The Toilet Paper Shortage - it wasn't all hoarding

[George K]

https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0

tl;dr version

There are TWO pipelines for toilet paper: consumer and commercial. One of the problems is that commercial used dried up when people stayed home.

There are other differences too (materials) and distribution pipelines.

In short, the toilet paper industry is split into two, largely separate markets: commercial and consumer. The pandemic has shifted the lion’s share of demand to the latter. People actually do need to buy significantly more toilet paper during the pandemic — not because they’re making more trips to the bathroom, but because they’re making more of them at home. With some 75% of the U.S. population under stay-at-home orders, Americans are no longer using the restrooms at their workplace, in schools, at restaurants, at hotels, or in airports.

[jon-nyc]

I got some of the industrial use stuff delivered yesterday.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X7T8EE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The Toilet Paper Shortage - it wasn't all hoarding:

I got some of the industrial use stuff delivered yesterday.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X7T8EE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I saw that, but it won't fit any of my holders.

[jon-nyc]

Of course it doesn't, but if I run out and can't get anymore delivered that will be the least of my worries.

[jon-nyc]

I'm still trying (and failing) to order regular stuff in all my grocery deliveries but this was a $32 insurance policy.

[brenda]

I said this here before. Households use more TP when all the butts are home.

[Klaus]

@brenda said in The Toilet Paper Shortage - it wasn't all hoarding:

Households use more TP when all the butts are home.

The wisdom of Brenda. Brilliant!

[mark]

LMAO all the way to the bidet...