Costco says it will NOT accept returns for toilet paper, sanitizing wipes, Lysol, paper towels, water and rice.
But who in their right mind would want to return these?
Thieves who stole them from hoarders and need to fence the goods?
Do not pinch the Charmin.
People who spent their life savings panic buying, then lost their job?
People who realize they should have bought food to go with those toilet rolls, don’t like rice, and discovered that water comes out of the tap in the kitchen.
At a local Wal Mart, people shop lift items and attempt to return them to “get their money back”.
That’s funny “people that have not discovered that water still comes out of the tap” :eek:
How the Sam Hill do you shoplift bulky stuff like TP, paper towels, and 6-packs and up of bottled water??
ETA: IIRC, in normal times, you can return only a few items per year (three, I think it was) to Wal-Mart without a receipt. But they need to see your DL and will take down your information.
Heck if I know. Some people fill their shopping cart up with Tide and crash through the exit.
The shit’s literally hitting the street in Tiburon, CA, thanks to TP “substitutes” being flushed. This could become a nightmare situation for those sheltering in place while their neighbors flushed an old t-shirt down the toilet. Next may come a rash of * E. coli* borne diseases.
Toilet paper shortages caused by coronavirus blamed for spike in raw sewage spills
(SF Chronicle article; paywalled, sorry, but you should be able to see the intro.)
The Costco in Redmond WA had few shoppers this afternoon. Like other Costco’s in the area, they have arranged social distancing starting with the entrance.
The whording started here at the original epicenter 3-4 weeks ago, and seems to have largely abated as most folks now have stockpiles and Costco have been shipping in supplies. Out of stock on sanitizer, dried beans, TP. Back in stock was the 25# bags of flour, peanut butter, oil, tissue, etc. Several items had “limit 1” or “no returns” signs posted.
Costco’s HQ is nearby. It looked like one of the execs was being given a tour and seemed pretty pleased that the checkout was working well with social distancing.
Staff seemed to be really normal. Doing their usual bantering. They generally are in good, talkative moods, and today was no different.
Outside of TP things are fairly normal in the Boston area; I was finally able to get a bag of regular flour. Some items may be low but everything is represented. Wegmans looks like a Disney ride with the winding entrance line cordoned off by rope.
I still can’t believe that TP is scarce; where are all the hoarding zombies storing it?! There must be attics and garages getting ready to burst at the joints.
People who used to take care of half of their toilet needs at work or school are now taking care of all of it at home and so they need more TP at home.
Well they don’t need to buy out the store, do they? But now it’s a self-perpetuating cycle. At my local Albertsons, the day’s supply of TP is normally sold gradually throughout the day, with staff restocking the shelf as needed. Now, though, it’s all being sold from 6:00 to abour 6:30 in the morning, and you have to stand in line before the store opens. Nobody likes to do that, so when people get in they buy as much TP as they possibly can.
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Yep. There are going to be any number of scientific papers written about mob mentality and hoarding behavior over the next few years. I see more than a couple of Doctorates being awarded…
Nah, people are going on unemployment, so they’ll want jobs that actually pay well.
Yesterday’s trip to the store continued to show improvement in many ways.
We decided to forgo the senior hour based on my quick trip on Tues. Went a little later in the morning.
There were very few customers there. In many areas more employees than customers. So that gave distancing a chance. (And yet I saw two employees do a fist bump. Um, guys …)
The produce section was almost completely back up to snuff. E.g., so many bananas available that bunches of older ones were in the dollar bags vs. two weeks ago when there were none.
Meat was a little better but still mostly empty. The paper section was almost completley cleaned out. (Mrs. FtG has had facial tissue on her re-stock list. So that’s an issue with tissue.) Frozen veggies still decimated.
Of course the biggest concern for me is the clerk at checkout touching all our stuff. No hand cleaning between customers or anything. I was doing my own bagging into our bags when a bagger came over and helped. I didn’t hand to shoo him off since they are special needs folk for this and they are really nice and all.
People worry about cash but not the clerks touching everything?
They can’t sanitize between every customer, because that would cause skin irritations.
I think it would be more practical for the customer to sanitize post check out.
When is the damn toilet paper hoarding going to ease up? Where the hell are people putting all that toilet paper???
Up their butts?