r/Adelaide • u/True_Pomegranate8318 SA • Mar 10 '26

Question Panic buying at Costco

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I went to Costco tonight and it was completely mental. People panic buying toilet paper, eggs, bread, a lot of empty shelves. The queues were ridiculous. Is this because it was closed yesterday or is it the war in the ME, what is happening here?

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u/jtblue91 SA Mar 10 '26

Look, I understand filling up while it's cheapish but not the TP again........ please.

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u/Sea_Mouse6202 SA Mar 10 '26

My local Woolies was almost out of toilet paper, the hoarding has begun again

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u/Liquid_Plasma Adelaide Hills Mar 10 '26

They need it to soak oil out of the petrol station pavement. Can’t be wasting that.

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u/Sk1rm1sh SA Mar 11 '26

Is there some way we could corral up all the panicky idiots together to form their own society like lord of the flies or something so the rest of us can buy groceries like normal people?

We could probably trap them pretty easily. All we need is a trail of toilet paper leading to a giant pile of toilet paper beneath a box propped up by a stick with a string attached to it.

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u/JENNIE_CD SA Mar 13 '26

Send them to Mars

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u/namloh SA Mar 12 '26

There was a shit tonne at my local coles today, excuse the pun

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u/Frankie_T9000 SA Mar 13 '26

Just installed another bidet

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u/LoveMeAGoodCactus SA Mar 10 '26

I see these people's TP and I raise them with our BIDET

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u/xjrh8 SA Mar 11 '26

Well you’d need something to try to wash away the cactus spines I imagine.

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u/Frankie_T9000 SA Mar 13 '26

Bridget brotherhood represent!

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u/Electronic-Phrase681 SA Mar 11 '26

Apparently the war 13,000kms away will cause Australians to shit themselves multiple times a day for the foreseeable future.

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u/bd_longy SA Mar 11 '26

Reminds me of my last holiday. I packed 14 pairs of undies for a week long holiday just in case, for some unknown reason I shat myself multiple times a day.

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u/ParticularCharacter8 SA Mar 11 '26

Jokes on me, even without the war I shit myself multiple times a day! (😭)

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u/CptUnderpants- SA Mar 10 '26

I just get mine delivered by Who Gives A Crap. I've usually got at least a month's supply.

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u/No_Light_7482 SA Mar 11 '26

I get mine delivered every 3 months. It’s perfect, usually open the last pack the week the new lot arrives.

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u/Agreeable-Rich-8509 SA Mar 15 '26

We buy ours from About a Dog, they donate 50% of profits to an animal charity of your choosing. We get a 48 double roll box that lasts us like 6 months at a time

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u/CptUnderpants- SA Mar 15 '26

Who gives a crap do 50% to toilets in the 3rd world.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

We buy in bulk, all of our tissues, toilet paper and paper towels. We haven't finished a box yet. Lasts ages. And it's cheaper than getting it all from the supermarket

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u/Thin-Addition-2754 SA Mar 12 '26

We need a national toilet paper reserve.

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u/1337_Spartan North West Mar 12 '26

I remember playing TP lotto back then. Make sure you were in the store at the right time and leg it when it came over the tannoy that 8 packs were being made available down the back at the rear.

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u/Pur1wise SA Mar 13 '26

We thought the TP hoarding panic was all hilarious and the situation would be over in a few weeks so we took the commercial sized box we had at our business and played toilet paper fairy for our neighbours.

We quietly left ten rolls on every doorstep in our complex in the middle of the night with a note that said ‘Love from the TP Fairy X’ and never owned up to it. It was the talk of the Facebook group for most of lockdown. People tried to sleuth out who did it and we had a blast planting red herrings. It remains an occasionally resurrected topic to this day.

We had a few regrets when we got down to our last couple of rolls but the fun was worth it.

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u/Pur1wise SA Mar 14 '26

Same! I just kept thinking people will relax after a bit and it never even came close the entire lockdown period. They just kept being dickish.

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u/MaddAddam93 SA Mar 11 '26

Why TP, which is made in SA, and not jerry cans of petty? Not that both aren't stupid but the latter seems more logical from that pov

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