21.   Long lines form in grocery stores when basic goods appear on the usually empty shelves.

22.   Most traditional markets and even modern supermalls like the Wal-Mart and Hero supermarket chains have empty shelves despite government assurances that Indonesia has enough goods on hand.

23.   Olga, a street vendor who refused to give her last name, was selling butter from a box near a large state store with empty shelves.

24.   Some store operators said their empty shelves would be filled by supplies again today.

25.   Some stores were closed and others had empty shelves after panic buying led to shortages in staples like milk, cheese, sugar and oil.

26.   Supermarket shoppers were left staring at rows of empty shelves and threw weekend meal planning into a tailspin.

27.   They forget or gloss over the empty shelves and long food lines that characterized Soviet times.

28.   Meanwhile shops reported empty shelves Saturday.

29.   Others line up in front of the hospital pharmacy hoping to obtain medicines from its almost empty shelves.