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"For months" is surely an exaggeration? What has changed in supply and demand is that much less toilet paper had to be distributed to workplaces, and much more

"For months" is surely an exaggeration? What has changed in supply and demand is that much less toilet paper had to be distributed to workplaces, and much more close to people's to homes.

lisper 2y ago
> "For months" is surely an exaggeration? Not where I live (San Francisco Bay area). It was literally months. Fortunately, we always buy in bulk and had a pretty good supply in stock when it hit the fan, and I was able to get resupplied through Amazon once. But lockdown happened in March and it was May before I saw a roll of TP on a shelf again, and then stores were limiting purchases for many months after that. > less toilet paper had to be distributed to workplaces Yeah, that's what everyone said. But I couldn't find industrial TP either, either in person nor on-line.
- simoncion 2y ago
  > But I couldn't find industrial TP either, either in person nor on-line. Did you try the smaller corner stores? A few weeks into the shelter-in-place order in San Francisco, I started seeing the crappy single-ply commercial TP appearing on their shelves. (And throughout shelter-in-place, there was somewhat-lower-than-usual-but-nonzero amounts of paper towels.) At that point in time, larger places like CVS/Walgreens and Safeway were usually totally out of all paper -er- cleaning(?) products... the difference in stock levels never ceased to amaze me. (Luckily, I happened to have enough household-grade TP to last me until household-grade stuff started appearing on those shelves again.)
  - lisper 2y ago
    > Did you try the smaller corner stores? I live on the peninsula. We don't have small corner stores.
    - simoncion 2y ago
      Oh bummer. I take it convenience stores were also plumb out?
      - lisper 2y ago
        The one in our neighborhood was. I didn't do an exhaustive survey. But I did check a lot of drug stores and found nothing.

"For months" is surely an exaggeration? What has changed in supply and demand is that much less toilet paper had to be distributed to workplaces, and much more close to people's to homes.

lisper 2y ago

> "For months" is surely an exaggeration? Not where I live (San Francisco Bay area). It was literally months. Fortunately, we always buy in bulk and had a pretty good supply in stock when it hit the fan, and I was able to get resupplied through Amazon once. But lockdown happened in March and it was May before I saw a roll of TP on a shelf again, and then stores were limiting purchases for many months after that. > less toilet paper had to be distributed to workplaces Yeah, that's what everyone said. But I couldn't find industrial TP either, either in person nor on-line.

simoncion 2y ago
> But I couldn't find industrial TP either, either in person nor on-line. Did you try the smaller corner stores? A few weeks into the shelter-in-place order in San Francisco, I started seeing the crappy single-ply commercial TP appearing on their shelves. (And throughout shelter-in-place, there was somewhat-lower-than-usual-but-nonzero amounts of paper towels.) At that point in time, larger places like CVS/Walgreens and Safeway were usually totally out of all paper -er- cleaning(?) products... the difference in stock levels never ceased to amaze me. (Luckily, I happened to have enough household-grade TP to last me until household-grade stuff started appearing on those shelves again.)
- lisper 2y ago
  > Did you try the smaller corner stores? I live on the peninsula. We don't have small corner stores.
  - simoncion 2y ago
    Oh bummer. I take it convenience stores were also plumb out?
    - lisper 2y ago
      The one in our neighborhood was. I didn't do an exhaustive survey. But I did check a lot of drug stores and found nothing.