The Truth About The Toilet Paper Shortage All In MSNBC

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. Not worth warehousing because of bulk and low price

That's a good insight.

I've been wondering why there was nothing to re-stock with.

[Baked Potato]

2. Captain Jack Sparrow: So, where's all the toilet paper?

[Hamlette]

3. fascinating

why didn't I think of that?

[Wellstone ruled]

4. For the most part,

Toilet Paper,Rolled Towels and Facial Tissue is loaded into Containers and Shipped to Rail yards in Chicago and is loaded onto Trains on a as needed basis,and is shipped to a off load facility closest to the Distribution Warehouse that ordered said container. Now that is the shipping procedure for all the Paper Mills in Wisconsin which is the largest suppliers.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. It still doesn't make sense. People are hoarding,

and you can tell by looking at the shopping carts that are pictured in the piece.

Plus, a 40% increase in home use should not be resulting in totally empty shelves some six weeks later.

[Warpy]

6. Why did that guy's daddy need 10 rolls?

And why did that guy have 10 extra rolls lying around to give his daddy?

Hoarding. Panic buying. And iits being driven by empty shelves in stores. People see a clerk stocking TP in a store, they descend like locusts and strip it because the idiots think it's going to be WEEKS before there is any more, instead of a week until the next truck unloads. Doesn't matter if they've got a garage full of the stuff, there's a shortage! They've got to buy it while they can!

It's mob psychology and mob psychology never makes any sens.

This particular insanity is worse than usual.

It has nothing to do with a parallel chain of supply, just with inventory being picked clean within minutes by panicky people.

[Aussie105]

7. Why toilet paper?

I know the current situation, on many different levels, gives people the shits, but why toilet paper?

The local Aldi shop doesn't have any, the very apologetic lady on duty restocking the shelves told me that they hadn't any in for a month.

Now, you can't hoard-buy something not in the shop, so it's a supply problem in this case. Could it be that it's because delivery trucks are packed with more in demand, more profitable stuff? No room for toilet paper on the trucks?

Maybe the hoarding on more available items isn't noticeable because there is plenty in the shops?

Maybe would-be toilet paper hoarders should look deeper into the problem, rather than blaming hoarders who raided the shops before them?

If there was to be a need to hoard anything, toilet paper would be very low on my list.

[Warpy]

8. That would make a tremendous amount of sense

but it seems to have caught the stores completely by surprise. In addition, ordering by big chains is pretty much set in stone, you can order a full stock of an item, but you can't order more than that. I haven't done the job in many years, but one thing stores and the warehouses they ordered from were tod to prevent at all costs was overstock. One place I ran had a generous basement with shelves. My office was a tiny part of it, most of it was shelves. Bare shelves. Inventory was kept tight enough that anything we got in went right onto display gondolas.. I honestly don't think that has changed in the last eight weeks.

There have been stories in the news here about paper products arriving and people trying to stock the shelves, only to have the products taken off the pallet and out of their hands before they get near the shelves. "We haven't had any in weeks" means none of it has actually hit the shelves because this idiocy is self sustaining.

I am not desperately in need of bog rolls. I have a stack of newspaper and I know how to use it. I'm delighted other items are merely low instead of gone. I just wish mob psychosis would take a turn toward sanity for a while, heading for games to play with bored kids rather than something useless with many workarounds like TP. I'm more annoyed than inconvenienced. Just how stupid is this country?

[dalton99a]

9. Kick