Posted on 03/28/2020 6:06:37 PM PDT by ProudFossil
Wondering if the stores are still out of tp and other paper products.
Stock up on leaves.
In SoCal, I had to go to 6 stores to find any and was allowed only 2 6-packs. It was Vons at around 8 in the am. Two times two separate Vons stores have had what I needed when other stores did not. Don’t know if you have Vons or pavilions or whatever the names are in Albuquerque. If you’re over 65 you can go earlier to some stores.
You may need to call or have someone do it for you asking
about the senior hour. If it is still on or not.
Special Shopping Hours: 60 and older
We know our older customers could be more vulnerable to the coronavirus and to better support them, Walmart is offering special shopping hours. From March 24 through April 28, Walmart stores will host an hour-long senior shopping event every Tuesday for customers aged 60 and older.
This will start one hour before the store opens. Our Pharmacies and Vision Centers will also be open during this time.
We have started paperbagging the LA Times, should it come to that!
NAFTA
the gift that keeps giving
I can relate to that.
Oh and no tp or other paper products, masks or hand sanitizer anywhere in SE AZ.
Spring water - yes a little but distilled and white vinegar are hard to come by.
But then I’ve been prepping since the late 70s.
We have started paperbagging the LA Times, should it come to that!
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LOL
If you live out in the country there should be
a lot of dried leaves this time of year.
I have seen some TP in the stores, but limited selection of brand / type. Paper towels are still hard to find, and mostly in single rolls. Still out of disinfecting wipes, most cleaners, and liquid soap.
People are panic buying this is true.
But tractor trailer traffic has dropped significantly.
The supply is not rolling in.
Back in stock in SE Wisconsin
You run out of corn cobs? Or were the ladies hoarding them?
Dried?? Sorry, that sounds painful!! ;)
Be careful around the TP aisle.
Posted: Mar 20, 2020 / 01:06 PM EDT / Updated: Mar 20, 2020 / 01:07 PM EDT
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Amid the empty shelves and store closures, a Springfield, Missouri, Walmart had its own commotion going Wednesday afternoon.
A baby was born in the toilet paper aisle.
“We were like, oh my gosh, is this actually going to happen,” said store manager Jessica Hinkle.
Hinkle said the woman warned store associates that her last child came in just 30 minutes. When the woman’s water broke in the toilet paper aisle, she was prepared to go into labor right then and there.
“We were like, what do we do now?” she said. “Another lady comes around the corner and she says ‘I’m a labor nurse. Can I help?’ and we said, ‘Yes, yes please.’ She had gloves in her pocket, [and] she was ready.”
Hinkle said she grabbed a sheet and blocked the aisle to give the woman as much privacy as possible.
“Crowd control, [I’m] not like the best with blood so that was my job, holding the sheet and crowd control, making sure that nobody invaded what privacy the poor lady still had,” Hinkle said.
Springfield firefighters rushed into the store and helped deliver the baby girl.
“They’re the typical fire department that shops in our store, so they were pretty proud of themselves,” Hinkle said.
She said the entire process took about 45 minutes and customers were cheering for the woman the whole time.
I got three cousins who work for paper companies-one ran two mills out east, now passed away.
Here is the problem. The tissue mills that closed down had old machinery in them. To upgrade, they had to get permits for discharging the water. BTW, the pollutents in a newer mills would equal about 10 seconds in 300 thousand years. VERY minute. ALL that water goes through a complicated filtration system and the discharge is less polluted than the water they take into the plant.
No permits because the EPA wanted ZERO in the discharge.
Now, in the meetings us logger went to, they explained all this AND told us that because of this, no new plants were planned, other than the ones already underway, in the future.
Making paper requires water-lots of water. What you have in a mill is a pulping process that-to make it easy to understand, is a giant pressure cooker. You put the chips in, they cook those chips to break down the wood into fiber. They put in bleach to make it white,and some other chemicals. Then, that pulp is run out onto screens to dry it so the pulp can stay together as a sheet. Bailed pulp is kind of like cotton. Fluffy and all. Then that bailed pulp is sold to customers who take that pulp, mix it with water, put in perfume, or whatever, then it is spread out onto the screens till it can support itself and then it goes through a system of super heated rollers to make the proper type of paper. In TP, it then goes to be cut into ribbons and rolled and all that...packaging is usually done in a packaging plant.
Escanaba Mi has a paper mill that they did studies to change one of their paper machines into a tissue machine-its now a publishing paper machine. That mill makes enough paper to wrap the world over twice in a year.
They couldnt do it because of the rules and regs they had to submit to.
So they shut them down and move to other countries. Chile has about 18 mills, Brazil has a bunch, Mexico has a few. And China has a whole bunch. No doubt China is supplying us with a lot of tissue products.
ALL those corps used to operate here in the USA.
Aldi’s has it.
Today in our SC Walmart there was a center aisle bin with limited paper towels and TP, like about twelve packs total. So I grabbed a pack of TP and a pack of paper towels. This guy comes up to me and says, “your only allowed one pack”. I asked him if he worked there and he said, “no but you have to be fair to others”. I said, I have one each, which he said I wasn’t being honest and glared at me. I asked him if he knew how to read and pointed to my cart, then left. I seriously felt threatened for just a second.
For what it’s worth, Walmart north of Colorado Springs CO
Have to ASK for TP, they are keeping it in back to prevent people from taking too much.
YES!!!
You nailed it!
Slick leaves don’t work to well. LOL
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