Apathetic
65 posts, incept 2011-08-16
2020-05-18 20:22:41
The other part of the issue is our JIT inventory systems. Prior to the lockdowns, approximately 60% of TP was packaged for retail and 40% for commercial/industrial. Retail TP demand would have increased on the order of 40% overnight, assuming an an 85/15 split post lockdown. There was no way a JIT system could keep up, hoarding or not. Consider how many people are JIT on supplies at home, as they can just pick essentials up anytime they want.