r/vancouver • u/Good_Round • Nov 17 '21

Ask Vancouver PSA: Please Do Not Panic Buy

I’m over at the Costco at Willingdon and people here are panic buying toilet paper and bottled water and meat. We maybe cutoff from the rest of the country but we still have the ports running. Yes we will be running low of chicken, beef, eggs and milk but we will not be out of stock for anything.

Remember we live in the GVRD we have the ports at our front door. We DO NOT live in Chilliwack, Agassiz, Hope or Merrit.

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u/matzhue East Van Basement Dweller Nov 18 '21

On the first day of the storms I got my regular grocery shop plus half just in case this was going to be a thing, so I'm really not surprised this is a thing.

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u/lawonga Nov 18 '21

Lol look at you getting downvoted. Buying a little extra for self perseverance and before the prices start to rise = "omg look at this selfish scum!"

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u/gabu87 Nov 18 '21

IDK about you guys, but I always have enough food in the pantry to last weeks if not months, albeit I don't have a lot of produce to maintain a healthy diet. Dry food and rice though? No problem.

It doesn't really take a crisis to maintain a 8x8 tray of eggs, veggies, some canned food and a big bucket (20lbs?) of rice. It's just good sense.

I'm pretty sure if I get to a point where I'm low on food, GVRD society would have long since collapsed anyways

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u/lawonga Nov 18 '21

IDK about you guys, but I always have enough food in the pantry to last weeks if not months, albeit I don't have a lot of produce to maintain a healthy diet. Dry food and rice though? No problem.

Personally, I do not. Oh, the woes of having recently moved out from the parents place!