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There are different degrees. Some people are buying months and months' worth of things. Some people are buying an entire store's supply of toilet paper and the
by _bxg1 7y ago
There are different degrees. Some people are buying months and months' worth of things. Some people are buying an entire store's supply of toilet paper and the like in hopes of profiteering. It's insane and selfish. It prevents reasonable people from getting their 2 weeks' worth of stuff.
- emsign 7y agoI think in those cases the store owners should be responsible to not let that happen. They are basically doing 99% of their customers a disservice.
- happytoexplain 7y agoWhile it's true the over-preppers hurt everybody, I think you're overestimating how many of them there are and how directly they caused the dearth. Grocery stores simply aren't prepared for everybody buying even just two weeks of food at once.
- _bxg1 7y agoI don't think I'm overestimating. It's all anecdotal, but I'm hearing things from friends, seeing lots of instances on social media. The NYT just covered one of them: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...
- true_religion 7y agoThat guy isn’t an overprepper. He tried to buy a monopoly on the product so he could price gouge.
- _bxg1 7y agoThe distinction isn't relevant to the discussion at hand
- true_religion 7y agoWell it works of is, as people like him are committing illegal acts so it’s already heavily discouraged and supplies may be seized. Over prepping though isn’t illegal, so many more people could do it.
- ryandrake 7y agoI must be out of the loop, but why exactly are people so focused on toilet paper? The virus doesn’t cause you to go to the bathroom any more than you’d normally do in a three week time period. It seems odd to focus on this one thing. Last trip to the grocery store I saw people carrying out 3 year supplies of TP but the stock of fever reducing medication was all untouched.
- derekp7 7y agoFacebook rumor that TP comes from China, and that the shipments were being blocked. In reality, the stuff come from Wisconsin and we have plenty of pulp.
- distances 7y agoAre you serious about this? Surely nobody assumes all toilet paper is imported from China?
- emsign 7y agoI thought the same thing and it must be that when you have a family, you can go through tp pretty quickly. Roughly four times as fast for two adults and two kids, and twice as fast if you live with your partner, compared to just living alone. All the stuff people buy, most of it isn't for them alone.