Sipsey Street Irregulars: Logistics: Demand still high but supplies are flowing (they just get snapped up quickly). Life among the WalMart "store jumpers."

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Logistics: Demand still high but supplies are flowing (they just get snapped up quickly). Life among the WalMart "store jumpers."

"What the hell are you in such a hurry for, Ernie? They'll only sell you three boxes a day."

"Ammo Out of Stock? Maybe not."

Now that we're down to one car, my daily drive takes me past a number of WalMarts, and I lose little in gas expenditure when I stop by to window shop and gauge the marketplace. The WalMarts around here actually got some .22 Long Rifle in about 48 hours ago, but within 12 - 24 hours, depending upon the store, they were gone. There is a growing band of "store jumpers" who, when they learn that one store received some, go to every store they can easily reach (for some that may mean within a twenty mile radius) to see if any are left at other locations. They see each other at the various locations and smile knowingly. The rationing of 3 boxes per person per day is still on, so it is not entirely a matter of a horse race, winner take all -- hence the smiles.

But one fellow I asked said that he was memorizing when the regular sporting goods counter person would go to lunch and then wait in the parking lot until he could double up on his cull with the relief. He sniffed at my observation that the gas money was probably killing him.

"So?" he replied. "At least I'm getting the ammo." But why .22, I asked? I mean, I could understand combat ammo in 12 Gauge and military and police rifle and pistol calibers but why did he think that .22 Long Rifle was so scarce?

"It's the only thing I can afford to shoot these days," came the answer.

And that's life among the WalMart "store jumpers."

4 comments:

Patrica Henry said...: Hey Mike, congrats to you & David for receiving the "David & Goliath" award from JPFO!; January 31, 2013 at 5:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Ahhhhh, yessss.....

The enemy loves it when you panic! In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see their names on the investors list of the very companies they purport to attack.

Easy money, when you command government actions and have inside information. Easy money when you can cause people to piss their pants, WITH WORDS.; January 31, 2013 at 9:23 AM
WyoThreeper said...: The best thing to do is find out when your store starts to unload its GM (General Merchandise) truck and show up about 45 minutes later; February 1, 2013 at 3:11 AM
Anonymous said...: Hilarious that these "store jumpers" think they're smarter than everybody else - not realizing that they are actually stupid. The smart people were buying ammo quietly and consistently over the last five or ten years and paying fair market price for it. Now with 80k+ rounds in the basement, I couldn't care any less whether or not WalMart EVER gets another load of it.; February 2, 2013 at 12:39 AM

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"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Logistics: Demand still high but supplies are flowing (they just get snapped up quickly). Life among the WalMart "store jumpers."

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