Hoarding during the Covid-19 period: Is it really necessary or just the psychological effect of the crowd?

(Information collected by Sun* News from many sources)

The question is, do we really need to store food in the same way, each house stores dozens of oats of rice, uses cars to deliver instant noodles and fights each other to buy toilet paper ... Have we ever been in a shortage of goods to make large-scale purchases all at once like this? Or did all worries come from the psychology of the crowd?

Vietnam has already prepared its position and developed a scenario of goods supply in many epidemic situations!

Ms. Tran Thi Phuong Lan - Deputy Director of Department of Industry and Trade replied Vnexpress that it is only a local phenomenon when the psychology of people is confused.

According to her, right from February when the Government announced Covid-19, Hanoi City had a plan to supply goods on the market. The distribution units have increased 30-40% compared to the number of goods before. In addition, the Department of Industry and Trade immediately set up scenarios to store goods according to 4 levels of epidemics, ensuring sufficient goods to meet the needs of people even when Hanoi had 1,000 cases of infection.

Representatives of many retail supermarkets such as VinMart, Big C, also affirmed the sufficient stock of goods to ensure supply to the market for the people in Hanoi.

"We recommend that people should buy enough quantities to use, not because of the psychology of hoarding and purchasing of goods" - Mr. Nguyen Thai Dung - General Director of BRG Retail affirmed.

In particular, in the complicated situation of the epidemic as at present, in addition to a sufficient supply of goods, prices of goods also need to be maintained to avoid the devaluation that has occurred with medical masks as before.

In summary, hoarding purchases are common and easily encountered psychology of the crowd, especially when the epidemic situation is getting difficult to control like right now. However, Vietnam has been doing very well in the response to Covid-19 right from the first days of the disease outbreak. Therefore, whether you're in Hanoi or any other province, please remember to buy just enough to use in order to prevent the goods from being in scarcity. All the isolated families will receive food daily from the city and local authorities.