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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Journalist Will Oremus took the time to look into the toilet paper shortage, and it turns out there is a good reason for it. Hint: it’s not the irrational hoarding of toilet paper. Aired on 04/07/2020.
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The Truth About The Toilet Paper Shortage | All In | MSNBC
Oh my god I can’t believe I’m watching a detailed report on toilet paper.
Me neither but it was RIVETING
The movie "Idiocracy" is coming to pass right before our eyes.
DeadlyDeadlyBeees But also depressing because now I know I am doomed after we finish the last two rolls we have (and they are both half shredded by the cat who thinks toilet paper needs to be killed). I will never find it on my store shelves again.
pretzel cat my cat does that too. He’s a little punk
It’s a hard product to find in my area
Meanwhile people with bidets: "Yes! Yes! Fight for my amusement!"
I have a bidet. Love it !!
@@allieelectra23 Bidets do the job. Got one after traveling to Asia where they are everywhere.
@@allieelectra23 did you have to hire a plumber to install?
@Frank Martinez gets your hair wet.
@@lorrie2878 No. Lowe's sells bidet attachments for your toilet. You can hook it up to the waterline yourself.
Make toilet paper great again.
It always was great. People used to use pinecones, and sea shells (yes, like in The demolition man) etc.
😂😂😂😂
It's ironic when the US is trying to teach others about civility and democracy when they themselves are devoid of these characteristics
That was always a lame cover story for military action they used
That’s because America is in the Age of Decadence.
Most don't even know how money is made or how the federal reserve works....Sad truly sad.
Mojazzz You know the toilet paper hoarding didn't only happen in the U.S., right? I was hearing about it happening in Australia long before it started happening in the U.S.
First of all, if you are talking about the hypocrisy of our federal government, i completely agree. If you are talking about our people, im not convinced we are any worse on average than anywhere else.
Second, how was this your conclusion from the video debunking the hoarding hypothesis? We are low on TP because most people are being responsible citizens and staying home.
I'm poor. I'm used to wiping with all sorts of paper. Newspapers, debt letters, restraining orders, court summons.....
When I tried to buy 4 packages, 2 for me and 2 for my elderly mother, I was ridiculed by customers. She can't go out at all right now and I am an essential worker and it's hard to work as many hours as I do and then provide for my own needs at home. People need to quit judging.
I hope that when they unveil the official presidential portrait of t'rump, they add a used piece of toilet paper to his shoe. There's no more iconic image that sums up his 4 years in office better than that! 🧻👞 😅😂
You forgot one...💩
Ro G Well said!😷 (written, you know what I mean)!
AMEN!
Irony is lost on the orange munkey and his lackeys.
Don't forget the paper towels in Puerto Rico.
This is where having the privilege of a higher education comes into play. Everyone who has ever been an undergrad in college knows to grab extra paper products from restaurants and schools whenever possible. You also become the king or queen of condiments.
Higher education teaches undergrads to grab ( I was taught that is STEALing) extra paper products from restaurants and schools? WOW, I don't think stealing requires "the privilege of higher education".
I stole TP rolls from the art building more than once...they never locked their dispensers...
I've seen plenty of educated and highly paid oil refinery workers steal the worst quality toilet paper for their homes.
I still find myself reaching for the little packets of jelly left on the table. LOL
Condiments? I thought those were miniature soup packets.
Today I tried to find toilet paper at;
1. KMART
2. SPD Market
3. Dollar Tree
4. Safeway
I gave up... ✌😷
Good Luck
I managed to find a Dollar Tree that had received a shipment in, limit of 2 on their 4-pack of toilet paper. It’s out there but it’s a hunt. Good luck!
You resorted to going to Kmart? That _is_ dire.
How much do you like your curtains?
try office depot online,,they got the big rolls,,its better than nothing
Try Family Dollar and Dollar General
We had this problem in Australia early on, residential buyers can access commercial supply here through warehouse outlets. They also sold out. People were indeed hoarding and continue to hoard, it’s getting better as they run out of room. I feel it’s more of a real world indication of our mental health here after drought, recession, bushfires, floods and finally Covid.
I had to MAIL toilet paper 🧻 to my elderly relatives in Las Vegas!
Ha ha ha! Remember that time tRump had toilet paper stuck to his clown shoes when he was walking up the gangplank of Air Farce One!
Remember when a bot kept pumping out the same comments over and over?
Hey Matt, remember that one time a down vote cancled your one and only up vote? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
😁😁
This makes perfect sense as to why they're not making more to restock the shelves. Also I have not seen toilet paper on the shelves in America in over a month. This is surreal. I pray we never have to go through this again in our lifetime.
