Stores in towns along the zone of totality are already having empty-shelf situations, according to my brother-in-law, who is very near that area, in Texas.
Apparently, there are you-tubers and podcasters proclaiming apocalypses and civil wars, which folks are buying-into, even where we are, in the partial-eclipse zone. Yep, war in Gaza and Ukraine, wildfires in the Panhandle, earthquake in NJ/NY, and now the EEE-clipse, so,The Rapture and/or Great Tribulation MUST be upon us!