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  • One of my FB friends posted that one too. Knowing him, he wasn't trying to be taken seriously, just wanted to get an early jump on April Fool's (which I'm sure is going to be really something this year).
    "Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit

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    • Quoth Ghel View Post
      So I clicked through and the website says "You got pranked!" WTF is wrong with people? I reported it to FB as fake news, but I didn't want to get in an argument on my friend's FB wall, so I didn't say anything to her about not sharing misleading headlines.
      Well, that's marginally better than supplying an entire article backing up the claim and hinting that the Evul Government is coming to confiscate your whiskey.

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      • Quoth Mental_Mouse View Post
        ... hinting that the Evul Government is coming to confiscate your whiskey.
        My kinfolk up in the hills have been hiding their whiskey from the Evul Government since 1792. The Evul Government ain't found it yet, and I reckon they never will.
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        • Wisconsin's cases by county (mine jumped from 4 to 9):

          Bayfield - 2 cases
          Brown - 7 cases
          Calumet - 1 case
          Chippewa - 7 cases
          Clark - 3 cases
          Columbia - 9 cases
          Dane - 183 cases, 1 death
          Dodge - 8 cases
          Douglas - 6 cases
          Dunn - 3 cases
          Eau Claire - 10 cases
          Fond du Lac - 21 cases, 2 deaths
          Grant - 1 case
          Green - 5 cases
          Iowa - 3 cases
          Iron - 1 case, 1 death
          Jackson - 2 cases
          Jefferson - 10 cases
          Juneau - 3 cases
          Kenosha - 30 cases
          La Crosse - 16 cases
          Marathon - 2 cases
          Marinette - 1 case
          Marquette - 2 cases
          Milwaukee - 617, 5 deaths
          Monroe - 1 case
          Oconto - 1 case (as reported by county's health department)
          Oneida - 3 cases
          Outagamie - 9 cases
          Ozaukee - 36, 3 deaths
          Pierce - 6 cases
          Portage - 1 case
          Racine - 21 cases
          Richland - 2 cases
          Rock - 15 cases
          Sauk - 13 cases, 1 death
          Sheboygan - 8 cases
          St. Croix - 4 cases
          Vilas - 3 cases
          Walworth - 6 cases
          Washington - 34 cases
          Waukesha - 93 cases
          Waupaca - 1 case, 1 death
          Winnebago - 10 cases
          Wood - 2 cases
          "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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          • What things are y'all finding missing from store shelves that are staples for you but that most people don't buy regularly? Or, what did you expect to be empty and was there?
            Examples:
            1. powdered milk: yes, people do buy that but at my store it's not a huge seller. I buy it regularly to make hot cocoa mix but no one else seems to think of it until they think the world is ending and then poof.
            2. rubbing alcohol in the gallon size: judging by what the shelves normally look like on a busy weekend, most people are buying the 16 oz? bottles and I suppose that lasts them a long time. I'm the one who routinely gets the gallon because I carry a spray bottle of it in my purse and have them all over the house for cleaning and sanitizing. Plus I make countertop cleaner with it. I figure most people just buy countertop cleaner/window cleaner/hand sanitizer so they don't need the gallon jugs of alcohol but of course it's cleaned out.
            3. heavy whipping cream: I buy at least a gallon a month and don't know anyone else who does but somehow I figured that it's an emergency so people would buy all the white foods and it would be gone. I haven't seen an empty shelf yet.
            4. peanut butter: I thought it would be totally gone and it wasn't.
            5. soup bones and variety parts: figured no one would buy any but what has happened is that they snapped up all the beef marrow bones and left the pork bones. Eh, I just started shopping for stuff like that so that might be usual.
            6. bacon: no run on that, fully stocked. Wasn't sure I was going to see any.
            "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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            • Quoth Food Lady View Post
              What things are y'all finding missing from store shelves that are staples for you but that most people don't buy regularly? Or, what did you expect to be empty and was there?
              I mentioned this before, but the ones I've seen weird patterns for are:

              - Lynx/Axe Body Spray: Both the store near my place and the store near my work were completely out (not that it mattered to my SO since he doesn't use it) for a few weeks.

              - Soup: both packet mix and non-packet mix, there's been heaps still. Would expect that to be out, but nope, there's plenty.

              - Noodles: See above. What's more bizarre is that both the one near home and the one near my work are in very Asian-heavy areas, so I'd expect those to both be out.

              - Easy Mac/Mac n Cheese in general: While pasta has been going quickly, this one hasn't for some reason

              - Gluten-Free Stuff: This one annoyed me. Because people couldn't get their usual staples (eg flour, biscuits, bread), they went for the GF stuff instead and there are shortages of it at the moment. While I'm not coeliac, a friend of mine IS and had some trouble getting flour out his way, so I've grabbed a couple of packs for him and dropped them off on occasion (along with a few goodies ).

              - Yoghurt: this one turned out to be more of a supply issue for my store near home, but the yoghurt that I like had run out for a while.

              - Potato Chips: Enough said.

              - Rice: this one's a bit odd. The larger packs of rice have been cleared out (and they're bringing in more every day), but the smaller packs haven't. I get this might be a smart move, but it's still odd.

