I get the intent, but surely after the lessons of similar messaging to prepare for potential COVID lockdowns causing people to go nuts and buy every toilet roll and canned food in every store, they need to think of a better approach.
This is the better approach; getting people to stock up before the crisis ever arrives. It’s when people are unprepared and a crisis hits that panic buying causes problems. This advice is more likely to cause people to buy a couple of extra items each week to build up stocks than to get them to suddenly clear shelves in one go.
I get the intent, but surely after the lessons of similar messaging to prepare for potential COVID lockdowns causing people to go nuts and buy every toilet roll and canned food in every store, they need to think of a better approach.
This is the better approach; getting people to stock up before the crisis ever arrives. It’s when people are unprepared and a crisis hits that panic buying causes problems. This advice is more likely to cause people to buy a couple of extra items each week to build up stocks than to get them to suddenly clear shelves in one go.