Toilet Paper

Idiots. Idiots everywhere.
There are actually some supply issues as well. Think of all the toilet paper that is commercial grade that is not being used at places of work, businesses schools etc. the market for commercial and consumer are entirely different as is the product. You are using way more consumer grade and way less commercial. It’s the same problem the ag industry is seeing. You can’t find eggs but farmers are dumping milk because the food service industry has been killed. Hoarding is only a part of it.
 
Commercial TP is generally different Not the multi-ply, soft, fragrance free stuff. Also comes in much larger rolls so that maintenance staff is not constantly replenishing the stalls.

TP takes up a lot of storage space at a store, so it one of the items they just get a constant order of.
I have to think even if its the cheap single ply people would gladly buy that if able to since almost nothing else is available. I didn't even think about those super large rolls. Not all commercial rolls are that big but I can see that the large rolls are all but impossible to make available for retail. Thinking about it more, even the regular size rolls would be extremely difficult to get to retail even if re-packed. The supply chain challenges for this are more difficult than you would think. Just crazy times.
 
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Is this what you ordered, because that is all that did not say out of stock at 11:22 a.m. -now?

I got Charmin Ultra Strong mega rolls. Est. delivery of 4/23

Member's Mark brand shows as available again. Just keep checking every few minutes. It cycles.
 
People are going to love online groceries after this and our population's going to be even more sedentary, isn't it?

To some extent, but I'm not sure if I'll ever get to the point where I want someone else to be picking out my produce or meats outside of a situation like this where I'm avoiding going to the store.

I haven't done delivery or pickup yet, just trying to limit myself to one trip to the store a week, alternating between Sam's club or target one week and hyvee the other week. Partially because right now all the delivery services require you order almost a week in advance to get a spot.
 
Yeah if you've ever witnessed a five year olds bathroom habits they use like 6 feet of toilet paper to wipe. You can try and monitor them but it is just one of 1000 different things you have to monitor when you have 4 kids running around the house.

My preschooler can wipe himself, but I've told him that now is not really the time to practice, so we've been helping limit.
 
To some extent, but I'm not sure if I'll ever get to the point where I want someone else to be picking out my produce or meats outside of a situation like this where I'm avoiding going to the store.

I haven't done delivery or pickup yet, just trying to limit myself to one trip to the store a week, alternating between Sam's club or target one week and hyvee the other week. Partially because right now all the delivery services require you order almost a week in advance to get a spot.

Yeah when it comes to produce I don't even like someone else handling my food or picking it out so good point.

Funny enough my trip yesterday could have felt good to see other people, but since many were still not doing the social distancing thing, it was a quick reminder that I hate people and will keep social distancing even if a vaccine comes along.
 
There was obviously some hoarding that took place but I do think that the majority of people were purchasing TP rationally but unfortunately the supply chain hasn't been able to compensate for the huge spike in home use vs commercial. It's going to take a long time for the supply to catch up.

Not just TP, you cannot get SPAM, Jigsaw puzzles (The cool ones) and other things you would never thought there would be a shortage of. Dog clippers to cut pet hair, lots of it sold out.

Grocery stores had shortages of meat, pasta, bread and other things 2 or 3 weeks ago.
You go now, and like you mention the supply chain is catching up. Shelves are becoming stocked with more and more goods.

I was fortunate to buy a 50 pack roll at Sam's back in mid Feb, at the rate we are using it I think I will be gone from this world before I get through it.
 
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Seems like it's more available than a couple weeks ago.

We got some at Aldi (Double rolls double strong) 12 pack last week. We were there at opening.

Brothers back in IA both got some in the last week. Small grocery store in Tipton was one. The other brother got it at the Downtown HyVee in Muscatine.

I agree though, it was already cleaned out before the other grocery runs hit. Not much before, but before.
 
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Really? out of stock both online an in store (WDM).

leave it pulled up and refresh it periodically. They make it available in small batches throughout the day.
 
That's the head scratcher. Long story short, the commercial product hasn't been made available for retail.
Amazon. Plenty of crappy, low rated TP there—including the big tools.

I found some Scott last week. Two weeks for delivery “because they’re delivering the things people need first”. Excuse me?
 
I've been using this site for the last few weeks. www.nowinstock.net. After you register, you can set it up to get text notifications when your selected TP is in stock at Amazon and other sites. I've found a lot of TP this way when the stores are empty.