"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:38:46 -0500, Ema Nymton wrote:
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>> In Walmart, I noticed a large display, near the cash registers, of a
>> 12-Day Emergency Food Survival Kit. It guarantees you 2,063 per day, and
>> it was $68. I assume this is for one person. I wonder who would buy this?
>
> Plenty of people would buy those. At one time they sold a 55gal drum
> at CoctCo full of a variety of freeze dried food. I think it cost
> about $200. It might have been pre Y2K.

Costco still sells emergency food and they even sell shelving type
dispensers for them.