Item
Empty Pasta Shelves
Title (Dublin Core)
Empty Pasta Shelves
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
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Description (Dublin Core)
When Australia first got hit with news of how devastating Covid-19, many people went onto a panic-buying frenzy, stockpiling non-perishable essential items. This is a photo taken at my local Woolworths with the pasta shelves completely gutted. Toilet paper, rice, hand sanitizer, yeast and hand soap were equally cleared out. Some stores went as far as to post signs out the front of their stores stating "NO TOILET PAPER AVAILABLE". As a young person who lives away from home, my regular diet consists of a lot of pasta (also because pasta is delicious). During this time I ended up eating a lot more vegetable soups, because ironically fresh fruit and vegetables supplies weren't particularly affected by the virus or panic buying as they wouldn't last in an impending apocalypse. It took about a month for grocery stores to re-configure their supplies, and the for the panic to die down slightly. When this first happened, the essential items were piled high front and centre at the entrance of the store: I walked in to this same Woolworths one day with a tower of 24-pack toilet pack stacked as tall as I was. This object shows how crowds can react in unexpected and instinctually self-defensive ways when threatened with a large and sweeping danger. HIST30060.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 17, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Susanna Zheng
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Susanna Zheng
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HIST30060
Partner (Dublin Core)
University of Melbourne
Type (Dublin Core)
photo
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Consumer Culture (shopping, dining...)
English
Cities & Suburbs
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
stocks
panic
staples
consumer
groceries
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
pasta
panic buying
wool worths
toilet paper
empty
Collection (Dublin Core)
Foodways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
11/08/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
11/10/2020
02/21/2021
08/02/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/17/2020
This item was submitted on November 8, 2020 by Susanna Zheng using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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