very sad sight at the grocery store today........

[Takket]

May is month where I always buy a couple greeting cars. My wife has her birthday and later on is our anniversary.

I stopped in the card aisle this morning to peruse the offerings.

While scanning the aisle I noticed a huge hole where almost all the cards were gone.

It was the sympathy section.....

[Laelth]

1. Makes sense. Well and tragically noted. n/t

-Laelth

[jimfields33]

2. The only thing we can't get in my area of Florida is toilet paper STILL!!!

I ordered some through amazon but still a mystery that grocery stores still out of TP!!!!

[LisaM]

4. Because they were tooled up for the commercial market.

A lot of businesses have had to rethink their delivery chain.

[jimfields33]

5. I think you are right. Just strange though

[Native]

12. I placed a pick up order with Aldi's & during the online chat with the shopper I asked her to

double check on the TP status (the online catalog was showing it sold out). She's an Instacart employee and told me that when the shipment of toilet paper came in that morning she'd grabbed a few and set them aside for her customers. She said, "I got you!"

Guess who got a very nice tip.

[jimfields33]

13. That's awesome!!!!

And taking care by tip is even more awesome 😎

[Native]

16. Instacart has an option online for tipping on deliveries but not pickups.

So while I'm in chat mode I ask if my shopper will be bringing my groceries out to my car or if it will be someone else. It's almost always the same person. After I've confirned that, I tell them to take the ten I've got tucked between my cargo liner and my trunk interior. It's not much, and I wish I could do more, but it is what it is. My last pickup shopper was a woman in her 60's or 70's. She actually hobbled out to my car. Get this, no mask.

We're on the west coast of Florida. Where are you?

[IronLionZion]

15. Hoarding

because it's been 2 months already. TP manufacturers are been making tons of it for the consumer market.

If you want it badly enough, there is tons of TP, disinfectant, and other products available in the commercial market that is normally sold to businesses. I haven't used it but here's one site I saw that has plenty in stock https://www.bulkofficesupply.com/

[cwydro]

17. Plenty of tp in the stores here.

Not like before, but there’s quite a bit available the times I went out.

[jimfields33]

19. You guys aren't full of crap like we are. 😂

[mr_lebowski]

3. Makes we want to get all those poor people that bought all those cards a little something ...

Maybe a card?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Yup, sad indeed. And can't cover up Excess Deaths. . . . nt

[liberalmuse]

7. Damn.

[Scarsdale]

8. So very sad.

Too many working class people are victims, in more ways than one. When the next wave hits, maybe we will think of the first victims as "the lucky ones"? I have never like tRump, but the hatred I feel for him now is consuming my every thought. I DESPISE that worthless piss-poor excuse for a human being.

[imanamerican63]

9. I noticed that at Walmart just other day.

That is was in a state where there wasn’t a lot of deaths.

[Canoe52]

10. Maybe Jared confiscated them to send to the red states?

[marble falls]

11. That would have taken the starch out of me.

[CountMyVote4Reality]

14. That is very sad and profound. n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

18. Well there's sign of the Apocalypse

When people start hoarding "Sympathy Cards".