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Yesterday in Aldi there was just one four pack of 3ply sitting all alone in the middle of a huge empty space of a about 5 pallets. As I walked passed it was an eerie feeling - at first I though something dreadful would happen if anyone picked it up. Why hadn't this one pack been taken already. As I walked past it I looked around - no one looking - so I then casually swept it up and threw it into my trolley - the world did not end - there was no wipe out so to speak!! No one winced or strained in fact. Maybe the great dunny roll crisis is reaching its end. I read somewhere that the warehouses are full of it - just a matter of getting it to the stores, which takes a bit of time.
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(03-07-2020, 06:49 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:I read somewhere that the warehouses are full of it - just a matter of getting it to the stores, which takes a bit of time. Yep.
Stores are upping their deliveries to 3 times a week to cover the crazy demand for the rolled stuff. Its not about supply, its about delivery....and that will soon cease to be an issue.
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(03-07-2020, 06:49 AM)cookie2 date Wrote:I read somewhere that the warehouses are full of it - just a matter of getting it to the stores, which takes a bit of time. The warehouses are bulk tissue stores, our country and New Zealand is full of the stuff, a roll weighs 2000 ~ 3000kg and is 2.4m wide.
It has to be converted to retail rolls via slitting, lamination and rewinding, then packaged and delivered to the stores. A potential problem is that the companies that make the plastic outer wrappers are short on raw material resin supplies that mostly come from mass production in China.
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(03-07-2020, 12:44 AM)Jack Burton link Wrote:Just got home from Woollies down the Bellarine Peninsula, no toilet paper, no tissues, almost no rice left either
Woolies at Curlewis had plenty of dunny roll today ... and no-one was buying it. Either the panic is subsiding or folk have nowhere left to store their stash : 
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(03-09-2020, 10:59 AM)DJC date Wrote:Woolies at Curlewis had plenty of dunny roll today ... and no-one was buying it. Either the panic is subsiding or folk have nowhere left to store their stash : The sun is shining and the grass is green and growing! ;D
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(03-09-2020, 10:59 AM)DJC link Wrote:Woolies at Curlewis had plenty of dunny roll today ... and no-one was buying it. Either the panic is subsiding or folk have nowhere left to store their stash : There's a Woolies at Curlewis now? I need to get out more
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There's entire suburbs that weren't at Curlewis last week. Development on the Bellarine is OOC.
They'll finish the f++++++g bypass eventually. How long to build 3 km of road...three years?
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(03-10-2020, 09:46 AM)Professer E link Wrote:There's entire suburbs that weren't at Curlewis last week. Development on the Bellarine is OOC.
They'll finish the f++++++g bypass eventually. How long to build 3 km of road...three years?
It’s all the additional works that are getting up my goat Prof. I think that they must realise that the secondary roads are substandard when they build bypass intersections. I was working in St Leonards yesterday (another housing development) and the trip down Mooraduc Road took forever :
... And the Jetty Road roundabout is gone today!
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(03-10-2020, 10:16 PM)DJC date Wrote:It’s all the additional works that are getting up my goat Prof. I think that they must realise that the secondary roads are substandard when they build bypass intersections. I was working in St Leonards yesterday (another housing development) and the trip down Moorooduc Road took forever : Don't you mean Murradoc Road, otherwise that is a hell of a circuitous route! ;D
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