With toilet paper bulk buying on the rise amid the coronavirus outbreak, some stores are resorting to extreme measures to stop people from buying more than they need and leaving other customers with nothing.

As one resident of Melbourne, Australia, claimed, a Woolworths store in their area has removed toilet paper from the aisles and started handing it out to customers upon request at the counter.

“Woolworths near me is now handing out packs of toilet paper on request from the cigarette counter because people don’t know how to behave themselves,” they claimed.

Meanwhile, security guards in several supermarkets have been stationed next to piles of toilet paper to stop people from fighting for it and buying more than their new policies allow.

Just last week, a brawl has erupted at a supermarket in Australia as three women began fighting over toilet paper amid coronavirus-inspired panic-buying.

The incident occurred at a Woolworths in Chullora, NSW, where police were called onto the scene after three women got into a fight because two of them were unwilling to share one packet of toilet paper with the third one.

In the footage, the women were seen pulling hair and smacking each other before the staff intervened in an attempt to alert the authorities and separate the trio.

“I just want one packet,” one of the women said while the two women who had their shopping cart filled with toilet paper responded by saying: “No, not one packet.”

After the police intervened, the women were sent off home whereas no charges were laid against them.

“We just ask that people don’t panic like this when they go out shopping. There is no need for it. It isn’t the Thunderdome, it isn’t Mad Max, we don’t need to do that,” police inspector Andrew New said following the brawl.

“There is no need for people to go out and panic buy at supermarkets, paracetamol and canned food or toilet paper.”

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