Is there bathroom paper left in Myrtle Seaside? Individuals are panic shopping for these grocery gadgets

The Sam’s Club in Myrtle Seaside was stuffed with buyers in a panic Wednesday morning trying to purchase bathroom paper, water and different dry items. Few have been profitable.

By 10:30 a.m. the majority grocery retailer at 1946 tenth Ave. North had fully run out of water, bathroom paper and paper towels, and different gadgets have been on their approach out. Aisles sat naked with prospects strolling round with empty purchasing carts.

A combination of individuals shopping for provides to ship to areas decimated by Hurricane Helene and other people panic shopping for staples after the start of a dock workers strike left the shop a lot busier than regular, Sam’s Membership staff stated.

Dock employees from Maine to Texas started a strike Tuesday over wages and the usage of automation, which shut down seaports from the work stoppage.

Judy Danford of Conway stated she was shopping for provides to ship to North Carolina. She wished to ship bathroom paper however by the point she obtained to the shop, the inventory was out.

“It appears prefer it did throughout COVID,” Danford stated, referring to the shortage of paper products during the spring of 2020.

Trenace Patterson, of Myrtle Seaside, was standing in an empty spot the place bathroom paper often sat stacked excessive with solely a field of paper towels in her cart. She got here to the shop to purchase staple gadgets as a result of she’s anxious the port strike will trigger shortages.

“Do I would like 30 rolls of paper towels? No, however I gotta purchase it to have it,” Patterson stated.

One worker stated paper merchandise and water ran out Tuesday morning by 9:30 a.m. Individuals had purchased palettes of bathroom paper and different provides, leaving sections of the shop empty even after resupplies.

There are at the moment no restrictions on what number of gadgets individuals can purchase. That call is made by company management not particular person shops, the worker stated.

The gadgets that shops are operating out of are usually not what america will see a scarcity in from the dock strike. The dock strike will possible trigger bananas, alcohol, car parts, machinery and electronics to take longer to deliver, not the water and bathroom paper persons are shopping for, USA Right this moment reported.

At Sam’s Membership, there have been loads of bananas, beer and wine left Wednesday morning.

The Myrtle Seaside Walmart situated at 541 Seaboard St. was not as busy Wednesday as Sam’s Membership, however persons are shopping for bathroom paper, water and paper towels.

Clients are grabbing packs of water as quickly because it was stocked, and there have been only a few packages of bathroom paper left. A number of individuals have been strolling round with carts stuffed with the now-scarce gadgets.

Mohamed Abbas stated he heard that bathroom paper and water could be impacted by latest occasions and determined to purchase provides for him and his pals.

Jackie Smith got here from Pawleys Island to do her regular purchasing journey and was stunned to see Costco and Sam’s Membership in “full chaos.”

“If everybody purchased one, we’d be fantastic,” she stated, referring to packs of bathroom paper.