@Ignorant Do you guys not have propane taxi in your area? Best thing ever! Leave two empty tanks out front in the morning and have two full ones when I get home from work. I feel invincible when grilling
@willdavi I bought 2 giant boxes at the grocery store but it wasn’t enough. And you know what? They’re all sold out online. STOP BUYING ALL THE GOLDFISH PEOPLE! I need them more than you.
@tinamarie1974 My WM Market has them, limit one. I was going to buy one for me because I have an undisclosed medical problem, but I bought them instead for an elderly neighbor.
@communist@jst1ofknd Yep, just one of each.
I was in Walmart on Monday. Picked up a pack of toilet paper (free wood chunks included) and noticed the “1 per customer” notifications placed about every ten feet along the shelves. Was walking down the aisle when this Happy Hannah came steamrolling down the aisle with an empty cart and a mission.
I decided to turn my cart around because there was a log jam of customers at one end. When I reached Happy Hannah, I had to stop because of passing customers. Incredulously, I stood there watching her with my head cocked to one side as she piled up package after package of toilet paper into her cart. Sensing I was behind her, she stopped in the middle of her counting (she was at , turned to me and said “Oh, did you want to get some, too?”
It’s surprised me how fast my mood shifted from We can do this! feeling of sunshine and lollipops to Imma knife a hoading bitch.
“OH! I didn’t see the sign. Guess it’s a good thing you said something before I got up there.”
I looked at her with raised eyebrows for a second, maybe two. Slowly shook my head & gave her a sad, commiserating smile. With a long sigh I said “Yeah. God forbid we think of others.”
I pushed my cart past her. I felt guilty for being such a bitch for all of ten seconds because we need to be kind to each other now more than ever. That guilty feeling lasted until I reached the end of the aisle where it turned into angry frustration to discover the Hannahs of the world had snatched up all the eggs and butter, too.
@communist@jst1ofknd@LaVikinga Glad you showed some restraint! I’m not sure I could have done the same. My wife works in a local grocery store, and some of the tales she tells would shock the average person…
Case in point from last week: A Group of 20 or so people coming in, each buying their minimum, then turning around and coming back in…the same people in an orchestrated manner, going through again, and again, and again…Here they were loading up a big truck outside!
While I’m on the subject of Walmarts, I was at one in Carlsbad New Mexico that had gates at the entrance to prevent leaving at that door. Apparently this is a thing at other Walmarts too, even in Oklahoma. It just isn’t at the one I typically go to.
@jst1ofknd One of the Walmarts(there are 3 within 6 miles) closest to my dad is in a pocket of low income housing. They had to completely wall off the garden shop exits because they had an extraordinary high number of pushouts and grab & runs.
My youngest currently works at Walmart checking receipts (Asset Protection). The amount of hostility & rudeness she has had to endure in the last year is shocking. She is one of the most polite people you’d ever meet, but she also has a no nonsense approach to life.
If a customer has something unbagged, it’s her job to make sure the cashiers have not missed the items. Because her particular Walmart is in a “high shrink area” (shoplifting is rampant as well as attacks on AP and Loss Protection), the company wanted the receipt checkers to use their handheld scanners to scan the receipt codes on every single receipt as well as make sure the unbagged items were on the receipt.
We couldn’t convince her to quit. We couldn’t convince her not to touch the receipts but to instead let the customer hold them. FINALLY, Walmart had the good sense to not require AP to do anything other than use their eyes to watch for straight up shoplifting and skip checkers.
Since they can actually watch for theft instead of pestering Maude & Roscoe for their receipts (“Mom, I KNOW they paid for stuff because I watched the transaction. Walmart is losing money hand over fist because of their own stupidity!”), the number of shoplifters and skip checkers they have caught since last Friday has sky rocketed. It’s not that there’s been an increase in shoplifting over the last few days. It’s the fact they’ve been allowed to stop those who they have completely avoided the checkout area completely.
@communist@jst1ofknd
If so, (I’ve never seen them at any of my Walmart’s) I don’t know how that’s supposed to stop shoplifting? You can jump right over those.
@jst1ofknd I didn’t know that. When I have gone in them sometimes others walk out at the same time. No alarms at that store. Or maybe they aren’t triggered when that happens?
@jst1ofknd@PooltoyWolf
Um, batteries for the hearing aid? Those are a necessary expense.
With a stop in the inflatables department.
My Costco has been using the “downtime” to get all the summer pool toys stocked and prepped. I think there might be lots of clearance fire sales on these before long.
@jst1ofknd@mike808 Being in central Florida, they almost never stop selling them here. I think there’s maybe a one month period shortly after Christmas when they don’t have them.
I need something to fill all my down time with, only so much boob tube you can watch. I mean I COULD clean and organize my house like I need to do but why do I wanna do that. It’s not fun.
Read a book! Download Overdrive from the appropriate app store, throw in your library card number, and read books for free on whatever device you have!
@jst1ofknd@star2236
My library just sent out a big list of all the services we can use. Tons of stuff, it looks like on the surface, but they’ve massively crippled the libraries from really delivering content with caps and DRM restrictions (proprietary, and per service of course) out the wazoo. Sigh.
