I ordered a standing freezer, not a chest freezer. But yes, that’s probably possible.
I concur about two items mentioned above: canning lids and a variety of spices/seasonings.
One thing I didn’t see mentioned above is that men’s underwear, specifically boxer briefs in my size. They never seem to be in stock at my local stores. I finally managed to get some from Amazon. My theory involves emergency replacement by all those people who said, “If this pandemic isn’t over in six months, I’ll eat my shorts.”
Canned pumpkin and canned green beans. Our dogs get these in their food.
NE Wisconsin: People looking for jobs. Many lower skilled are still collecting on the increased UI payments and not going out to fill the <$17/hr jobs. Most companies in this pay range are running short staffed.
$16.54 is a living wage, but barely. Few of those $17 an hour jobs include health care or any other benefits, so $17 an hour isn’t really a living wage after all. Are you working one of those jobs without health care or sick time? Any of your family?
People serving our fast food and caring for our frail in nursing homes deserve what we have and $17 an hour doesn’t provide what the rest of us have. I would ask for unemployment too given this. At least once or twice a year I could take my child to the doctor then.
Around where I am right now, disinfectants in the categories akin to Lysol, be it in aerosol, wipe or pump spray, remain rare to find. Have actually noticed shelf space for them reduced, and shelf space for chlorine bleach expanded (along with the variety of brand names of said bleach). Rubbing alcohol has been making reappearances.
If it works for you (and it’s more than 60% isopropyl alcohol, preferably 70%) then great! I would think that constant use would be rough on your hands, though. I used to feel the same way about gunky “residue” on hand sanitizer but it doesn’t feel like residue when it dries, and most of the non-medicinal stuff is moisturizer, which is a good thing. Different formulations will have different amounts of it. Genuine Purell – both the standard clear and the green aloe formulations – seem to have a good balance of alcohol and moisturizers in a medium-viscosity gel.
Yeah, i was able to find 70% isopropyl alcohol. My hands are pretty tough.
It’s even worse than that. Which as you rightly said is pretty awful already.
Lots of $17/hour jobs are part-time jobs that make it all but impossible to hold a second job except an unregulated negligible $/hr “gig” like driving Uber.
So for those of us like most Dopers who’re used to full time wages, it’s easy to mentally muliply by $17 * 40 & think “$680/week less low percentage income taxes isn’t too too awful.But glad it ain’t me.”
But that’s rarely how it really works. It’s far more likely to be $300/week gross and due to required flex scheduling having no ability to hold a second job for the badly needed other $380.
We really have built a f***ed up economy.
There must be a lot of rich people on this site. I don’t think I know anybody in real life who makes as much as $17/hour.
My wife works assisted living for less than $17/hr. I will work a few years past retirement until she is old enough for medicare. My employer offers health care for all jobs including the ones under $17. We still can’t get or retain a full roster. I can buy decent small town houses for under $100k within a 20 minute drive of many of the places I pass.
A lot of us are degreed professionals who are salaried employees. You don’t know any nurses, engineers, lawyers, accountants…?
Also, from a minimal amount of research, a full-time job at $17 per hour would put someone at the median salary in this country. It sounds like @Bootb (a very new user here) is defining anything above the median salary as “rich”. Not even degreed professionals; a lot of blue collar employees and tradespeople would be rich by that definition.
I decided to post here but since I can’t search the whole thread for key terms (thanks to Discourse) and I didn’t want to read hundreds of posts to find out, I thought I’d just mention the two shortages I see just east of Pittsburgh.
Then I noticed that puzzelgal, LSLGuy, and JRDelirious have recently been talking about my two! I haven’t seen rubbing alcohol since February; among other reasons, I use it to make ear drops and my bottle is getting low. The other is Lysol Laundry Sanitizer; this is a product they launched last year and I use for my sweaty exercise clothes. I haven’t seen it since December.
My daughter found some 50% rubbing alcohol at the local CVS. I found 70% at a reasonable price on Amazon.
I went to CVS yesterday and they didn’t have it. In the last few days, I have been to two supermarkets, Target, CVS, and Rite-Aid and no had it. I actually asked the guy at Rite-Aid and he said they get it in every Saturday at 8:00 AM and it sells out by 9:00 AM
I have interacted with such people, of course. And I have occasionally had business dealings with such people in one way or another. But in terms of personal acquaintances, not really.
I recently got promoted at work (an in-bound call center), and it came with a pay increase–I now make $15/hour. I’m 41 years old, and this is the most I’ve ever made in my life. My Dad makes about $16/hour.
I did just now remember one of my cousins. She makes about $50k/year. But she works insane hours to do it; something like 65-70 hours a week.
So all you people with advanced degrees, remember this–every time you go to the grocery store; every time you get fast food or go to a cheap restaurant; pretty much every time you interact with people outside of your immediate work or social circle, remember this–nearly everybody you interact with makes WAY less than you do.
Geez. Of course I knew that. I worked minimum wage jobs when I was starting out including fast food and manual labor. I have a wide variety of friends of all ages in my social circle which includes a lot of struggling artists and musicians and skilled laborers. I have helped many of them out over the years by they way. I remember what it was like and I always tip very well. Do you think that we dropped out of the sky fully formed as wealthy professionals?
There has been great concern over an increase in the number of detected infections in the UK over the last couple of weeks. Seems unconnected but I went to the supemarket for various bits and bobs plus some TP which I am on the last roll. Shelves were almost empty of it and was fortunate to get a pack of 6 double rolls - seems that panic buYing has just started up again here in the UK.
What extra utility would you get out of this information? The site helps you order what can be delivered. It doesn’t let you order what can’t be delivered. If you go to the store like always, then you will see what can be picked up or bought in person.
You might say the store should expose an inventory of what’s in-store so that you know if you should spend any time going in. But most grocery stores don’t want to outlay a lot of money to enhance your convenience at the cost of losing your spontaneous in-store purchases and eyeballs on their big bright “specials” signs.
You were correctly provided a useful and correct service and yet you demand more. I just don’t get the entitlement, though I guess we can fob it off on “bad website design” if you want.