PHILADELPHIA - Early pandemic panic buying seems to be heating up at area grocery stores. If you’ve been to the supermarket these days chances are you haveseen shelves picked clean like a day before a snowstorm.
Shopper Tim Olson is like many shoppers these days noticing shortages from pet food to energy drinks."Paper towels and a number of normal things we usually get are not there.
There’s lots of stuff that’s limited. We actually tried to buy a car yesterday and car inventory is way down," says Tim Olson, of Ardmore.Giant grocery stores have begun posting signs informing customers of limits on toilet paper and paper towels.