I know very well what Costco is, but I was referring to normal supermarkets
stripped bare, like the Whole Foods where my son lives.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 27 Mar 2020, at 00:51, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That sounds like stupid greed and selfishness. If people shop rationally,
>> there should be no shortages. When I go to the supermarket, things are
>> almost normal. Yesterday they had no Brussels sprouts which I happened to
>> want for dinner, but that was the extent of my deprivation.
>
>
> I think the concept of "Costco" is probably a little foreign to some
> people. Also, the culture is a bit different too. There is no picking
> up just one or two of something for tonight's meal. Everything you get
> will get divided out for multiple meals. It's a bulk purchase thing.
> You can't go into Costco without spending $200, but you only need to
> do that once in a while. Unlike the local grocer, you can't just pick
> up one of something, it all comes in bulk.
>
> When I say that we can survive for the next month, it's because we've
> got two large containers of Peanut Butter, two large boxes of
> Cheerios, an entire pork loin divided up into meal-sized portions, 20
> cans of Campbells soup, a brick of cheese, 10 bowls of Pho, a box of
> shrimp, and enough soup veggies to choke a horse. And a case of V8
> juice, a box of 10 tubes of Ritz crackers and five pounds of butter.
> Oh, and Almond Milk, Bisquick, tins of mini hotdogs, and five pounds
> of rice.
>
> Basically, every time we buy an item at Costco, we are actually buying
> months' or even a year's worth of that item. It's not greed and
> selfishness, it's just how the system works. For most things. But we
> have the space too.
>
> AK Schnozz
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