If the level of anxiety can be measured by the length of the lines waiting for Wegmans to open each day, then people are calming down. The line outside my store at 6:30 this morning consisted of just one person, an elderly woman staring resolutely at the door. That doesn’t count a few scattered cars…
Tag: panic buying
Survival shopping
They came. They saw. They bought. And bought and bought and bought. They bought, at times, merely because they could. One woman purchased eight bottles of ranch dressing. A man in his 30s cleaned out our supply of rigatoni. “I haven’t eaten pierogies in 20 years,” another man told me. “But it’s what you had.”…