This is just the thing. When other people panic buy it sort of forces you to buy when you see the product, for fear of missing out again.

Our little local shopping centre has been very good, I have to say. I remember about a month or so back when Aldi still had the 4 limit, I was in there and saw some! This was not even at opening time, it was after that. People were walking past but not panic buying as such. They would take one pack, some took two. I took two and felt too embarrassed to take more. Later when i was walking down the same aisle doing my normal shop (I had done the toilet aisle first then gone back to the start) I saw a woman's eyes light up and she started walking quickly down towards it but a man and a woman were just putting the last 4 packs in their trolley. Had I been them, I would have given her one, it seemed mean. She didn't say anything, just turned around before she got all the way down.

I lived to regret not packing 4 in my trolley though. For starters I could have given that woman one, I still feel bad about her missing out. But more than that, it was hard for me to find any at all after that date and my 2 daughters were without any too, so we had to share out my stash.