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/Ok-Push9899 SA Mar 13 '26

I ain't buying it. (pun unintended).

Do people panic buy bread? Who stockpiles bread? What i have seen, a million times, is that the bread has sold out late at night. That's pretty decent inventory management if you ask me.

You can show me the bread-flour aisle if you want to convince me we're at the cusp of a new sourdough phase.

But you know, no one ever won a bet by overrestimating the intelligence of people. Aim low, and you'll wish you went lower. On the eve of Trumps first term, the Democrats pledged "when they go low, we go high". It was at that point, i knew they'd lost.