Bulk much?

So, I'm at Costco and the lady next to me has a full cart. I look at the lower shelf of the cart and I see the following:

Which is fine, whatever, we all have to shop sometime.

But in Costco, they sell in bulk. And that box she had contained 144 pads. 144! And she had 3 farkin' boxes!

That's 432 pads. 432! Is she shopping for the year? Has she located a place that uses Ultra Thin Pads as currency? Is she trying to get some sort of Guinness Record for most pads on a person at the same time.

I really wanted to know what the deal was with all of these, so I was about to go up to her and ask "What's the word?" when I remembered, of course, that "The Bird is the word"...