Subnostr

Given this was in the disaster zone that is NC/NC I’m sure folks are trying to clean up home wise, why else when everything else was fully stocked? How do I know? Cause I’m one of them. 🤷‍♂️

Vyram Kraven 1y ago

I guess since you took a pic this is the situation at your walmart. Well where I live everyones buying all the toilet paper & paper towels like nut jobs because they heard of the dock strike.

Whenever people hear the word strike they just go crazy. When I go shopping & I see someone doing this like the last guy I saw spend $900 on toilet paper & paper towels NOTHING ELSE. I told him you crazy man you know we get truck & air shipments as well besides boats right? He was confused & didn't understand the dock strike is related towards boat shipments & we have no shortage. But alas people out of fear do this then go to the poor cashiers don't you know whats going on!? Theres a strike theres gunna be shortage oh my god. Then people wonder why the price of bounty paper towels is $35 dollars a roll here!

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NSonic79 1y ago

Can’t really speak for everyone in my area but for myself and neighbors we had other things to worry about than hoarding/stocking up. Mostly our needs consisted of replacing food that was lost when we had no power, gas to clear debris and cleaning supplies to start the process of putting things back together. Most were not prepped for the storm (unlike me) so many had a lot of work to do just to get back to normal vs preparing for supply issues. Not even sure many knew about the dock workers strike, since none took heed to the warnings of the storm coming in the news. We were in survival mode at the time but just with the current disaster and not the possible one which was a good thing since the strike ended before it started.