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发信人: ThetaWave (Theta), 信区: Military
标 题: The man hoarded 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer.
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Mar 15 13:23:49 2020, 美东)
https://www.boston.com/news/national-news-2/2020/03/14/17700-bottles-hand-
sanitizer
On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States
was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver SUV to pick
up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tennessee, they hit a
Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they
cleaned out the shelves.
Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across
Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of
bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes,
mostly from “little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods,” his
brother said. “The major metro areas were cleaned out.”
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Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more
wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon.
Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold
them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had
bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was
profiteering from a pandemic. |
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