Retailers say enough stock if there is no panic buying; put restrictions on purchase quantity

Retailers on Wednesday said there is enough stock of essential items and groceries if people do not resort to panic buying, while some organised players put caps on items that a consumer can purchase during the lockdown.

Future Group and V-Mart have put in place systems to prevent panic buying at their neighbourhood grocery stores.

"Availability was not the issue but supply chain was impacted (due to the lockdown). The government has got into the picture and they are enabling the supply chain to happen," Retailers Association of India CEO Kumar Rajagopalan told PTI.

He further said,"The supplies are actually getting regularised with the government helping. If people do not do panic buying, there is enough stock and there is no problem."
He further said some of the operations of the company have been impacted by the lockdown but "we are also hopeful that the various measures which the government is initiating and many of our products really being essential goods, we hope to see the situation improve as we go along."
Similarly, Dabur India Executive Director-Operations Shahrukh Khan said, "The situation has eased a bit with approvals for plant operations and movement of trucks coming in. These have eased some of the big bottlenecks that the industry was facing for movement of raw materials, packing materials and finished products. It would certainly help in kickstarting the functioning of the supply chain."