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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy grocery stores are limiting more of your purchases
As coronavirus cases top daily records and city and state lockdowns come into effect, grocery stores are taking new steps to avoid the empty shelves that were the hallmark of the first weeks of the pandemic.
Supermarket chains like Kroger, Publix, and H-E-B have started to limit in-store and online purchases on products such as toilet paper, cleaning supplies and paper towels to reduce stress on supply chains.
What we are trying to do is to make sure that we dont have hoarding," Scott McClelland, president of H-E-B Food and Drug, told NBC News Jo Ling Kent in an interview. One of the things that we found in particular with the recent run on paper goods is that we want to be able to spread it as far as we can, amongst as many shoppers as possible.
Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans are the most recent chains to roll out new purchase limits, updating the ongoing lists of personal care and cleaning supply limits they have each had in place since March. Wegmans added napkins and facial tissues, while Tops added trash bags, freezer bags and paper plates, among other items.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-grocery-stores-are-limiting-more-of-your-purchases/ar-BB1b6neT?li=BBnb7Kz
Don't they know that hunkering down because of pandemics makes one shit more often?
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Last week, they were out of canned carrots and French onion soup. My partner said there wasn't even a place on the shelf for canned carrots anymore. He asked the manager about it, and he said it was COVID related.
jimfields33
(15,768 posts)If a person want to horde, theyll do it.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Freakin' weird.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Home and business. People arent working, so they're using their home bathrooms more.
This was a problem last Spring. Youd think the supply chain would have adjusted by now.