@jst1ofknd@mike808@star2236 In the future, we’ll have infinitesimal marginal costs for the distribution of text, a new Gutenberg revolution, giving everyone – book licenses with limited concurrent access.
Libraries purchase licenses for however many digital copies they decide they need or can afford, from the publisher.
For instance, for a likely bestseller, they purchase a high count of simultaneous copies-in-use rights for the first year, declining count of simultaneous usage rights in following years.
They undoubtedly purchased without thinking about “stay at home orders” and the effect on demand. Dedicated library users of instant download digital material are used to waiting for an open “slot”.
It would be nice if the publishers would offer a temp 2for1, or other discount, to the libraries for these media, for at least as long as schools are out and work-for-home is in effect. The publishers have the control here.
@f00l@jst1ofknd@star2236
Don’t forget the publishers withhold titles or dont even offer them because they won’t “move the needle” during the current CEO’s tenure, so why bother. To them even digital overhead is still inefficiency that can be squeezed out of operations.
Can you swap my propane tank for me? Thanks
@Ignorant Oh man, mine too.
@Ignorant and mine. It’s been in the garage for months.
@jst1ofknd I left the tank out front so just swing by and grab it. Thanks again!
@Ignorant
I got lost on my way to your house. I knew I should have taken a left at Albuquerque.
@jst1ofknd dang, next time I guess. Thanks for thinking of us though.
@Ignorant Do you guys not have propane taxi in your area? Best thing ever! Leave two empty tanks out front in the morning and have two full ones when I get home from work. I feel invincible when grilling
@capnjb nope don’t have that but it sounds cool.
@capnjb @Ignorant Do that around here and you’d come home to nothing out front.
I could use one of those big cartons of goldfish crackers. They’re disappearing at a rapid rate here.
@sammydog01 you’ve got to go to bjs or a bulk store for the massive box of them. It’s totally worth it.
@willdavi I bought 2 giant boxes at the grocery store but it wasn’t enough. And you know what? They’re all sold out online. STOP BUYING ALL THE GOLDFISH PEOPLE! I need them more than you.
@sammydog01 here you go
/giphy goldfish crackers
@sammydog01
Look what we got!
@jst1ofknd SCORE!
candy
Dehumidifier. Thanks!
My sanity back, but that is always out of stock at Walmart.
So many things like lysol wipes and hand sanitizer. Let me know if you find them
@tinamarie1974 My WM Market has them, limit one. I was going to buy one for me because I have an undisclosed medical problem, but I bought them instead for an elderly neighbor.
@therealjrn that was very nice of you! Empty shelves at my WM. I have a backorder on both @ Amazon so eventually…
Just get one of everything for me.
Only one of each, tho.
I don’t wanna hoard.
grab 100 rolls of toilet paper
and 30 bottles of hand sanitizer
@communist
I got as many as I could for you, but they’ve started imposing limits.
@communist @jst1ofknd Yep, just one of each.
I was in Walmart on Monday. Picked up a pack of toilet paper (free wood chunks included) and noticed the “1 per customer” notifications placed about every ten feet along the shelves. Was walking down the aisle when this Happy Hannah came steamrolling down the aisle with an empty cart and a mission.
I decided to turn my cart around because there was a log jam of customers at one end. When I reached Happy Hannah, I had to stop because of passing customers. Incredulously, I stood there watching her with my head cocked to one side as she piled up package after package of toilet paper into her cart. Sensing I was behind her, she stopped in the middle of her counting (she was at , turned to me and said “Oh, did you want to get some, too?”
It’s surprised me how fast my mood shifted from We can do this! feeling of sunshine and lollipops to Imma knife a hoading bitch.
Giving her a you can’t be serious half a head shake, in a single motion I pointed to the pack in my cart, pointed to the sign, said “One?”
“OH! I didn’t see the sign. Guess it’s a good thing you said something before I got up there.”
I looked at her with raised eyebrows for a second, maybe two. Slowly shook my head & gave her a sad, commiserating smile. With a long sigh I said “Yeah. God forbid we think of others.”
I pushed my cart past her. I felt guilty for being such a bitch for all of ten seconds because we need to be kind to each other now more than ever. That guilty feeling lasted until I reached the end of the aisle where it turned into angry frustration to discover the Hannahs of the world had snatched up all the eggs and butter, too.
@communist @jst1ofknd @LaVikinga Glad you showed some restraint! I’m not sure I could have done the same. My wife works in a local grocery store, and some of the tales she tells would shock the average person…
Case in point from last week: A Group of 20 or so people coming in, each buying their minimum, then turning around and coming back in…the same people in an orchestrated manner, going through again, and again, and again…Here they were loading up a big truck outside!
While I’m on the subject of Walmarts, I was at one in Carlsbad New Mexico that had gates at the entrance to prevent leaving at that door. Apparently this is a thing at other Walmarts too, even in Oklahoma. It just isn’t at the one I typically go to.
Have ya’ll seen these gates?
@jst1ofknd Yeah, they put them in one near me. The long-time checker I asked said they don’t really stop anybody.
