I've been reading about this storage of toilet paper, of all things, mainly because as I was searching for other information I would see information about toilet paper shortages randomly tucked in the search results, so I would randomly read some of them...I've come to the conclusion, a conclusion which an article I read early this morning also insinuated, that the shortage has nothing to do with the alleged hording we've heard so much about, its about jobs...Millions of people are not working but instead they are home 90 percent or more of their time, that is the problem and why we see the toilet paper shelves empty...
Businesses like Georgia Pacific who supply toilet paper divide the toilet paper into two routes, residential and commercial, and the commercial path of their toilet paper commerce is set up to capture a much higher percentage of volume than residential sales...Also they said the residential toilet paper has much more new fiber content than the commercial which has significantly more fiber but in a pinch I'm sure no residential home would complain about using commercial grade paper...
So now with millions at home the residential demand for toilet paper went up over 60% and the commercial demand dropped down because of people staying at home now, they aren't shyting at work, companies aren't buying toilet paper so commercial supplies are in abundance and residential is trying to keep up...They said there isn't a fast way of switching gears to meet sudden demand changes, it takes time to set up new deals, contracts, agreements and start moving product into a different direction, I can understand that to a certain degree, I assume we will be seeing more and more toilet paper on the shelves as the month of April rolls on lol...
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