Brad Sutton, a pastor and commercial photographer, went shopping for a new laptop Friday after the one he owned died. The model he was looking for was sold out. His backup was also gone, as was a third option recommended by a store employee.

“It was a little frustrating,” he said after his outing to an electronics store in the Dallas area. Stores’ stocks of toilet paper, he said, are the only thing he has seen more depleted by the Covid-19 outbreak.

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