Panic buying
 

Why are we still panic buying? Huge crowds showing up for senior hours. Please stop the hysteria.

Here's a suggestion that might curtail some of the herd mentality.

Walk down the line with your phone set to record a video of the crowd.

Upload to facebook / youtube. :bigbow:

Technically you shouldn’t video without permission

Technically as long as you're doing it in public, it's legal. There exists such a thing as "expectation of privacy." You have none of that in public spaces.

It certainly must have been when Publix and others decided to have senior hour they were not focused on TV but all their other non-senior-bubble locations.

Must be some in TV that think there will be fewer people in the store during senior hour!

In TV senior shopping is ALL DAY! No need to hurry and pack the store from 8-9 AM

I don't understand why the lines at stores even exist. My wife walked into Wynn Dixie late yesterday morning, picked up 3 lbs. of ground beef, 2 steaks, some veggies, bread, and a few other items, only one person in line at checkout. Since this all started she has done this 3 times and never had a problem. We also pick up items at the local Dollar Stores and they never have a lot of customers.

A result of groupthink. If everyone else is doing it, I should be doing it, too?

Yep. I stopped at Dollar Tree on 466a for a few things and they had lots of toilet paper. Four small rolls for a dollar. I told the cashier that I would post this and she said "OMG. They will be lined up out the door."

Probably won't happen again, now that you "let the cat out of the bag", lol. With Publix, Walmart and Sams depleted, everyone will now run to Winn-Dixie. Someone needs to get a grip on whatever it is that's going on because those of us who have to rely on the online shopping & pick-up are lost..... I have been trying for over 2 weeks to order eggs, bread and have not been able to get either yet. Now, you can't even get an order in on Walmarts site and Sams has nothing available. Publix had nothing available yesterday on Insta-cart. I am more worried about our food supply than the virus at this point. And with the limits in place now, you can't ask friends to pick-up something, if that person happens to need it also.

Heard on the 11:00 news last night that senior shopping was established because that is the cleanest the stores will be. Had nothing to do with availability of product. Who knew?

2 steaks! Wow....when we got to check out our cashier at WD told us one pkg only. Had to send one back.

I was told, many, many years ago, "You cannot underestimate the stupidity of the masses". And as I have learned, this is a truism.

Anyone can be photographed from a distance but harassment is subject to civil and criminal penalties.

Hear! Hear!
 

Hear! Hear!

it seems that we live in a world of "me first" mentality...nobody wants to risk having to
'do without'...and no one wants to wait for anything

If you live in TV you have enough $$$ that you're not worrying where your next hot dog comes from...so relax and continue to come from a place of abundance, not from a place of scarcity

the village folks that ate out all the time certainly had to 'stock up'....hopefully they developed their shopping lists based upon a planned menu vs. just wandering through the aisles grabbing what they could

those of us that ate out moderately had an ample supply of food in our freezers that we'd replenish as needed routinely

We who live in TV will survive....it's the folks outside that are the most at risk...they don't have the financial reserves that we do

I urge you to take advantage of the 2-for-1 deals and drop the second item off at a local food bank

You can still use the Walmart delivery service if you check your phone early in the morning. I checked mine Sunday morning around 7am and was able to check out and schedule delivery for Tuesday evening. If you wait too late in the day, all of the time slots will be gone. Have a great day!

I chuckled when someone told me about going to Publix here early in the morning for the senior hour. Pretty much nothing but seniors here; hence expect long lines. I suggested to head 20 minutes out of The Villages where you would be a minority.

We're all seniors here! ...
Hence: Huge crowds at opening hours for seniors...... Hoarding is the problem.

Soooooooo.....what is different in that first hour than the rest of the day?

NOTHING!!!!!

Common sense in absence once more.

The decision making to have "senior hour" was not based on TV bubble.....it was for all the non bubble stores.

Most likely the Snowbirds are stocking up before they had for home since most left their summer homes empty before they came here. Knowing they will have the same shortages at home. Our grocery stores are not set up for this kind of hysteria ( should they have a plan for the future? I would think so

Grocery store is not a public place
 

Privately owned premises are not considered a public place. Parks and publicly owned streets or the like are truly public places and there you can video without permission, not in a privately owned business, or privately owned land.

that is not true.

Panic Buying
 

So true! Why the run on toilet paper? This particular virus doesn't give you the green apple "quick step". I saw a humorous posting on Facebook last week - In 2050 their kid opened the last pack of TP his parents purchased in 2020. Yeah, that sounds about right.

Media hype
 

Anything to create hysteria. Notice they don't point out the recovery rate for those that have come down with the Wuhan Flu.

Hi.. I keep reading about the hoarding going on in The Villages because the snow birds are headed back and want to be sure they have supplies once back hone. Well I didn’t go o The Villages this year but her at home just outside of Boston the shelves are stocked at Market Basket... running a little low on produce... but even that they were replacing. Yes there are senior hours but that wasn’t when I shopped - just want to say for those headed back North there are supplies. ;) good health to all!

The recovery rate for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) it is between 97% and 99%.
Depending on the calculation method used.

That's what I was thinking. Senior privilege is not much of a privilege when everyone has it. Plus all that happens is old people are stacked up violating the social distancing rules.

I'm not going anywhere for the time being.

The more people that recover, the more people that have immunity. If enough people have immunity, that would certainly help to control this virus.

Do as they do in Sweden.

Example would be

Buy 1 package of toilet paper for 5 dollars
Buy additional packages for 95 dollars each