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I have no idea about this situation or who is right and who is wrong, but I can count. Those are 24 packs of water on which the sign is placed and they don't look substantially larger than a 1/2 liter/16.9 oz bottle. On the other hand, "premium" water such as San Pellegrino, etc. are nearly $20 at the wholesale clubs, so if this particular water is some "premium" water, $22.99 at a local market may well be normal pricing, not price gouging (I don't think any of the "premium" stuff comes from "Budweiser," but I don't know that is doesn't).

I get hoarding TP more than I do hoarding water. What am I missing ?

6x4 is still 24, correct? I’m not seeing the 35 pack they claim to be selling.

@7:06, if you get hoarding TP but not water, you’re not gonna last long during The Purge

I would feel better if the manager addressed the actual sing that clearly says, "$22.99" that sits on 24 packs of 16.9oz Ozarka water. I can only find 15 packs of the 1L bottles.

Now, the Black neighborhood crap, that's even more outrageous.

I was in Ridgeland today and stopped to buy some smokeless tobacco. The cashier was already in a bad mood and was not listening to me tell her what type of tobacco I wanted. When she pulled the wrong one off the shelf and handed it to me to verify it was right, I said "no, I don't want to touch it - thats not it" She immediately took offense and started mumbling nonsense. So when she finally got me the right one..I told her I didn't want to touch it because of the virus.. after I explained myself four times she understood but seemed disappointed she wasn't going to be able to call me a racist or have something to bitch about on facebook.

"I get hoarding TP more than I do hoarding water. What am I missing ?"

FWIW, there have been studies done about this type of thing, even prior to the latest TP/water thing. It really isn't that people think they'll need that much TP or water, it's just that they are large packages and relatively inexpensive (well, assuming normal pricing), so it gives folks in a blind panic some sort of "feelgood" thing to hoard them. There is a lot of joke material potential here, but under the circumstances, I'll refrain. Maybe, just maybe, with all the TP, folks will feel compelled to stay at home and make use of their hoards (ROI on the TP, so to speak), so perhaps there is a positive to it after all.

So called price gouging is not necessarily a bad thing.
Look up the subject and decide for yourself.

Those are cases of 24.
We can clearly count.
Can someone explain?

This isn't a hurricane. Water will continue to flow out of the tap. WTF are people buying/hoarding bottled water?

Oh wait, Jacktown water is suspect. It's like Mexico, i.e. "don't drink the water."

Move along...nothing to see here.

As to Budweiser bottling water at their plants, yes, that's not at all unusual in crisis situations. They've done it before, are doing it now and will do it again.

It's relatively impossible to count all the bottles in those stacks (other than the one immediately under the sign).

I can well-remember back about 1985, or thereabouts, we were all in a frenzy about earthquake insurance in Mississippi and impending doom and I had at least thirty gallon jugs of tap-water in the shed. I might have wound up thirty feet deep under slabs of broken concrete, but I'd have had plenty of water. Toilet paper was not a concern as wiping our asses was not a high priority following an earthquake.

Save your bottles. Boil your city water. Refill your bottles. Stop panicking please.

@7:53am... Nope, it's relatively easy to count the bottles and see that they are 24 packs. What's your point?

@8:37, that requires too much damn work. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Have to ask.

I tried to enlarge the picture to see if it was in fact a water sign. I could get the store name and price but the resolution became to much of a blur to read the other letters.

As an old school retailer, I could not help but notice the old school sign holder. This type was used to place in between boxes and stacks of apparel. Notice the large flat base. Not meant to stand in place as shown.

So did they screw up or did someone just place the sign and snap a pic?

I didn't "hear it" from someone. I was actually in the "old McDades" in Maywood Mart (which by the way is not in a black neighborhood catering to black customers - so your credibility is lost early on) AND in the "Old McDades" - i.e. Jitney 14 - now the Corner Market,

AND I CAN ATTEST that there are no cases of bottled water being sold at any price approaching what this idiot is saying.

There are cases of a few different brands of water, along with the larger bottles as well. And the prices yesterday are basically the same as they were Monday of this week, and the same as Monday a couple of weeks ago.

The one difference is the availability of the lowest price water they carry - Niagara - which has varied from $2.50/case to $2.99/case. But this variance has been occurring since the opening of the Corner Market.

So whatever this idiot FB poster is trying to claim is pure crap.

And - other than being a neighborhood customer (and again, I don't live in a 'black' neighborhood) I have absolutely no connection to either store other than to recognize the people who work there.

AND I regularly buy cases of water from these stores. At least two cases a week.

Probably an old picture being used to stir up racial shit. But then again this is Jackson.

Unless the water Dept has shut off your water for lack of payment, there is NO water shortage. If you want filtered water, buy a Zero or Brita water jug system. It’s easy and a lot cheaper.

1:34 & 5:24:
Both WRONG.

I wrote Corner Market and they did confirm that sign is accurate. Ran outta water, got the larger bottles usually priced almost 2 bucks a pop, multiplied by 24 unit count, place a discount to that total and Voila!

Only at one location and removed shortly thereafter they wrote me.

The Nerd at 9:16 would have to remove his coke-bottle glasses, blow up the screen and get out grandma's magnifying glass to count the number of bottles in all cases but one. THAT's the point.

You need to get out of the house if cabin fever has you so twisted that you wanta argue whether or not the bottle count is accurate.

Anyone who thinks there is a water issue with COVID19 is so ignorant they would have been ripped off anyway in some form.