[Repost from March 2020]
Down at World Square they’ve gone slightly mad.
Coles affixes notices to starkly bare shelves, begging us to only buy a single pack of bog roll: ‘There’s enough toilet paper for everyone. Everyone …only do the right thing’.
The pasta shelves are empty except for Barilla but there’s more brown rice and konjac noodles than one could ever wish for.
Over in Priceline they are sold out of sanitiser while a boy carries round five cans of Glen-20.
A man in a P2 mask stares blankly at the tea-tree oil – will it do to cleanse my hands? Perfumes of Araby are the next aisle over.
And down in the makeup aisle, while her friend looks on, a woman outlines a perfect cat’s eye with the tester eyeliner.
Not to encourage shoplifting, but… I hope she doesn’t put it back.