Current Events > NEVER FORGET: People hoarded toilet paper during the early pandemic!

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Mother fuckers PANICKED!

I dont get why toilet paper of all things?

thx1138 posted...

I dont get why toilet paper of all things?

Because shit was getting real?

Ive actually stopped using toilet paper since the pandemic since I work from home now. Nothing better than going straight to wash your ass.

People got into fights over it. -_-

I remember reading about an Australian family that ended up literally filling their entire garage with toilet paper because they bought in bulk but fucked up the measurement unit of what they ordered so that got a lot more than they intended to.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Ive actually stopped using toilet paper since the pandemic since I work from home now. Nothing better than going straight to wash your ass.

your drain must hate you

thx1138 posted...

I dont get why toilet paper of all things?

It is something that all households need. Similar things like eggs, bread (especially baker's yeast), and milk were gone. TP just got hit harder in some ways because all households need it (milk, for instance, is useless to the lactose intolerent) and because it got popular as an "easy" thing to flip/scam others with as you could gouge others for a profit.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/9/AAJHVqAAD2Vx.jpg

Fools, just get a bidet and you don't even need that much tp.

Heh heh heh, they don't know how to use the three seashells.

The thing I'll never forget about the pandemic is that for the first several weeks of the shutdowns all the liquor stores in Pennsylvania were closed. Beer stores were open as were grocery stores that sell beer or wine, but all liquor stores in PA are owned and operated by the state, and since government owned buildings were closed it included liquor stores. Factor in that grocery stores etc can't sell liquor in PA, cue loads of Pennsylvanians traveling to Ohio or West Virginia to get liquor.

Ohio and WV actually announced that they would stop selling to people with a PA license, shortly before they reopened with guidelines

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/4/AAA_aCAAD2V2.jpg
Almost empty now.

Phantom36 posted...

The thing I'll never forget about the pandemic is that for the first several weeks of the shutdowns all the liquor stores in Pennsylvania were closed. Beer stores were open as were grocery stores that sell beer or wine, but all liquor stores in PA are owned and operated by the state, and since government owned buildings were closed it included liquor stores. Factor in that grocery stores etc can't sell liquor in PA, cue loads of Pennsylvanians traveling to Ohio or West Virginia to get liquor.

Ohio and WV actually announced that they would stop selling to people with a PA license, shortly before they reopened with guidelines

grocery stores cant sell liquor in PA? holy shit that sucks lol

I just did exhaust my hoard.
...still have asstons of dryer sheets from the pandemic.

I worked at Costco during this whole thing (still do) and let me explain how every day went.

The TP would be fully stocked out before the building opened. Said aisle is the very last aisle, farthest from the front door.

The aisles leading up to it were roped off in a way that everything was a one way street, no going backwards.

The staff, about 20 of us, were lined up in front of the TP like armed guards.

One of the managers would say, 'we're ready, open the doors'

It was like running of the fucking bulls. People sprinting like they're being chased by a tsunami. All of us handing out the TP one by one to everybody (limit of 1) customers are taking videos on their phones, us yelling at them to stop it or they'll get nothing or get thrown out, pallets of water and TP being ravaged, 20 mins later its all over, nothing left.

People were waiting outside for like 2 hours. Absolute madness.

thx1138 posted...

I dont get why toilet paper of all things?

They saw empty shelves.

they also hoarded milk for some reason

MFers just started hoarding random things

Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

grocery stores cant sell liquor in PA? holy shit that sucks lol

Not in NC either.

The strongest stuff you'll find is Guinness or Boone's Farm.

Back in the early 2000s some Indian dudes came in Walmart looking for Liquor.

They looked 7ft tall and had headgear on like the guy from the James Bond movie.

Anyway my co worker told them that.

Why do people act like they can't wipe their ass with anything but toilet paper.

I remember when my grocery store got in one little case of hand sanitizer. A girl brought it up to the register and started handing one out to every person in line and looked all proud like she was handing out cash. People flocked around her like she was Jesus or something.

Such weird times when people were scalping basic sanitary supplies on every website

At least it doesn't go bad and you can keep using it for years to come.

I was still working dm at wendys at the time and our stores had dozens and dozens of extra rolls just stacked up. I green lit my employees to take what they needed if they couldn't find it in stores.

Napkins and plastic forks and stuff too since we had such a surplus and nobody ever seemed to ask for them.

VampireCoyote posted...

they also hoarded milk for some reason

MFers just started hoarding random things

The weirdest part was that sometimes you'd see huge stretches of empty shelves right next to fully stocked shelves of a different type of the same product. Like some types of cereal would be gone while others were totally untouched. I wonder how some of those companies stay in business producing products so unpopular that unhinged people panic buying everything in sight look at them and decide they're not so desperate after all.

Smiffwilm posted...

Because shit was getting real?

Congratulations, you have won an internet for that post!

;-P

We witnessed the true fears of our species.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Ive actually stopped using toilet paper since the pandemic since I work from home now. Nothing better than going straight to wash your ass.

Doesn't that just make your underwear wet tho?

Ryven posted...

I worked at Costco during this whole thing (still do) and let me explain how every day went.

The TP would be fully stocked out before the building opened. Said aisle is the very last aisle, farthest from the front door.

The aisles leading up to it were roped off in a way that everything was a one way street, no going backwards.

The staff, about 20 of us, were lined up in front of the TP like armed guards.

One of the managers would say, 'we're ready, open the doors'

It was like running of the fucking bulls. People sprinting like they're being chased by a tsunami. All of us handing out the TP one by one to everybody (limit of 1) customers are taking videos on their phones, us yelling at them to stop it or they'll get nothing or get thrown out, pallets of water and TP being ravaged, 20 mins later its all over, nothing left.

People were waiting outside for like 2 hours. Absolute madness.

Lmao jesus

alex jones was ready to eat u

SrRd_RacinG posted...

We witnessed the true fears of our species.

Meh, the shower is right over there.

Whatever happened with that guy who had like a full garage of hand sanitizer?

Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

your drain must hate you

Wait does your shit not go down drains?

__aCEr__ posted...

Whatever happened with that guy who had like a full garage of hand sanitizer?

Think the FBI busted him and told him to give it away for free or go to jail.

I feel like some of that chaos could have been avoided if America made bidets more mainstream.

__aCEr__ posted...

Whatever happened with that guy who had like a full garage of hand sanitizer?

That dude though. Fuck that dude in particular. Glad the FBI got him.