PREP Grocers Stockpile, Build ‘Pandemic Pallets’ Ahead of Winter

[WalknTrot]

Decisions, decisions, decisions - but my pantries look nothing like the one pictured... but then again, I went through really poor times and know how and what to stock up.

Yup. There's a lot of space in that pantry, but really isn't holding much of any extended value. Also, on first impression, I don't think those shelves would hold up to 3-4 deep and stacked 2 high commercial wet-pack cans or jars of home-canned stuff. High-value pantry items are pretty heavy.

I've just brought in some bags of canned goods that have been banging around on the back seat of the truck that I hadn't unloaded or stored yet. The kitchen table looks like a grocery canned food aisle, and 4-5 dozen cans of vegetables, baked beans, spaghetti sauce, cream of whatever soup, etc. are heavy...plus nothing compared to the pints and quarts of items like the pears I'm home-canning today.

 

[Seeker22]

Not necessarily - if one can cook from scratch, this sort of arrangement can hold a lot of food! I had a better photo, but I can't find it now. Picture this space full of home canned stuff and dehydrated food.

Added: NOT MINE! I found this photo on the internet. I would never post my stock for op sec reasons.

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That mixer is on the top shelf because the person doesn't use it all that much. It would be on a lower shelf or the floor at my house for easy access. No chance of dropping that heavy thing on my foot trying to pull it down. At my house, that shelving would look very different. If those are light duty shelves, put the dehydrated stuff or spices on them. In earthquake prone areas, storing breakable jars of things on such shelves would be a disaster. a shelf that isn't covered completely like the Rhinegold covered Andvari isn't considered full at my house.

As for the truckers and riots- I am very surprised we are not hearing reports of truckers being hijacked. Not reports from MSM, but from our TB Braintrust. People talk and we hear it. There is or used to be a thug group that hijacked trucks and resold the items black market. They had a rat to let them know what was in which truck. Felony stop on the highway and it was all over but the crying.
I heard this years ago and have no firsthand knowledge, but it is another concerning angle to all of this.

 

[Shooter]

like others here, oct, is this week, so time to dig into stuff and see what I need for winter, will be easy this year because I stocked so much early this year. probably just extras. and more firewood,

 

[Marseydoats]

Not necessarily - if one can cook from scratch, this sort of arrangement can hold a lot of food! I had a better photo, but I can't find it now. Picture this space full of home canned stuff and dehydrated food.

Added: NOT MINE! I found this photo on the internet. I would never post my stock for op sec reasons.

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This seems to me to be a staged photo because no experienced prepper puts liquids anywhere other than a bottom shelf.
And I agree with Seeker, that mixer is too heavy to be on a top shelf. I put bungie cords around my stores to keep them from falling off the shelves (one of the few ideas I got from Martha Stewart that actually work)

 

[Freeholder]

Covid did a few good things. One of them is that several members of my family have always kept pantries stocked, but never really prepped. Now they are all prepping. So that's on the plus side.

Kathleen

 

[Profit of Doom]

Maybe not, but I'm becoming convinced that a hot war that the US is directly involved in will happen before the end of 2020. This is a "feeling." I have zero inside information.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter why one preps. The important thing is to have some necessary items on hand, arranged neatly, in some easy to access storage.

Even a copy paper box full of canned soup, canned tuna, Wasa crackers, peanut butter, instant coffee or tea is better than nothing!

Remember the iron rations in Alas Babylon?

 

[workhorse]

Wait are you saying that Amazon is using WM as a supply warehouse?

No the opposite they are in direct competition with amazon and are using their brick and mortar stores as warehouses to get products to their customers faster. More likely to get something in 2 days if’s it’s shipped from the same state or just one state away then from a giant warehouse several states away.

 

[intothatgoodnight]

All them Big-Brain McKinsey and Booz MBA Plus consultants are being tossed out of corporate offices if they are talking lean inventory to almost ANYONE out there!!

Yep, the last 20 years of MBA Theory and teaching just got knocked into a cocked hat!

YAY!!!

The IRS tax code (and, perhaps state/local jurisdictional tax codes, too) were partially to blame for JIT inventory control - warehousers were being dinged heavily for stock "just sitting around," and unshipped to final destinations as needed/requested.

Will need to revisit this potential tax issue, too.


intothegoodnight

 

[intothatgoodnight]

And that costs money! The bigger chains wouldn't be spending it, unless they believe there is something in the wind and it's truly necessary. That's good enough for me!

Or, Team Trump (Wharton MBA Grad Student, himself) has sent the appropriate smoke signals to corporate retail America.


intothegoodnight

 

[fish hook]

I am going to disagree. They will be on the outs until it is bonus time. At that point, they will become popular again. What is putting them on the outs right now is the "lean" program can not survive a national shortage / disaster. Give them 6 months and they will be back at it as it is considered "money wasted" to have inventory.

It may be money wasted if they don't.Can't sell it if you don't have it.

 

[Millwright]

It may be money wasted if they don't.Can't sell it if you don't have it.

Right now, it looks like they can sell everything in inventory...and then some.

A little buffer in stock ain't a bad idea.

 

[fish hook]

Right now, it looks like they can sell everything in inventory...and then some.

A little buffer in stock ain't a bad idea.

Locally there is more than needed.I was thinking more along the lines of when there was not anything else.they would want to have enough to keep you coming back to the store looking.People are creatures of habit.There are some habits you don't want them to break.

 

[Millwright]

Locally there is more than needed.I was thinking more along the lines of when there was not anything else.they would want to have enough to keep you coming back to the store looking.People are creatures of habit.There are some habits you don't want them to break.

