A trip to the supermarket ends the same way for many people around the world right now — trying to pick up anything you can among rows and rows of empty shelves. While shops have not closed in most places, people have been panic buying items in bulk so they are prepared if their country does go into complete lockdown. Grocery chains and governments have advised against this bulk-buying, but this hasn’t stopped people rushing to queue up and buy tons of things like toilet paper and diapers to store in their homes. Panic buying behaviour occurs when the brain’s survival mode overrides any rational decision making, according to Dr. Ali Fenwick, human behaviour expert at Nyenrode Business University. I don’t care what the Psychologists want to properly call it, it’s plain and simple Greed, and it’s Sickening.
Coronavirus Panic Buying Part 1
