Total lockdown triggers panic purchase
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The milling crowd at the vegetable market on West Boulevard Road in Tiruchi on Sunday.
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M. SRINATH
Following the announcement that vegetable and grocery shops too would be shut during the week-long total lockdown, people resorted to panic purchase in Tiruchi on Sunday.
Long queues formed in front of supermarkets when they opened at 6 am. Customers complained that certain products were not available and the price of perishables, especially fruits and vegetables, was inflated.
“Bread, biscuits and packaged food has been flying off the shelves. People are buying food which they can stock for more than a week,” a vendor at a shop in Thillai Nagar said.
Trading begins on West Boulevard Road
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West Boulevard Road is marked with circles to ensure social distancing in Tiruchi on Sunday.
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In spite of simmering differences, a section of wholesale traders shifted operations from Gandhi Market to West Boulevard Road in the city on Sunday night.
After locking all gates of Gandhi Market to deny access to traders and customers, officials of Tiruchi Corporation made arrangements on West Boulevard Road from Kamaraj Arch to Vellamandi Corner for traders to set up temporary shops.
While one side of the road has been earmarked for wholesale traders, the opposite side has been allotted for retailers. Under the arrangement, the wholesale traders will transact business in the night and the retail traders from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.. In order to ensure social distancing, circles have been drawn on the road.