Shoppers snapping up 60-year-old loo rolls for £5 each after coronavirus panic buyers strip supermarket shelves bare
SIXTY-year-old loo rolls are being snapped up for £5 each from a village antiques shop.
Owner Peter George, 44, has sold half of 200 he salvaged from a shop that closed in 1960.
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He said: “For my regulars I’ve been giving people deals if they buy multiple at a time.
“I’ve sold about 100 and still have around 100 left although I imagine they will have all disappeared before the lockdown is over.
“Because there was a shortage I had lots of people coming in and buying them in bulk as a ‘last resort’ while others have bought them as a decoration for their bathrooms.
“I’ve had them for ages but didn’t think about them until about two weeks ago so I put them in the shop window to try and cheer people up and it worked a treat.
“I just did it as a laugh and everyone thought it was just brilliant.”
Peter, of Somerton, Somerset, offers a discount for bulk buys after customers turned to his shop when supermarket shelves were stripped.
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But some are not keen.
One winced: “It’s that tracing paper stuff. Lethal on the bottom.”
Another added: “Looks like the grease proof type that my Granny used to have.”
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