Panic buying amid crisis at Trader Joe’s
BY TEQUILA MINSKY
Between panic buying and people
working at home — there was a run
on food and supplies at the Trader
Joe’s on Spring Street, usually the tranquil
branch of Trader Joe’s.
They were lined up before the 8 a.m.
opening of Trader Joe’s Thursday morning,
March 12. And by 10:45 a.m. there was a
second wave rush—the moving line, above
15 minutes, with a stop for sanitizer before
entering to shop.
Trader Joe’s wasn’t that crowded once
inside but the line took four turns, past the
soaps and toilet paper, past the samples and
chips, into the bread and through the dairy,
past the meat, turning at the nuts and turning
again into the frozen food department.
In all the line was about a 30 minute wait
to check out.
Canned goods, potatoes, meats and frozen
goods were among those at 4:30 p.m.
not on the shelves or in frozen department
bins at the Spring Street store.
Staff tried to restock as much as they
could amidst the deluge of shoppers and
assured this writer that a delivery comes
Outside the Spring Street Trader Joe’s on Thursday morning.
early in the morning to almost completely
restock the store.
While refi lling a shelf holding potatoes,
one worker said that in the last 10 days
there was an observable increase in shoppers
at this usually calm location, but
“nothing was like today,” she said, explaining
the rows of empty shelves.
The line to pay still snaked around the
store but was half the length as earlier in
the morning.
PHOTOS BY TEQUILA MINSKY
Empty shelves of meats. Stocking up.
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