A shopkeeper claims toilet rolls are being sold "as if they are on the black market" during the coronavirus pandemic. Troy Eyaad opened his Prospect 82 mini-market in Hull, on March 16, but never expected his grand unveiling to be amid the backdrop of the national covid-19 crisis.
He claims the only way he has been able to stock toilet rolls in his shop is by getting them from traders “going around in their vans" and selling them at inflated prices.
That, in turn, has driven the cost to his customers up. But the kind-hearted trader refuses to charge vulnerable customers for paracetamol and gives them away for free. "When I first opened, the toilet rolls and medicine had all gone so I went to get some more stuff but the prices had