dba_afish said:
is it all that surprising that a lot of the items that are being horded are things that are produced domestically and therefore wouldn't be affected by a halt in global shipping?

From what I have seen in my time with retail, the only time I've seen the stuff selling out so quick was when people were panicking a few years back. It's not surprising that it's unaffected, what's surprising is just how much we have filled and how the day after most of it's sold like it was never stocked to begin with. A customer even said it's been this way for days at that store when I was restocking water, so this was only happening recently around when I had my two days off and just got back to work.