77, there are many people out there who still have to go into jobs.

I'm a "gig" economy worker who is exempt so I either sit home without pay or go work and get infected.

R79 = Dawson

If I want to keep my job I have to go in to work regardless of what's going on in the world.

I have been stalking Amazon Fresh for a few days. I finally got a timeslot for tonight and by the time I changed my front door option, it was gone.

Amazon Fresh didn’t have the stuff I want (and Fresh Direct don’t have any slots for a week). I might try Whole Foods delivery on Amazon.

No Chef Boyardee left in virginia!

No dildos left at my local Walmart.

That can’t be true, r85. Doesn’t your Walmart have those barriers in the parking lot?

R59, I saw the same thing on Saturday, except it was the regular lettuce. No romaine, no iceberg. No green leaf or red leaf or Boston. Who the hell was buying all that lettuce? Do they think they can hoard it? Or freeze it?

Also no parsley, flat or curly, organic or regular, but plenty of cilantro. Most other fruits and vegetables were in plentiful supply.

R69, I’m not R65, but I also bought two dozen eggs. They had an unusually distant expiry date – April 22. The answer to your question, obviously, is eat them. Eggs are versatile and go with pretty much anything.

Refrigerated eggs keep for a long time, weeks at least, so I bought a couple of extra dozens. If I end up on house arrest for two weeks or something, at least I can make popovers for breakfast, or omelettes with frozen spinach and cheese.

I haven’t been able to find toilet paper for four days. A friend gave me some but I want to buy more. I’ve probably been to 12 different stores including local markets, gas stations, and supermarkets.

[quote] I haven’t been able to find toilet paper for four days

Why not try contacting the supplier and ask where and when they will be delivering close to you? (Ask the store who their supplier is.)

Mine was out of really good mayonaaise and ketchup. Ina would KILL me if she knew I bought Great Value condiments. I held my head in shame as I scanned them and .88 showed up. I hope no one I knew saw me.

The same as above but also:

*Frozen vegetables and ALL frozen pizza *Bottled water - which is fucking ridiculous *Garbage bags (!)

[quote] , I saw the same thing on Saturday, except it was the regular lettuce. No romaine, no iceberg. No green leaf or red leaf or Boston. Who the hell was buying all that lettuce? Do they think they can hoard it? Or freeze it?

I bought a lot of fresh food to eat last weekend and during this week. I am trying to save my ready meals/frozen meals for when there is a quarantine

R89 My friend in Ozzie said you can't go into a public toilet where he is - NSW because people are jimmying open the dispensers and pinching the toilet paper. In the supermarkets here we are out of coughdrops and syrups etc that contain Zinc. Powdered milk and shelf-stable milk is low but can still be found. Everything else still available but we are about 2 weeks behind in terms of the virus so have had a bit more time to stock up.

Some relief is forthcoming.

Stores stock overnight. Go EARLY in the morning.

What r96 says. I went right at 7:00 last weekend. Found almost everything.

What is it about black people hoarding toilet paper?

Fat asses, I guess.

I went to Walgreen's this morning to pick up some prescriptions. A sign stated a limit of two packages of toilet paper per family, which did not matter as the shelves were bare of paper goods. I picked up the last can of pineapple and one can of beef with vegetable soup. There was still some spaghetti and jarred sauce. All the bottled water was gone. There was plenty of laundry detergent, frozen food and snack foods. Oh, there was no honey. I'd wanted to pick up a spare for my morning tea.

Datalounge had me worried early, so I stocked up on paper goods and dry groceries two weeks ago. I just pick up a couple of things here and there to ensure variety over the next few weeks.

ice cream

Canned Cat Food

No adult diapers to be found anywhere.

Oh shit....literally. I forgot I have to buy 2 bottles of magnesium citrate & Dulcolax tablets for my colonoscopy.

No whips and handcuffs.

I went Shop-rite this afternoon and grabbed 3 bottles of the small Palmolive dish detergent. The cashier said you can only have 1, next cashier said you can only have 2, 3rd cashier said - if it rings up - let him have them, manager said let me look it up...then she said it was ok since they go by ounces, but my cashier proceeded to ask another cashier...at that point, I was fed up and said “let me pay for my food and get out of here already” Person behind me had 2 paper towels and the how many allowed? questions started again...Sigh, this is how it is going to be from now on...

