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I'm enjoying the shortages of TP and Hand Sanitizer


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2020 Mar 11, 4:13pm   6,243 views  55 comments

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Looking at the empty shelves in the supermarket...people are getting some first hand experience with some of the effects of socialism....empty shelves. Ironically, it's always the "price gouging" laws that allow these things to happen. If they let the price of hand sanitizer and toilet paper go up...I doubt people would be buying a truckload.

I witnessed the same nonsense after Hurricane Sandy. Everyone sitting around for 6 hours waiting for gas. Meanwhile, if they simply let the price rise to 5 dollars a gallon, I'm sure thousands of tanker trucks would have come over from Delaware and PA to sell. Instead...the state sat around without gas for 2 weeks.

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1   RWSGFY   2020 Mar 11, 4:16pm  

I'm afraid not many will be able to connect the dots.
2   theoakman   2020 Mar 11, 4:28pm  

Probably not. But I'll be telling all my socialist siblings
5   marcus   2020 Mar 16, 8:58pm  

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Yeah, I don't think price gouging is the answer. That would just add to the problem. People buying up all of needed items to sell on their own at sky high prices ?

How are all the legit venders supposed to beat all the scumbags by raising prices before they buy up necessary items right as crisis hits to resell at a huge mark up ?

I'm not anything like a socialist. I believe in free markets. But I find it hilarious that you think that mad max style hyper crime is a solution when crisis hits.
8   RWSGFY   2020 Mar 17, 5:40am  

"The Newport Oregon Police Department

It’s hard to believe that we even have to post this. Do not call 9-1-1 just because you ran out of toilet paper. You will survive without our assistance.

In fact, history offers many other options for you in your time of need if you cannot find a roll of your favorite soft, ultra plush two-ply citrus scented tissue.

Seamen used old rope and anchor lines soaked in salt water. Ancient Romans used a sea sponge on a stick, also soaked in salt water. We are a coastal town. We have an abundance of salt water available. Sea shells were also used.

Mayans used corn cobs. Colonial Americans also used the core of the cob. Farmers not only used corn cobs, but used pages from the Farmers Almanac. Many Americans took advantage of the numerous pages torn from free catalogs such as Sears and Roebuck. The Sears Christmas catalog, four times thicker than the normal catalog, could get a family of three wiped clean from December through Valentine’s Day; or Saint Patrick’s Day if they were frugal.

Then, of course, there are always alternatives to toilet paper. Grocery receipts, newspaper, cloth rags, lace, cotton balls, and that empty toilet paper roll sitting on the holder right now. Plus, there are a variety of leaves you can safely use. Mother Earth News magazine will even tell you how to make your own wipes using fifteen different leaves. When all else fails, you have magazine pages. Start saving those catalogs you get in the mail that you usually toss into the recycle bin. Be resourceful. Be patient. There is a TP shortage. This too shall pass. Just don’t call 9-1-1. We cannot bring you toilet paper."
11   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Mar 17, 6:21am  

Booger says


This isn’t even correct. I mean it might be for that particular store and for all the nut jobs lining up at Costco. But it’s not like stuff isn’t available. The local chain grocery store had TP in stock Sunday afternoon. They had cases of Fiji bottled water that people weren’t touching. If this was a true shortage, that stuff would be gone, damn the higher price.
12   NDrLoR   2020 Mar 17, 9:20am  

theoakman says
Looking at the empty shelves in the supermarket
The stupid hoarders will turn the country into Venezuela.
17   Ceffer   2020 Mar 17, 10:48am  

I just gave the dog some plastic bags and told him it's time for him to start picking up my poop.
18   CBOEtrader   2020 Mar 17, 11:45am  

NDrLoR says
theoakman says
Looking at the empty shelves in the supermarket
The stupid hoarders will turn the country into Venezuela.


I just spoke w a Venezuelan who said this reminds her of the first stage of their descent.
20   zzyzzx   2020 Mar 17, 1:23pm  

CovfefeButDeadly says
The local chain grocery store had TP in stock Sunday afternoon.


Went shopping on Sunday but the stores were actually pretty empty (of people and TP, and most meats). I think people are all shopped out for a while.
21   NDrLoR   2020 Mar 17, 9:08pm  

CovfefeButDeadly says
Costco
I was at my friend's in West Saturday and noticed two huge boxes of Costco toilet paper, over 75 rolls, and asked him how he got that much. He said the young man who lives in West with whom he runs their vintage electronic business used to work at Walmart and keeps tabs on good buys and he said he bought it a couple of weeks before all this happened.
23   clambo   2020 Mar 20, 4:08pm  

My commode is a couple of feet from the shower.

It all ends up in the same place.
24   Tenpoundbass   2020 Mar 20, 4:48pm  

theoakman says
If they let the price of hand sanitizer and toilet paper go up...



