A Sydney Woolworths store saw a huge number of customers coming in after people decided to grab every last roll of toilet paper in fear of coronavirus outbreak.
Security camera footage from the store in Revesby, southwest Sydney, shows people filling their trolleys with piles of tissue packet rolls.
The video shows people grabbing as much as two dozen of tissue paper rolls at once, pushing others in their way and rushing back home.
Last Wednesday, due to all the fuss over the toilet paper rolls, the store administration had enforced a four-packet per customer limit to prevent people from stocking the item at home.
Following a similar rush of customers in their store, Aldi’s Epping branch displayed a notice in their store, saying: “Only 1 toilet paper per sale.”
“Any customers coming in again that is recognized to have already purchased within 24 hours will be refused as everyone deserves some toilet paper not just a few,” the notice continued.
As of Woolworths, they’ve announced that their four-packet limit will be applicable in all their stores as well as online.
“It will help shore up stock levels as suppliers ramp up local production and deliveries in response to higher than usual demand,” says the statement issued by the supermarket.
“Our teams are continuing to work hard on restocking stores with long-life food and groceries from our distribution centres,” the statement concluded.
Coles has not yet imposed any limitation on its toilet paper sales.
On the funnier side, some overenthusiastic wanna-be entrepreneurs are sarcastically trying to sell rolls of tissue paper on Facebook for as high a price as $24,000.
Looking at the fact that 40 per cent of Australia’s toilet paper comes from China, people are right to think that they might see a shortage of toilet paper due to the outbreak of coronavirus.
Seeing the suddenly spiked consumption of toilet paper over a short time, Australia’s largest toilet paper producer Kimberly-Clarke is running its production line 24/7 doing its best to decrease the chances of toilet paper shortage.
With no cure in the book and no vaccine available so far, the coronavirus has left above 3,100 people dead and another 92,000 infected.
As of Australia, 10,000 people were tested for coronavirus, out of which 42 were confirmed to have the disease. Twenty-one of these people are now free of the virus.
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