By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-03 21:21:29 | Updated at 2024-10-03 23:18:14
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VIDEO: ‘Panic Buying’ Ensues as 45,000 U.S. Port Workers Go On Strike
Breitbart ^ | 10/03/202 | Amy Furr
Posted on 10/03/2024 2:18:31 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Shoppers are ‘panic buying’ items, including toilet paper, after 45,000 East Coast port workers launched a strike on Tuesday.
A woman named Shayna Turbovsky in Fort Worth, Texas, went to the store to get meat, rice, beans, bananas, and toilet paper when a coworker warned her about shortages and rising prices, USA Today reported on Wednesday.
“I don’t know how bad it’s going to get, but the south east just got smacked by a hurricane and now the supply chain is going to be impacted through this strike…I would rather be overprepared than scared,” she said in a social media post.
Shelves are being emptied in stores across the nation and people are waiting in long lines to buy the items, News Nation reported on Thursday:
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buying; panic; portworkers; strike
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Just like Covid all over again
To: ChicagoConservative27
I was at the Trader Joe’s here in the Inland Northwest this morning, didn’t notice any panic.
2 posted on 10/03/2024 2:21:05 PM PDT by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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