{"id":1981,"date":"2010-06-30T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2010-06-30T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:05:08","slug":"walmart-runs-low-on-stock-as-hurricane-alex-closes-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"WalMart runs low on stock as hurricane Alex closes in [PHOTOS]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had to make a late run to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\">WalMart<\/a> to get some extra oil for the generator and saw the store&#8217;s &#8220;hurricane&#8221; inventory had been depleted.<\/p>\n<p>What was a large shelf of tarps a few days ago was mostly gone.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/4748593507\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Tarps\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4102\/4748593507_561091967f.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Tarps\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Alex - WalMart Tarps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The flashlights? Except for the very expensive sets, they were sold out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/4748593719\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Flashlights\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4080\/4748593719_fa7c9039bc.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Flashlights\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Alex - WalMart Flashlights<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The camping lights were all out and so was all of the propane.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/4748593849\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Camping Lamps\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4095\/4748593849_e4c2c1f9cf.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Camping Lamps\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Alex - WalMart Camping Lamps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And you know things are getting bad when all the Ramen shelves are bare.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/4749234708\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Ramen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4096\/4749234708_1acd170235.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Hurricane Alex - WalMart Ramen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Alex - WalMart Ramen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I was leaving, the night shift workers were pulling palettes of inventory out to re-stock.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, if I was an inventory manager for WalMart and saw there were &#8220;emergency&#8221; items that nobody wanted to buy even in a hurricane situation, I would seriously reconsider keeping the item in stock at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had to make a late run to WalMart to get some extra oil for the generator and saw the store&#8217;s &#8220;hurricane&#8221; inventory had been depleted. 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