Item
Unprecedented wiped-out store shelves
Title (Dublin Core)
Unprecedented wiped-out store shelves
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
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Description (Dublin Core)
As I remember now, around mid of March 2020 my undergrad school pushed all students and faculty to an immediate break while college administration had figured out the transforming in-person classes into online ones. Meanwhile, I was thrown into a new reality of Covid19 lockdown in NYC. As a part of it, there were empty shelves in supermarkets and grocery stores. On the first days of the officially declared lockdown, supermarkets became rapidly overcrowded by New York residents who had to rush to buy essential food supplies that could be preserved for a long time. The atmosphere of common panic at the beginning of the pandemic and lockdown seemed to be everywhere in New York. Hence, supermarket shelves naturally turned to be aisles with wiped-out shelves. Besides the essential foods, toilet paper and disinfection items (sanitizers and wipes) also run out with the speed of light. During the lockdown times, I remember challenges in finding these sanitizing wipes and sanitizers in the stores which were extremely needed. I made a joke once in my conversation with a store employee that I would have a time machine to travel to the recent past and buy all needed things and return. Supermarkets’ management decided to limit the sales items to avoid the absolute lack of necessary products in their stores. I could never imagine seeing such a lack of necessary food products in an economically advanced country like the US. In contrast, today and in pre-Covid times I did regularly head to do shopping in supermarkets, and I was able to view fully packed shelves and fridges with all types of various foods and products.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Faruh Davletov
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Faruh Davletov
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST371
Partner (Dublin Core)
College of Staten Island
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Consumer Culture (shopping, dining...)
English
Food & Drink
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
store
online classes
lockdown
New York City
panic
products
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
#lockdownstatenisland
Collection (Dublin Core)
Foodways
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
02/27/2023
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
03/01/2023
This item was submitted on February 27, 2023 by Faruh Davletov using the form “Share Your Lockdown Staten Island Story” on the site “Lockdown Staten Island”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/lockdown-staten-island
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