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

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.