Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "How Toilet Paper Companies Dealt With The 845% Demand Spike | Big Business" video.

@user-fk8tr5ev8q dry product until the floods hit - at least if you're in Australia lol huge amounts of the country have gone underwater to the top of the roof, so even those who stored it in their roof cavity lost it all
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Australia solved those empty shelves prompting panic buying in a really cool way. It was near to easter time, so the toiletroll aisle was converted into the Easter bunny aisle. They spread them 1-2 deep only & literally filled the entire aisle with smiling, colourful easter bunnies. So instead of people seeing empty shelves & stressing, they walked down an entire aisle of colourful bunnies smiling at them & by the time they got to the other end of the aisle, they were feeling happy & had forgotten what they were even looking for in that aisle lol panic buying stopped completely within a week of that strategy being implemented & as for industrial v home rolls, there are still small size rolls made for industrial uses. Not every industry has, or wants, huge rolls & roll holders, some still do normal household size, so factories just swapped to making the small ones, single ply, wrapped in paper, designed to go out in pallet lots, sent to supermarkets in pallet lots instead, where they sold for $1.50 each, put through the checkout in the same way as fruit & veg that has no barcode All toiletpaper in Aussie supermarkets during panic buying was sold straight off pallets etc. It wasn't put onto shelves, wasn't any space, due to all the easter bunnies in the toiletpaper space, so it was just piled up at the back of the store next to the door that brought stuff out from the storeroom & when regular ran out, industrial rolls made their way out for anyone desperate enough to need them. Later once the ongoing panic buying had stopped, the industrial rolls remained in small quantities & even got bar codes for scanning at the checkout eventually, cause even now we have a little panic buying game that a handful still engage in anytime something happens. Everyone just stores extra at home now so they don't have to join the game, but apparently some still enjoy this weird little panic buying/clear the shelves for fun game
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@skie6282 Yes we do. We like to be able to sleep at night, not be kept up by noisy trucks delivering stuff (normally, we were fine to relax those laws during the pandemic to get the bog roll) & we also have really strict laws to protect consumers too, price gouging is strictly prohibited & normally there are competition laws that prevent monopolies that stop different store companies from being able to talk to each other to co-ordinate supply chains as well, which again needed to be relaxed/temporarily removed so as to get the most possible products to the most possible people by having all stores co-ordinate to do so. We also have a tonne of other laws that would be incomprehensible to America, on top of companies not being allowed to increase prices for anything because of the pandemic & people being willing to pay more, we also have laws prohibiting companies from dumping toxic waste into our water supplies, into our food & even into our air. Weird I know, but we like it that way :)
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Australians bought out all supplies of edible seedlings & seeds too & Brisbane had to go onto water rations in the middle of one of their wetest years in history, cause they literally used over 50% of their residential dam water supply watering all their new veggie gardens. flooding situation is worse this year than in 2020, the military have been having to air lift food into a lot of communities because of it, hence why the bog roll was what was panic bought, cause everyone here not only had their own veggies, but also had no doubts that if food ran short, the military would be delivering it (and we grow ample, exporting 75% of what we grow, so no-one doubted it would be available), but people weren't sure if the military would be used to get toiletpaper to us, hence the need to buy it no matter what. The military are air lifting toiletpaper in as well btw, the media are being sure to report that, that people need not worry, there IS toiletpaper in the supplies they're getting lol We're way too spoilt in this country!
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In Australia the panic buying was ended by the use of colourful easter bunnies taking over all available space in what was formerly the toiletpaper aisle, to the point that there were great specials on the bog roll by May as shops desperately tried to clear the oversupply. 2 years on & the games continue though, so everyone here now maintains a stockpile in their home, cause it's become the norm for shelves to empty whenever anything interesting happens in the news
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