If there are products that you regularly use and might need to buy in the coming months, you might want to top off your supply if you have storage space. I have noticed that there are products I normally buy at Costco that are out of stock there and in short supply on Amazon. This is not a suggestion to cleanout the store shelves in panic buying, but a suggestion to check and see if you have enough to last you should you not be able to find them in the stores for a while.
Check Products That Might Be Coming into Short Supply
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When I had lunch at McAlister's Deli yesterday, they were out of lids for the cups. I asked the assistant manager if they had gone over to GFS around the corner to see if they had any, and she said someone was over there to see about getting some. She told me there was a shortage of plastic ware. I needed some plastic cups, so when I went to GFS, I found the size I needed, but they were low on some of the items. I hope McAlister's has lids (and cups) today, as I want to get tea to go on my way to work.
Of all the strange things to be in limited supply here. PAM original cooking spray. I was surprised when it was out of stock on Walmart Online so I went to closest grocery store and they had 1 can.. I looked in another big grocery store and they had none as well They had two small cans of PAM for baking so I got them. There's tons of the all the other previously panic bought items like TP, flour, bleach, yeast etc
The news said that with the hibernation ending, people were buying different things that they had not bought in a year, like soap and deodorant. I guess that manufacturing is behind with so many people having died or retired and suppliers closed and out of materials. We have lots of people retiring and my friend Anne said that when they get the word to come back, she is going to retire. She said that she will help me through the process, if I want. She has 44 years and I have 45 and she has been totally teleworking for the past year. I have been going in for two days a week and teleworking three. I do not like the thought of retiring. A friend who is closer to management scuttelbut than I said that the reopening plan is to keep a large chunk of the staff on telework or partial telework, even when we reopen so a lot remains to be scene or obscene.
There's also a lumber shortage. I needed one 8' finished redwood 2x4 and couldn't find anything on the racks at Home Depot. I ended up buying from the scrap pile to get the footage needed to complete a project. A couple of days later my buddy and I realized we had miscalculated and needed another 2x4. I went to a different Home Depot and all they had were 10' lengths, and they were $25 each! The scrap pile was practically non-existent. We paid up, since we'd be stuck with an unfinished project otherwise.
