I live in Alamo Heights, and I frequent my HEB A LOT. This morning stopped in for something on the way to the office at 7:00. I am a frequent enough visitor to this store that I notice the patterns. This morning there were an unusually large number of cars in the parking lot for this time of the morning. I went in the store, and there were stockers, a lot more than usual, who were either switching out merch or removing it completely. This evening I stopped in at 5:30, and large sections of the store were just empty. (See pictures below).
I have been through panic buying before, and these empty shelves were not the result of panic buying. Usually with panic buying there are still empty boxes laying around. These shelves had been intentionally cleared by the store.
I asked the lady at checkout if they had cleared the shelves. She said they had been busy today. I have been in the store when bad weather has come, before Super Bowl, and before major holidays. This store didn't come close to that busy.
Something tells me they cleaned this store out for either relief efforts or redistributing to other stores.
I have been through panic buying before, and these empty shelves were not the result of panic buying. Usually with panic buying there are still empty boxes laying around. These shelves had been intentionally cleared by the store.
I asked the lady at checkout if they had cleared the shelves. She said they had been busy today. I have been in the store when bad weather has come, before Super Bowl, and before major holidays. This store didn't come close to that busy.
Something tells me they cleaned this store out for either relief efforts or redistributing to other stores.
