{"id":55594,"date":"2020-11-13T07:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55594"},"modified":"2020-11-13T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:53:53","slug":"grocery-stores-have-started-limiting-toilet-paper-and-wipes-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55594","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Stores Have Started Limiting Toilet Paper and Wipes Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amid an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases, grocery stores have begun to limit the amount of toilet paper and disinfecting wipes once again. News reports say this new policy to prevent \u201choarding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amid an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases, grocery stores have begun to limit the amount of toilet paper and disinfecting wipes once again. News reports say this new policy to prevent \u201choarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last few weeks, we have seen (firsthand in some cases) what happens when an unprepared public prepares all at once. The frenzied rush to grab as many supplies as possible created an unprecedented strain on our\u00a0\u201cjust in time\u201d food system<\/a>. Basic supplies like water, pasta, bread, milk, meat and cleaning supplies were snatched up as soon as they were restocked. But this initial run on food is just the beginning.<\/p>\n

Things are likely to get worse especially if there is any word of another potential lockdown. People will panic buy things once again wiping out entire sections of the grocery store. Luckily (or sadly) in my area, frozen foods are about the only things not in stock. There\u2019s still plenty of fresh fruits, veggies, and canned foods\u2026for now.<\/p>\n

But as grocers reinstate these limits, they may understand that the food supply chain is once again breaking, and this time, it might get to the point of chaotic. Since the supply chain \u201cremains challenged\u201d from the first lockdown, stores began putting a limit of one on purchases of larger toilet paper and paper towel sizes and four on smaller toilet paper and paper towel sizes.<\/p>\n

At least three companies<\/a>\u00a0say supply chains for securing these items are still strained. Around 19% of paper products such as toilet paper and paper towels and 16% of household cleaning products were out of stock during the week ending November 1, according to data from market research firm IRI.<\/p>\n

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Grocery Stores Have Started Limiting Toilet Paper and Wipes Purchases Amid an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases, grocery stores have begun to limit the amount of toilet paper and disinfecting wipes once again. News reports say this new policy to prevent \u201choarding.\u201d Amid an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases, grocery stores have begun to limit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5211,607,6787,20441,3237],"class_list":["post-55594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-grocery-stores","tag-pandemic","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-sara-tipton","tag-supply-chains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55595,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55594\/revisions\/55595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}