I'll stick with hording as the main reason. Even if the demand is higher for the reason they stated, people still don't needs months and months of toilet paper.
ya I agree it was just hoarding and panic buying at the beginning but I still don't understand why its still slow , I went for groceries today and the regular isle was still empty but there was one small display on the end of an isle but it was full and cheap too, im in Canada btw
The reason everyone panic bought in the first place is because they didn't know if we would be allowed to leave our houses. Other countries were on full blown lock down barricaded in their houses. People were just being prepared. On March 1st, I went out and bought 40 rolls. It lasted the whole month. The next time I went shopping, the store was out. I already knew about the stay at home orders weeks before they were made so I made sure I had what I needed for the month.
Wallytuber makes up his own news.
@@brittneyculbertson2619 u bought 40 rolls and it only lasted a month ?! wow thats year supply for me lol
@@AZ-kr6ff I listen to the news and decide whether or not I agree with it. Working retail in the same aisles that they are refering to and having observed customer behavior more than most, I can form my own opinion.
As a PHARMACY CASHIER, I HAD TO REMIND TELL A CUSTOMER THERE WAS A 2 PACKAGE LIMIT. I KNOW IT'S JUST HIM AND HIS WIFE. I'VE SEEN TOO MANY ELDERLY CUSTOMERS leave disappointed without toilet paper. SMH. JUST BUY WHAT YOU NEED. LEAVE THE REST FOR SOMEONE ELSE😷
Now THIS is the type of news I want to watch.
SMOKE SOME MORE BOT.
Yea I love news that gives excuses that make no sense at all too. Like when the guy said the fights over tp happened after the stay at home recommendations? The fights started before that. So I loved that. And just the excuse in general actually. Stores are out of tp, paper towels, hand sanitizer, alcohol, bleach...even the food shelves are empty. I couldn't get mushrooms or chicken yesterday. But obviously people arent panic buying. They're just suddenly home and everyone is going after the same particular items, no matter how little sense it makes to get those items, according to this segment. That's the kinda news I want to watch too :p
The same like in GERMANY - we also collect toilet paper - it is absolutely insane. Italians collect wine and condoms - America is collecting toilet paper - What says this about AMERICA?
OMG YES. THESE are the real questions, no joke...lighthearted (kinda) so fun to watch in these times when all the news is gloomy and actually interesting and something we've ALL been wondering. Not just news that affects us ALL, but also stuff we would have NO WAY of knowing were it not for someone who went out and asked these questions.
There was plenty at my Walmart yesterday. I don’t get why people were hoarding it anyway. Hoarding food is understandable if you don’t know how long you might be forced to stay in, but no one really needs toilet paper. If you have a shower and running water, just step in the shower for a few seconds.
I have a family member who works at walmart distribution center, they gave packages of toilet paper to all their employees when this all started.
There was a video on Facebook showing one woman early in this problem buying a stores entire stock of toilet paper, kitchen roll and paper napkins.
In the olden days, Scandinavian people purportedly had a wooden spoon hanging from a rope above the toilet for this purpose...
Back in the Roman Empire they used a sponge on s a stick.
Hey clean a butt is a clean butt no matter what.
There’s a great article about how different cultures handled the situation: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/what-people-do-before-toilet-paper/
People still hoard toilet paper . A guy just yesterday bought two packs then asked me to buy him two more packs since i wasn't buying any . He payed for all my items just to get extra toilet paper .
The Industry was already running plants 24/7 and the plants have not changed over their lines for home use.
Wipe once and jump in the shower now that you’re home, end of shortage!
Until they start water rationing!
Eh, just use a facecloth and warm water from your sink, you don't need to shower.
Husky Type - hook a bidet line up to your cistern water line, wash with water, no paper required, wash your hands afterwards like in the normal process, no paper required? Where I live in S. E. Asia people use bidet lines, my wife has never had thrush since our 10 years together, I think the women here will think this one through...a piece of toot paper is used to pat it dry and then disposal in the rubbish receptacle?
If you have a handheld shower it might work. Just aim it at you know where and if you want that extra freshness use bath soap too.
Husky Type. Wipe once with your hand.
TP Has a long shelf life. It's made in the USA and no need to hoard it. Just emotional comfort.
yeah some people have unusual over use of the bathroom, they need this TP, so ruining it for them is really harmful to everyones sake.
So the consumer is not hoarding toilet paper, but the stores are simply not stocking the shelves? Should ve against the law.
