Covid-19 outbreak leads to artificial shortages due to panic buying

By The Nation

 

 

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to panic buying by people around the world, leading to shortages at some outlets as consumers stock up on foods and necessities. 

 

In Thailand, the government has assured adequate supplies and dissuaded people from hoarding goods. Thailand has not reached phase 3 of the outbreak yet.

 

Meanwhile, food factories and various consumer products makers have confirmed that they can still produce enough products for the market.

 

 

On Wednesday (March 18), at Klang Plaza Department Store in Nakhon Ratchasima province, where no cases of Covid-19 have been found so far, products such as instant noodles and toilet paper were running out of stock quickly due to the large number of people stockpiling while staff at the department store are working harder to fill the shelves since yesterday.

 

 

Pirat Manasilpa, deputy chief executive officer of the store, assured that there were enough stocks to meet the demand, except in the case of some alcoholic products.

 

(All photos were taken at 10 am)

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30384319

 

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Looks pretty well stocked to me!

Instead of the OP headline here, how about:

 

Covid-19 outbreak leads to ACTUAL shortages due to panic buying... 

 

...because Thailand residents have been down this road before and know that what their government says and what's actually the case out on the streets are rarely the same reality.

 

Considering 95% of the noodles here are spicy seafood, they'll only be a panic if they run out of spicy sea food flavouring ! 

Not to worry in Pattaya, looks like all that oversupply of supermarkets/malls/big outlets is going to be advantage.

I was out at Tesco OnNut this morning, and things didn't look too bad there.

 

Although one whole aisle section in the T.P. row was empty, the opposite side of the same aisle was well stocked, and there was plenty to buy, single rolls, six packs, 24 and 32 packs.

 

Bleach and detergents and soaps in plentiful supply. But the cereals section was substantially depleted, and for some reason, there were absolutely NO eggs whatsoever in the eggs section. Dunno if they're out, or they simply hadn't restocked at that early point in the morning.

 

It seemed as though most of the staple products they had available in some version or another.

 

 

But no alcohol, masks, alcohol hand gels  sanitising sprays ( Lysol - Clorox) or disenfectant solutions like Detrol/Clorox