Senior shoppers calm waiting outside Las Vegas grocery store — PHOTOS
Las Vegas shopping lines still long (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Senior shoppers take advantage of special hours at Las Vegas grocery store (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Costco reserved earliest hour for seniors (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Dozens of shoppers line up at Smith's Marketplace on Skye Canyon Park Drive before 7 a.m. Friday, March 20, 2020. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Senior shoppers line up at 7 a.m. outside of Smith's Marketplace on Skye Canyon Park Drive on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Vegas88s
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Frank Cienfuegos, 92, of Las Vegas for 70 years, leaves the seniors line outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. Cienfuegos said the line was too long for him to wait, fearful there would be no supplies left. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors leave with the limited amount of water and toilet paper per house permitted from a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Terry Arthur, 71, of Las Vegas, exits with the limited amount of water and toilet paper per house permitted from a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Terry Arthur, 71, of Las Vegas, exits with the limited amount of water and toilet paper per house permitted from a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Instructions on limited items are given to the line of seniors out of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up at the Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors line up outside of a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Seniors enter and exit a Smith's Marketplace located at 9710 West Skye Canyon Park Drive in Las Vegas on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Costco employee, JD Jacobs, disinfects flat carts on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Seniors line up outside Costco on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. The store reserved earliest hour for seniors. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Seniors push their shopping cart after shopping at Costco on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. The store reserved earliest hour for seniors. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
A woman, who declined to give her name, visiting from Oakland, Calif., drives her electric scooter after shopping at Costco on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. The store reserved earliest hour for seniors. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Seniors line up outside Costco on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. The store reserved earliest hour for seniors. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Seniors line up outside Costco on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. The store reserved earliest hour for seniors. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Seniors line up outside Costco on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. The store reserved earliest hour for seniors. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Adam Watson, left, 64, Kim Lisemby, 62, and Cathy Mustoe, 65, right, chat after shopping at Costco on Friday, March 20, 2020, in Henderson. The store reserved earliest house for seniors. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Updated March 20, 2020 - 1:47 pm
It was a long, quiet line of grocery store shoppers at a northwest Las Vegas store early Friday.
“It is what it is,” kept coming from those in line at the Smith’s Marketplace store on Skye Canyon Park Drive. “Just us seniors.”
Shoppers were very calm and some had cheery faces as they waited.
Many valley grocers and retailers have been offering a “senior hour” for shoppers this week as a strong run on food and supplies continues related to coronavirus.
Review-Journal videographer Michael Quine said it was a very orderly process as several dozen shoppers were in line, starting well before 6:30 a.m.
Senior shoppers also were out early at Costco in Henderson on Friday morning. That store had an early shopping time for seniors only. The line wrapped around the building, and shoppers reported an orderly process with store workers being very helpful.
Contact Marvin Clemons at mclemons@review-journal.com or 702-363-4285.
