"Storm scares" are good for supermarket sales in that pre-storm burst to lay in bread, milk and bananas, but post-storm empty shelves mean lost sales when inadequate snowfighting leaves roads impassable to delivery trucks, reports Chris Zavadil in suburban Omaha, Nebraska's Fremont Tribune .
The problem of higher than usual demand is compounded during storms when delivery trucks have a hard time making it to the store to replenish raided shelves.
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