Stores are still out of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and Lysol and Clorox wipes. Supply chain experts say consumers will have to wait until summer.
Weeks have passed since Americans first started panic buying and stockpiling key household staples, but store shelves across the country are largely still bare of items like toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and Lysol and Clorox wipes.
Toilet paper, 90% of which is manufactured domestically, is already reappearing in many stores in small quantities, and most customers can access what they need, according to Patrick Penfield, a supply-chain-management professor at Syracuse University. Story continues"You're talking about a pretty complicated supply chain, and so it's very difficult to be able to ramp up and produce," Penfield said."The other issue you have is capacity. So even if they were able to get the ingredients, it doesn't necessarily mean they have the capacity to produce more products."
"If you're a Walgreens, you don't want to buy from a distillery in Syracuse because that's not going to be able to fill all these stores in San Diego or Fresno," Penfield said. Instead, small mom-and-pop businesses are more likely to buy up the products distilleries are making. But if manufacturers keep plugging away at full capacity, summertime is a safe bet for the supply chains to stabilize and stores to return to their normal amounts of stock, Ozkul said.
Both Lysol and Clorox said they had ramped up production to meet unprecedented demand but that stock in local stores would vary depending on the day, store, and region. Both companies also urged customers to buy only what they need.Ozkul said going forward, consumer behavior will be an important factor in making sure everyone can access these products. He urged shoppers not to hoard or stockpile these items and buy only the amount they would normally.
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