While it’s seen longer lines at Christmastime, Sam’s Club in Woodbridge was still bustling with shoppers looking to stock up before the arrival of Hurricane Irene.
On order and going fast was bottled water stacked on pallets in the rear of the store. Cereal and other non-perishable foodstuffs were flying off the shelves. So were large bundles of toilet paper –– known as a staple of a winter storm now an item they must have for the approaching storm from the tropics.
Outside, drivers waited in long lines to fill up their gas tanks.
In North Stafford tonight, bread flew off of the shelves at Bloom Grocery store on Va. 610. It was a similar story at Sam’s Club in Woodbridge, as shoppers picked it up by the handful.
By 7 p.m., customers with the craving for the basic ingredients for a sandwich were left wanting more.
What are you seeing at stores in the Potomac Communities as you prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Irene?
