C3H7OH back in my local store

[Allegheny]

I went shopping at my local grocery store for last minute New Years Eve food and consumable spirits. 
Look what NON-consumable "spirit" showed up on a different aisle! 
C3H7OH - otherwise known a isopropyl alcohol. 
I haven't seen it at my local grocery store since the spring.  Could this be a good sign for 2021?

[Chris333]

It has been in stock at my Walmart for a while now.

[StarCruiser]

Tends to come and go (and go and come) here in Houston...

[peteski]

I just tried to find some 18" wide heavy duty aluminum foil - we now seem to have shortage of aluminum foil around here.  And no SPAM!  What's up with that? Who (besides me, Hawaiians, and some Asians) likes this stuff?!

[wazzou]

I just tried to find some 18" wide heavy duty aluminum foil - we now seem to have shortage of aluminum foil around here.  And no SPAM!  What's up with that? Who (besides me, Hawaiians, and some Asians) likes this stuff?!

It's funny you mention the foil.
I'm a pretty avid BBQ/smoker and I always buy the 2 packs of 18" Reynolds HD foil at Costco.
They had some 12" but no sign of the longer.
I've never, ever seen them out before.

[peteski]

It's funny you mention the foil.
I'm a pretty avid BBQ/smoker and I always buy the 2 packs of 18" Reynolds HD foil at Costco.
They had some 12" but no sign of the longer.
I've never, ever seen them out before.

Crazy, isn't it!?   I can see TP or Lysol shortages, but aluminum foil?  It is not like aluminum is being redirected to make aircraft for the war effort  . . .    There is probably an (il)logical explanation for this.

[C855B]

Lots of holiday-related cooking calls for aluminum foil. With so many more cooking at home, well, you know...

[Chris333]

There is probably an (il)logical explanation for this.

Well now everyone is making hats out of it 

[StarCruiser]

Gotta protect your brain (assuming you have one) from those evil 5G mind-control rays the lizard people are beaming at us!! 

[x600]

Well now everyone is making hats out of it 

It's the only way I can get my WIFI to work for my zoom meetings   

Greg O.

(Happy 2021)

[nkalanaga]

Peteski:  Mom and I, and several of our friends, like Spam.  The Knock-offs, like Treet, no.

We always have several cans in the cupboard.  Not only is it good for sandwiches, and for cooking, but it's great survival food.  It keeps almost forever, and can be eaten cold in a power outage.

[ednadolski]

Still looking for 91%.....

Ed

[peteski]

Still looking for 91%.....

Ed

Adding distilled water to 99% will make it 91% (or any other percentage you want).  Wasn't that discussed in another thread a while back?  Or you can't find the 99% version either?

[ednadolski]

Or you can't find the 99% version either?

you can find any of it, if you're willing to order online and pay the current prices.

Ed

[peteski]

you can find any of it, if you're willing to order online and pay the current prices.

Ed

I guess deliveries are spotty (or merchants are getting creative). One small grocery store in my area is selling a gallon of 100% IPA. Labels on the bottles indicate that it is bottled by a health spas supply company.  I don't remember the price, but it didn't seem to outrageous (maybe around $20).  The 100% spec seems a bit optimistic, since even the industrial stuff in hardware stores is only 99%.  BTW, my hardware store does have 99% IPA in gallon tins, but IIRC, it cost more than $20 (again, don't remember the exact price).

And to address the aluminum foil problem I mentioned earlier, I found some Reynolds 18" Heavy Duty foil in Hanaford supermarket in Manchester, NH.  The seemed to have several packages of that (and other foils) in stock.