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"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:32:53 +0100, S Viemeister wrote:
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>> I haven't been able to get bread flour for the past month and a half,
>> but I did manage to snag a 10 kilo sack of chapati flour, which I had
>> never used before.

>
> Flour and TP is about the only thing the stores have been running
> short of anymore. I discovered last week that you have to get there
> before noon. I was able to get one of the last two sacks of flour
> and even the last 3-pack of dry yeast (fell down into the display
> box where nobody could see it).
>
> Of course I don't NEED either of them. I just wanted to get them
> before somebody else did. Isn't that how this works?


I've been doing the same. Have plenty of TP now and also a portable bidet.
Need more paper towels though.

Much of the frozen foods were sold out at Walmart but that seems typical for
them.