Refugees from Roche Bros.
By adamg - 12/19/09 - 10:55 am
It was so crowded at the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury this morning that some people just gave up trying to find a parking space and fled to the Shaw's down the road on Spring Street - and even there parking was tight (God, people were parking as far away as the Finagle-a-Bagel).
"I made three loops around the parking lot before I gave up," one refugee exclaimed in the Shaw's check-out line.
In addition to the usual French Toast fixins, people at both stores seemed to be stocking up on paper towels - shoppers were emerging from both locations with those giant packages filled with enough towels to normally last a month or so.
Comments
should have went early like I did..
It was still bad but real horrible on my way out.
Baby Food
After the Haymarket (bitter down on Blackstone Street), I went to the South Bay Stop & Shop. Its lot was full too and only a couple of carts were free.
The predictable milk and bread hoarding was well underway. The store must have done very nicely in per-customer sales, with carts heaped.
The couple in front of me may have been related to Noah. They had maybe 40 or 50 baby-food containers under the adult food. Then hubby lugged a gigantic bag of dog food from under the cart. Wifey had disappeared and ran up at the end with the mega-size cat-food bag. Every living creature in that house was set.
PANIC!
What do you think would occur in the event of a real catasrophe? Wow. I blame a lot of this on TV weather and the drum beating that they do. It plays on peoples fear and for some unexpained reason everyone has to run out and stock up on groceries.
Visit your local packie and stock up on what's really important!!
Someone mentioned this before...
But If I was locked in my house and couldn't get out, I could probably live for about 2 months with the food I have. If I had a bag of rice I might last 3 or 4 months.
Roche Bros.
As of 8am this morning the place was mobbed. We thought we'd get there early to beat the crazy people (we have dinner guests tonight) but it wasn't early enough.
Same everywhere
I drove by the Dedham Mall - All those people must have gone straight to Toys R Us next -I don't think I've ever seen that lot & the Stop & Shop next door as full.
(That's sort of a normal Saturday at Roche's, luckily the commuter rail lot is a nice big overflow lot on weekends.)
Paper Towel Alert?
Get cracking on the graphic!
Paper Towel Alerts?
All we need is a graphic!