Shaws, CVS, Starbucks and most convenience stores will be open Friday; when they are closing is another matter.
The long lines of shoppers waiting to pay for groceries at Shaw's Supermarket at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, rivaled the pre-Thanksgiving Day rush. "This is nor'easter shopping," said one Belmont resident as he picked up another box of cereal to go along with two jugs of milk, referring to the much anticipated blizzard barreling down on New England with an anticipated arrival time of Friday afternoon. The parking lot was filled and a steady stream of customers at the Trapelo Road location appeared to have have a craving for shovels, water, bread and bananas. Displays of those staples flew out the store as customers made the last minute dash for provisions before what one customer said could be "days indoors." But for one of the Shaw's …
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Demand swamped supply in the past few days as national chain feels the pinch.
The area around the pharmacy in the back of the CVS store on Trapelo Road was packed this afternoon, Jan. 14, with people waiting for their prescriptions to be filled or picking up refills. Then one customer came to the drop in area and asked the pharmacist if they were available to provide her and her daughter with a flu shot. "I'm sorry but we are all out," said the pharmacists, who said later that the store had run out of their supply and did not expect a refill "until the end of the week." Over at the national chain's store in Belmont Center, the news was the same: all out. "Our warehouse doesn't have any left," said a pharmacist who answered the phone. "I don't know what the schedule is for more vaccine coming here," she said. After…
