Re: Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise
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Originally Posted by Nabisco007
many of those stores are completely out of rice throughout the country. I thought the limit was two bags but I may be wrong. What I feel bad about is how they showed the food banks and how poor in countries like Indonesia are being affected by this.
the article said the limit was 4-20lb bags.
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Sam's Club declined to say if this is first time it has restricted sales of bulk foods. The limits affect 20-pound bags, not retail-sized portions. Costco President and CEO Jim Sinegal declined to discuss the issue Wednesday with an AP reporter.
Sam's Club said it will limit customers to four bags at a time of imported jasmine, basmati and long grain white rice.
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Re: Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise
ok y'all since my family can't live without rice my mom freaked out a little heh. I accompanied her to the Indian store to help her get the rice. There were a lot of people of different races going there to get rice. The "Buy one get one free" is for the ten lb. bag for at least five brands. We got 4 bags for 42 bucks. Normally you could get for 21.
Re: Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise
My parents got extremely scared, so they bought up 5 bags sometime last week from Sam's Club. My mom called my dad from CT and told him that she couldn't find rice there, so my dad is going to mail a bag to my sister .
Stuff at our local Pakistani grocery has gone up by $2 to $5. WTF are you supposed to do if you're working a minimum wage job or living hand to mouth?!? Alhumdulillah, we're okay, but STILL!? What about the people that aren't ok? I heard on the news that 1 billion people in the world live off of $2 a day. I'm so blessed to have everything that I have, Alhumdulillah x 50.
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Re: Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise
seriously though, i feel bad for people (like my parents) who eat rice daily. i think this would have especially hurt their wallets back when my brothers were teenagers and eating insane amounts of desi food all the time.
it's obviously not just rice and wheat either. our grocery bill, for only 2 people, has been going up and up lately, it's almost $75 per month more than before. alhamduillah though for having food, be it more expensive.
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Re: Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise
i eat rice everyday.
i think it's stupid that they put a limit on the rice cuz all the non-asian people that eat rice twice a year went out and bought 4 bags that are going to sit in their basement.
sam's club and costco should have set up a quota system. 99% of the rice goes to people of asian descent. 1% goes to all others.
Re: Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise
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Originally Posted by slime
i eat rice everyday.
i think it's stupid that they put a limit on the rice cuz all the non-asian people that eat rice twice a year went out and bought 4 bags that are going to sit in their basement.
sam's club and costco should have set up a quota system. 99% of the rice goes to people of asian descent. 1% goes to all others.
also, does this only affect basmati rice?
They put a limit on how much you can buy?!
That sounds insane. What kind of trader would want to do that?
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Re: Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise
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Originally Posted by slime
i eat rice everyday.
i think it's stupid that they put a limit on the rice cuz all the non-asian people that eat rice twice a year went out and bought 4 bags that are going to sit in their basement.
sam's club and costco should have set up a quota system. 99% of the rice goes to people of asian descent. 1% goes to all others.
also, does this only affect basmati rice?
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lol at the non asian people comment
haha yeah i think it's basmati and jasmine rice
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Originally Posted by Jamroll
They put a limit on how much you can buy?!
That sounds insane. What kind of trader would want to do that?
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We went to Sams and they said they don't have any in stock nor are they ordering any more at the moment
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