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by hannasanarion 2254 days ago
Hoarding isn't the (entire) problem, a bigger issue is the sudden shift in consumption from commercial to consumer. Nobody is pooping in office buildings, schools, or shopping centers anymore, everyone is doing it at home. Producers that uses to sell 50/50 consumer to commercial are now selling 90/10 in favor of consumer and they can't reconfigure their production lines fast enough.

https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about...

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And $20/roll would expedite the changeover pretty quickly.
Not if the producers believe that this is temporary and will go back to 50/50 again soon. It isn't worth the cost of making big changes just to have to change back again in a month.
It may incentivize them to invest in the ability to quickly change the ratio.
For a once every hundred years event? Probably not.