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Lead out in cuffs posted:[...] mass-purchased with the intention of reselling to desperate people [...] There's really nothing more America. What are they charged with, anyway?
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Minto Took posted:There's really nothing more America. 1%ing without a sufficient bank account.
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Mar 19, 2020 06:42
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I have roughly 40 Kirky Ales left over from a 48 pack from a year or so back. Just saying.
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Mar 19, 2020 14:00
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Minto Took posted:What are they charged with, anyway?
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mds2 posted:I have roughly 40 Kirky Ales left over from a 48 pack from a year or so back. Sounds like a quarantine toxx challenge to me.
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Mar 19, 2020 18:01
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I can confirm that the majority of corp employees are wfh now. Not sure about travel. Gonna be interesting when this slows down though as wfh was a big no-no before. Went to 2 warehouses yesterday, Issaquah and Tukwila. Was really impressed how both were dealing with store member counts, inventory signs, and social distancing. Issaquah had an employee out front standing on pallets with a bullhorn extolling the benefits of social distancing. It felt like the Costco version of the washy-washy guy on a cruise.
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Mar 19, 2020 18:35
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Minto Took posted:There's really nothing more America. A lot of places have specific laws against this that come into effect when they declare a state of emergency. There's been one famous story doing the rounds on news sites of a guy in Tennessee. Then Tennessee declared a state of emergency and went after him. Here in BC they explicitly said that it was one of the reasons to declare a state of emergency. You could also argue that it's racketeering, in that the people buying up the hand san and TP are artificially creating scarcity to increase their profit. I'm not sure if anywhere is using that line of argument though.
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Mar 19, 2020 18:35
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Possession with Intent to Distribute (just kidding)
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Mar 19, 2020 18:41
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Alan Smithee posted:BWM
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I kind of wish we were down to spam being the only protein available, just to see what inventive recipes we could come up with to make it interesting. Lead out in cuffs posted:In most places they've also been arresting the people who mass-purchased with the intention of reselling to desperate people, which is also satisfying. I'd love to believe this is true, but I have not seen any evidence. (I have been avoiding most media outlets)
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Mar 19, 2020 23:58
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Costco I go to replaced the food court tables with a row of new cars.
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phosdex posted:Costco I go to replaced the food court tables with a row of new cars. It makes for a nice private dining experience but you'd think they'd be worried about people spilling food or drinks on the upholstery.
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Mar 20, 2020 01:25
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Instead of a bidet I'm going to get this. https://i.imgur.com/lNs7hAH.mp4
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Mar 20, 2020 02:12
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Hasselblad posted:I kind of wish we were down to spam being the only protein available, just to see what inventive recipes we could come up with to make it interesting. There's a link a couple of posts up. Here another: Keru posted:It got better, the Tennesse AG office confiscated everything. Of course, there are a ton of tweets along the lines of "how dare the evil government penalize a good American for taking advantage of a business opportunity", so the other poster's comment above about this being the most American thing ever seems apt.
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Mar 20, 2020 03:18
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I Costco'd today. I was just supposed to meet my wife and bring the cold stuff home so she could head to work, but I ended up just driving there a little early and going in with the first group. Not too nuts, but they were handing out toilet paper and paper towels in the main aisle as you walked in and it looked like they only had a single pallet of name brand stuff for each. Everyone was pretty well behaved, but the guy behind us in the line was an rear end in a top hat. He went in early as an over-60, bought a his limit of hard to get items, came back out and then tried to pay one of the employees $20 to let him in again. No luck there, but that's okay because he had 3 other members of his family all waiting in line with carts and they came in and each got their limits of toilet paper and paper towels.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:I Costco'd today. I was just supposed to meet my wife and bring the cold stuff home so she could head to work, but I ended up just driving there a little early and going in with the first group. Not too nuts, but they were handing out toilet paper and paper towels in the main aisle as you walked in and it looked like they only had a single pallet of name brand stuff for each. Boomers in this country would just make their grandchildren do it, tell them radiation "builds character."
