Here is anothe reason proving the article is complete hogwash.
TP is not the only thing depleted. Why is Chlorox cleaner and dish soap all gone and shelves bare. You really think the demand for those increased 10 fold in a week’s time just because we are not washing our hands at work anymore? I mean, how many office workers use Chlorox bleach on the job or use Dawn dishwashing soap.
Or baby wipes or laundry detergent.
Sorry, the article is completely erroneous. Hoarding is why it took mere days for all of these products to have left store shelves completely bare for a month.
Must be a slow day at af FR... discussing this crap. We don’t obsess over toilet paper like so many do. We just go to Costco or Walmart about twice a year and buy one giant size case of paper towels and asswipe. That’s it.
I do
Not sure I agree. TP was wiped out of stores long before mandatory stay at home orders.
The warehouses at the tissue mills are full. They can hardly find a place to put it.
Manufacturing has kept up with demand -distribution and transportation hasnt.
I was reading a story today on BBC about the flour shortage in England. There is apparently not a shortage of flour, there is a shortage of equipment to put it in consumer sized bags. If you want to buy a hundred pound sack, or a truckload, the supply is fine. Want a pound or 5 pound bag? Good luck.
But speaking of shortages - apparently a large condom manufacturer in southeast Asia (Malaysia?) shut down. So you might want to clean out the local stores ahead of a shortage.
Yeah, well, my son was house hunting last week and one house we looked at had many large packages of tp in the closet.
So, yeah, people are hoarding it.
“This isn’t actually a hoarding phenomenon, with people cramming closets and storage units full of multi-packs of domestic TP rolls.”
Simply not true. Some are doing exactly that.
They expect to make money off of selling it while supply is short.
Is it the largest part of this? Not sure.
Then explain people buying pallets full when they won’t use that in years
Yes the two track system makes it tougher to catch up but people have gone nuts
No, that’s not it. Due to restaurants and fast food places being closed, the shortage of toilet paper is due to a lot of people eating their own cooking.
I swung by Walmart today. The toilet paper aisle was fully stocked today. Household paper goods of all kinds to be had. The hoarding phase is over at least around here.
TP has two sides. Use them both to save usage.
It’s the same story with milk. Home use milk is in short supply while industrial milk is being dumped.
Yes, the production matters. But some suppliers are making up for it by offering commercial grade.
There IS hoarding going on, nd it’s partly driven indeed by more need for personal TP.
BUT there is also scalping going on. People are buying all they can and sell it to desperate people for jacked up prices in the parking lot. Yes, this is happening.
THE “purchase limit” DOESNT WORK. “Price-gouging” needs to happen. The nonsense limits don’t track who is buying how many at different times and places. It’s BS. Stores SHOULD raise prices so some of us have. Chance to buy it when we need it!
This has been constant problem for me the last few weeks.
Because liberals are FOS.
No commercial TP available at coscto.com either.
People were still working when the hoarding started and tp was one of the first items.
I prep’ed quiet well in the TP area of the last two years. I and my family am good for a while.
JoMa