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> "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 pr
by 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.