              On my neck of the words, we've had tighter retsrictions put in place - you can now only leave home if you need to work and can't do so from home, to get supplies, to exercise (with one other person), to provide care/support (ie dropping off groceries etc to your elderly neighbour) for elderly/vulnerable persons and a few other general reasons. Basically it boils down to "no you cannot socialise with other people."

              I'm still classed as "essential" for the time being (and have put my name down to be redeployed in any other administrative capacity short of answering phones, including assisting IT with any tasks that they have), but haven't gotten my permission slip from work yet. We're a private hospital though, so there's been a huge-ass slowdown of work since a bunch of elective surgeries got cancelled (government mandate). Yeah, I was freaking out when they announced that, since I feared that I'd be stood down. Luckily I haven't for now, but I'm trying to stay indispensible.

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              • I'd've thought with people being confined to home for a month or two, whipping cream would be top of the things to keep for how to entertain yourselves
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                • Kids were supposed to return to school today. That and all other closures have been extended indefinitely.
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                  • On soup -- Consistently at every grocery I've tried, it's always (Campbell's) chicken noodle that's sold out. Cream of Chicken and Cream of Mushroom? Fifty cases on the endcap. Tomato soup? Plenty to go around. But Chicken noodle is apparently nowhere to be found.
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                    • I think part of what's there or what's sold out has to do with the store. For example, one store was very low on bacon. Another was fine. I probably just walked by that section of the first store right before it got restocked. Now, soup has been super low, all of it, for weeks. Ramen, same. Something I didn't see coming was that we have no limits on bread, but all the stores have had to limit tortillas. And indeed, that aisle is quite bare. Salt finally came back, along with white vinegar. I always buy boxed hair dye, and that area was definitely low compared to normal. I know it wasn't just waiting to be stocked because the whole hair care aisle was fully stocked, faced, just looking perfect but there were a lot of holes in the dyes.

                      I also was surprised that peanut butter was not sold out or even low at all. Rice hasn't come back yet. Toilet paper is okay, depending on the store. Winco wins, the aisle was full, like before this all started. Target had maybe 1/3 of the shelves stocked. Meat has come back, and dried pasta. Hand sanitizer, NOPE. Rubbing alcohol, NOPE. Hand soap... Eh, there's some but not much.

                      I went to a bunch of stores all in one day, got everything I need, and only will go to work for a week or more. The town is crazy dead. No Canadians. Even some Starbucks are shut. Costco gas is under $2 a gallon (we have some of the highest gas prices in the state) and even that low, the gas station was like half full with cars. I have not gone to Costco for a while, only driving by, and don't know how they're doing inside.

                      My coworkers are crazy stressed, and it's always been a gossipy place but it's over the top now. Management is trying, everything is sanitized to within an inch of it's life, they put up barriers where they could, and moved tables so people are farther away from each other. Still, I think it's only a matter of time before one of us catches it, and if so the place will have to shut down. I mean, it's a type of flu, right? Is there ever a flu season where someone at my work doesn't get sick? Never.
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                      • - Rice: this one's a bit odd. The larger packs of rice have been cleared out (and they're bringing in more every day), but the smaller packs haven't. I get this might be a smart move, but it's still odd.
                        Probably the folks who panic-buy rice are the ones who consider the 5-lb bags "the small bag".

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                        • Quoth Mental_Mouse View Post
                          Probably the folks who panic-buy rice are the ones who consider the 5-lb bags "the small bag".
                          And boil it up all at once!
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                          • Quoth LadyofArc View Post
                            - Soup: both packet mix and non-packet mix, there's been heaps still. Would expect that to be out, but nope, there's plenty.

                            - Noodles: See above. What's more bizarre is that both the one near home and the one near my work are in very Asian-heavy areas, so I'd expect those to both be out.

                            - Easy Mac/Mac n Cheese in general:
                            I don't understand these either. Soup is so basic. But maybe people are making soup. Did you notice the soup bones or stew meat being picked over?
                            "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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                            • The Store is now 100% out of yeast, so I guess we've got a lot of aspiring bakers among our panic-shoppers. Overall we're mostly restocked now, but we've still got about 16 pages of warehouse outs (as opposed to 1-2 pages normally) and what we order vs. what we get has been pretty hit or miss. Now that the 1st has rolled around we're not really sure what to expect, but hopefully the crowd control we've been doing at the entrance will help soften the blow.

                              I took a phone call after close tonight where I realized something for the first time;

                              Caller: How late are you open?
                              Me: We've already closed for the night. We reopen tomorrow at 7.
                              Caller: Do you know if any other stores are open?
                              Me: Honestly, I haven't left the house in almost three weeks except to come here, so I couldn't say.

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                              • Also:

                                Quoth LadyofArc
                                Noodles: See above. What's more bizarre is that both the one near home and the one near my work are in very Asian-heavy areas, so I'd expect those to both be out.
                                IIUC, noodles and rice compete -- for any given regional cuisine (i.e., "Chinese" isn't a cuisine, it's at least six or eight of them), one will be the "go-to" starch. Apparently the folks near you are rice-dominant.

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