Toilet Paper Shortage Again? Panic Buying, Supply Chain Challenges Blamed – By Marvie Basilan (IB Times) / Sept 2 2021
- Panic over rising coronavirus cases is fueling toilet paper demand across the U.S.
- P&G is operating 24/7 to ramp up production and meet surging demand
- Smaller retailers are the worst hit as suppliers limit orders
- Supply chain challenges, such as labor shortages, also remain a problem
- Georgia-Pacific urged consumers to only purchase the amount of TP they need
Toilet paper is flying off the shelves again amid panic buying by consumers as coronavirus cases surge again, and the shortages are getting exacerbated by supply chain issues.
The surge in COVID-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant of the virus has made consumers across the U.S. to stock up on essential home products, such as toilet paper, Insider reported.
Toilet paper shortages, reported last year when the first wave of the coronavirus hit the country, had largely eased as an aggressive vaccine rollout seemed to have tamed the virus.
But new infections are surging again although more than half, or 53%, of the population has been vaccinated. Last month, daily new cases rose above the numbers seen in February. The U.S. has so far recorded 40.33 million coronavirus cases and nearly 660,000 deaths, according to Worldometer data. More than 140,000 new cases and 1,397 deaths were reported Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins tracker.
