"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."
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Hands up all those that thought that the toilet paper crises was caused by mad hoarders.
Yes, I'm raising my hands here.
I guess it makes a lot of sense though, because if it just was hoarders, demand would have petered out over time.
Here in Sweden we had a short rush on TP, but I think it is mostly solved now. Still, I have a brother that sells cleaning products and TP for a living with home delivery and he says people are much, much happier than normal when he calls them.
