[Trump20162020]

What’s that even supposed to accomplish?

[cba123]

I think they can then effectively disinfect each store, each day.

[rdl6989]

I think it allows employees time to restock the shelves.

[cabojoe]

What’s that even supposed to accomplish?

The less humans congregate to buy toilet paper the less the virus can spread. Don't give the virus hosts and it dies. Give businesses where humans congregate time to decontaminate. Protect the people who work in the businesses from contracting. Limit the spread. Make the infection graph go down instead of up. Delay the spread as much as possible until a vaccine is available. Stuff like that.

[TECTopcat]

it is so they can stock the shelves, people don’t realize how long that takes, especially if empty, most stores have a night crew but it isn’t easy to double your crew so more stocking hours works.

work with a very large CPG food company, we have plenty of product and talked to my counterparts who make toilet paper and there is plenty of supply-they are making their sales numbers!-the challenge is shipping from warehouses and getting it on the shelf

[billyboy15]

“What’s that even supposed to accomplish?”

Read the story.

It gives them more time to restock shelves as well as use disinfecting procedures inside the stores.

It can’t hurt and as long as their opening hours don’t change I doubt there will be much if any inconvenience.

[Leep]

IF they can keep up with demand the crazed shopping may subside in a week or two.
People, even the one’s that are in some kind of trance, will slowly start to realize the stores are not going to completely run out of TP and Pasta.
Idiots.

[trebb]

Maybe give them a chance to stock shelves with items the idiots are buying out and give folks who are just running low on TP or bathroom cleaner to get a shot at the products...

[Old Yeller]

What’s that even supposed to accomplish?

Squeezes people into a smaller timeframe. Makes the crowds bigger instead of spreading them out.

[Flaming Conservative]

Cuts their payroll and let’s Trump’s state of emergency help the people who lose their jobs?

[Wonder Warthog]

"What’s that even supposed to accomplish?"

More time to restock shelves. My local HEB store did the same.

[Vince Ferrer]

What’s that even supposed to accomplish?

Empty Shelves - Understanding supply chains logistics and recovery efforts

[Mastador1]

What’s that even supposed to accomplish?

Give them a chance to restock shelves, if they had product and to limit the hours when shelves could be stripped bare of stock?