Analysis

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

By Flavio Romero Macau
Updated March 20 2020 - 9:38am, first published March 19 2020 - 12:00pm
Signs on a Woolworths supermarket shelf in Dickson warn of shortages on products such as rice. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Signs on a Woolworths supermarket shelf in Dickson warn of shortages on products such as rice. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

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?