The Chinese and Koreans were buying them all up and sending them back to China, Taiwan, Korea because there was a shortage there. They were also buying pallets of bottled water and disinfectants to send back to Asia. Also they were buying them up to jack up the prices and sell them on platforms such as Amazon at a heavily inflated price most of us couldn't afford. They were all traveling from store to store and even going from state to state to clean all the stores out.
We live in NY. Back then my husband was on line at Costco one day and saw hordes of Chinese/Asian and ethnic Arabic/Indian people pulling up in trucks and buying up all the pallets of paper towels, masks, cleansers, soaps, toilet paper and water.
The cashier was pissed because these scavengers were fighting regular shoppers in the stores and pulling the products out of people's carts. My husband even saw fist fights break out. These scavengers even had the nerve to argue when regular customer's protested.
The store manager put his foot down and the next day there were limits on the amount of these products anybody could buy. The Asians/Arabs/Indians were buying them all up, jacking up the prices and putting the products in gas station convenience stores and local bodega and 7-11 type of stores and marts.
Edit: Forget to mention the Hasidic Brooklyn, NY community was doing this as well and jacking up the prices and getting rich selling them on Amazon.
The Chinese and Koreans were buying them all up and sending them back to China, Taiwan, Korea because there was a shortage there. They were also buying pallets of bottled water and disinfectants to send back to Asia. Also they were buying them up to jack up the prices and sell them on platforms such as Amazon at a heavily inflated price most of us couldn't afford.
We live in NY. Back then my husband was on line at Costco one day and saw hordes of Chinese/Asian and ethnic Arabic/Indian people pulling up in trucks and buying up all the pallets of paper towels, masks, cleansers, soaps, toilet paper and water.
The cashier was pissed because these scavengers were fighting regular shoppers in the stores and pulling the products out of people's carts. My husband even saw fist fights break out. These scavengers even had the nerve to argue when regular customer's protested.
The store manager put his foot down and the next day there were limits on the amount of these products anybody could buy. The Asians/Arabs/Indians were buying them all up, jacking up the prices and putting the products in gas station convenience stores and local bodega and 7-11 type of stores and marts.
Edit: Forget to mention the Hasidic Brooklyn, NY community was doing this as well and jacking up the prices and getting rich selling them on Amazon.
The Chinese and Koreans were buying them all up and sending them back to China, Taiwan, Korea because there was a shortage there. They were also buying pallets of bottled water and disinfectants to send back to Asia. Also they were buying them up to jack up the prices and sell them on platforms such as Amazon at a heavily inflated price most of us couldn't afford.
We live in NY. Back then my husband was on line at Costco one day and saw hordes of Chinese/Asian and ethnic Arabic/Indian people pulling up in trucks and buying up all the pallets of paper towels, masks, cleansers, soaps, toilet paper and water.
The cashier was pissed because these scavengers were fighting regular shoppers in the stores and pulling the products out of people's carts. My husband even saw fist fights break out. These scavengers even had the nerve to argue when regular customer's protested.
The store manager put his foot down and the next day there were limits on the amount of these products anybody could buy. The Asians/Arabs/Indians were buying them all up, jacking up the prices and putting the products in gas station convenience stores and local bodega and 7-11 type of stores and marts.