Coronavirus impact: Why shoppers are hoarding toilet paper, supplies and groceries

Status

Faculty

School

School of Economics and Business Administration

Department

Marketing

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

3-18-2020

Publication / Event

ABC7-KGO-TV

Description

ABC7 News interviewed Saint Mary's Marketing Professor Michal Strahilevitz about consumer hoarding of goods such as toilet paper and paper towels as a result of fears about lack of supplies during the COVID 19 pandemic. Strahilevitz, an associate professor whose academic research includes a focus on consumer behavior, noted how some consumers may use the purchasing of more goods, or hoarding, as a means of exerting control in a situation when they feel they have very little control at all. Watch the report.

Disciplines

Business | Economics

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