Game Research

I decided to talk about stress shopping and how people went crazy with grocery shopping and over bought supplies they don’t need. In order to conduct research i decided to go to supermarkets and observe, this however has been a bit time consuming and had limitations like the curfew and me not being to go alot due to trying to keep social distance and staying at home. I also monitored constantly what my mom was buying everytime she came back from the supermarket to try and see if she’s still over shopping or not.

what made me very interesting is inspite of people needing to keep social distancing this was a time where supermarkets were floooding with people, i went to seoudi and had to leave without anything because the que to the cashier could take up to two hours. in my research i focused on what products people were buying alot and that seemed to be products that have a big shelf life, for example rice, pasta, canned goods. people were stocking as if they’re staying at home for a couple of months. tissues, wipes and sanitizers the second day COVID was announced a pandemic were out of stock in Oscar, Seoudi and most of the pharmacies in new cairo.. or atleast the ones i checked.

what i found extremely interesting and surprising actually, the last two times i went to observe people were starting to shop less and supermarkets are going back to their normal rate of people visiting. even-though the number of cases is actually increasing and the chances of a lockdown are supposedly higher if the numbers keep increasing. this lead me to the conclusion that Egyptians or atleast some of them in my opinion are not scared of COVID19 or over shopped because they wanted to keep social distance and stay home. it was just the scare and the hype of the curfew and seeing everyone buying made them feel like MAYBE they wouldn’t be able to find anything if they didn’t buy it now. I was talking to my mom she told me she started to buy less because she saw people buying less and because things are getting back to normal, when in reality things are not and this brings the question of are we scared of the virus and getting infected and sadly losing loved ones and that is why we overshop and prepare ourselves or are we just following what others are doing and affected by what the overall feel of the people around us? This is what i want my players to experience at the end.