INTEL - grocery store cashier

We saw our usual cashier at the grocery store this morning, and she told us that it had been an unusual day - a lot of people were coming through with carts FULL of stuff, and multiples of items, like 8 of this, 10 of that.

It came up because a lady 2 people ahead of us had a huge cart full, and I mentioned it. Our cashier said "yeah, it's been like that this morning, people stocking up like it's the end of the world or something."



I mentioned "maybe it's the Coronavirus," and she said she didn't know about that.

Just thought it was interesting, and I'd pass it on. We see her every Saturday morning for years now, she's never said anything like that before.

At this point I would bring a pocket full of cash with you.

Try a credit card...try a check...but if both fail you will have cash to pay with.

With any luck you wont need to use the cash...but just in case!

I still have beer, sealed up in the can, from ten years ago. I've never known beer to go bad. It may age in peculiar ways, like a fine wine, to the point where you will wish you had forgotten more.

Funny story, I was at Costco, and I was prepping not going to lie, but I wasn’t buying anything too crazy. Maybe the most I was purchasing was canned food and dried foods. Then during check out, when I swiped my rubbing alcohol, the self check out froze and required manager override. As the technician came over to me to call for a manager, he talked to me for a minute saying this has been put into place by corporate. As It turns out that they had Received orders to freeze transactions when the system detects hoarding to avoid clearing the shelves. Interesting.

I always check the camping section at big stores- nearly wiped out a walmart in ri & one over border in mass. Camp stoves, dried food, lanterns & much more... with signs that read "out of stock, no reordering ". This was 2 wks ago. Nobodys going camping in northeast right now.

I was at a Sam’s Club in Arkansas today. I was wearing an N95 mask and stocking up myself. A guy who also appeared to be stocking up stopped and said “Do you mind if I ask where you got that mask? I can’t find any myself.” I explained I bought a case of them for Ebola back in 2014. A few aisles later he found me again and said “are you here doing the same thing I am?” Since he had asked me about my mask I assumed so and said “I believe so”. We then started talking about the outbreak and various intel we had gotten for about 5 minutes or so. We then wished each other good luck and went about our respective shopping.

I went to a local store today and bought an unsweetened iced tea! There were plenty of them left on the shelf, but heres the strange part......all the sweetened.....were gone! Poof!