Following the Corona, a sharp surge in hoarding products • "Starting yesterday, the number of customers has doubled compared to a normal day, both at branches and online"

• Shufersal Deal branch // Photo: Joshua Yosef

There are also branches that make profits for fear of the spread of the virus. Israeli consumers have begun to resort to a variety of food chain products, similar to what is happening overseas.

According to Rami Levy, "As of yesterday, Thursday, the number of customers doubled compared to a regular day at both branches and online. It started earlier this week with a 30% -20% increase. The increase was also recorded in the average shopping basket, which jumped 50% -30%." .

Crates outside the house

Levy says customers are not looking for certain products and they seem to be buying to stock. Levy also addressed the shipments, saying that "for fear of being infected, the envoys place the crates at the entrance to the house without coming in contact with the customers." According to him, due to the holiday, if this level of demand is maintained, some of the products are expected to shortage. So far, there has been no shortage of products. Levy added that he "advises people not to panic and not buy things that are not needed. There is no need to generate demand beyond what is needed."

Rami Levy // Photo: Jonathan Shaul

Shufersal also sees an increase in online and branch offices and from there it was reported that "the company works in coordination and according to the Ministry of Health's guidelines. We are preparing to supply large-scale products in light of the high demand for online shipments. Customers who request that the order be placed outside their door receive this upon request."

The Pavilion wines group reported tens of hundreds of percent increase in the shopping basket, at branch levels for years. Most of the demand is focused on quantities of dry food, drink, canning boxes, pastas, rice, toilet paper and the like. "

"The trend will continue"

According to Yossi Shalev, Vice President of Trade and Marketing at Tiv Taste, "The sales surge started earlier this week, which was a significant day yesterday and yesterday a crazy increase began. This is a trend that will continue. "He says these are storage products: rice, sugar, cereal, coffee, pasta, mineral water, face masks, toilet paper and paper towels.