It is past time for Hoard Shaming

[Stinky The Clown]

Cases of toilet paper? Really? What's next, snow shovels in April? Morons.

Meat. Has the population spiked so we need more? Morons.

Lettuce. I saw a woman leaving the local Safeway with 8 heads of iceberg lettuce? Hey lady, do you know that shit will rot before you eat it? Do you know you can't freeze lettuce? Moron.

Generic Windex is leaving shelves in pairs or foursomes. Do you live in a glass house? Moron.




What are you seeing?

I think it is time to start Hoard Shaming these morons.

[Kali]

1. so many morons

[Funtatlaguy]

2. The Windex is understandable if you're Greek.

Did you see the movie “My Big Greek Wedding”?
Windex cures everything.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Have plenty of that...

I use that to dust with. As well as cleaning.

[Flaleftist]

49. I did and I didn't buy and meat, but I did stock up on lamb.

[treestar]

54. Lol

Great comedy

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. I went grocery shopping today.....

And breads, tissues, jarred sauces, canned goods, frozen veggies, coffee, pasta, bleach, cleaning products, etc., were NO WHERE to be seen. It looked like Soviet Russia.

[bdamomma]

5. panic buying is taking place

buy what you need.

[Marthe48]

22. maybe profiteering too

n/t

[leftieNanner]

6. I took my laptop to my repair person today

And the receptionist mentioned that she had no TP because all of the stores she had checked were out. So when I went back to pick up my computer, I took her two rolls. You would have thought I gave her two gold bricks!

Well, because this is Ashland, Oregon, she did ask me if it was recycled! I assured her that it was.

[customerserviceguy]

29. How

does one recycle toilet paper?

Just kidding, I know that it's made out of recycled fibers, but strange things occur to me every once in awhile!

[leftieNanner]

43. LOL

My husband had the same question!

[TheBlackAdder]

62. Not gold bricks, but the toilet paper would come in handy, they would be used for bricklaying. 🤣🤣

[consider_this]

7. One should not assume

... that those you see buying are hoarding for themselves. They may be shopping for neighbors or other shopping service. Just sayin'

[MissB]

12. Right. Toilet paper is available to the early birds.

I’m at work at 6 am and can’t run out to Costco for toilet paper at 10 when it opens. My brother has much more flexible hours than I do - so he can buy some for me.

Just an example (I don’t currently need toilet paper but when I do, I’ll have my bro pick some up)

[DesertRat]

15. Yes. Some people buying for extended family, group home, elderly neighbors, etc.

[ChazII]

38. Exactly. A friend who has Tuesday off

went to the store and was able to pick up two packages of toilet paper and two rolls of paper towels for her next door neighbor who is their 70's.

[GemDigger]

39. 2 packages isn't hoarding. An overflowing cart of nothing but tp

is hoarding.

[wishstar]

19. Most of my friends are buying extra for their elderly (over 80 yrs old) relatives and friends

Although my friends and neighbors are mostly over 60, many have parents in their 80's and 90's living independently but with serious underlying medical conditions so they are shopping for them too.

My spouse and I no longer have any elderly relatives, but we have told our neighbors and friends that if they need anything later on, we will take them stuff since we are extremely well stocked with necessities.

[captain queeg]

8. I saw something yesterday; milk. IDKW, it's perishable, why do people fill shopping carts with it?

Maybe someone on Fox told them to bathe in it?

[MissB]

9. If you take a bit out of each gallon

You can safely freeze it.

[Disaffected]

48. I've just tried that

with 1% and it seems to work well - tastes just as good after thawing. Much preferable IMO to the shelf-stored cartons (or evaporated milk).

As you mention, leave room for expansion or you may have a mess.

[consider_this]

10. it can be frozen.

Might have young children to worry about

[woodsprite]

23. Fairlife milk is pricey, but has a longer shelf life. nt

[Wednesdays]

31. If you don't mind it, plant-based milks last even longer

That was what really turned me on to almond milk. Keeps in the fridge for two months instead of two weeks (if that)!

[woodsprite]

42. What brand? Making the switch is hard. nt

[Wednesdays]

46. I'm not picky

We usually just get the store brand from ALDI. If you're a newbie, try the chocolate flavor to start. My SO won't drink it unless it's the sweetened kind, but I use unsweetened to make coffee with, and I don't mind drinking it straight.

Almond Breeze is good, too, though usually more expensive.

[flibbitygiblets]

55. We love Good Karma brand flax milk

unsweetened is great in cereal, and it doesn't have that bitter "fat" aftertaste that cow's milk does

They even carry it at our Grocery Outlet (Portland OR)

[JudyM]

59. Just tried milkadamia (made from macadamias) - it's great

and an easier entry point than almond milk, IMO, though I’ll probably only buy it on sale. The almond milks I like the most are Target’s and Wegmans’ organic unsweetened store brands. Unsweetened vanilla might be another good place to start. Good luck, it’s worth changing

[Salviati]

37. Thank goodness I read this post...

... I was smart enough to grab my milk from the office when I was down there yesterday (gotta have it for my coffee), but forgot to bring it in from the car. I'm glad it didn't sit in there until the next time I use the car, which would might have been as late as Friday.

