NEW DELHI: The availability of daily essential items dropped across online and brick and mortar retail stores in the country in the last two days as state governments took more firm measures to contain the spread of coronavirus (covid-19).
Essential supplies--both online and offline--remained disrupted, with consumers reporting limited availability of daily staples.
According to findings of a survey conducted among 16,000 respondents by online social community platform LocalCircles, the availability of essential items such as wheat, rice, pulses, salt, sugar, etc.
took a hit during 9-10 April, after sustained improvement in supplies. “The 7th survey on this was conducted between April 9 and 10 and shows that after showing steady