This doesn't make sense, we haven't run out of toilet paper in Netherlands, apart from the first few days of panic buying when the quarantine was announced. It's pretty much back to normal.
This tp shortage was chaotic more than any war ever
So maybe people will learn to stop building a basketball size catcher's mitt every time they wipe.
The binge buying of toilet paper started in Australia 🙄
The US loves Australia!
Construction workers know all about "commercial" toilet paper. We call it John Wayne toilet paper: Rough and tough and don't take sh*t off no one...
I wonder if this is what's happening in Australia. We have toilet paper disappearing off the shelves, but most Australians are still at work.
The reason I heard from a different channel is different but more believable: toilet papers occupy a huge space compare to other items on the shelf. When one or two packs are bought, the suddenly empty spot on the shelf is very noticeable. So when buyers look to stock on toilet papers tend to stock more than usual. By domino effect, toilet papers will be sold out quick.
I've got nearly 300 rolls of toilet paper and people are asking me for my toilet paper! Nope you should have stocked up before this pandemic!
People are hoarding toilet paper and selling it on ebay trying to make 3 times $$$ the price.
Why dont they companies whose sitting on alot tissue just sell directly to consume, from there warehouses..Problem solve! Or send truck load to main area with the shortage, and sell right out the back of the truck.
Because they are manufacturers not street vendors. They probably supply to a single point for an entire corporation.
So, apparently Americans use paper towels as TP as well? How enlightening!
Still very little toilet paper here in Australia...
That's good info..now, explain the pasta shortage.
I had to get toilet paper from the liquor store they had plenty. I was so happy. I did not take it all, just 5 individual rolls. 🙏😳
Only partially accurate. There has not been a lockdown in Japan until just recently, but toilet paper was not available for weeks, starting in February. People were still hoarding.
People started hoarding tissue when they saw the run on tissue on social media and being reported on the news. No one is using the level of TP at home you are talking about. I read his piece and it makes sense only on the surface. At this point, 4 weeks in and stores not allowing people to hoard, NOW it is a supply issue. But also because many people missed the initial hoarding, when they do find it in the store, they can only get one package and that could be for an entire family. So it is multifactorial, but hoarding started the ball rolling.
Buy Japanese toilets that clean with water--no toilet paper needed.
Actually the commerical toilet paper is sold out on amazon....so people are taking it anyway.
Can they not sell the industrial toilet paper at stores? It'd be better than nothing
I knew I should have taken that huge jumbo roll of toilet paper that last day of work!!!!
😂😂😂😠
Fantastic reporting- more please
So, even in the summer, when school kids are at home, and all year when retired folk are home all the time, just the younger parents and adults being home all the time now is enough to drain the store supplies? I'm not trusting the real math here.
Restaurants here in San Antonio sell toilet paper. You can get a meal through the drive through and also get some toilet paper.
They must have an excess because no one's using the inside restrooms. Clever idea!
It's not worthless or they wouldn't sell it at all .
in Kentucky they have no problems with toilet paper....they use both sides
i mean its not that fascinating, it makes sense
People don't want to have to go back to the store every week to get supplies. Every time a person goes to the store, there is a chance that they may become infected and then infect the members of their home. It makes sense that people want everything that they need in their homes for a long period of sheltering in place so that they don't have to go out among people that don't know how to follow safety rules and incompetent, slow to warn federal "leadership" which has caused much harm during all of this. People buy in this manner in the U.S. because they don't trust their government. It's very simple. They know the federal government is giving out garbage as guidelines "it's a hoax that will go away in the summer time", and so they take it upon themselves to assume the worst and they act by panic buying/hoarding. Why can't the toilet paper supply increase to accommodate this instead of putting limits on how much a person can buy, which just makes it so that people have to keep filling stores and spreading disease? The situation is the same online. Toilet paper is out of stock everywhere. Why is the supply not increasing to accommodate these needs? It's more failure from this fickle, capitalistic, profit driven, profit centered, people last, country.
My fiancee and I were home for 3 1/2 weeks and used 2 rolls of TP. I understand that there are families with more people especially kids that dont understand how to conserve, but I saw the hording first hand. People leaving the store with carts just full of toilet paper.
Run additional shifts on the same production lines to meet the demand.
This is fantastic reporting
so what's happening to the 1 ply garbage toilet paper that goes to local restaurants shut down businesses and schools shouldn't that temporarily dried up supply chain be repackaged as econo paper for residential use to fill the gap
We should never run out of stuff like toilet paper Lysol or Clorox, soap powder and especially chicken. Seem like all the companies failed or they were shipping the items to other countries maybe. Just maybe.