I mean, it's not like it's safe to drink any more, but at least it didn't go completely bad enough to foul the car.

At least it was only about a pint and a half.

[Croney]

11. People shop for food pantries, shelters, sick neighbors,

seniors, and others. The woman with the lettuce might be making salad for meals that get distributed. She knows it's perishable.

[ChazII]

40. +1 I have friends

who are shopping for elderly neighbors or in one case a family member who had hip surgery several weeks ago.

[RockRaven]

13. My neighbor had a pallet of bottled water delivered to their house yesterday. A fucking pallet.

Looked like 1L bottles, or maybe 20oz. A six foot tall, four foot wide block of water and plastic. That's about 1500 bottles of water, plus or minus a couple hundred. There are TWO people living in that house.

[dhol82]

27. Guess they don't have city water.

Right?

[RockRaven]

44. It's a little weird. Out city water is supposedly as good/better than many bottled water brands.

I'm in a neighborhood which gets Hetch Hetchy System water. Long story short it's surface water/snowmelt from inside Yosemite National Park. Our municipal water system has a fancy new treatment plant, the water mains on our street and the main street in town have been replaced within the past 2-3 decades, the house they live in is less than 10 years old -- so there's not a lead pipe in sight and the treatment for microbes is multi-layered. And it tastes great.

I don't get it. But I will say in their favor that they did not clean out a store and make trouble for other customers by generating empty shelves. Then again, the local stores have not had near-empty shelves of bottled water because a lot of people simply aren't panic-buying water in my town, that I've seen.

[dhol82]

45. I have the same problem with people scrambling for the last case of water here in NYC.

We are supposed to have the best tasting water in the country. Don’t understand why, during a pandemic, people are scrambling for water? They can just turn on their freaking tap.
Guess it comes from hurricane preparedness. Still weird.

[Wednesdays]

32. And for pennies on the dollar,

they could just get a Brita pitcher and use tap water!

[Rosco T.]

51. Get a Zero Water... much better

better filtration and tastes better

[TheFarseer]

34. I barely understand regularly drinking bottled water

I sure as hell don’t understand hoarding it!

[gibraltar72]

14. Go to the source

No leadership no clear message. People assume the worst is going to happen. I understand why it's happening.

[hamsterjill]

20. Exactly!

People are not being reassured that the supplies will come back in line with need.

People are afraid, and getting no trustworthy information or confidence from Trump.

They say “stock up” but don’t say for how long. They’ve thrown out a two week time frame, but I think most of us realize that’s not being realistic.

I’m not condoning any hoarding. But I can see why it’s happening.

[KT2000]

16. Last week my nephew went to Costco

He needed things for his business but not TP. There was a line because they allow only so many in the store at a time. When he got into the store, an employee was putting a pack of TP in everyone's cart. Then he happened to be near the TP when he saw a woman drive her cart into the back of a man standing there. He said "pardon me" and then his wife returned to the scene and the two women started a shoving match. Some Costco employees arrived but didn't know what to do and the fight continued. Then a rather large man who works in the meat department arrived wearing his white coat and stood between the women. The fight broke up at that point. That was Tacoma, WA.

[llmart]

17. I said in the beginning of the signs of hoarding...

that we needed to start rationing. A week later I see my Kroger has limits on many items. It should have been mandated of all the big grocery chains.

[RockRaven]

30. This past weekend I was at 3 supermarkets, and the only one with TP on the shelves was

the one who had signs limiting to 2 packages (of any size) per customer. The other two had no signs and empty shelves -- one of the empties was of the same chain (Safeway) as the one with the signs.

There is plenty of food and TP to go around, just perhaps not at the very end of the supply chain at this exact moment because of panic-buying/hoarding; everyone needs to chill out and stop making problems for their neighbors.

[Kaleva]

18. Those of us who were well stocked before can watch this with bemusement.

Living on SSDI, it took me many months to build up a stock so when COVID-19 hit the news, it took just a little adjusting to prepare for that. Disinfectant wipes, masks, bleach, hand sanitizer and such.

[chia]

21. I was shopping for two other families besides my own this morning.

Most of the time we really don't know what the other shopper is doing, what worries are on on their minds, what other people they're trying to help. I have enough toilet paper, I bought that TP (only 1 allowed) for a family who was going to be needing it soon. Other food in my cart was for another family, and I delivered the items to their porches on the way home.

So I won't be hoard-shaming anyone, and I hope most people will be kind, look out for one another, resist the impulse to buy more than they need for themselves - and try not make assumptions when they don't know what the lives of others are like.

[sarisataka]

24. At our old fashioned neighborhood store

Over half the toilet paper shelf is full. Plenty of meat and produce.