@jst1ofknd One of the Walmarts(there are 3 within 6 miles) closest to my dad is in a pocket of low income housing. They had to completely wall off the garden shop exits because they had an extraordinary high number of pushouts and grab & runs.
My youngest currently works at Walmart checking receipts (Asset Protection). The amount of hostility & rudeness she has had to endure in the last year is shocking. She is one of the most polite people you’d ever meet, but she also has a no nonsense approach to life.
If a customer has something unbagged, it’s her job to make sure the cashiers have not missed the items. Because her particular Walmart is in a “high shrink area” (shoplifting is rampant as well as attacks on AP and Loss Protection), the company wanted the receipt checkers to use their handheld scanners to scan the receipt codes on every single receipt as well as make sure the unbagged items were on the receipt.
We couldn’t convince her to quit. We couldn’t convince her not to touch the receipts but to instead let the customer hold them. FINALLY, Walmart had the good sense to not require AP to do anything other than use their eyes to watch for straight up shoplifting and skip checkers.
Since they can actually watch for theft instead of pestering Maude & Roscoe for their receipts (“Mom, I KNOW they paid for stuff because I watched the transaction. Walmart is losing money hand over fist because of their own stupidity!”), the number of shoplifters and skip checkers they have caught since last Friday has sky rocketed. It’s not that there’s been an increase in shoplifting over the last few days. It’s the fact they’ve been allowed to stop those who they have completely avoided the checkout area completely.
@jst1ofknd @LaVikinga My SIL worked in a WM as a AP “shopper” roaming around the store. He has some stories…
@LaVikinga @therealjrn
Maybe your SIL should start a blog…
@jst1ofknd @LaVikinga
Ha ha. There’s enough of that on Reddit. I’m glad he got out of there.
@jst1ofknd the walmart about 40 mins away from me just installed the gates this year
right after the walmart mass inventory counting
according to walmart peeps, my local store lost over 1 million dollars worth of stuff in the past year to theft
@communist @jst1ofknd
Are these the gates you guys are talking about?
@communist @jst1ofknd
If so, (I’ve never seen them at any of my Walmart’s) I don’t know how that’s supposed to stop shoplifting? You can jump right over those.
@communist @star2236
Yes. Those.
@communist @star2236
These also had alarms that went off if you approached them from the wrong side.
@jst1ofknd I didn’t know that. When I have gone in them sometimes others walk out at the same time. No alarms at that store. Or maybe they aren’t triggered when that happens?
Check and see if they have any cute inflatable animals in the pool section!
@PooltoyWolf
I tried to get the wife to go check for you, but she refused. Something about being an unnecessary expense…
@jst1ofknd Booooo!
@jst1ofknd @PooltoyWolf
Um, batteries for the hearing aid? Those are a necessary expense.
With a stop in the inflatables department.
My Costco has been using the “downtime” to get all the summer pool toys stocked and prepped. I think there might be lots of clearance fire sales on these before long.
@jst1ofknd @mike808 Being in central Florida, they almost never stop selling them here. I think there’s maybe a one month period shortly after Christmas when they don’t have them.
@jst1ofknd
so what DID you get
/giphy giggle
@Cerridwyn
I went for water flavoring (insert whine here) because I don’t like plain water and I’m trying not to drink milk or other calorie filled drinks.
The wife got a pillow for sitting up and bed and an exercise ball for the daughter for ballet class. What else we got, I don’t remember.
I need something to fill all my down time with, only so much boob tube you can watch. I mean I COULD clean and organize my house like I need to do but why do I wanna do that. It’s not fun.
@star2236
Read a book! Download Overdrive from the appropriate app store, throw in your library card number, and read books for free on whatever device you have!
@jst1ofknd @star2236
My library just sent out a big list of all the services we can use. Tons of stuff, it looks like on the surface, but they’ve massively crippled the libraries from really delivering content with caps and DRM restrictions (proprietary, and per service of course) out the wazoo. Sigh.
@jst1ofknd @mike808 @star2236 In the future, we’ll have infinitesimal marginal costs for the distribution of text, a new Gutenberg revolution, giving everyone – book licenses with limited concurrent access.
@jst1ofknd @mike808 @star2236
Libraries purchase licenses for however many digital copies they decide they need or can afford, from the publisher.
For instance, for a likely bestseller, they purchase a high count of simultaneous copies-in-use rights for the first year, declining count of simultaneous usage rights in following years.
They undoubtedly purchased without thinking about “stay at home orders” and the effect on demand. Dedicated library users of instant download digital material are used to waiting for an open “slot”.
It would be nice if the publishers would offer a temp 2for1, or other discount, to the libraries for these media, for at least as long as schools are out and work-for-home is in effect. The publishers have the control here.
@f00l @jst1ofknd @star2236
Don’t forget the publishers withhold titles or dont even offer them because they won’t “move the needle” during the current CEO’s tenure, so why bother. To them even digital overhead is still inefficiency that can be squeezed out of operations.
just got back from walmart
and
oh
my
satan
there was toilet paper available for sale
2 different types
this is only the second time in 2 weeks that i have seen toilet paper for sale and in stock anywhere in my little town