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El Paso Albertsons locations open early during coronavirus scare for seniors, at risk shoppers

Dinah Kilgore buys groceries for her elderly mother at Albertsons Thursday, March 19, at 5200 Montana Avenue in El Paso. Kilgore said she has groceries but she is now buying groceries for her elderly mother so that she doesn't have to go out to the stores. El Paso Times

Just as dawn was breaking at the El Paso Albertsons at Montana Avenue and Chelsea Street, shopper after shopper, many of them older, were pushing out carts with toilet paper, paper towels and water.

In a Facebook post Wednesday afternoon, the national chain headquartered in Boise, announced that the hours before 9 a.