So, where are all the wipes/hand sanitizers?

Almost empty bottle of hand sanitizer in my car. 3 pack of small containers of Clorox wipes, one opened to wipe down 2 received boxes. That's it.

According to my friend whose wife works in a supermarket, they aren't getting much of high-demand items in their shipments to begin with, and even with buying limits, the products are gone from the shelves almost as soon as they're stocked. People line up outside the store before it opens in the morning, and the first group of people in the door goes straight to those items and takes their limit. It continues like that until all of the high-demand items are gone.

Probably some assholes hoarding and re-selling on eBay and Amazon.

I was Kroger senior shopping when it opened this morning. They had the small canisters of clorox wipes, toilet paper, paper towels, kleenex, bottled water and antibactirial spray - maybe lysol brand?

I bought 3 wipes and one spray.

I have been to several places this week looking for hand sanitizer. Any size. Nada. I am kicking myself b/c I logged into Bath & Body Works Friday morning. I was at work so I didn't complete it. There was a pack of 5 travel size for $8. Got home and they were sold out. Can't find any disinfectant wipes anywhere either.

Right now I'm grateful for my crappy memory thinking I was almost out of wipes and bought more a while back. Now I have enough wipes for the time being but my memory was wrong. I'm almost out of garbage bags.

Back when this board was talking about TP, hand sanitizer and soap outages, I grabbed a package of TP and a bottle of sanitizer before they started running out. Yay!

Now I have to remember garbage bags the next time I venture out.

I had a stash of 70% alcohol that DH needed for something in his shop but didn’t get around to using. I don’t have any hand sanitizer, but I add the alcohol to a ziplock sandwich bag along with a folded paper towel—instant alcohol wipe for my purse.

I have two containers of wipes here at home that I’ve had for a long time because before this I almost never used them. In fact, one of the containers I got for free from the Amazon Treasure Truck when they were having a Seventh Generation promotion.

If I run out here I’ll make a run for our lake cabin an hour away because I know there is a five pack of Clorox wipes there that we bought at Costco. We bought them last summer when the neighbor’s grandkid basically started off a chain reaction stomach illness that went through about 15 people in four days. We were going to give every family there a container of them as a joke but then never did, so the whole five pack is still sitting there. In case of emergency, LOL.

And Costco to the rescue with the hand sanitizer too. Last spring or summer when they were opening the Costco Business Center in our area, they had someone giving out small bottles of it to everybody in the store. They gave me one and also DD who was with me. Then when we forgot something and had to go to the back of the store and came past her again, she reached out to give us another and we said thanks but you already got us earlier, and she said “Here, just take some more and give them to somebody else if you can’t use them.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Okay then, we took them! Good thing too because now we can’t find any anywhere and that’s what we’re using.

On a related note, when we were school shopping last summer DD insisted on getting her own big bottle of sanitizer to keep in her locker. I was surprised that it wasn’t on the supply list like it usually is, so I bought her some. Now we got the email that we are to go to school next week to pick up all her stuff that was left in her locker and also the supplies she had in the classroom, etc. She commented, “I hope nobody steals my big bottle of hand sanitizer that I had in my locker!” 

My DD was at Costco on Friday at 5pm and there was wipes and toilet paper still. They had a limit of one both. Northern Alberta.

Do you know how to report on Amazon? I haven’t been able to figure it out and I see price gouging fairly often.

Another one I just reported:
www.ebay.com/itm/Wipes-2-Pack-150-Total-BRAND-NEW/392744638494?hash=item5b7167981e:g:mkoAAOSw6v1egeja

I have reported 3 listings in 5 minutes. All over $50, all for single or double container of wipes.

It was reported and the Tennessee Attorney General's office got involved.  All products were donated in state of TN. 

OMG, and to think I actually just GAVE an elderly neighbor a canister for FREE today! Whatever was I thinking??? I could have funded my kids' college!




On a serious note, I've had very occasional sightings of wipes but haven't been out too much. I've not seen any hand sanitizer since before this all started - ironically, my grocery store happened to have a display with a bunch of it and I picked up one bottle of it just because. It's in my car, tempting break ins, I suppose, since I just use it if I've been out.