If it were a Pandemic which caused chronic gastro issues you could understand but it's not so why toilet paper ? We should be running out of hand sanitiser if anything.
The hand sanitiser is also out of stock everywhere here, along with paper towel, tissues and serviettes. A run has also started on female sanitary items too, so 'the rag' might be a going concern again at this rate.
Canned goods, rice, pasta...its all going. Meat is now getting snapped up too, with meat shortages in many butchers around here. I am guessing the grog shops might be getting smashed as well, but haven't visited there in while.
My son put a pack of 24 rolls on gumtree for $1500, he had to delete it because of all the replies asking if it was still available, but it was a good laugh for a while
The hand sanitiser is now kept in the front desk - where they sell ciggies. Apparently to keep people from buying more than the allocated 2 bottles. I don't personally use hand sanitiser so doesn't worry me Grog shops are getting smashed - a close relative has just got at least (by my calculations) $450 worth of beer - although at one 6 pack per night it won't last him long.
And he calls mower collecting a idiotic pastime - at least its a damn sight cheaper
When I got wind of everything going on, I went down and bought things I figured would be useful - like some canned stuff that will be used anyway, and some canisters of anti bacterial surface wipes. I keep one in the car and when I go to fill up with petrol I put one around the handle. In my opinion that is one place really at risk - hundreds of people holding it every day
A quote I remember from the tv show Becker (Ted Danson) - "TV has become nothing more than the Petri dish where this country grows its idiots!" Add social media to the list and he is really onto something
Just thought I would add a bit to this thread, since the emergency continues to gather steam.
I am sure everyone here has seen the chaos in Europe, Iran, the US and now beginning elsewhere too.
The Great Toilet Paper Shortage is now heading into just about every other item in the shops, now also including medicines... and the supply shock for many things is now starting to really bite.
Quite a few medications are made overseas and imported, and with the run on these, the local chemist has told me that they are not even getting dates for when they will be back in stock, including a number of important heart medications that a number of older people are on. Made overseas. An aspect that will bite the longer this business continues.
A friend of mine out west, over the mountains, told me about convoys of Asians pulling into towns, buying out all the goods in the shops there, and throwing it into trailers before heading off.
Fights and now knives being pulled in the supermarket aisles.
Senior hour at the shops failing because the shelves have not been restocked.
Cash drying up, hundreds if not thousands of businesses hocked up to their eyeballs, big and small, with debts greater than those before 2008.
Mass layoffs of staff. Qantas alone shedding 20k. Use up your leave then leave without pay.
Tasmania throwing up the walls and the keep out sign.
International travel basically dead in the water.
It didn't take long for this thing to go into overdrive. What will be next?
Yeah I got to Woolies, today at opening time. Hardly any stock even then, bit of a joke.
Went to the pharmacy later, chaos there as well.
I've been going on about it for about 8 years, there are also risks with globalisation. Read this article, very thoughtful especially the part about starting back production in Australia for surgical gowns. and how no one would complain and also the apart about how now people look to their federal governments and not the United Nations at these times.
We all love going to Bunnings and buying cheap stuff made in China ( well maybe the people on this forum a bit less) but we have to pay the price of having a lot of things produced overseas where we lose lead time in freighting and logistics and we lose an element of control.
If this wasn't so serious you would laugh until your guts hurt. A huge crowd getting unruly outside of a Costco store, these nitwits are panic buying in case they get the virus but they put themselves in a position whereby it's probably your best chance of contracting it at the moment. Nice gesture by the supermarkets to allocate a small window in the morning for the seniors to do some shopping but again its promoting large gatherings of our most vulnerable and valuable members of our society out in the public. Went to our small local store to get 2 half kilo packs of mince for the week and a few other bits, no problem, not many there at all, could have got every cut of beef, chicken and pork if we needed it and plenty of produce on the shelves but of course no toilet paper. We don't need to find a cure for this virus, we need to find a cure for what distorts sensible thinking when there is hiccup in the way we normally go about our business. Seniors excluded because it is sometimes harder for them to pick up exactly what is wrong and right with a barrage of information coming from all media outlets. I'm off to the shed for a beer and get away from it all for a bit, Ill also issue the mowers their daily rations of toilet paper while i'm there.
At my local Aldi on the Central Coast just outside of Sydney I just wanted a pump pack of general purpose cleaner but were cleaned out. An employee said people from Sydney are raiding stores up here of all kinds of supplies to profiteer. These parasites are worthless oxygen soaking bludgers who deserve to be abused.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
I got to Coles today at opening time and managed to get a 12 pack of toilet paper. That said there was only about 15 packets on the shelf and was gone by 8:05 am
I felt a great sense of relief.
A suggestion to you guys on the toilet paper. If you know anyone who owns a cafe or some sort of business they would have an account through staples or cos or bunzl or someone for janitorial supplies and you will find wholesale customers won't get shorted on supply
They are just as crazy if not worse over here. It's bad when a neighbor goes to the liquor store and has to stand outside while a clerk goes and get the items, they are so paranoid about getting the bug. Some stores are just finding it a reason to force buyers to the more profitable items or it seems that way as all they are restocking are the more expensive items.
One positive thing I was needing to go on a diet anyway so it is no better time to start.....
I have been avoiding sugar and sugary drinks for over two years so the lack of no sugar doesn't affect me. It is the coffee that might be a problem even though I can quit again. I went three months without recently until it turned cold.
Just glad I am not hooked on things as a lot of people are like one of my neighbors that is smoking a pack a day of cancer sticks.
Just glad I am not hook on things as a lot of people are like one of my neighbors that is smoking a pack a day of cancer sticks.
Or a 6 pack per night of beer as someone I know is
At around $25 (I think) for a pack of Marlboro, Smoking is an expensive habit down here
I've been avoiding sugary drinks for around the same time. I admit I occasionally drink half a can of lemonade, but I usually easily go a month between it.
I do drink fruit juice, but have become accustomed to 60% water / 40% Juice.
There is a packaging place just up the road from us that packages potatoes for the supermarkets and I noticed yesterday a sign out the front saying they have just started selling directly to the public during this crisis. I remember the Irish worked out a million ways to cook spuds when there was a food shortage many years ago. I might have to look up some of their ideas
Here in Adelaide most of the fruit and produce is being sold off to Sydney and Melbourne because they will pay more than us tight arsed South Aussies it seems. 5Kg bag of Potatoes $10, Box of Capsicums $100.
This is unprecedented but it certainly shows that out of every bad situation there's always Arseholes that will find it within themselves to profiteer out of it.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
BB, Jean paid $10 for a 5kg bag of spuds from the packaging company yesterday in an SSW bag. It is supply and demand and nothing we can do about it. I might head up the bush with my trailer and get a few bags and take them down to the local senior cits and see if they want them.
What Bonnar Bloke said is true about SA and the fruit and veg is true as I know some people in the industry in SA.
All the fruit and veg in SA is getting bought up by NSW /vic Coles and woolies. Government in SA should shut down their borders for fruit and veggies trade
