A customer leaves a supermarket in Liverpool with a trolley full of toilet paper on Monday. Photo: AFP
Coronavirus panic buying: the psychology behind toilet paper hoarding
- Game theory alone can’t explain why loo rolls are disappearing off shelves faster than canned goods and other key items
- Such behaviour also occurred in previous pandemics, including Spanish flu in 1918
A customer leaves a supermarket in Liverpool with a trolley full of toilet paper on Monday. Photo: AFP
