Shoppers Empty Grocery Store Shelves Ahead of Massive Winter Storm

This round of winter weather is forecast to impact the eastern two-thirds of America.
Shoppers Empty Grocery Store Shelves Ahead of Massive Winter Storm
Shoppers at a Whole Foods in downtown Nashville experienced a bare produce section on Jan. 22, 2026, while preparing for the incoming winter storm. Jacki Thrapp/The Epoch Times
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Shoppers across America are clearing grocery store shelves ahead of this weekend’s winter blast.

Entire sections of the Whole Foods in downtown Nashville were empty on the evening of Jan. 22 as Music City residents braced for what the National Weather Service (NWS) warned could be a “catastrophic” ice storm.
Jacki Thrapp
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Jacki Thrapp is an Emmy® Award-winning journalist based in Nashville. She previously worked at The New York Post, Fox News Channel and has written a series of Off-Broadway musicals in NYC. Contact her at [email protected]