Coronavirus triggers bad case of Hamsterkauf

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At Woolworths' supermarket in the normally genteel Sydney suburb of St Ives, customers were lined up outside the doors at 7am on Wednesday to stock up on dwindling supplies of toilet paper.

By 9am, customers were fighting over the last few rolls, even though the retailer – following intervention from Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday – decided overnight to ration purchases ... read more online