Watching a video on toilet paper! If I was high, this would trip me out 🤯
This actually started when some troll posted about a run on TP. and people were freaking out about running out.
Keep your newspapers people. Or, think about wearing cloth diapers as a baby, so cut up some ugly t-shirts, towels, whatever. This whole virus is causing craziness with people. Thank you COVID-19, for making this world go insane and obsessed with toilet paper.
I'm sorry I don't believe that because you still don't use the toliet that much a day. There's barely any food or anything on the shelves it's ridiculous!
Good lesson in toilet paper economics!
Paper we can get. But how about the cleaners to disinfect???
It's the same issue with food - so much is going wasted (and by that I mean, rotting in the field) because business are set up completely differently between what is made and sold to groceries and what goes to restaurants and big businesses. The food shortage that likely is coming (at least to some extent... folks are gonna have to get used to seasonal eating for a while I think) won't be because there IS no food... it's just been lost to wastage. Most folks can't buy a pallet of #10 cans of tomatoes, and with eateries closing, who is gonna buy it? It's not cost effective to break a pallet down for a company and sell direct to the retail market. All I can figure is that places like co-ops might start seeing a lot more business this year as they are more set up to break an order down and sell it out to individuals.
To be clear everything is executed in just-in-time philosophy reason being it's the best way to minimize waste, we're always coming out with new products so it's the best system to implement. toilet paper is perishable not as quickly as food, and given no water touches it, but certainly will over time, you usually use it before it loses its structural integrity.
I ONLY $hit at my house. It skeeves me out to sit anywhere else.
Ran out of TP 2 months ago and still cant find any to buy today. Don't have any difficulty with others maintaining state ordered social distancing from me....wonder why.?
The truth is that all those hoarders are out of their mind.
Yes, apparently they have no idea how much TO they use each week.
@@vernicethompson4825 yes, i went by a house about 2 weeks ago that family had easy about 100 cases of water in their garage and toilet paper to last them an entire year. I thaught it was to much, how ever if i ever need to get some i know were to find it😂😂
Or maybe the stores or hoarding it.
Toilet paper is a lot like healthcare . You're always happy that it doesn't run out before You'll need it !!
It's called Bathroom Tissue.
Toilet paper is the least of my worries now, use warm water, and wash your hands with warm water and soap afterwards, it’s more hygienic anyway!!!!
Go to Amazon and buy a bidet that you can attach to your toilet-seat. Problem solved, with an added bonus of it being cheap and much healthier and no toilet-papers clogging the pipelines! Plus no need to touch anything, the knob-controlled pressurized water from bidet cleans your behind very nicely.
Baloney people in America have been buying per household literacy a thousand rolls. Europe doesn’t have this problem although they also emptied the supermarket shelves
Hard hitting journalism right here. Pretty sure dude is 100% virgin fiber too.
Why assume this situation is temporary?
The out sanitizer spray for almost 2 months. can't find any where....
I’m sure if they put the commercial toilet paper on the shelf people would buy it
People hoard toilet paper when they’re scared. It’s a fact
Yep because they are scared shitless💩🐱
If they were smart they would sell the commercial TP in the store.
"Illuminating" huh? Interesting word choice...
Four weeks and counting for my wife and I with no TP.
So why then are we not experiencing TP shortages here in Europe?
Because Europeans are smart? I'm just guessing.
Thats what news paper is for when theres no toilet paper
It was never even a problem though. Just media fear pushing panic
Doesn't this come under the heading of TMI?
Don't need toilet paper when got pounds of junk mail deliver daily.
So you’re saying that kegs of beer might sell at a record low?
Ha ha ha six minutes down the toilet?
That still doesn't make sense, are you guys using the entire roll every time?
The crazy thing I saw at my local Target was that Nintendo Switches were sold out.
Actually, that's not so crazy. When kids aren't being home-schooled, or being sent homework from school-teachers (which our school is starting up on Monday), parents gotta have something to occupy their kids' brains once all the "family game nights" have worn out their charm, and Mom and Dad need "us time." ;-)
why toilet paper? not masks, food, etc. are they not enough to smart to think?
Moral of the story: If your stores are out, buy commercial toilet paper.
With the shortage, how will we appease the great Cornholio?
put the commercial toilet papers on the shelves, people will buy them
Well I learned something today. I hope I'm going through the grocery store and someone asks me why there is no tp. I can sound so smart.
That made zero sense, so technically we should actually have more toilet paper then
Its only cause people are hoarding toilet paper they're not using
Please just use bidet . . .
Stay strong America: Just make each wipe count and we will all get through this.