Nestle adapts as hoarding picks up in Asia, North Africa

FILE PHOTO: A Nestle logo is pictured at Vers-chez-les-Blanc in Lausanne, Switzerland. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

LONDON/GDANSK/KAZAKHSTAN: Seyda Bal, who works at a bank in Istanbul, is so anxious about the rising price of groceries that she's lapsed into a pandemic-era habit: hoarding packaged goods like coffee and toilet paper.

"I buy a lot of basic foods such as oil, pasta, rice, tahini, molasses ... thinking that next month they will cost twice as much," Bal, 27, said.