# Costco has Hand Sanitizer **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [May 29, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698 "2020-05-29T21:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698/23 "2020-06-02T21:10:02Z")
And just like _that!_, sanitizer is on the shelves everywhere in my area. Including the brand Costco stocks, although CC’s $10 bottle sells for $13 everywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698/24 "2020-06-02T21:53:27Z")
Last I checked, hand sanitizer was still pretty scarce around here. For those in the GTA (General Toronto Area) the family-owned Longos chain of grocery stores seems particularly good on stocking PPE-related stuff, at least judging from my local one. They have had ample supplies of alcohol-based disinfectant wipes for weeks, and lots of hand sanitizer (but only the water-thin distillery-made kind – I much prefer the gel and was glad I ordered a bunch while I could). For those desperate for masks, they have washable re-usable fabric types made of supposedly medical-grade droplet-resistant layers of polyester, but have been out of the disposable packs for quite some time now, though they do have a shelf for them if they ever get any again. Mine, which I never realized were coming direct from China, have now arrived in the country and are making their way to me in the kind of slow-motion freeze-frame sweet fullness of time that only national postal services like USPS and Canada Post are capable of. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698/25 "2020-06-02T22:25:05Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > And just like _that!_, sanitizer is on the shelves everywhere in my area. Including the brand Costco stocks, although CC’s $10 bottle sells for $13 everywhere else. Just like here. None around, then “oh they have sanitizer” and a week later “wtf, everyone has sanitizer?” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698/26 "2020-06-03T18:21:19Z")
Walmart suddenly had a large shelf-full of sanitizer this morning. What’s more, it’s Germ-X brand, the kind we stock at work and which I like because it has next to no scent. We bought our one allowed pint-sized container and will use it to refill some small containers which we keep in the car. The small containers are a brand we bought online, theoretically “lemon verbena” scent, but in reality they’re an icky coconut vanilla scent. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698/27 "2020-06-09T17:38:37Z")
TP, masks and sanitizer are widely available here in NC . Also on Amazon ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698/28 "2020-06-11T20:51:36Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Just like here. None around, then “oh they have sanitizer” and a week later “wtf, everyone has sanitizer?” WTF, indeed. The stuff still remains scarce, along with masks and wipes, but I hit a bonanza when I went to the drugstore just to pick up a parcel at the post office today – the drugstore that had constantly been out of everything, even liquid hand soap for a while. They had a whole section of “COVID supplies” including different types of hand sanitizer, alcohol wipes, and wonder of wonders, lots of 99% isopropyl alcohol and even two remaining 10-packs of masks. Most of it was limited to one to a customer. The nice lady let me buy two bottles of gel sanitizer (75% ethanol) in pump bottles that looked like Purell knock-offs, even though they only had four left, but drew the line at the two remaining mask packages. I offered to trade her generosity with the sanitizer for both mask packages, but no dice – one only. 😃 Apparently they are still in VERY short supply. In theory I have a 50-pack coming from China that seems to be lost somewhere in the domestic mail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costco-has-hand-sanitizer/854698.md?page=1)