Then there would be the same amount of people without Toilet paper, but for a different reason.
The problem is two fold. Toilet Paper is about 200% marked up more than it should be.
The second problem is Toilet paper is packaged to move as much of it, at the greatest price the manufacture and box store possibly can.
The manufactures need to get back to 4 and 8 packs, and the outlets need to curb quantities per purchase. Buy limiting the amount of items people can buy.

As a Store owner you don't want any small group of your customers coming and buying up all of your stock of one item, that it infringes on the shopping experience of a much larger group of shoppers.
26   ddshutlz   2020 Mar 22, 6:33am  

Effect of socialism? What??? By your own statement, it is obvious that not only socialism can do that..... Why do you feel socialism is any way related to a pandemic induced panic? theoakman says
Looking at the empty shelves in the supermarket...people are getting some first hand experience with some of the effects of socialism....empty shelves. Ironically, it's always the "price gouging" laws that allow these things to happen. If they let the price of hand sanitizer and toilet paper go up...I doubt people would be buying a truckload.

I witnessed the same nonsense after Hurricane Sandy. Everyone sitting around for 6 hours waiting for gas. Meanwhile, if they simply let the price rise to 5 dollars a gallon, I'm sure thousands of tanker trucks would have come over from Delaware and PA to sell. Instead...the state sat around without gas for 2 weeks.
27   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Mar 22, 8:31am  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
zzyzzx says
I think people are all shopped out for a while.


I go in the mid afternoon and have my choice of parking spots.

I was hoping for free fire fights and cars in flames and people bayonetting each other for the last jar of Mint Jelly.


It’s not April yet.
28   RC2006   2020 Mar 22, 9:16am  

What I think is going to be a bigger issue as time goes by is all the new crazy gun buyers that have never even held a gun. All the ranges are closed nowhere to practice. Expect to see a lot of people shooting themselves and kid deaths from stupid parents.
29   Misc   2020 Mar 22, 12:33pm  

RC2006 says
What I think is going to be a bigger issue as time goes by is all the new crazy gun buyers that have never even held a gun. All the ranges are closed nowhere to practice. Expect to see a lot of people shooting themselves and kid deaths from stupid parents.


There are hundreds of thousands of recently unemployed without access to unemployment benefits (part time employees, illegals, and people without the 6 months of necessary employment). Desperate people do desperate things. Crime is going to skyrocket.
32   Malcolm   2020 Mar 22, 5:03pm  

A real one that attaches to a toilet cost me all of $35. If more people had them, they would not even be giving it a second thought.
33   HeadSet   2020 Mar 22, 5:22pm  

There are hundreds of thousands of recently unemployed without access to unemployment benefits (part time employees, illegals, and people without the 6 months of necessary employment). Desperate people do desperate things. Crime is going to skyrocket.

Did crime skyrocket during the Great Depression? Actually, crime and unemployment have not historically correlated.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/crime-and-great-recession-13399.html
34   RC2006   2020 Mar 22, 6:10pm  

HeadSet says
Did crime skyrocket during the Great Depression? Actually, crime and unemployment have not historically correlated.


I don't think blacks were so brazen then.
36   clambo   2020 Mar 23, 7:16am  

Toilet paper? I don’t care, I can fly in a young CNA from Florida who can change my depends, she’s had practice.
37   Malcolm   2020 Mar 23, 10:11am  

Booger says


Do you have a problem with poo sticking to your fur?

No?

And he wipes his ass with the dog.
39   QuantBoy   2020 Mar 23, 2:36pm  

Professor Robert Shiller's dogma is about value.

Shiller was right about the significance of house price to household income ratio back in the mid 2000's. He won a Nobel Prize in Economics.

His Shiller P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is a very helpful gauge of the value of the S&P 500 such as if it is too expensive or cheap. See the link below.

The Shiller PE ratio is now at 16.8 and below the bottom for the 2001/2002 bear market which was around 23.

However the Shiller PE ratio ratio was around 15 for the 2009/2009 bear market.

A lot of what the pundits are stating as far as the S&P 500 bottoming near 2,000 points (from all time peak of 3,393 points) is based on the Shiller PE bottoming at 15, the same level it was around the bottom of the 2008/9 bear market.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

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40   AD   2020 Mar 23, 2:37pm  

Professor Robert Shiller's dogma is about value.

Shiller was right about the significance of house price to household income ratio back in the mid 2000's. He won a Nobel Prize in Economics.

His Shiller P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is a very helpful gauge of the value of the S&P 500 such as if it is too expensive or cheap. See the link below.

The Shiller PE ratio is now at 16.8 and below the bottom for the 2001/2002 bear market which was around 23.

However the Shiller PE ratio ratio was around 15 for the 2009/2009 bear market.

A lot of what the pundits are stating as far as the S&P 500 bottoming near 2,000 points (from all time peak of 3,393 points) is based on the Shiller PE bottoming at 15, the same level it was around the bottom of the 2008/9 bear market.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

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