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Your local mega-drugmart all out of hand sanitizer? Neighborhood bodegas to the rescue
By adamg on Fri, 03/06/2020 - 11:26am
Egleston Square Main Street went on a sanitizer quest and found several local neighborhood stores stocked with sanitizer and other essentials, such as Tylenol and tissues.
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All out temporarily, and repeatedly
Drugstores are still getting shipments of hand sanitizer, but because that's where everyone goes to look for the stuff, it sells out quickly.
i think
that’s the subtext here. nobody goes to bodegas for various reasons, yet they have and have always had everything the big stores have.
Turns out
Inspired by this thread, I went to a tiny little store that sells ices, along with a scant supply of groceries. They did have two bottles of hand sanitizer, one a Walmart store brand, the other the brand that Dollar Tree sells. Two bucks for each. They do not have 'everything the big stores have,' but it's OK.
But probably charging you twice as much
The shop owners must be making a killing!
In a related story this week:
In a related story this week: I went to Whole Foods for regular groceries but also figured I'd get a few cans of beans and discovered they were totally cleaned out. The bodega right down Centre St? Fully stocked.
I suspect the beans at the bodega are cheaper
and are of better quality.