Maybe someone will give them a Costco-size wedgie.
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So they only marked it up $5?
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LOL said like a legit bodega shopper
You should have checked to see whether they were out of duct tape as well. Could be art forgers …
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It’s going to end in tears for them. One day very soon, people will look at their hoards of TP and sanitzers and realize they have enough for the next year, and will absolutely stop buying it, and these gougers will have a mountain of inventory on hand that they can’t give away.
Sanitzers, TP and masks are an industrial consumer product and our economy can produce a nearly unlimited amount of it, in a short amount of time. Supplies will catch up, very soon.
The things we can’t produce more of are medical personnel, hospitals, and a lot of medical supplies.
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They haven’t sold all their inventory, I guess.
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Yup. Schools here in the OC closed as well for the next two weeks.
People panic buying shelf stable foods (canned soup mainly by what I saw), and TP.
Going to be an interesting ride. Never more happy that I work from home, and do not have to directly engage with the general public any more.
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Just been to the shops here in Melbourne, Australia and the stock in the supermarket is as thin as I have ever seen it. Hand sanitizer is completely gone but other stuff like frozen vegetables are more than 50% gone, still enough for everybody though.
My son works part time for a supermarket and he told me a bunch of people came in at 6 AM and bought a lot of their stock, right after opening time.
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Just think, foolish preppers have spent years hording gold. Fools!
The apocalypse will arrive on the wings of grifters.
All I need is an FFFd up septic system.
I was joking… But I have ulcerative colitis, so I’m fairly creative when it comes to bathroom business. Now it’s time to apply that creativity to home.
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Well I was deliberately vague because if I had calculated the headline numbers somebody would certainly have berated me for ignoring the fact that they had overheads such as fuel, packaging, shipping and so on. You can’t win, here. 
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Make banana bread (cake) in large quantities. 
An article (which seems to have disappeared) in the Guardian this week noted that the UK’s largest toilet roll maker said they had enough capacity to outrun even the current crazy demand.
The weak link (if indeed there is one) may be distribution chains if a shortage of drivers and overwhelming demand causes delays in restocking at distribution warehouses and shops.
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The reason there’s no toilet paper on the shelves is that Costco cannot legally double the price.
Bertie Blunts
