Timeline for Are supermarket shelves in Australia currently empty because of absenteeism due to COVID?
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| Jan 17, 2022 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/1482865288995606535 | ||
| Jan 11, 2022 at 15:19 | comment | added | Comic Sans Seraphim | Not just panic-buying. It's also due to people needing to stock up in case of shortages. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 12:30 | comment | added | gnasher729 | There was a claim that the total US capacity for producing toilet paper is about 120% of the average consumption. So quite obviously if everyone runs to the stores and fills their car, the shelves will be empty. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 6:22 | answer | added | Jack | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 4:16 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @sam_smith: I have seen several claims that recent shortages are NOT due to panic buying, but are due to staff shortages. Nothing that would count as sufficient evidence to answer this question. We can't just assume that these shortages are due to high demand rather than short supply because that is what happened in 2020. | |
| S Jan 10, 2022 at 4:13 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| S Jan 10, 2022 at 4:13 | history | reopened | Oddthinking♦ | ||
| Jan 10, 2022 at 3:20 | comment | added | sam_smith | Here is an article from 2020 talking about the panic buying. I am not saying the current situation is not exacerbated by the staff shortages but this has been a factor in the past. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 3:11 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The claim isn't that the *rules* are the cause.
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| Jan 10, 2022 at 3:09 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Can we agree that "empty shelves" means "many more product lines than normal are sold out", rather than "All the shelves are completely bare" or "My favourite shaving cream was sold out, and in my online order, they substituted a brand I don't like" (as a completely invented example that has no correspondence to exactly what happened to me on Thursday)? | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 3:05 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Updated quote (with the suspicion the article was edited after the question was posted). Focus and formatting.
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| Jan 10, 2022 at 3:00 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @sam_smith: [citation-needed] | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 2:58 | history | closed | Oddthinking♦ | Not suitable for this site | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 2:11 | comment | added | sam_smith | It is worth noting that previously in Australia we had empty shelves due to panic buying. There was no issue with the food amounts but everyone bought more just in case resulting in issues. This appears to be having an impact currently (no toilet roll etc) | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 1:43 | comment | added | user11643 | I personally almost never interpret the phrase "empty shelves" literally... | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 1:24 | history | asked | user1605665 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |