ST. LOUIS – Although the dockworkers’ union has agreed to suspend its planned strike until January 2025 to allow more time for negotiations, that has not stopped consumers from panic buying home goods and supplies, specifically toilet paper.
“I was at the store and a lady bought eight things of toilet paper,” Darian Lester said earlier Thursday. “Looks like it’s going to be everybody panicking, but I don’t think it’s going to be that bad.
Even though paper goods like toilet paper and paper towels are made domestically, even here in the Show Me State, fears of closed ports along the eastern seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico had some people rushing to stores to stock up.
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“From a supply chain perspective, toilet paper is not getting imported from anywhere. Supply chains in the U.S. can produce more than we need,” Panos Kouvelis, professor of supply chains and technology at Washington University St. Louis, said. “Even a week or a few months of a strike isn’t going to affect toilet paper. It’ll affect other things, but not toilet paper.”