I can't find them either. Fortunately I bought three pairs last year but I'm going to run out soon. The only ones I've seen were mediums not large sized :(

For several months, there has been a pandemic, a world wide disease that can kill. This has caused a shortage is many “household” things. Those things have been redirected to first responders/medical service providers.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/O-cedar-Playtex-Living-Combo-Pack-Medium/641091619

My fave as well, and Walmart here has been out for over a month. I got some other ones at Publix - possibly the OCedar linked above. They're comparable.

All the others just don't compare.

I always wind up making a hole in the right one first, so in a pinch, I've turned 1 left glove inside out and made a pair that way.

Playtex are good, no doubt. Currently I'm using "Mr Clean Duet, Natural Latex Gloves, Cotton flock lining, Embossed palm grip". Quite good quality. Purchased at either Krogers or at Martins (related to Giant), I don't remember which.

My hands would be raw and bleeding if I didn't protect them with rubber gloves when doing dishes or wet household chores.

Jim Mat (or anyone), are these sorts of gloves used medically? I honestly don't know.

Jim Mat, they are talking about the kind of gloves you wear to clean your dishes and such, not medical gloves at all...maybe the janitor would wear them in the hospital, certainly not the medical workers!

I bought those at Walmart a couple months ago, I have not looked since because I have them. You can always use dollar tree type but plan on replacing them often, but they do serve the same purpose. Glad to know the Mr Clean ones are good quality too! Thanks!

Re med use...glove manufacturers have changed production, consumer hoarding, and lack of supplies, first responders did buy and use consumer items.

For weeks, my local stores did not have food/toilet paper/bottled water/canned and dried foods because of hoarding, my local stores do not have wipes, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol. Hand sanitizer is 2x the price of last year.

Price of disposable gloves is 4x, if you can find them.

Armed conflicts have affected the price and availability of many consumer products, building products for example to build military bases in the Middle East.

Maybe, I am responding with the reason, and you are complaining?

The US has lost more people to Covid, than combatants in the previous Wars, there were shortages during those wars.

If paying a premium for gloves is your hardship, maybe think of those on the front lines who need gloves to prevent infection.

Lowe's of all places might have them. After searching on line for Lysol type wipes I finally found some at Lowes. Most of them were hand sanitizer wipes but there was one for surfaces. I almost bought two but didn't want to hoard. I didn't notice if they had rubber gloves but I wasn't looking either. They had a pretty good supply of household cleaners and hand sanitizers though.

Oh, now I get it -- thanks for the clarification, Jim Mat. It makes sense that manufacturers might have shifted their production away from household use products, to medical use products -- and that could help explain our shortages. I thought you meant hospital workers were using the same gloves for operations that I use for washing dishes, which really didn't sound right, lol. All of us here (as far as I can tell!) support the prioritization of resources to our health care workers!

Jim Mat - so wrong

US Covid deaths to date = 231,477

US War deaths, Civil war only = 620,000

Not even close, stop scaremongering

Foreign Wars...

There is a shortage caused by Covid.

Some people consider those 231,477+ as being of no importance no one will ever be able to convince them. I do not want to even try to understand how they are simply cheering the deaths.

Ugh - trying to belittle the loss of 230K+ souls - really? And more to come.

It's not a competition.

FWIW, manufacturing of so many products has been impacted in a number of ways: shutdowns, and workers getting sick are just a couple.

Jim Mat, a pandemic, really? Is that why I have been mostly confined to my house since late winter, wearing a mask every time I do go out, dealing with shortages, listening every day to our governor Cuomo to under stand what is really, honestly, going on in our state and the country, watching the horrific national counts daily escalating?

I never said it was a completion, just correcting a fallacy. Heart disease & cancer each kill more people per year that covid.

The US has lost more people to Covid, than combatants in the previous Wars, there were shortages during those wars.

Jim, besides the Civil War, over 400,000 American servicemen died during WWII. That is just US military deaths--the total WWII toll, military & civilian, is estimated to have been 70-85 million.

Ugh - trying to belittle the loss of 230K+ souls - really?

I didn't see it that way, Carol. I saw it as correcting a Big Whopper.

How do you see the deliberate understatement of US military war dead?

Re US Military deaths, I was wrong. The amount of military deaths is much greater than inception to date US Covid deaths.

I've missed Hot Topics!

good lord, does this have to turn into an argument about covid?

dish gloves may be in short supply because people are doing a ton more cleaning than usual. a Lowe's employee told me my favorite gloves are not being redirected to health care workers. they're just having a hard time keeping them in stock right now.

wantoretire_did these are my favorites, if you're still looking. very washable (they don't have the fuzzy lining), sturdy, and not made of latex: https://www.lowes.com/pd/3M-Large-Nitrile-Cleaning-Gloves/3451206

You might check at Dollar General for the gloves. You never know....

ILoveMod, I love those nitrile gloves! I always have a pair in the garage, I have no idea why I don't use them for dish washing and cleaning...DUH! HAHA! I use them for pulling weeds because they are water proof and strong enough that they don't tear!

We bought rubber gloves at Aldi recently. I really like the ones at Sally Beauty Supply. They are thicker than most

My grocery store had them last week.

My reaction was to the 'scaremongering' line, which doesn't jibe with being a simple correction.

And I can see the shortage being due to increased cleaning - not just at home, but in places of business & institutions too

I definitely saw them at Walmart yesterday.

I use the playtex dishwashing gloves. I usually get them at Wal Mart, but yes lately have been out a lot. I buy back up ones at the the dollar store.

WHERE IS this OP? Anyone know?

I am guessing there was a "spam resurrection" which has since been deleted.

Anyway remember back when in the height of the pandemic we couldn't find normal things?

Pshew! glad that things are returning to normal. ( but still picking up extra toilet paper because you know.....).... :)

Stores in my area are deeply discounting packets of sanitizing wipes.

I had a bulk package from Costco that I hadn't gone through yet so hadn't been looking. I hand wash my cookware.

I'm not out, but find it may make little difference with as many times a day as I've washed my hands in the last year. They are dry, am keeping nails short and unpolished ;0) I've got a big supply of the nitrile and have been slipping on a pair when cleaning bathrooms, floors, pretreating masks before the washing machine (that darned lip gloss)....but otherwise have kind of given up on protecting my hands for now. It's not like I'm shaking hands with strangers who would recoil at a hand not baby smooth and soft ;0)

ETA Good Grief. This post was 6 months old? I didn't notice.