CHARLOTTE, N.C.—With a winter storm bearing down on the South, Stuart Hall’s regular run for groceries looked like something out of the just concluded holiday shopping season.
Hall said the parking lot of the store near his home in Cary, North Carolina, is usually fairly empty when he shops so late in the week. But across the South, many were stocking up on eggs, bread, milk and other staples ahead of the storm’s expected arrival late Friday amid threats of snow, sleet and freezing rain across the Southeast.
“Today, it was like mall shopping during the holidays. People going up and down the lanes looking for a spot,” he said. “As I walked in, I jokingly asked if there was any food and the clerk just laughed.”
Sherrill Suitt Craig went shopping at a store near her home in north Raleigh, but she had to leave for a grocer in nearby Wake Forest because her initial stop was too crowded.
“I have no idea why, but people are acting like complete jackasses when they hear that there is snow in the forecast,” Craig said. “I was just doing my regular shopping.”
