Americans have already started noticing a decline in toilet paper rolls in their local stores as customer apparently bulk buy - despite the majority of paper being produced domestically

Toilet paper ‘panic buying’ has been reported in parts of the country, as Americans fear the impact of the ongoing port strike.

Roughly 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked out on Tuesday morning after their contract with the ports expired. News that the strike could impact 36 ports appears to have led some consumers to buy rolls upon rolls of toilet paper in a panic, with shoppers posting pictures of their local stores with empty shelves.

Social media users in New Jersey, Colorado, Virginia and other states reported shelves cleaned out of toilet paper.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Hahaha, this again. I’m starting to think big TP sows dissidence in society, trying to cause any form of logistics service to be disrupted, so long as it’s not their trucks.

    But also I love seeing how many people don’t know how to clean themselves at home if they have no TP.