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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
Are folks actually using more TP now than before? Not really possible. So to me it makes no sense.
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For the working class who are now not working at a location with bathroom facilities, or are working at home, who used to work in a office, they are using toilet paper at a rate at home higher than when they worked at an office or not in the home.
The problem has been discussed on other posts, that the toilet paper manufacturers were optimized for the pre crises split of toilet paper type between commercial TP, which I hate, and home TP which I like. The two don't cross over, and are completely different manufacturing processes. Are there some irrational humans? of course, and a 100 year event tends to scare the crap out them and cause them to act out. Luckily, most stores will not take returns, so when life returns to normal, and it will, then there will be home fire sales of TP.
So outside the bubble, the world is optimized for different markets, between commercial products and retail products. Other examples include egg cartons, where commercial and retail are different, now that commercial is shut down/greatly reduced, retail is picking up and there is a shortage of retail egg cartons, resulting in shortages of retail eggs. Vegetables which went to restaurants, aren't getting to retail fast enough because retail isn't buying them as fast as restaurants, etc. so vegetables are going to waste.
The economic dislocation from optimized delivery and production schedules can't be dismissed, like when a storm shuts down an airport for two days, and all the flights are full after the airport reopens, you just lost your vacation rental because you can't get rebooked on a flight in time (happened to my wife once) Or to your game, or your cruise, etc.
So maybe the world isn't completely crazy, but its very expensive to companies to prepare and keep inventory and unused capacity for a 100 year event.
sportsguy