Around the Triangle, store shelves are going empty from essentials. While some are concerned about dock worker issues, most are from people wanting to help those in need right now.
At the Raleigh Costco, Doug Lovette’s truck is filled to the brim.
“You can’t help but see the need and compassion,” he said. Lovette and his church are loading up with generators, propane tanks, and flat top grills, and are all heading to western North Carolina. But even that’s not everything he was hoping to pick up today.
“I try to get everything that I could. Obviously there’s no TV, no baby wipes, no diapers, you know, that’s what I was really coming to pick up. But I got what I could,” he said.
Today, the signs at Costco let people know they’re out of water and toilet paper, and it’s almost all from people with the same idea, trying to help those in need.
The Durham Costco, along with Harris Teeter and Food Lion are seeing the same thing.
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