SNOW: Panic buying starts to hit town (From Warrington Guardian)

SNOW: Panic buying starts to hit town

12:20pm Friday 8th January 2010

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SHOPPERS have been raiding the shelves of corner shops across the town with bread and milk high on their list of priorities during the cold snap.

With many finding it difficult to get to the bigger supermarkets, corner shops have been packed with customers panic-buying and even starting fights over their shopping basket.

Andy Amin, of Mr Convenience in Great Sankey, said: “It’s been crazy, I had to start limiting loaves of bread to one per customer when fights started breaking out.

“A lot of people who have been coming in would normally go to the Asda but I’ve been making sure my local customers who are here every week are getting bread which is one of the reasons I had to put a limit on it for a while.”

Bulk-buying has been occuring all over Warrington with one customer at the Co-op, Lovely Lane buying six bottles of milk on Wednesday.

Iniyavan Kaiuna, owner of The Moorland shop in Culcheth, said: “We have been very busy with bread and spuds flying off the shelves.

“There’s been a lot of pushing and shoving and we’ve noticed customers have been travelling from a lot further than normal to get to the shop.”

Martin McColls, Gorsey Lane, have been tackling the bread shortage problem by baking their own.

A shopper said: “Their last delivery of bread was gone within less than an hour.

“The store has always baked their own bread in-store but recently there’s been an even bigger demand for it than normal.

“They’ve kept going whatever the weather.”

B&Q, Milner Street, sold out of grit and rock salt three weeks ago and have said they will not be getting a delivery anytime soon as all supplies have been directed to the Highways Agency.

Stocks of de-icer are also low across the town with Halfords, Alban Retail Park seeing a large increase in sales of window scrapers as well.

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