Pattaya supermarkets boom during Covid-19 economic crisis

Don’t panic, there are still plenty of eggs

 

While huge swaths of businesses are closed or hurting amid the coronavirus crisis, grocery stores are booming.

Araya Muangkum, owner of the Pornthep Kakhai market on Soi Nong Yai said March 26 that the government’s emergency declaration sparked another wave of panic buying by Thais who either didn’t read or believe the decree. The government stressed food markets and restaurants would not be closed and there was no need to hoard goods, but the words fell on deaf ears.

 

Araya said eggs, instant noodles and meat are all being hoarded. While the west is locked in a toilet paper frenzy, Thailand has gone manic over eggs. She said her latest delivery sold out in 30 minutes.

 

The shopkeeper said she is following government orders not to raise prices and is urging her customers to stay calm, that eggs are delivered every day.

 

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2020-03-29—

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-supermarkets-boom-during-covid-19-economic-crisis-293243

 

21 hours ago, Rimmer said:

While the west is locked in a toilet paper frenzy,

No bum guns in the West.

So they talked to one person at one small shop and managed to extrapolate from that tiny amount of information that Pattaya's Supermarkets are "booming" ?

Odd, because the last couple of actual supermarkets I've been to in the last week (Tops on soi Khao Noi and Makro on Sukhumvit) were pretty dead. 

Though in all fairness I went early in the morning so most other shoppers (at least of the foreign persuasion) were probably still in a drunken slumber. 
Tops was almost out of TP and eggs and a few other items but Makro had plenty of everything.

I should take a trip down the soi and see if that little "supermarket" (read: single shop house) that usually has eggs in bulk is still stocked up. I never buy from there because whenever I go by I see stacks and stacks and stacks of eggs sitting in the open and I wonder just how long they've been there.
They've probably (hopefully) managed to get rid of any old stock and maybe (hopefully) will have somewhat fresher eggs available (if they have any at all).

Are eggs so expensive now that they are selling them one at a time?

1 hour ago, Phuketshrew said:

Are eggs so expensive now that they are selling them one at a time?

Same as cigarettes in the village

On 3/29/2020 at 3:43 AM, Rimmer said:

 

Araya said eggs, instant noodles and meat are all being hoarded. While the west is locked in a toilet paper frenzy, Thailand has gone manic over

bumguns .?

 

eggs would negate the need for bogroll anyway as eating too many will block the plumbing up ..