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Storeowner Forgets to Sell Chometz, Has to Burn 30,000 Shekels Worth of Products

April 8, 2018 from the Matzav.com:

"A supermarket owner in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Yerushalayim forgot to sell the chometz in his store, so, in the middle of Pesach, a local rov appeared in the store and ordered the chometz to be burned."
"Last year, the store’s mechiras chometz was taken care of by the owner’s brother."Last year, the brother "stopped working in the store, and the responsibility that lay on his shoulders fell to me, but I forgot to sell the chometz"
"On Thursday, the seventh day of Pesach, the rov of the neighborhood, Rav Matisyahu Deutsch, learned that the chometz was not sold. He entered the store at about noon and told the owner that all the chometz, worth tens of thousands of shekels, must be removed. Thus, in the midst of the chag, the entire stock of chometz was burned." "The inventory he burnt was worth about NIS 30,000."