Judy Saucier, an operational manager at Spring Market grocery in Redfield, said she is usually at work by 6 a.m. Those stores also closed early Tuesday due to the weather and delayed their store opening the following day. Many of the Super 1 Foods locations also were experiencing fuel outages and supply shortages due to the ongoing inclement weather conditions. The weather also forced early closures and late openings for many stores in the area.Ī winter storm facility status provided by Walmart to assist their customers and the communities they serve to help them plan for storms and possible consequences reported 310 stores across the country that were closed. Travel was treacherous as any thawing that took place on Tuesday refroze, turning city streets into sheets of ice beneath the new covering of snow.įrom grocery stores' frozen food aisles to the produce section, items were few and far between. Combined with what fell earlier in the week, the area had received more than a foot of the white stuff. By mid-afternoon, Pine Bluff had received another 7 inches of snow, but as night fell, the snow was still coming. Snow started early in the day and came harder as the day progressed. While Tuesday was cold and sunny, the forecast for Wednesday was for 5 to 8 inches of snow, and the forecast was on target. "As quick as the stockers were putting items on the shelves, people were pulling them off." "It was very similar to the pandemic with a lot of items missing," said Brasher. "There were long lines for every checkout."īrasher said it was reminiscent of the early days of the covid-19 arrival when panicked shoppers reached for whatever was available. "There were so many people in there with their buggies overflowing," said Brasher. Taylor Brasher said when she went to Walmart in Pine Bluff on Tuesday to pick up a few items for breakfast, shelves were bare.
On Tuesday, customers filled their carts with meat, frozen foods, canned goods, firewood and other items in fear they would be snowed in or without power. Shoppers may have been prepared for the first snow storm earlier this week, but they hit area grocery stores on Tuesday and early Wednesday to replenish cupboards as another big snowfall was gripping the area.Īt Walmart and other grocery stores, shelves on many aisles were stripped clean by those wanting to stock up.
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