There are about 50% more people shopping than typical for a Tuesday evening but no one is buying outrageous quantities. Enough to feed a family for 2-3 days is what most are getting.

[pecosbob]

25. I don't need toilet paper...I need freaking beans and potatoes and onions

[KentuckyWoman]

50. My kingdom for onions

I had whittled down on fresh. Had a trip planned. Cancelled because of the virus. I am like you.. fine on all the basics.... at this point there does not seem to be an onion left in any store in America.

Better chance of getting TP... which I do not need

[BlueSpot]

58. I got a big thing of minced onions in the spice row

I can re-hydrate them with hot water prior to cooking. Not the same as fresh but not quite as far away as onion powder either.

[KentuckyWoman]

65. Good idea! Thanks!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. They could be working for a delivery service

which would explain milk, fresh produce and other perishables. I'm having my groceries delivered, meaning somebody had to go through the store and collect the stuff I ordered. And I'm quite sure I'm not alone.

[vapor2]

28. I can see the lettuce hoarding

but please note that we are all reacting to fear of the unknown. We do not know how long we will be isolated. I had many rolls of paper towels before this pandemic. I do understand items that do not spoil but surely not the lettuce. I recall the gas rationing in 1973 and the fears of Y2K. Maybe people are also shopping for family or friends and people are just reacting and panicking, no need to shame anyone

[apcalc]

33. It is not for me to say what others need.

Maybe the lady was buying lettuce for her elder neighbors. You just have no idea.
An elderly neighbor wrote to some of us today to ask if anyone was going to Wegmans to pick up something for her.

People who have family members who are immunocompromised have to stock up on some things and buy for them.

No, I will not be shaming others who stock up. I did a few weeks ago because I have asthma and am 70 years old.
I am grateful I had the foresight to do so, so I am ok for now.

My pulmonologist said to me ( re anyone over 60, he is 62 ish)

. “ We’re sitting ducks. Stay Home.” I fully expect this thing to last 8-20 weeks .

No one can know what others are doing, what issues they face, and who they might be buying for.

[Amishman]

35. does shaming ever work?

seems like at best they'll laugh in your face, at worst it will lead to a violent confrontation

[llmart]

47. Your post sort of made me chuckle.

coming from someone called "Amishman".

[Amishman]

64. close, that's shunning

They don't shame, which is too confrontational. Shunning is ceasing to acknowledge that someone even exists, much more passive aggressive and the Amish way.

[LakeArenal]

36. Although I think TP hoarding is weird...

We shouldn’t judge anyone that is just trying to cope with panic and what’s the best for my own family.

[totodeinhere]

41. Shaming is not the point. But we do need to try to make sure that there are enough supplies for

everybody. So we should discourage hoarding.

[treestar]

53. But there is none left for others.

[Under The Radar]

52. Lettuce is the new Charmin substitute

[burrowowl]

60. It will work and softer than some leaves you can use

[BBbats]

56. Did a little shopping today

I live in a basement /room & can't really cook but I figured I should get a couple weeks worth of canned stuff,cereal,stuff that would keep.
I live real close to an Aldi.Beef & chicken were ransacked.Most of the Chunky type soups were gone except for the house brands.Canned stuff in general was pretty light. Lots of Latin canned stuff like tamales,refried beans,etc.Most name brand cereal was out but there was a good stock of house brands.I bought a few canned items,cereal,almond milk,tuna & peanut butter crackers. I'm light on $$$ & I'm only trying to buy what I need.
Couple of disturbing incidents I saw in the store.One was two guys coming to blows over the last jar of peanut butter.The one guy had seven jars in his cart & was going for the last one.This escalated & went out to the parking lot where the police busted it up. The other was two women shrieking at each over the last two pack of paper towels.
That's the kind of crap I expect to see in 3rd world countries not in a fairly affluent suburb.
People are scared and nasty.

[Bayard]

57. So how is this supposed to work?

If we're supposed to stay in our homes, or shelter in place, you have to stock up on things. You can't be running to the store every 3-4 days, or even once a week.

And like some have said, you don't know how many of the perceived, "hoarders" are shopping for other people.

[xmas74]

61. I picked up non perishable items today

And stocked up. I know I'm getting ready to work doubles, possibly even 24 hrs straight, and I wanted a good supply of easy things my kid can grab and cook without worrying about expiration. She's a meat eater so there were several cans of tuna, chicken and Spam. Pasta, sauce, tomatoes,veggies and fruit. Soup, dried beans, brown and white rice, juice and Nutrigrain bars,etc.

None of it was excessive, though I felt bad doing it. It looked like when I used to do a big stock job every other month when we lived 25 miles from the nearest store.

[radius777]

63. The gov't needs to assume emergency oversight

of the supply line (food, goods, etc) to ensure that everyone can have consistent access to what they need ... ie strict laws and enforcement to protect against price gouging, hoarding, etc.

People hoard due to fear which leads to shortages which creates more fear and more hoarding. IOW it is a vicious cycle that can only be stopped by gov't intervention.