Debating should I go to the corner and grab a bottle on wine...

*Of wine

Why do you need 3 bottles of Palmolive?

They were small bottles.

palmolive is essential for treating fungus on iris fronds, r109

I use a small bottle of Dawn it lasts for months

I really don't understand how some of this shit isn't back in stock now. They've known for a month.

Does anyone know if they have Boniva in stock?

Just spoke to my Aunt in Jersey City and she said her Dollar Tree stocks food, canned and frozen, daily. (She is old, poor, nearly blind, and in Section 8, so there's that.)

Was in a Dollar Tree yesterday as it was next to the Home Depot where we were checking for cleaning stuff.

HD didn't have shit but I found two bottles of this Spic and Span stuff that is good for killing viruses. Aside from paper products and sanitizer being out, they had some decent stuff in stock.

I heard plain old soap and water kills this virus.

I hope all the yuppie buppies who hoarded all these tie,s from all the stores in my neighborhood all die in a grease fire

They probably will R118 if they shop in the Grease FIre Aisle at the Dollar store...

Minced garlic, red pepper flakes, yogurt and Tabasco sauce along with all of the above.

Found 7th generation toilet paper. Jackpot!

-I lined up at my Trader Joe's this morning at 8am. It usually opens then. Someone in line said they were now opening at 9am from now on. I had to wait an hour in the cold (37) degrees. But when I walked in the store was well stocked.

I walked out with a pack of TOILET PAPER and PAPER TOWELS.

JEALOUS BITCHES?

OMG, r119, if you could only see my tears of laughter as I tried ten times to read aloud your post without cracking up!

Went to my store to day all the jars of tomato sauce were gone, a whole aisle gone well except for the twenty or so $8.00 jars of "gourmet" brands.

I was on vacation last week so I couldn’t stock up. As a sales rep, my company has told us to stay home. It took me until today to find toilet paper. I lucked out by going to Sams Club when it opened this morning. Now I’ll be able to wipe my ass with Charmin for months.

Mine in Peoria was wiped out

All I found was:

Earrings

Caftans

Gin

Regret

Dignity

Yahoo just had a headline about an 18 month pandemic and shortages....

I want to go to the store in the morning but dont feel like dealing the DRAMA

Red Dragon cheese

Fuck that 18 months. This needs to end in 2 weeks. This is turning into some totalitarian shit

If this lasts 18 months (I don't think it will), expect a LOT of suicides. Hell, expect a lot of them if this even lasts 6 months.

This won't last a month because Americans will do what they always do and move on and stop caring.

Amazon needs to step their shit up and stop being out of so much. Bezos is a billionaire. Invest some of that money into production, Jeff. You'll clearly get it back

[quote]If this lasts 18 months (I don't think it will), expect a LOT of suicides. Hell, expect a lot of them if this even lasts 6 months.

yeah, i expect the realization that they killed their parents or grandparents will be something of a downer for some people

Mine was out of eggs, bread, butter, milk....hamburger, fresh chicken, toilet paper. What is the matter with people? What a bunch of assholes.

This is so stressful and depressing. It would be hard enough if it lasted 2 or 3 months.

I saw my first face masks yesterday. Both were on males, one guy going into CVS in a mask & another guy in a supermarket.

We need to simply let nature take its course. I might die, but I can’t live forever. People should get their shit in order and go out into the brave new world. We can’t shelter in place every time a new infectious disease comes along. We’d all be confined in summer so we don’t get West Nile or Zika virus.

Cak frosting

R138, Big talk, until you realize you are losing the ability to breathe, eyes bulging in abject terror, mouth gasping like a hooked fish, mind reeling at its imminent extinction. Our trillion-dollar sham of a government has revealed its evil indifference, its only raison d'etre the enriching of the already-wealthy, who are laughing now in their private flights to their private islands and/or underground bunkers, along with richly-compensated private nurses and doctors with medicines and necessary equipment.

