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With the help of his "team" of 20 fellow hoarders, the selfish man stocked up on 132 packs of toilet paper and 150 one-liter bottles of hand sanitizer.
According to John-Paul Drake, director of Drakes Supermarkets, the man phoned the supermarket to ask about returning the items.
He told Mr. Drake that they purchased the goods about a month ago, as the coronavirus-related panic buying was surging.
He told Mr. Drake that they purchased the goods about a month ago, as the coronavirus-related panic buying was surging.
"In that conversation [the shopper said] 'my eBay site has been shut down, so we couldn't profiteer off that'," Mr Drake told ABC Radio Adelaide.
Mr Drake described that kind of stockpiling as "absolutely disgraceful", and said it was the reason that supermarkets had had to "band together" to introduce purchasing limits on products like toilet paper and hand sanitiser during the coronavirus crisis.
Video below: Sky News Australia has a good interview with John-Paul Drake.
