Loo roll manufacturers are going to have several thin months while consumers work through their backlog. Demand will be wiped out.
But consumer behavior will shift to keeping more inventory on-hand.
Depending on how the sentence is read, people may put more inventory on their hands (i.e., they use a higher quantity because they never run low, which is when people tend to conserve).
Though things like tinned food, was what got me thinking this and whilst many may have in the past the odd tin of soup, I dare say those same people will after this, have a larger buffer of such items - for those just in case and the mentality and shopping habits will change for many for a while after this event.
> Though things like tinned food, was what got me thinking this and whilst many may have in the past the odd tin of soup, I dare say those same people will after this, have a larger buffer of such items - for those just in case and the mentality and shopping habits will change for many for a while after this event.
It may be difficult to determine actual origin of loads at sewage treatment facilities due to shifting patterns of population activity. Previously, some percentage of people were using the commodes of their employers and other businesses, such as restaurants, at some relatively constant rate across populations, but are now almost exclusively using their homes.
The larger immediate and near-term impact of the increase in dispersed consumer inventory may be the yet further depressed spending in other sectors.
I'm not sure what an economy comprised exclusively of people buying non-perishable foods, toilet paper, bottled water, and Netfix looks like, but I fear we are about to find out.