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Vienna, Austria - Friday around noon, multiple supermarkets, urban Water: didn't notice (tap water is perfectly fine here), but pallets of canned beer, soft dr
by mstolpm 7y ago
Vienna, Austria - Friday around noon, multiple supermarkets, urban
Water: didn't notice (tap water is perfectly fine here), but pallets of canned beer, soft drinks or energy drinks (???) in nearly every shopping cart.
Food: no "panic", but (nearly) empty shelfs for the cheaper varieties of dried pasta, rice, flour, sugar, canned chili con carne / goulash and so on. Shopping carts fuller than normal. But no shortage for almost all other products.
Sanitary: low stock on toilet paper, almost no stock on soap and sanitizer.
Supermarkets more crowded than normally at this time, shopping carts fuller than normal. People even joked when queuing at the cashier that this is just their normal weekend shopping (piling 60 rolls of toilet paper on top of the cart).
This was shortly after the Austrian government presented rules for handling COVID-19 and told people there is no reason to panic, while journalists reported on the first "Hamsterkäufe", low stock and rising prices. Half a week before Austria had no confirmed cases, now its 8 in Vienna and 14 in whole Austria, but likely to rise with new announcements on Monday.