My Costco has mucho cases O’ Widmer brew.
I’ll just duck down to the Winchester for a pint; they’ve got everything we need there.
Thank you all… sorry about forgetting I had posted this.
Like Projammer, my personal plan has been to find the closests WalMart or Kmart distribution center, and hole up there. My friends are starting to come around.
Oddly, a lot more folks are the Bug-In types than I thought, but then at the same time, the SDMB is not necessary a “Joe Everyman” forum.
Thank you all for participating… keep it coming though!
Lots of people see the Zombie Apocalypse as some great disaster they have to evade and survive at all costs. Me ? It’s my time to shine. My one and only hope of ever being a classical Hero.
Survival locations ? Safe hiding spots ? SCREW THAT. Besides, they’re already dead. They’re damn well going to out-siege you.
So. A quick stop at the nearest fire station for the biggest axe I can find, and then I’m gonna be in the middle of the pack, hacking zombie heads off like I’m on Stamford Bridge. I’ll die being fucking metal, man.
The problem with going to a wal-mart/k-mart type of place is that those places will be crowded and people are idiots. When their lives are threatened they are panicky idiots. All it takes is one person opening a back door to make a run for it to let in the flood of zombies. Make sure your house is well stocked (this is a good idea for non-zombie emergencies as well) and stay there until everyone else is dead and the zombies have moved on. If you can get to an isolated cabin that is even better, but for most people staying in their homes is the best possible choice.
Alright, man. As long as you take out at least two before you die, well, I say God Bless. One less for me to deal with…
Smear myself with zombie blood to mask my smell and then blend in with the other zombies kind of like Bill Murray in Zombieland. As good a plan as any mentioned above.
Someone should make a movie about it. At the end, the protagonist becomes suspicious and asks who isn’t a real zombie and everyone sheepishly puts up a hand. They all laugh as they spit out the remains of their latest dinner (brain goo, of course).
Get bit then avoid them until I turn. They don’t eat their own.
Besides, undeath kind of appeals to me. Way better than regular death. Ok, yeah, I’d rather be a lich or a vampire, but if zombie is on the menu, I’ll take it.
There are drawbacks to the distribution centers, but I believe the advantages will outweigh them.
They are secure structures with few or no windows. Large clear fields of fire with a fence around the lot. Admitted, the fence is of limited usefulness and would fall under a moderate assault. However there are hundreds of shipping containers on site that can be arranged into a solid barricade that will stand against any size horde of slow clumsy undead.
The biggest question will be how long zombies will survive once turned or after their food supply runs out.
That -would- make an awesome movie.
With that said, in the event of a zombie attack, I’d probably take the path of least resistance. If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em.
All hail our zombie overlords.
World War Z mentioned this. They had people who essentially tried to become collaborators with the zombies by acting like them. It didn’t work at all - the zombies were looking for food not followers. They were mindless eating machines who instinctively sensed and attacked any living person they came across. They didn’t even notice the difference between the people who were fighting them and the people who were trying to imitate them - they just ate them all.
My plan is to hole up on a military base. This plan works for me because I live near the military base and I’m in the club, so to speak. it’s worth pointing out for others who have a similar plan is that, well, it’s not exactly easy to get onto a military base as it is now if you’re not already supposed to be there, and once it hits the fan, it’ll become a LOT harder (like, sealed gates and armed patrols hard). We have all the stuff you expect a military base to have, along with plans for a wide variety of contingencies put together by very smart people with decades of accumulated group experience.
Also, we have an airstrip and a ramp full of transport planes. We can resupply or get the hell out of here, heading for the hills or some faraway island when we decide it’s just not worth maintaining our own little outpost here.
Actually, come to think of it, bugging out to the military base isn’t so much an option for me, as a likely requirement. Hell, I’m required to go to the base when they want to pretend something is wrong, let alone an actual emergency happening. 
I think in Sean of the Dead, the zombies could be fooled just by slouching and method acting. A good mime or street performer could probably wade through a crowd of them, killing them at will, and not even be noticed. And that is exactly what a ninja should look like.
I’d rather face the danger of zombies than other humans. Thus, I prefer small-target strikes to supply my crew. Hit small groceries, stop-and-robs, that sort of thing - avoid big stores and other commonly identified targets. You outfit a unit trained for this mission, and everyone else can stay in your hideyhole, improving defenses and establishing better self-sufficiency in terms of food and water.
It’s important to consider how much warning you have of the threat. A preemptive blitz against some big locations might be possible if you have access to better intel than the general populace.
And HG brings up one of the most important aspects of all this… warning, and time.
In the original Dawn of the Dead, the dead rising was a slow motion apocalypse, with authority gradually breaking down until nothing was left but the dead and small islands of humanity (setting the stage for Land of the Dead).
In the 2004 remake, it’s all amped up. Clearly within 12 hours, society is in mid collapse, and within just a few days, it’s all over.
In a scenario much like the first one described, there would be time to co-ordinate, and bug out properly, with equipment and supplies.
The second situation leads to more bugging in, with what you happen to have in the house.