The Great Toilet Paper Shortage-
The Great Toilet Paper Shortage- consumer irrationality, greed, panic, hoarding, profiteering, capitalism failure,..
No. -- the toilet paper industry is split into two separate markets: commercial and consumer.
With shutdowns people do use more at home, and less in the workplace- schools, restaurants, hotels, or airports.
The product, the supply chain, and manufacturer are different. Households will use maybe 40% more than before. Commercial use will drop by the same quantity, but switching cannot be done immediately.
My comment- What is to be done?
Let the market sort it out, there will be problems, but government intervention will make things worse.
When, if, we get back to work, the situation will reverse, but not so suddenly.
No. -- the toilet paper industry is split into two separate markets: commercial and consumer.
With shutdowns people do use more at home, and less in the workplace- schools, restaurants, hotels, or airports.
The product, the supply chain, and manufacturer are different. Households will use maybe 40% more than before. Commercial use will drop by the same quantity, but switching cannot be done immediately.
My comment- What is to be done?
Let the market sort it out, there will be problems, but government intervention will make things worse.
When, if, we get back to work, the situation will reverse, but not so suddenly.
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I've read in newspapers about young people with COVID, but the stats show the bias for getting it with age, oldies are not so photogenic, babies seem immune.
Nursing homes, retirement villages, care facilities, depending on the level of human interaction, can be death traps. But as you say, seniors are generally ok if independent. Beware tho', exposure to the usual germs will not, I think, give virus immunity.
I think the commercial side of the toilet paper (distribution) would just shift there shipments to the retail (distribution) side. It reminds of an old adage about toilet paper, "Economize, use both sides".
they do have to make more.
They= the household product factories.
Commercial- huge rolls, too big to fit on most home dispensers. .. thinner and more utilitarian .. shipped on huge pallets .. and .. often doesn’t come from the same mills,
Household buyers would accept the commercial product but .. first there has to be new relationships and contracts between suppliers, distributors, and stores, packaging, trucking routes — all for a bulky product with lean profit margins.
Switching takes time, and why would they? When it is over the situation will reverse.
In his post a day ago, MikeMarrota explains this supply chain thing in detail. Getting your head around the entire chain would be a major exercise, but individuals know their part. The market is not the only way to do it but gives an elegant, practical solution to handling complexity.
Now if I was in charge, heaven forbid, membership of this forum should require passing a test on
"I, Pencil" by Leonard E. Read - https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/
(MM, thanks for the link)
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Me dino has never, ever seen a Muslim inside of a store otherwise known as "The Pig" for some reason.
What I have seen at the most local "Pig" is some paper towels moved to render the toilet paper shelves to look less barren.
Not good should a needful for TP person of Joe Biden's mental capacity came along pushing a cart. All me dino an say about that is, "Ouch!"
Stores are catching up, although far from the selection before the first outbreak.
Having worked in automobile manufacturing I have been intrigued and fascinated (if not dumbfounded) to watch all manner of parts traveling on complex conveyor systems to be wedded into a very common (and very complex) item we see in abundance every day. And I like to flatter myself as a being a systems thinker. It is also similar to why most people seem to understand why atheletes make millions of dollars - we know that we suck at shooting hoops and hitting pitches because we do that enough. Very few people even chair community committees, so they have no feel for why corporation CEOs are worth millions more than athletes.
So, too, with this disruption to the economy. (See also the "Five Insights" Savvy Street essay.) The President himself might actually have a clue. A lot goes into the building of a resort. If there's still no pennants for the pin makers, your golf course contractor does not have the links done yet. But that has never been a problem until now.
I live near a railhead. I love watching long trains with all their different cargo carriers. When analogizing about the economy, we talk about turning an aircraft carrier or an ocean liner, something few of us actually experience. For myself, it takes a lot to start a train.
It is pretty much a toss-up for my sense of wonder between seeing a wide assortment of bulk and finished goods going from and to and on the other hand seeing 80 or 100 gondolas of crushed limestone and wondering where they are going.
1) Road Base
2) Under slab fill
3) Aggregate for making concrete
4) Sand for making concrete
5) Aggregate for mixing hot mix asphalt
6) Sand for making hot mix asphalt
7) Chip seal aggregate
8) Railroad Ballast
9) Agricultural Limestone (Aglime) neutralizes soil acidity and a source of calcium and magnesium
10) Rip Rap for erosion control
11) Bedding for Rip Rap
12) Bedding for underground pipe
13) Back fill retaining walls
14) Scrubber stone (removes sulfur dioxide in power plant exhaust gas)
15) Used to neutralize acid waste
16) Flux stone (making steel)
17) Flux Stone (making glass)
18) Flux stone refining sugar beets
19) Feed stock making cement
20) Feed stock making lime
21) Neutralizes stomach acid (Tums)
22) Ingredient in calcium supplement pills
23) Ad mix in animal feeds
24) Filler in paint
25) Filler in roofing shingles
26) Abrasive and filler in tooth paste
27) Filler for making plastic pipe
28) Aggregate for making concrete pipe
29) Sports field drainage medium
30) Chicken grit
31) Aggregate in concrete blocks and bricks
32) Aggregate for concrete power poles
33) Dust to prevent coal mine explosions
34) Landscape stone
35) Boulders for car barriers
36) Sediment Fences (filter media)
37) Bio degradable flat ware (plates-made by molding limestone fines and corn starch)
http://www.texascrushedstoneco.com/20...
OK! Now. Everyone get back to work! Oh ...
That idea is one of you could (well me anyway) kick yourself for not thinking of it yourself, it is so obvious.
Who among us has the storage space to put all that stuff. My house is 2700 sq ft and I don't have that space.
(I don't have a Mrs and my place looks like a warehouse because I manufacture stuff here.)
I was referring to normal times...most do not normally prepare for a month at a time...so, when we get caught with our collective pants down...we stock up on toilet paper, the mainstay of modern times...Although, I hear dryer sheets work really well, they leave one smelling like lavender and it takes the wrinkles out TOO!...that's a win win!!!
It's dry and warm but unfortunately is a attraction to the local varmints...not so bad lately since sealing all the electrical and plumbing conduits.
Still not a good place to store food or paper products.
An observation without gender bias: most of the transfer is in use by females.
https://www.wkrn.com/community/health...