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Desperately seeking toilet paper, pasta or hand sanitiser? Some relief is just weeks away

Written by Flavio Romero Macau, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Global Logistics, Edith Cowan University

A supermarket in south London, March 15 2020.Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Panic buying, shop shelves emptied of toilet paper, hand sanitiser, pasta and other household supplies, supermarkets policing limits on buying products, Amazon and eBay stopping opportunists from selling items at exorbitant prices. When will things get back to normal?

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