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Mar 20, 2020 03:59
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Thanatosian posted:Remember when a bunch of old Japanese people volunteered to help cleanup after Fukushima because they didn't want younger people taking the risk? 
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Also, get rekt hoarders and profiteers:
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Mar 20, 2020 04:22
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Someone teach them how to hide headers and footers.
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Mar 20, 2020 04:27
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astral posted:Someone teach them how to hide headers and footers. Yeah that hurts to look at.
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Mar 20, 2020 04:47
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I gotta make a trip tomorrow to stock up. Fingers crossed it's not too bad
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Mar 20, 2020 05:52
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AF posted:I gotta make a trip tomorrow to stock up. Fingers crossed it's not too bad lol
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Mar 20, 2020 06:59
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My trip to Costco Wednesday afternoon was alright. They were out of TP and some other crap I didn't care about but I was able to spend way too much money on food and meds. I have so much waffle mix now.
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JK Fresco posted:Also, get rekt hoarders and profiteers: lmao I love this
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Mar 20, 2020 07:13
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Been afraid to try the local Costco, but my sister tried one further north and couldn't get any paper or hand sanitizer. I thought I'd be clever and hit up a Fiesta to juke all the racist boomer shoppers, but even they didn't have any Purell or TP. Did manage to snag a few packs of paper towels for the parent's and refilled my Chobani supplies so overall I'd say it was a success.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:There's a link a couple of posts up. Here another: Andrew Ryan: "NEED I REMIND YOU THAT FREE ENTERPRISE IS
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astral posted:Someone teach them how to hide headers and footers. *carries printer to costco*
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Mar 20, 2020 08:43
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Alan Smithee posted:*carries printer to costco* Excellent; they can pay you in toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizing wipes, water, rice, and lysol.
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Mar 20, 2020 09:16
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astral posted:Excellent; they can pay you in toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizing wipes, water, rice, and lysol. I would legit do it lol
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Thanatosian posted:Remember when a bunch of old Japanese people volunteered to help cleanup after Fukushima because they didn't want younger people taking the risk? Idiocy is not solely a boomer trait. edit: Japanese are however, pretty damned cool. Hasselblad fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/Emily_R_King/status/1240473729974460416
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Yea I thought I was asking for it too, but it was surprisingly great! Very quiet, inventory was good minus the hoarding items, and very short lines. Very pleasant experience
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Mar 20, 2020 23:42
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There was a line to get into church this afternoon. First time I've been to it since they started limiting how many people could be in the store at once. After I was in the shopping experience was great. Walls upon walls of toilet paper. It was a bit unsettling to see zero chicken breast available but most other items were in stock.
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Looks like the Seattle area Costcos have figured out what level of toilet paper to have out. 
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Mar 21, 2020 00:49
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Are there rotisseries lately at Costco? Not that it's the same thing, just curious. I'm not stepping foot into Costco until all this poo poo is done but my local grocery store has a shitload of rotisserie chickens.
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^ yup, we got one. There was limit of one per person. A good bit less salty and drier than usual for some reason. Still tasty..Z. posted:Looks like the Seattle area Costcos have figured out what level of toilet paper to have out.  We're still out of it over here. No frozen chicken thighs either, but we had breasts and tenderloins 
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accidental phone double post
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.Z. posted:Looks like the Seattle area Costcos have figured out what level of toilet paper to have out. I went today (southern California): no paper products in sight but they had ridiculous amounts of bottled water. Frozen food area was half wasteland and half full stock. Easiest Costco parking I've ever seen and no line to get in. Store was about as busy as normal, though not much in the way of a line at checkout. A friendly man behind me in the checkout line shared his open mouth coughs with my cart and conveyor belt of goods though, so that was nice. Can confirm rotisserie chickens, limit 1 though.
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.Z. posted:Looks like the Seattle area Costcos have figured out what level of toilet paper to have out. Honestly, if they can just get a ton of photos like this on social media the "shortage" will evaporate overnight.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:Honestly, if they can just get a ton of photos like this on social media the "shortage" will evaporate overnight. Nah, people will panic and rush to buy those because "they might run out again".
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