Store manager Darrin Oliveira described the ice melt as 100% sodium chloride. Sales were brisk, with two of the pallets, each containing 50 bags, cleaned out in the first hour after they hit the ...

Curry Ace Hardware manager Rick Manupelli said earlier this week the store received a shipment of 19 pallets of ice melt, amounting to nearly a thousand 50-pound bags. It was gone within six hours.

At Carr Hardware in Avon, manager Mark Kovac said they sold all four pallets of ice melt over the weekend, and their backup option, water softener, sold out by Monday morning. “The phone’s ...