Billionaires have been preparing for Doomsday, mostly by bribing and blackmailing government officials into passing favorable tax laws.

The rest of us will be told to get our affairs in order. And that funeral services will comprise only the dead and the diggers.

Looked for toilet paper in about a half dozen stores. Only one place had it and sold small packages with a limit of 2 per customer. I had more success with Kleenex and paper towels but had to look around. No sign of Lysol wipes, hand sanitizer and Lysol all purpose cleaner in spray form.

How are you all experiencing items being sold out? Don't you know the supermarkets have special hours for eldergays to get first dibs?

R142, I consider those hours ageist because they're usually at some ungodly time like 7 a.m.

I demand hours that are useful for night-owl eldergays. Midnight-1 a.m. would be about right. They could go later as far as I'm concerned, but some weak sisters go to bed at 1 or so.

[quote] this Spic and Span stuff

Racist!!!

[quote] Went to my store to day all the jars of tomato sauce were gone, a whole aisle gone well except for the twenty or so $8.00 jars of "gourmet" brands.

They apparently were out of grammar books, too.

bleach

Agreed, r143! We Oldies are insomniacs! My store's Elder Hour starts at 6:00 a.m. No rotisserie chickens then, and the wine and beer section doesn't open until 11:00 a.m.!

How do I explain to my parents that white vs. brown eggs are a big scam?

Couch it in terms of the civil rights movement.

No cat food to be found anywhere. I don't want Choo Choo to starve!

They are doing early hours for seniors here. I did see eggs in the store yesterday for the first time in a week. However, I've also decamped to Palm Springs, which is a relatively small city.

R150 - give Kitty canned tuna, salmon, boneless sardines etc. Choo Choo will love you for it!

R152 - Choo Choo is fussy and only eats Sheba and Purina. She won't touch canned tuna, salmon etc and I can't make her.

Amazon has Sheba in stock

And Purina

Wrong Purina link - here you go! 2nd row

Thanks for the links. Little Choo Choo won't go hungry after all. (She turned her nose up at my home-made terrine de canard, btw.)

Tell Choo Choo to eat whatever the fuck you give her or she gonna be exploring another one of her nine lives!

Would pets actually starve themselves to death if they didn't receive the food they want? That seems so contrary to the nature of animals to try to survive.

That is an interesting question R159. I had a cat who just would not eat tuna. Maybe he was just too used to dry food, but he would take one look at it and move on. Even when I mixed it with dry food he would eat around it.

I thinks pets rely on their owners being soft. I would be more take it or leave it.

[quote] She turned her nose up at my home-made terrine de canard, btw.

Well that’s really no indication. I mean, your whole dinner party did last time too.

[quote] Would pets actually starve themselves to death if they didn't receive the food they want?

Cats might. They can lose too much weight too quickly and get ill. Sometimes it goes past the point of no return. So they didn’t intentionally not eat which led to their death, but they died as a result of not eating.

[quote]My supermarket was out of

My favorite brand of smoked salmon.

Right? Seriously, they need to open small outlet stores that sell only:

Toilet Paper

Clorox and Lysol Wipes

Hand Sanitizer

Anti-bacterial Soap

From our hands and butts to God's ear, hopefully!

[quote]Seriously, they need to open small outlet stores that sell only:

With the new demand, we need a big box store devoted to toilet paper and other butthole cleaning materials and means.

I've been to three supermarkets over the last few days and nobody, I mean nobody, wants Progresso soup. Is it that bad?

I just got groceries delivered from Amazon Fresh. Do I need to wipe everything down with alcohol?

No, just drink some alcohol so you’ll “go out” drunk.

Progresso is fine, R167.

...common decency! Lost it in 1977, along with half my caftans in the condo fire. Poor Fluffy was never same.

Well not if she had to look at your fat naked ass every day.

Everybody would be affected by that. To this day some of your neighbors get the tremors.

How are the markets and drug stores today? Less crowded?

I'm going to pick up a yoga mat today. Was able to find one online at Target (for pick up, nothing in store was in stock). Need some free weights, too.

I'm out of dry cat food and a few other items. I can't buy in bulk or things will go bad. So far, stores have been stocked well enough near me. I'll be out buying today.