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2 Bottles of Water & 1 Box of Kleenex

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Chie went to the grocery store on her way home after work. To her surprise she found 1.5 liter water bottles in the shelves. Maybe the explanation was that they had introduced a limit of 2 bottles per person. They also had limits on tissues (Kleenex), 1 box per person. Milk and yoghurt, 1 liter of each per person.

There were also limits on toilet paper. 4 rolls per person. Though it seemed strange at first when I heard it as they usually come in packs of 12. The solution? Unpacked and sold 1 by 1.

Basically all things had limitation on how many or how much each person could buy, except meat, frozen food, vegetables and fruits.

Even with the limitations there were some food that were sold out, like rice, mochi (Japanese rice cake that gets sticky when heated), cup noodles, batteries, and bread. Seaweed was also sold out as some professor happened to mention on TV that it contains iodine so it protects somewhat agains some of the radiation (if you eat a ton of it?).

Chie also noted that the gas station in front of BALS Tokyo had opened again. The result? Cars lining up to buy a maximum of 20 liters per car. Even a police car was waiting on its turn to get their 20 liters.

Tokyu Store in Naka-Meguro

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As you may have seen from news reports many convenience and grocery stores are getting emptied, but not in the sense of looting just in the sense of that people are starting to build up private storage of dry food, cans, water and the like.

I quit job early today as there was not much to do. The few people that could get to the office (roughly estimated about 10-15%) were not really in the mood for working it seemed.

When I got home Chie and I went to Tokyu Store to buy groceries and water. Though some groceries were still available like fresh food (fish, vegetables, meat) and frozen food shelves were dry food (noodles, pasta, rice) as well as cans and water were empty or almost empty.



Bread is another thing that seems to be difficult to get hold of. Shelves in Tokyu Store was empty as was the bakery that is located next to the grocery store.



I guess that it is a few reasons for this: i) consumption of these groceries has gone up because people feel uncertainty, ii) production may have gone done as people cannot get to work properly due to cyclic blackout which affects train transportation and, iii) transportation may not run on 100% capacity as people cannot get to work properly due to cyclic blackout which affects train transportation.