Good advise. Thanks.
Practically all chili was sold out for quite a while, it’s slowly coming back.
So, make your own toilet paper? 
My gf mentioned not being able to find isopropyl alcohol the other day. I walked off to my bathroom closet and returned with an unopened 32 ounce bottle.
She was surprised. I explained that stoners use it to clean glassware. I always keep a few big bottles around.
I could if I had to; thank Og it has not yet been necessary.
So, make your own toilet paper?
I use it to clean my vape pen. A little goes a long way especially since I pretty much only smoke at concerts and…
. . . It’s the “ands” that gets you. I’m a ding as I speak. Sojay Haze
A ding = vaping and it makes some sorta sense
Costco only has huge cans of green beans. They used to have packs of soup-can sized cans pre-covid. This suggests that the limitation not on the beans but on the cans.
My chest freezer was beginning to thaw last week, so I needed it replaced fast. My wife drove to various stores while I called around to check their inventories. Home Depot, Lowe’s, Best Buy, Conn’s, and second-hand stores were all sold out with no estimate of when new freezers were coming in. Finally Costco had 6 half-sized freezers in stock. Not a name brand, but only a quarter of the price of the full-size freezer. We bought 2. When we got home, the food in the old freezer was all frozen again. So now we look like hoarders with 2 chest freezers in our garage still in their packaging.
I assume that since restaurants are closed, people are eating more frozen meals and thus buying more chest freezers.
Not food in this case, but I was at Staples today to buy printer ink, and asked a clerk if they had 2-packs in the stockroom of the kind I was looking for. He told me that HP is only selling single packs right now, because of raw-material issues. I understood, and got what I needed.
Some of the stranger shortages we’re still encountering at the grocery store where I work;
- Tapioca mix
- Progresso soups
- Spam
- Drano/Liquid Plumr
- Canadian bacon
- Frozen corn dogs
- Hash brown patties
Canned meats and frozen/shelf-stable foods make sense as something people will stock up on in case of another lockdown, civil unrest causing supply issues, etc. I’ve been doing a bit of that myself, not in a “clear the shelves” hoarder locust kind of way, just getting a few items when I’m shopping or I need to add to a delivery order to make the minimum total.
Months of using improvised toilet paper? Yeah I don’t think you are supposed to use drain opener in toilets but people have done dumber things.
I’ve done that, both for myself and for my church’s food pantry, and was able to drop those items off earlier today.
My local newspaper had a story about a company that does catering for airlines, and they have a surplus of what are called “First Class Nuts”, which they are selling at cost. I might order some; they look good.
I have been drinking that stuff for years. I mean the tonic water not the gym. It is available more or less on a regular basis at the supermarkets I go to in New York City. I have been delighted to find it fully stocked up here in New Hampshire. The floor of the backseat of my car has about 35 bottles in it right now. I only see it in one liter bottles. How do you find it in 2 liter bottles?
Weird. It’s available here (Dallas) at Wal-Mart pickup for $0.80/gallon. Limit 3 per order though, although there’s a second name brand ("Parent’s Choice(?)) which is $1/gallon and has a limit of 1 gallon. So you could conceivably get 4 gallons a day if you needed it.
We get it fairly frequently in the summer because we have a pellet ice maker (an “Opal”) and it doesn’t gunk up with hard water stuff if we use distilled water.
If you are wondering why distilled water would be sold with a “Parent’s Choice” label it is because some physicians suggest parents use distilled water to reconstitute infant formula if there is any question that local tap water might be a questionable option. If the community’s water is reliably safe, physicians usually prefer using water treated with fluoridation as that protects developing teeth.
Some shopping at a store like WM might live on a farm that is supplied by well water-which would be fine for an adult to drink but could have undetectable risks for a tiny infant, so to be safe those parents use bottled water.
Pastrami and Corned beef have disappeared. I heard that meat processing plants were hard hit by Covid 19, but I didn’t realize it was that bad.
Just the last couple of weeks - soy sauce. Why soy sauce? But plenty of pastrami and corned beef around here.