Our store entrance is 207 steps from the toilet-paper display. This is a distance of about 158 meters or 173 yards, or almost the length of two 90-yard dashes, which today’s first shopper covered in just 1.3 minutes, only to be met with disappointment. The shelves were bare. His letdown was followed by despair from…
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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.”…