Panic Buying In the US Has Begun!

Albuquerque NM. Walmart today. Well stocked shelves. However completely out of hand disinfectant. Walmart employee standing right there said completely out. The medicine aisles not out but looked thin.

Denver Sam's was just fine

like being on a huge cruise ship

I WENT TO SAM’S CLUB TODAY AND....
it was normal. Shelves were full. In fact, there were fucking pallets of shit in the isles because the shelves were so full. And I stood in the self checkout line for a whopping 5 minutes.

Walmart in NorCal was completely out of all sterile gloves and any type of mask. No hand sanitizer besides the stupid little ones you can clip to a bag near the checkout. No high % rubbing alcohol. Only water left was bottles and a few gallons of distilled that were clearly too high to reach on the top shelf. Most OTC painkillers, heartburn meds, allergy meds all gone.
Lots of gaps in shelves where canned food and rice were.

This was a super-Walmart too. Suburban area near the capitol. Gonna check other places in the area, hoping they’ll have what we need.

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Louisiana here. Just went to walmart. Everyone walking around just getting what they need, nothing more. I did notice Benadryl is sold the F out.

I do however, have a bunch of people from my area arguing on Facebook about the need to prep or not to prep. It's actually quite funny. I am glad tho, the sheep are just getting their first cup of coffee and rubbing the sleep out of their eyes.

It won't be long now, Walmart will be torn up. All the people that say they don't need to get stuff, will be sneaking to Wally World real soon.

I also have a bunch of people saying it's not as bad as the flu. Of course, they fail to realize we have FLU shots, and still a ton of people die.

New Orleans checking in. Just came from two big stores and a Walmart. Nothing of note. Plenty of bleach, TP, sanitizer,etc. there’s even a big sale rack of H2O2 and 91% isopropyl. Lots of hand wipes too. Only saw one girl with a cart full of baby formula, hand sanitizer and wipes. Either she’s a Prepper or she’s got some serious couponing to do. It’s not stopping me from buying plenty of dry foods and other various necessities.

SW Ohio. Just left Aldi's. Only one dude there for sure stocking up. He looked at my cart and winked.

It looked like everyone else's cart was full of the weekly stuff. When you look at the contents of people's carts, it is obvious what poor diets most people have.

This is my 2nd trip to stock preps. Walmart outside of NE San Antonio (Where they stuck a lot of China travelers from Chine) and nothing looked low except some water, but we drink & cook with distilled anyway and they had plenty.
All paper products were full.
Some things like canned meat, tune, canned chicken were lightly picked over but not bad. Bought a lot of canned goods.

They had no more m95 masks and a few weeks ago they had them on end cap display through out the pharmacy drug area.
Where hubby works they wear m95's every day so he got a big box from the boss last month.
Walmart did have huge bottles of hand sanitizer for cheap.

Were all set now, can hunker down for a month if need be.
We have a bidet so runing out of toilet paper is no big deal, got plenty of bleach for the bidet towels.

Got 20 live chickens for eggs and meat and two adult turkeys.
Over stocked on seed, working on garden this weekend, live tomato plants too.

Freezer full of precooked vacuum sealed BBQ and more.
Stocked up on medicines, cough syrups, fever relivers, nsaids for inflamation and hepe filters for the central air and for my cool mist bedroom filter. With a dry cough that comes with this flu you will need a high humid clean air bedroom to sleep in.

Just 2 of us here, got an oxygen generator too, so were good.

Didn't see anyone in masks at the store.

Going out to buy feed for the hens and dog tomorrow, after that the only one going out will be husband to work in his m95 masked required job.

Forgot my 2 hair dye though, bother.

That's so cute that he winked ;)

NW Ohio - it was business as usual.

I know someone who drives a grocery delivery truck. If the SHTF, he could just drive the truck home full of stuff!

Haha. I thought so too!

Report back Mon.....this weekend will be telling and compelling....

Chewy.com Hurry before it's too late.

Except for one person who was wearing a mask. She got a lot of second looks...like they had no idea why she would be wearing a mask.

Dollar Tree. Everyone forgets about them. There's lots of stuff at the dollar tree. One of the ones I was at yesterday day had hundreds of bottles of hand sanitizer on the shelf and cases stacked on the floor.

Just got off the phone with my sister. She works at a store in the Ozarks, and was telling me that a lot of her customers are stocking up so they don't have to go into town for a while. But then again that's pretty typical too when it can take you an hour or so just to go a Dollar General, and that's the big store.

I picked up some extra TP but I'm not so worried about TP. Why? Because most of the TP we consume in the US is made in the US. We'll be fine on TP.

This is true, My pa lives in the Ozarks. His house is my ultimate bug out place if I can make it. I was surprised to see so many Dollar Generals around last time I was there. I would have thought WalMart had pushed them all out.

Nope. Everything normal in my stores. Bunch of shit news websites are not reality.

Even before this if I see someone with a mask on I get freaked out and leave. I am a huge germaphobe and I get some people with bad immune systems have to wear them for their protection so I shouldn't always assume.

went thru this thread.

summary:

the masses bought what Trump was selling. Normalcy bias in full effect.

When schools start closing or some other large events like this, then the smelling salts will kick in.

another thread on glp said a school in CA closed due to Corona virus even tho there were no cases there. 'Precautionary".

ok. hm. This thing is in slow motion but it's going to pick up steam and the change will eventually be

ABRUPT.

bank on it.

Ewwwwwwwww!

Btw, don’t leave your paper plates and plastic utensils out in the open like the Twitter lady they showed. When a mouse gets in, it is going to poop and pee all over exposed surfaces. You may not even know right away.

Thats when beach access really helps....

Youre slurring your words, take that mask off.

just west of Richmond Va in the sticks.. visited local Food Lion to pick up regular friday grocery stuff to get thru the weekend.. noticed bottled water was picked thru, bags of rice almost non exsistant just the boil in bag boxed stuff.. no peroxide or rubbing alcohol, plenty of bleech.

I thought the exact same thing! So cute. I smiled:)

I stocked up on dry and wet for both cats and dogs.

Lots of pet treats.