Well shucks, My one little convenience store - gas station here in Mimbres NM closed and locked the doors Saturday. He buys his food from Walmart and some deliveries for milk, eggs, cheese and dairy goods, their is none to buy. The small restaurant cant buy enough food to operate. Since Walmart has it's own warehouse and delivery trucks 120 miles away, I cant understand why they cant get our rural area any food. They are located about half way between Las Cruces NM and Tucson Az. My community is closer than either city, yet we are not being supplied and food. I Ordered $78 worth of needed items from Walmart on Friday for pick up. They couldn't fill any of the order. Its been 2 weeks since a run on the stores and none have re supplied in that 2 weeks. I may have to drive 120 miles to get anything soon. I home SAM'S club has some groceries or I'll have to start cooking my Red bean supply. Funny thing, I gave away my six month supply of MRE's last year to my yard man and his family because I had finally decided I didn't need them anymore. So much for being Mr. Good Fellow.
I'm sorry to hear that, I hope you'll have enough to get through.
This hoarding thing has got me very disappointed in my fellow humans. I seriously believe, that the selfish hoarding will end up with at least 75% of the food products going to waste.
I went to Winco last Monday, I saw 3 people with shopping carts full to the top of flour sacks. Bleached flour. I HIGHLY doubt they are trying to keep their pizza business open as they didn't appear to be the business owner "type" I wonder if they can eat 400# of flour before it spoils?Processed flour doesn't even last a year shelf life. Do they know it spoils? Do they care?
Also saw another shopping cart being loaded with every last 1/2 gallon carton of milk because Winco only restricted 1 gallon jugs (3 per person) so this couple was filling their cart with cartons of milk. Why? I HIGHLY doubt they need 32 gallons of milk in cartons! Forgive me if they have a legitimate reason for needing so much milk.
It seems distributors are so overwhelmed they are prioritizing the worst hoarders by only delivering to areas with the worst problems.
Also don't understand why there is absolutely NO paper products left in my area? It's been over a week since the initial run on TP and there is still none available, anywhere. What the heck?
The only hoarding I can understand would be hand sanitizer, that makes sense. But still, buy too much of it and you "steal" it from other people, IT HAS AN EXPIRATION! The hoarders can't possibly use all they have hoarded before expiry!
We have "enough" TP due to our usual stocking habits, but nonetheless we had to "freshen up" my son's potty habits because we realized the other day he is using a TON of TP when going potty! Had to retrain him. I never realized the wastefulness until recently.
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