In times of corona virus, supermarkets are also facing new challenges. Some businesses are now taking consequences from the rush of customers on toilet paper and Co.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - Tuesday morning in Waldram: Klaus Heininger pushes a trolley with vegetables through the aisle of his grocery store. Past yawning empty pasta and canned shelves. It is no different with toilet paper. The retailer walks past it and shakes his head. "Yesterday I received a toilet paper delivery for two weeks, everything was gone within two hours."
Retailer: "We keep getting our deliveries"
At work: retailer Klaus Heininger fills up the vegetables in his shop.
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Hamster purchases? With Daniela Kuchenbaur and daughter Lilli none.
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According to Heininger, the enormous rush of customers only really started on Friday. Until then, everything was "relatively normal." Then the big hamster began. For the owner of the Waldramer Edeka branch, this sudden hearing of food is incomprehensible: "We continue to get our deliveries." People who continue to shop normally look stupid from the laundry: "They stay on the line and get The owner has now reacted to this: In the future, toilet paper will only be handed out at the cash register, one pack per person. "Sorry, where's the milk rice here?" An older man taps Heininger inquiringly. "Phew, I think it looks rather bad there. But wait, I'll see, ”he replies. And has already disappeared in one of the corridors.
Corona crisis: Not all customers hamster food
In the parking lot, Daniela Kuchenbaur and her daughter Lilli pack their errands in the car. "I shop as always. The shops are open normally, ”explains the Tattenkofener woman, while stacking leeks, bread rolls and a pack of toilet paper in the trunk. "One can only hope that another gastrointestinal virus will not break out now. Otherwise there is a problem, ”says Kuchenbaur with a wink.
Change of location. Just under three kilometers to the west is Eva Kirchner behind the counter in the Geltinger village shop. While her colleague Andrea Seidl serves customers, she enters orders in a book. "It's somewhat quiet today, but yesterday - people were lining up in front of our shop at ten to seven," says the Wolfratshauser. Whether bread rolls, bread, milk or eggs: everything was gone afterwards. The shelves are now somewhat full again. "I have been working in the profession for 40 years, but I have never experienced anything like it." The Wolfratshauser now has a possible explanation for the enormous demand for toilet paper: "A customer told me that there was supposed to be a manual on the Internet gives how to make mouthguard with toilet paper. I don't know if there's anything there. ”
Village shop Gelting: "Yesterday, people stood in line in front of our shop"
A very ordinary purchase: Nina Köglsperger only purchases the bare essentials from Andrea Seidl.
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Meanwhile, customer Nina Köglsperger puts bread and biscuits in front of the cash register to be cashed in. She sees the current shopping situation calmly. "I didn't get any bread yesterday, so I just ordered one for today." On the other hand, she is annoyed by the hamster purchases. "You might think we are at war." Sure, you don't always get everything at the moment. "But there is enough for everyone."
A similar picture can be seen in the other supermarkets, such as the Rewe in Icking. In the parking garage, Ingrid Eder is putting her shopping on the passenger seat of her car. She is wearing disposable plastic gloves. "I would find mouthguards exaggerated," she says. "But I want to secure something." In the supermarket, Eder keeps his distance from the other people. The mood in the shops has changed, she says. "Somehow everything is more depressed."
Coronavirus: businesses ration food
Owner Adrian Bryant has also made provisions in the shop: A disinfectant dispenser hangs in the entrance area, and part of the food is now being rationed strictly: there is one toilet paper, two flours, six times milk and a pack of kitchen roll per customer, as a notice in the shop reveals. "This is a new situation for all of us at the moment, no question," admits the Tölzer. "But that's no reason to suddenly panic."
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