At work, we have security watching out for internal shrinkage of toilet paper and soap. It's a big hospital so there lies a challenge. Plenty of both commodities and lots of employees on baseline wages. I hope no-one tries it because a few rolls of dunny paper ain't worth losing your job for.

Just went shopping at our local Coles, and not one roll of toilet paper to be seen. Also, no hand towels, tissue paper or hand lotion. Even all the $5 1.2kg boxes of Weetbix are gone.

Crazy!

At least I have a few weeks of toilet paper left, but then what?

But why?
If you did think the virus will get to the stage where you would stay In isolation.
Loo paper is way down on the list of needs to survive.
Why not water? Cans of food?
Hell the majority of the world does not even use loo paper.
Most Asian countries don't use it and many other parts of the world too ,it's a western thing.
I can't understand why loo paper and not food or water.


On Google news there is a story of one roll of toilet paper that had been sold for 1000 dollars, 9 news ! He bought the roll from Woolies and re sold it , apparently it had a floral pattern......
Sh-t for brains ?

Perhaps its pre planning and they are going to need it as they know they will s__t themselves if they get it.

Of course there is newspaper. Probably of the same texture as Government issue toilet paper and already contains a similar content in writing.

There are far more other things that are being ignored that kill more people umb mass media promoted hysteria.

Never shake an Indian by the left hand.

Never shake an Indian by the left hand.

A boss of mine used to say: Never shake hands with a plumber or a proctologist.

Newspaper, the phone book, rags from the shed, or if you live in isolation, the garden hose and a dust pan brush will also the do the trick.

I'm seriously looking at those useless community newspapers that land on my front lawn every week.

RE post 15, "truck bursts into flame".

I saw the news item and the report from Fire engine captain after dousing flames with 10,000 gallons of water at 1000PSI.
With big grin: " the truck burnt but we saved the rolls!"
At least if it was the Beer truck, the water would not have affected the alloy cans, but super absorbent dunny rolls?
Report faded to black with Captain just about cacking himself...……..

Fred.

You can't make this stuff up:

QUOTE: One family that has been left with what could have been a valuable stockpile was the Janetzkis, a family of six from Toowomba, Queensland, who ended up with a whopping 2300 rolls of toilet paper, after an online ordering mistake.

Mum Haidee Janetzki told news.com.au the mistake happened after the family decided to switch products not long after Christmas.

“I was previously getting recycled toilet paper delivered from the toilet paper company Who Gives A Crap every 12 weeks,” she said.

“But at Christmas time they were offering a Christmas gift wrapped paper variety which was also premium product.

“I went online, cancelled my recycled paper and subscribed to the premium toilet paper instead, where it asked for quality, I typed 48 thinking I would get 48 rolls and instead I accidentally ended up with 48 boxes of 48 rolls.”

Whilst I don't have an issue here as both toilets are well stocked. I noted the shelves a the local Woolworths were empty. There was a trolley with several bundles of newspapers, so I did suggest they be moved to those empty shelves.

The theory being that the texture of that newspaper was going to be similar to the Government issue toilet paper. So by using it, the organic content would then have a certain syntony, or perhaps be synonymous, with the literary content of the newspaper.

Yesterday was in the local IGA and spoke to one of the staff whom had wheeled a large trolley of toilet paper upto the near empty shelves.

She told me she was sick of the sight of the stuff.

As earlier remarked, no face masks and hand sanitisers almost extinct.

So what will happen in Bathurst if there is an actual Covid-19 outbreak in the town your guess is as good as mine.

Make your own face masks out of toilet paper perhaps ?

Plenty of it about !

Footnote: a friend saw a jerk, clearly a person from Sydney, in a white van parked in the underground car park. The van was completely jammed full of packages of toilet rolls.

And the jerk was wheeling a trolley back up the stairs to get more.

Clearly a speculator whom intended to make a killing upon his return to Sydney.

Sadly, it might work too. Referring to the photo in the original post, the shelves still looked like that just ten minutes ago. There are a lot of imbeciles out there and they all want locking up. Sadly, the NSW Government has closed most of the lunatic asylums across the state and it clearly shows.

UPDATE: I just wet to Ebay to see if people were selling any bog rolls and indeed they are. Check this one out. The bids start at $40.00 for $20.00 worth.

https://ebay.com.au/itm/333536000966

And, another idiot.

https://ebay.com.au/itm/254533671078

These people are like ticket scalpers - scum.

Went to Woolworths at about 10am, no toilet rolls. Lots of other empty or near-empty shelves too. Heard stories of people lined up outside Coles at 7am, which I think is an hour before opening time.

So I proceeded down to here, and found a small shop full of toilet paper, so I grabbed a bag containing 48 rolls. Bit expensive at $44, but what can you do?

Anyway, I now have enough paper to keep me going for a year, I guess. Hopefully things will have settled down by then.

Sign allegedly inside an Adelaide shop:

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/837ce3167e4fedbdbee8e5a7e330f9c6

The sign speaks the truth I reckon.

What the supermarkets should be doing is keeping it all out back with a sign asking shoppers to request the brand and size, with one package (regardless of size) to be brought out by an attendant.