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Singapore Grocery Chain Starts Limiting How Much People Can Buy
- Authorities urge residents to slow down on shopping sprees
- Supermarket chain imposes purchase limits on some items
A shopping cart filled with bottled water and other products stands outside a supermarket in Singapore, on Saturday, Feb. 8.
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Singapore authorities urged residents to relax on their shopping sprees that have emptied supermarket shelves, saying supplies aren’t under threat even as response efforts to battle the coronavirus outbreak have escalated.
Pictures circulated online of snaking lines at supermarkets as people snapped up rice, instant noodles, toilet paper and sanitization products. Online grocers including Amazon.com Inc. and RedMart Ltd. said they have limited or no delivery slots.