Covid-19 Shortages

[Ramsker]

The change thing seems legit I've seen signs at Chick-Fil-A and my son works at a restaurant chain. . . they've been buying my wife's hoarded change recently.

[SideShow Bob]

Albuterol is being rationed at military hospitals. It is an inhaler for breathing problems. I saw cheap sliced bread shelf in local Walmart was bare around 1st of month. Mask prices are outrageous, but plentiful now. I figure second wave is coming, since that is the reports from western Europe. Supposedly 75% of Utah ICU beds are occupied with COVID-19. I would recommend stocking up on benadryl, tylenol & iburofen before winter hits with snow. I went through 40 bottles of cough syrup since Feb.

Getting high on cough syrup to escape reality is not the answer......

[SideShow Bob]

Its the same here in the Springs. Can't find Ramen at Wal-Mart or King Soopers near me. My teenager may starve :-)

Ramen, the poor man?s MRE, will keep for years, and only need hot water to prepare it...

[Aloha_Shooter]

Its the same here in the Springs. Can't find Ramen at Wal-Mart or King Soopers near me. My teenager may starve :-)

Tons of ramen available at the commissary or the Asia-Pacific Mart at Platte and Wooten. Of course, the Asia-Pacific Mart tends to be a little more expensive but it's also better grade ramen/ramyun/mein/udon/etc.

[brutal]

Thank your lucky star that you couldn't get LG. After the disastrously mess of warranty repair that I am still in the middle of with LG, I will NEVER buy another LG appliance again. Our LG fridge picked a bad time to quit with the appliance shortage, getting ours repaired was the best option, but LG couldn't seem to get their "authorization letter" sent to MR. Appliance so that they could even order the parts. After 6 weeks of empty promises from LG, I finally told Mr. Appliance to come fix it. Now I'm going on a month waiting for LG to refund us for the parts that were covered under warranty. A fickin' mess....LG NO MORE!!!

My LG fridge quit. Stupid Linear compressor that was supposed to be more efficient died. They're failing all over the place due to a design problem, but the replacements have the same problem. They replace the parts under warranty but the repair was going to cost me $600 in labor with no assurance it wouldn't happen again. Bought a Whirlpool fridge instead for $1200 that was made here in the US and we couldn't be happier.

LG and Samsung used to be top notch, but I won't buy them again.

How old were these?

Ours is going on 2 years and still seems OK. Repair guy I talked to before buying said the new compressor redesign wasn't seeing the same failure rate the old one did. Same guy said pass on Samsung as they can't get parts.

I don't usually get them, but got a 5 year extra warranty from HD when we bought the fridge. Then LG extended the compressor warranty (parts only?) to 10 years. DW has been repaired twice now. Faulty (redesigned) door latch/sensor, and failed water tube to upper deck. Range repaired once for a broken (plastic) oven knob shaft.

Our 20 year old Kenmore/Whirlpool is still doing duty as the beer fridge.

[BushMasterBoy]

Getting high on cough syrup to escape reality is not the answer......

Only way to stop coughing. The albuterol and tessalon perles helped too. You don't get high off of tussin.

[MrPrena]

1 to 2 year older prepaid phones.
Difficult to find.

[TRnCO]

How old were these?

Ours is going on 2 years and still seems OK. Repair guy I talked to before buying said the new compressor redesign wasn't seeing the same failure rate the old one did. Same guy said pass on Samsung as they can't get parts.

I don't usually get them, but got a 5 year extra warranty from HD when we bought the fridge. Then LG extended the compressor warranty (parts only?) to 10 years. DW has been repaired twice now. Faulty (redesigned) door latch/sensor, and failed water tube to upper deck. Range repaired once for a broken (plastic) oven knob shaft.

Our 20 year old Kenmore/Whirlpool is still doing duty as the beer fridge.

Our fridge was coming up on 6 years, and yes it had the "Linear" compressor that the owner of Mr. Appliance described as being "nothing more than good as a boat anchor." The newer compressor isn't the same compressor as it's a known issue for LG. We had to buy a new PCB/power control board also and apparently this new system runs on a variable speed control and ramps up and down, instead of OFF or ON. Time will tell if it lasts any longer.
One of my wife's close girl friends also had her LG fridge quit at about the same time ours did, also with the Linear compressor. Weird thing is she got warranty service completed in less then 2 weeks, where we couldn't even get an "authorization letter" from LG so that Mr. Appliance could order the parts.

[clodhopper]

On our road trip from Denver to Washington Fri. & Sat., came across a McD's that had a sign asking folks to use credit rather than cash due to a lack of coins to make change. I think it was in UT or ID.

The Arby's at Kipling and 470 has a sign at the drive-thru window that requests exact change or credit card.

You guys are no better. "I saw some signs.. must be true." Did you take the time to talk with someone about it? Ask the manager maybe? I have where ever I can and no one seems to have an answer beyond "that is what we were told, but we still have plenty of change".

The change thing seems legit I've seen signs at Chick-Fil-A and my son works at a restaurant chain. . . they've been buying my wife's hoarded change recently.

That may be the first real example of a coin shortage I have heard.



Having the mint shut down for awhile is the only reason that connects to a coin shortage. The excuse that people have been staying home is reducing the transfer of change doesn't click for me. Maybe someone else can help me understand this. If the majority of people were to suddenly reduce their purchases, pay mostly be credit to avoid handling diseased money, … this should result in coins languishing from non-use, essentially a reduction in the coin requests for businesses, as no one was using them. Not a shortage.

[kidicarus13]

You guys are no better. "I saw some signs.. must be true." Did you take the time to talk with someone about it? Ask the manager maybe? I have where ever I can and no one seems to have an answer beyond "that is what we were told, but we still have plenty of change".

I couldn't care less if this is an actual or contrived shortage, just get me my roast beef sandwich and throw some Arby's sauce in the bag please.