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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,900 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:16 PM Nov 2020

Why grocery stores are limiting more of your purchases

As coronavirus cases top daily records and city and state lockdowns come into effect, grocery stores are taking new steps to avoid the empty shelves that were the hallmark of the first weeks of the pandemic.

Supermarket chains like Kroger, Publix, and H-E-B have started to limit in-store and online purchases on products such as toilet paper, cleaning supplies and paper towels to reduce stress on supply chains.

“What we are trying to do is to make sure that we don’t have hoarding," Scott McClelland, president of H-E-B Food and Drug, told NBC News’ Jo Ling Kent in an interview. “One of the things that we found in particular with the recent run on paper goods is that we want to be able to spread it as far as we can, amongst as many shoppers as possible.

Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans are the most recent chains to roll out new purchase limits, updating the ongoing lists of personal care and cleaning supply limits they have each had in place since March. Wegmans added napkins and facial tissues, while Tops added trash bags, freezer bags and paper plates, among other items.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-grocery-stores-are-limiting-more-of-your-purchases/ar-BB1b6neT?li=BBnb7Kz

Don't they know that hunkering down because of pandemics makes one shit more often?

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Why grocery stores are limiting more of your purchases (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
The best-stocked store in town has been running out of pretty common goods The Genealogist Nov 2020 #1
I'm sure a person can buy a pack, put in car and go back in multiple times jimfields33 Nov 2020 #2
What is it with TP? Dem2 Nov 2020 #3
There are two different types and markets for TP. stopbush Nov 2020 #4
Deja Vu.. it didn't have to be this way. Cha Nov 2020 #5

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
1. The best-stocked store in town has been running out of pretty common goods
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:31 PM
Nov 2020

Last week, they were out of canned carrots and French onion soup. My partner said there wasn't even a place on the shelf for canned carrots anymore. He asked the manager about it, and he said it was COVID related.

jimfields33

(15,768 posts)
2. I'm sure a person can buy a pack, put in car and go back in multiple times
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:40 PM
Nov 2020

If a person want to horde, they’ll do it.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
4. There are two different types and markets for TP.
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 02:29 AM
Nov 2020

Home and business. People aren’t working, so they're using their home bathrooms more.

This was a problem last Spring. You’d think the supply chain would have adjusted by now.

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