Volgograd residents are furiously buying up sugar, flour and sunflower oil

Residents of Volgograd are rapidly buying up sugar, flour and cheap sunflower oil.

As readers told the publication V1.RU, in the Magnit store on 7th Gvardeyskaya Street, there is practically no flour left in large packages. There are only small half-kilogram packs, and those are exotic, such as rice or pancake. “Pyaterochka still has flour, but not to the same extent as it was a week ago. It can be seen that they are dismantling, ”Volgograd residents say.

One of the sellers of the Pyaterochka store says that “people sweep away everything.”

Sergey Savonkin, director of Tamerlan LLC, the owner of the Pokupochka and PokupALKO retail chains, explained that the volume of the following orders is calculated by a special computer program that looks at average daily sales, but also the average for a certain period. There is no shortage of goods, but supply analytics are not designed for such sharp spikes in demand.

“Probably, people began to have some kind of panic mood, and they abruptly began to buy everything,” Sergey Savonkin suggested. – It is clear that no analytics could foresee a threefold growth. The answer is to be found in psychology. A certain group of people has a certain behavioral reaction. People begin to repeat this reaction one after another. Someone set a wave, and it began to spread.”