It’s times like this that give you cause to reflect on life’s essentials. Oxygen, water, salt and toilet paper! It’s the opening day for the first Costco supermarket here in the west of the continent and an hour before opening time the queue already stretches around the building. Of course they have all arrived to purchase one of life’s essentials. No; not the bottled water or salt!
This morning I became somewhat nostalgic about the good old days before COVID-19. Back when all we had to contend with was a parched landscape or raging bush fires.
The owners of a supermarket at one of our smaller regional communities have resolved panic buying problem. Any item purchased in a category (eg, toilet paper, soap, pasta, etc) will be charged at the normal retail price. All second and subsequent items will be charged at $100 each. No one is panic buying in that community. Perhaps the government should adopt the policy nation-wide?
Meanwhile, I’ve been pottering around in the shed making Jan’s vegetable garden stands from bits of scrap wood. The first has been completed and is awaiting painting. That won’t happen until I’ve finished the second stand.
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