Grocery stores have a pretty specific
set up when it comes to how they arrange their shelves. If you look at the beer
case, you start out with the cheapest beer on one end, the brands like Pabst
Blue Ribbon and Milwaukee’s Best. Then the further you walk down the beer case,
the more expensive the beers become until you top out at the King of Beers,
Budweiser.
Now, some generics are just as good as
the name brand stuff. Blindfolded, you may not be able to tell the difference.
I have had some generic Raisin Bran that was the equivalent of cardboard and
rubber nuggets but name brand products rarely disappoint. Since this whole
thing started, we have been using all kinds of the good stuff. Someone made a
joke that it was a good thing that our store manager went out quick because he
would have been keeping a running tab on all of us to pay the company back.
Either that or he would have been charging zombies’ on their credit cards.
“Would you like paper or plastic for your brains, sir?” Too soon?
For instance, the girls went absolutely
crazy about the shampoo and conditioner. I shave my head so I don’t really get
it but even back when I had hair I was buying the cheap stuff. Explain to me
how one bottle of shampoo can cost $10.00 and another just costs 98-cents?
Well, whatever is in those fancy bottles, the girls cannot get enough of it.
The nice razors, the top end shaving cream, and all of those kinds of things,
they were picked up first.
Yes we have indulged when it comes to
certain things. I love cashews but those things are freaking expensive. Pistachios
out of the shell? Ugg. Those things were never in my price range.
It is not all fillet mignon and Royal
Crown cola. We have all been eating on the frozen TV dinners and such for fear
of the power going out and all of it going to waste. There are times where I
never want to see Hungry Man on the menu again but we have to anticipate an
eventual power outage and the generators cannot power several hundred feet of
refrigeration.
But there is that one area that I
refused to compromise on… ever. You all know what I am talking about. There was
no way I would stoop to using generics when it comes to toilet paper. We did a
count and we had enough TP to give everyone one roll a week for a year on an
endcap display that we had up that week. So just using the Cottonelle from the
end cap, we have more than enough and we aren’t even cutting into the stuff
that is on the shelf or the back stock.
So that end is covered. (I will wait a
minute for that pun to set in.)
I guess there is a mentality that if
we use all the high end stuff, as it runs out, the rougher life might get. And
that is a valid point. But I will submit to you that we could be dead tomorrow.
The levee breaks, zoms come flooding
in and that is all she wrote. So we might as well use the good stuff now. I
don’t hear anyone complaining and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it… Oh don’t
look at me like that. If you were here, you would be doing the exact same
thing…
