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With coronavirus concerns prompting panic shopping around the world, a games arcade in the UK has packed its grabber machines with toilet paper and cleaning supplies.
Rob Braddick, who owns Braddick’s Holiday Park in Westward Ho!, Devon, (and yes, the town has an exclamation point in its name) replaced the Frozen 2 and Peter Rabbit toys in his grabber machines with toilet paper and hand sanitiser, according to CNN.
“They got evicted this morning,” Braddick told CNN.
Visitors can now pay 50 pence (64 US cents) for three tries on the toilet roll grabber, or £1 a try for Carex, which Braddick told CNN was the “Rolls-Royce of hand sanitisers”.


Braddick said that he hoped the machines would cheer people up.
“It’s a bit of light relief with everything that’s going on,” he told the network. “Hopefully it will raise a smile, which I think everybody needs.”
He told CNN that his family business, which has been running since 1932, has received more than a dozen calls from potential customers who say they don’t want to travel abroad for their holidays and would rather stay in the UK.


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Rob Braddick, who owns Braddick’s Holiday Park in southwest England, has swapped all his normal grabber prizes for sanitary products
He hopes to add some light relief amid the coronavirus pandemic that has sparked panic buying of such items and raise a smile, and he could clean up



Toilet rolls and hand sanitiser aren’t what you normally find in an arcade grabber machine, but UK operator Rob Braddick has packed his machines with them, hoping to raise a few smiles in troubled times.


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