The supermarket panic may have subsided for now, but shelves of some products still remain empty. That is due in part to unscrupulous villains’ bulk-buying products in order to re-sell them at inflated prices.
Called ‘price gouging’, it is, police believe, rife at the moment, leaving the well-meaning shopper struggling to get their usual list of goods for the week ahead.
The toilet roll: more valuable than ‘stuff’?!
At the start of the lockdown, supermarkets and other shops were asked by the government not to increase the price of goods just because they were in demand.
Most have abided, but that hasn’t prevented some people from buying up thousands of toilet rolls and other products, and selling them on Amazon and eBay.
Cue: Police Scotland’s answer to the problem: Mac, the drug detection dog. In a time long ago, this adorable Springer Spaniel was tasked with sniffing out contraband. Now he is trained to sniff out toilet paper!
With all the silly panic buying. We enlisted the help of #PDMac to help find the essentials. Only buy what you need, think of others. #StayAtHome 🏴🐾 pic.twitter.com/OuIPcMfzvL
— Police Scotland Dogs (@polscotdogs) March 25, 2020
Mac’s handlers hope their star detection dog will be back soon, weedling out a different kind of blotter.
