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"If you’ve topped up your tank at a petrol station recently, did it feel like
you were “panic buying”? Or did it feel more like “I’d better buy some, just in
case”?
During the COVID pandemic, our research team wrote about the psychological
drivers behind Australians buying up toilet paper: scarcity mindset,
anticipated regret and regaining “control”. We also warned that politicians or
media coverage rebuking people for buying more at the supermarkets actually
risked making it worse.
Over recent weeks, some senior politicians have repeated this mistake, berating
people as “un-Australian” for “panic buying” fuel.
But one of the lessons we should have learnt from COVID – when supermarket
shelves were cleared and some buying limits had to be introduced – is that most
people didn’t perceive themselves as “panic buyers”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