The shortages seem to be regional.

I don't know what that's about?

 

[fish hook]

Kinda sounds like they may be stocking stuff for the holidays,like hams and turkeys.Could be they are trying to keep things looking normal as long as possible.Certain food is directly connected with the holiday meals,even if there are some shortages on either side of the holiday if that goes as close to normal as possible it would reduce anxiety.If i was interested in keeping the lid on,for a while longer,i would do something like that.

 

[pauldingbabe]

Kinda sounds like they may be stocking stuff for the holidays,like hams and turkeys.Could be they are trying to keep things looking normal as long as possible.Certain food is directly connected with the holiday meals,even if there are some shortages on either side of the holiday if that goes as close to normal as possible it would reduce anxiety.If i was interested in keeping the lid on,for a while longer,i would do something like that.

I've been thinking this for a while.

Who wants to bet wally world will slowly start restocking bikes? Im thinking they pulled them a little before the CoV crazy people cleaned them out. So here comes Christmas! Now they can sell a shit bike that was $99. for $299. And we all want Christmas to be really special awesome this year so people will fork it out.

Sounds crazy but if you were Walmart and knew what they know? Perspective I guess. Some would say crazy smart business move. Some might look at it as fleecing customers. I've seen both.

 

[anna43]

We don't need war with China to topple the dominoes. We have a terrorist war going on NOW in various cities of the country. Antifa is a terrorist group and I believe the President recognizes that we are at war with this group (and satellite co-conspirators) which is why he tried to send the National Guard and federal law enforcement to cities to quell the uprisings. Please recall that the Democratic governors refused to allow this.

China is a problem since we now we have very little manufacturing in the USA so are dependent on China for most everything we need which has left us vulnerable especial for medical supplies and medications. Business is so over regulated and over taxed in this country it isn't surprising that they moved their factories elsewhere.

 

[Millwright]

I don't think wallyworld has the space to store crap for later sales.

Their model is to move product as a fast as possible...volume.

 

[pauldingbabe]

I don't think wallyworld has the space to store crap for later sales.

Their model is to move product as a fast as possible...volume.

not if you know you are not getting re supply. Who knows what walmart, all the storage facilities, etc. know about the future that we have no idea about.

All i know is every bike with in a 100 mile radius of us was sold out by March....it was insanity.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

I don't think wallyworld has the space to store crap for later sales.

Their model is to move product as a fast as possible...volume.

Our local WalMart has so many empty shelves right now that they don’t have to worry about lack of space for future sales - they are too concerned about trying to keep the shelves stocked for present day sales.

 

[Grounded Idealist]

This seems to me to be a staged photo because no experienced prepper puts liquids anywhere other than a bottom shelf.
And I agree with Seeker, that mixer is too heavy to be on a top shelf. I put bungie cords around my stores to keep them from falling off the shelves (one of the few ideas I got from Martha Stewart that actually work)

Guys, you all know this is a staged stock photo from the internet, right? Meemur said so in her post.

 

[cyberiot]

There is a bank of warehouses served by a railroad spur right over my back wall. I will take inventory of how many are vacant and report changes.

As of yesterday, three warehouses occupied, one vacant. Will post changes.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Oh good, this ensures there will be something to steal when the looting begins in earnest November 4.

 

[WalknTrot]

Guys, you all know this is a staged stock photo from the internet, right? Meemur said so in her post.

Yup. Doesn't mean we can't pick it apart though, eh? It's what we do.

And yes, it's most definitely a Martha Stewart-like prop.

 

[Grounded Idealist]

Yup. Doesn't mean we can't pick it apart though, eh? It's what we do.

And yes, it's most definitely a Martha Stewart-like prop.

Ha! I learn more about how this board works every. day.

 

[WalknTrot]

Ha! I learn more about how this board works every. day.

That's why the alphabets like this place. Free analysis of EVERYTHING down to minute detail by a voluntary gaggle of INTJ's.

 

[lonestar09]

These days?

It will go faster than water.

Give the people choice of a case of water vs soda and they take the soda more often than not.

We have seen it here. Soda, wine and beer are gone long before water. Not that water lasts that much longer.

I will disagree. Bottled water was selling out almost continuously for months here. All brands. Beer started to sell out when Mexico shut down the breweries. So beer was flying out the doors here. Soda on the other hand was always fully stocked and hardly sold over the last 6 months. The shopping was like stocking up for a hurricane that lasted six months. This was happening in deep south Texas and probably would includes the whole southern border of the US

 

[20Gauge]

I will disagree. Bottled water was selling out almost continuously for months here. All brands. Beer started to sell out when Mexico shut down the breweries. So beer was flying out the doors here. Soda on the other hand was always fully stocked and hardly sold over the last 6 months. The shopping was like stocking up for a hurricane that lasted six months. This was happening in deep south Texas and probably would includes the whole southern border of the US

We must drink more booze here. Not really surprising.

 

[packyderms_wife]

That's why the alphabets like this place. Free analysis of EVERYTHING down to minute detail by a voluntary gaggle of INTJ's.

You win the internet for the day! Best description of TBK ever!!!

 

[Titan the Green]

We don't need war with China to topple the dominoes. We have a terrorist war going on NOW in various cities of the country. Antifa is a terrorist group and I believe the President recognizes that we are at war with this group (and satellite co-conspirators) ... <snip>

Who do you think one of those co-conspirators is?

 

[Tristan]

Remember the iron rations in Alas Babylon?

Hmm, remind me -