24 Mar 2020

Coronavirus: Shoppers ignore pleas to avoid panic buying

From Morning Report, 6:09 am on 24 March 2020

Supermarkets say they'll be open every single day - today and for the next four weeks.

The Government says there will be plenty of food to go around as long as people don't stockpile, and 'shop like normal'. 

Those pleas appeared to be widely ignored in hours after yesterday's lockdown announcement.

RNZ reporter Katie Todd visited three Moorhouse Avenue supermarkets in Christchurch, to hear - from a distance - why shoppers were arriving in droves.

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