Panic buying creates traffic congestion, crowd issues at Queensland shops
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A matter of minutes after Queensland s Chief Health Officer advised there was no need to panic buy ahead of Greater Brisbane s three-day lockdown, supermarkets across the state s south-east were inundated with shoppers.
Queensland police said in a social media appeal advising against panic buying that officers were responding to traffic congestion and crowd issues around shops across the state s south-east.
The queue at Coles in Fairfield on Friday morning, a case of minutes after the lockdown announcement.
Supermarkets have been flooded with panic buyers ahead of greater Brisbane s looming lockdown tonight. Long queues of shoppers waiting to get into at-capacity supermarkets formed soon after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced Brisbane would enter a three-day lockdown from 6pm Friday night after a mutant UK strain of COVID-19 escaped hotel quarantine. At Coles Fairfield Gardens, the line for the checkout is a two hour wait. Two hour waits at the checkout at Coles Fairfield. Photo: Supplied It is a similar scene at Gasworks with massive line ups just to enter Woolworths. Chemists have limited sales of masks to five per customer.
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