Social media played a major role in making worries of toilet paper shortage 'propagate like wildfire'. FMTNews Coronavirus Covid19 ToiletRoll
Customers stockpiling toilet rolls in Hong Kong in addition to panic buying essentials such as rice. In Japan, rolls are chained to the wall in public toilets. In Hong Kong, armed robbers carried out a heist as supplies were delivered to a supermarket.
The demand has caught many shoppers and sellers short, but psychologists say hoarding is a natural human reaction in times of high anxiety – and a desire to ensure sufficient supplies for lavatory visits, in particular, is not too much of a surprise. Photos posted on social media showed plenty of shoppers in Asia seeking control this week as they pushed precariously overloaded carts to checkout counters after stripping shelves bare.
The company had to suspend store sales and new subscriptions on Wednesday when sales volumes jumped 1100% the day before.In Japan, the economy ministry has launched a publicity campaign to urge calm, posting daily photos on its Twitter account of delivery trucks carrying toilet rolls arriving full at their destinations and of replenished store aisles.
It’s not the first time Japan has succumbed to toilet paper fever. During the global oil crisis of 1973, there were violent scenes in some stores as people rushed to buy bathroom tissue, fearing disruption to production.
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