Sainsbury’s today launched its new opening time, elderly hour, amid the coronavirus pandemic, but shoppers were met with “empty shelves”.
Not only that, but the products that were available were “expensive brands”, one vulnerable shopper told ED!.
“We’ve done the OAP shop, stuff there but loads of empty shelves,” Lynn, who went to Sainsbury’s in the Kent seaside town of Whitstable at 7am today (Thursday 19), told us exclusively.
She said herself and her pensioner husband Ron were met with long queues to get into the store but revealed those attending elderly hour were in good spirits.
“They didn’t seem scared at all,” she told us.
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“They weren’t social distancing as it was too crowded,” she added.
Among the items the couple couldn’t pick up were pasta, soap powder, loo roll, sanitary items, shower gel and beer.
“There was stuff there but loads of empty shelves, but we got plenty for us and my elderly mother,” she revealed.
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