3800 More Toilet Paper Packs Found Hoarded (Venezuela)

[FrodosPet]

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10109

By La Iguana / Axis of Logic

Over 3800 rolls of toilet paper, 440 litres of powdered milk and 1560 litres of long-life liquid milk were taken by order of the Public Prosecutor for being allegedly hidden in a warehouse of the Don Biagio Mini Market and Super Express, located in Maracaibo, Zulia state.

It was determined that the products were absent from the shelves in spite of being stored in the warehouse, restricting consumer access to these goods.

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The legal representative of the business was put under preventative arrest under conditions of the public prosecutor.

In addition, the goods seized shall be put up for sale at fair prices in the markets Fundación Mercados de Zulia (Fundamercado), the organization in Zula that facilitates the selling of products directly to the people.

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So were the shelves bare while it all sat in the warehouse? Or could it have been that there was no place left in the retail area to put it?

This looks suspiciously like an effort to deflect blame from the Venezuelan government's poor policies as a significant source of shortages. The volume of goods seized sounds like the amount sold in a weekend at a decent sized grocery store. And they get SEIZED, and resold in the government store for essentially pure profit.

Yeah, the whole thing smells like roses!

[DetlefK]

1. 1560 liters of milk? That's approx what 750 people buy in 1 week.

And 750 buyers per week is a reasonable number for a medium-to-big-sized store.

[TeeYiYi]

2. "It was determined that the products were absent from the shelves...

...in spite of being stored in the warehouse, restricting consumer access to these goods."

It says right in your OP that the products were "absent from the shelves".

re: your question: "So were the shelves bare while it all sat in the warehouse?"

TYY

On Edit: I reread your question and understand it better. (Sorry for the disconnect.)

FTR, I interpreted the "absent from shelves" comment to mean that there were actually empty shelves with missing product while it sat hoarded in the warehouse.