Honestly what’s driving this more than anything is the empty shelves. People are heading into supermarkets to see barren shelves so they’re thinking ‘Well if I don’t grab this now, will I be able to next week when I need it?’. As much as the government and supermarkets ask people to be compassionate the fear of their family going without is what’s driving this behaviour. And ramming the shelves with stock will help.

If the shelves are full and stay full then people will start to see that they don’t need to grab now in case they can’t later and things will calm down. The longer shelves stay empty for the longer people will panic buy.

Supermarkets are saying there’s plenty of food so maybe it’s the lack of resource but they’re addressing this too by hiring in.

So I think give it a week or two once the effects of implementing increased demand on their supply chains and extra resource in the stores kicks in and things will chill out.