Combat Shopping

[Tin-Can]

I do my shopping every 2 weeks on payday Friday at the Roy Winco. They changed their hours open 7 a.m. to midnite. No big line to get in even though there were several waiting for the doors to open. Store was pretty well stocked. There were empty shelves in the expected areas, paper goods, canned food items, other places. But I got everything I needed. Except the bottled Distilled Water I use in my VPAP humidifier.  Store manager said they were expecting 11 pallets but not until Tuesday. Lots of products had signs posted Limit 2 per family, but if you know how to alternate what you usually get for something different it was pretty easy.  I can use the Pur water filter pitcher in my fridge to filter, and bottloe my own temporary source of close to distilled water. And the tap water isn't bad if used for old south Georgia style "sun" tea.  Coffee tastes ok from the tap water too. It has the side affect of scaling up the pot, but a regular boil out with white vinager fixes that (I didn't notice any shortage if vinager).  

I would LOVE to take a plane load of these panic buying, over buying hoarders, to live for 6 months in some of the countries I served in. Even in the UK, most Brits have to shop every or every other day cuz they don't have the huge storage freezers we do.  Of course, they do (or did in 1985) have a pretty good system of home dellivery of most evcerything. Milk, fresh produce, meat, baked goods........