costco can be a busy place any time of
the week but it's especially noticeable
these days it's like christmas time only
featuring more people wearing face masks
stocking up on essentials stupid to keep
their panicking over toilet paper they
are from vancouver to Calgary to Toronto
even though Ontario has the most people
in self-isolation the message from the
Health Minister is clear people should
not panic and know they don't need to
stock up this system is working I would
like to assure the people of Ontario and
the risk to Ontarians remains low but
retailers and organizations are
preparing what they call pandemic plans
this is daily breads new fridge for The
Daily Bread Food Bank
that means thinking about the people who
can't afford to stock up if this this
goes south in a dramatic way do we need
to make a single monthly delivery rather
than weekly deliveries if you're using
public transit to to get your food on a
weekly basis and suddenly you've got to
carry four times that food back home how
do we accommodate that and the more
people deplete store shelves the less
food is available for food bank shelves
we're a little bit concerned that as we
go out and solicit industry donations
that because the demand is there they
will perhaps think twice about donating
to a local charity the Canadian retail
Council which monitors buying behavior
says there's no need to panic we're not
seeing massive runs on product and also
we've spent a bit of time talking to
suppliers who manufacturers primarily
but also importers and think of us
pretty strong assurance that they can
meet the demand but that's as long as
things stay the way they are when it
comes to the spread of the virus and to
the fear it causes a leash on CBC News
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