[Alberta's Child]

Remember, though, that the toilet paper craze was rooted in something that was real. Overall there was no “shortage” of toilet paper, but with businesses closed and people stuck in their homes the entire market and supply chains were completely out of kilter. With very little warning, we transformed to an environment where everyone was using toilet paper at home while hardly any was being used in office buildings, restaurants, and other commercial establishments.

So across much of the country you had grocery stores and convenience stores with no toilet paper in stock, while wholesalers that sold to commercial establishments had warehouses full of toilet paper they couldn’t sell.

[21twelve]

“So across much of the country you had grocery stores and convenience stores with no toilet paper in stock, while wholesalers that sold to commercial establishments had warehouses full of toilet paper they couldn’t sell.”

Same was true of fresh produce and milk. Growers and dairies that shipped in bulk (like 10 gallon bags of milk) to restaurants and company cafeterias were stuck with it. They weren’t set up (yet) to ship it out in gallon jugs to the stores where it was needed.

Seemed like those logistics got figured out pretty quickly though.

I think the lack of workers now, 2 years later, is something much deeper. They can’t all still be living off government funds. Even decent paying positions go lacking. Had to go into the bank and waited an hour. There were two bank tellers (they must make okay money I would think). Well, one guy stayed at his teller position, and the other guy was running all over the place helping at the counter, taking care of the safe deposit boxes, and handling miscellaneous paperwork.