Wal-Mart's Sam's Club limiting rice purchases

[Modelworks]

When you go grocery shopping and a parent keeps the 3 year old in the cart with a baseball bat, its time to worry

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: RightIsWrong
Remember me?

If not, we might be meeting in the very near future if things continue the way that they are going.

Yeah, and don't forget Victory gardens too.

Sow the seeds of Victory

Those will never happen. It's unconstitutional to make the American people sacrifice for Bush's war...

 

[Socio]

Originally posted by: Dari
Add your own insightful comment.

With that said, I'm surprised that this is happening in America.

Not me, if the oil companies can price gouge at the pump and get away with it you know other industries like the food industry would sure to follow suit. Especially with the new Bio fuel trend using crops to make fuel, it will be nothing more than excuse for the food industry to start claiming shortages because of it then crank up prices.

 

[beyoku]

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: maddogchen

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: maddogchen

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Dari
Add your own insightful comment.

With that said, I'm surprised that this is happening in America.

considering we don't grow the rice here im not shocked. ohh and think t his is a repost.

what you mean we don't grow rice here?

Rice grown here is sold here.
that we import far more then we use? that other countries halting exports is what is hurting?

if we import far more than we use then we have a surplus. And if other countries halt exports then our surplus grows smaller.

But you're overlooking the fact that the US makes more rice than we use and we export a lot of rice too. So how come rice prices are jumping so high here in the US if we use less rice than we both import and make??

You're making the false presumption that rice produced in the U.S. is sold in the U.S.

 

[ultra laser]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Oh Noes, Soylent Green is coming soon to a dining table near you!!!!!

The Ted Turner prophecies will indeed come true.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
so is anyone here hoarding food?

I've to admit, I just sent the mrs on her trip and told her to buy a lot extra. With inflation where it is and food costs on the rise, even if end-times don't draw near, frankly it's a better investment than my ING savings account anyway, since she only over-bought things we normally eat.

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
so is anyone here hoarding food?

No.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I'm not hoarding food, but I might finally buy a firearm.

 

[maddogchen]

Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
I'm not hoarding food, but I might finally buy a firearm.

so you can join the rampaging, hungry mobs attacking the food hoarders eh? :laugh:

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: BoomerD


I was at Costco Monday evening, and they're now limiting rice to three bags per customer too.

how big is 1 bag?

 

[ranmaniac]

Originally posted by: StormRider
Maybe I'll finally be able to lose some weight and women will find me slightly more attractive as a result...

lol, it's a shortage of rice, not Big Macs.

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: BoomerD


I was at Costco Monday evening, and they're now limiting rice to three bags per customer too.

how big is 1 bag?

Depends. The Basmati rice is 10lbs, the Carolinas long grain is 25 lbs, the jasmine rice is 25lbs, and they have a 50lb and 100lb bags too.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: maddogchen
so is anyone here hoarding food?

I had the #5 combo from Taco Bueno for lunch. Does that count?

You can only hoard that for a couple of hours at most.

 

[ericlp]

I just well, I have a 50 lbs bag of jasmin but I was thinking of feeding it to the birds since......... I hear that white rice is bad for you. Bleached rice with the husk stripped off and must the good shit is in the husk ...reason why you should be eating brown rice anyway!

Hey for all you people that still have your Y2K buckets of food! Why not start eating that? Sheesh, epople will get worked up over the craziest crap!

Were all gonna die! Help us!!!!!

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: BoomerD


I was at Costco Monday evening, and they're now limiting rice to three bags per customer too.

how big is 1 bag?

I don't know. The sign was at the check-out...but I'm sure it was "Costco-Sized."

 

[ericlp]

1 bag at costco is 50Lbs. The bag I picked up a few months ago. That shit will last a very long time unless you eat it every day....

PANIC!

I am pretty sure if we ran out of rice you could still buy potatoes!

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: ericlp
1 bag at costco is 50Lbs. The bag I picked up a few months ago. That shit will last a very long time unless you eat it every day....

PANIC!

I am pretty sure if we ran out of rice you could still buy potatoes!

50 lbs of rice would last me a decade, i asked cause i was curious never been in a costco. also how often are people buying 150 lbs of rice?

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
so is anyone here hoarding food?

Not yet, but I'm thinking about heading down to Costco to get another bag of jasmine rice.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Oh Noes, Soylent Green is coming soon to a dining table near you!!!!!

"First they came for the cats, but your average cat only has about one pound's worth of meat on it and cats are really only good for making cat meatballs for hot pot soup anyway and the people quickly devoured the world's cat supply. Then, after the oil-exhausted world's 12 million people became real hungry..."

 

[Pneumothorax]

Originally posted by: RightIsWrong
Remember me?

If not, we might be meeting in the very near future if things continue the way that they are going.

You just found the cure for America's Obesity Epidemic. LOLz.

Obese person to sales clerk: "What do you mean I'm out of my Twinkie credits?! I'll buy yours for 10 credits on the dollar!"

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: ericlp
1 bag at costco is 50Lbs. The bag I picked up a few months ago. That shit will last a very long time unless you eat it every day....

PANIC!

I am pretty sure if we ran out of rice you could still buy potatoes!

I eat it every day and it still lasts for a hell of a long time. One cup is enough for like 3 days of eating

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

I eat it every day and it still lasts for a hell of a long time. One cup is enough for like 3 days of eating

One cup of uncooked rice is enough for one plate or bowl of stir fry! I bet you're a very petite lady of around 100 lbs?

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm wondering if I should max my CC out and buy six month's worth of food ????????? DAMNITTTTTTT!

 

[BoomerD]

Jeezus...a 50 lb. bag of rice would last me 3 lifetimes! (and probably still have some left over!)

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Great, instead of just letting it run out, they can help the hysteria. When I read sh*t like this, I wonder what others will do and feel half inclined to leave work, hit up the grocer, and buy 6 months of cooking oil, salt, sugar, oatmeal, and canned vegetables.

My thoughts exactly. :thumbsup:

What's next...a run on flour and vegetable oil? :laugh: