But with many operating over capacity, transport brokers have been scrambling to negotiate short-term space, especially in areas where business has slowed. The pandemic has quadrupled normal activity levels in the logistics sector as manufacturing ramps up not just for toilet paper, but also for other high demand goods such as food staples and medical supplies.ĭistribution centres – the strategically-located warehouses where factory goods are unloaded and then shipped to supermarkets – are the hub of this activity. Ideas range from adjusted delivery curfews, to more flexible leases and decentralising distribution centres. While frustrated consumers have been scratching their heads, experts on the coalface have turned their thoughts to how the system that gets essential goods to consumers needs to change. Ethical e-commerce toilet paper brand Who Gives a Crap reported a near 1,000 percent rise in sales. Major supermarkets were selling a weeks’ worth of toilet paper in just one day. In Australia, the rush for the product was among the most acute. Images of empty supermarket shelves in Singapore, the UK and the US were widely shared. In Hong Kong, a gang raided a store for 600 rolls. The shortage of toilet paper was seemingly everywhere.
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