3/2020 Observations about shopping at Costco in Kona on a Sunday during the coronavirus
We’re in Kona for a few weeks, arriving yesterday afternoon. We’ve rented a condo and needed to visit Costco and Safeway to stock up for 2 weeks before we return the car later today.
Costco in Kona on a Sunday is always chaos but today was worse. We can safely report that buying toilet paper for the coronavirus is a “real thing”. 90% of all the carts had at least on of the BIG Costco packs of toilet paper; many had cases of bottled water (Why do you need bottled water in Kona where the water is perfectly drinkable?) and quite a few had cases of beer.
Costco is restricting the number of cases of bottled water and TP you can buy but I didn’t venture to that section of the store to look for signs or information.
My new research project if I were a Consumer Science prof would be to find out the average number of rolls of TP a home stores at any one time.