Thunderbird II in Springfield Hosts Chicken Sale to Offset Empty Supermarket Shelves

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Lining up for chicken. Image via philadelphia.cbslocal.com.

A couple hundred people lined up recently outside Thunderbird II Pizza for a chance to buy some chicken, reports Joe Holden for Philadelphia.cbslocal.com.

The line of people ran down Saxer Avenue but the wait was worth it. Thunderbird was offering the chicken at $1.75 a pound. The owner was selling the chicken at cost.

“I have the chicken. You got to have the chicken, which we can’t find nowhere else but Thunderbird,” a customer said.

Seven hundred eighty pounds of chicken was sold in a short amount of time.

The owners of Thunderbird II came up with the chicken sale idea after visiting an area store and finding shelves empty, with no meat and no poultry.

“There’s no shortage with the food distributors. It’s funny, to see the shortages in toilet paper and everything, it’s no problem at all getting it from US Foods in our case,” a Thunderbird employee said.

“I started crying on the way home. There was nothing. There was no … the shelves were completely bare,” a customer said.

“It’s definitely historical to think about, standing in line to get chicken,” another customer said.

Read more about Thunderbird II’s chicken sale here.

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