Shops selling out of freezers as panicking shoppers stockpile frozen food

Panic buying has seen a spike in freezer sales across the city as fear-stoked shoppers look to stockpile frozen "essentials" following the Taoiseach's COVID-19 restrictions announcement.

The shameful stockpiling spree led to supermarket staff being reduced to tears as people jostled for up to an hour at clogged checkout queues. A salesman at a northside DID Electrical told Dublin Live: "It's all anyone's been asking for in our store, and it's the same across the city. The panic-shopping spree followed Leo Varadkar's announcement of a raft of "unprecedented measures" to stem the spread of coronavirus including the immediate closing of schools, creches and colleges, and banning public gatherings of more than 100 people indoors and 500 outside.

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